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Level 2
: 200/400, 0 ante
These players are already in the bracket of 64, having received a first-round bye.
2019 World Series of Poker
Event #15: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
2019 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$1,052,800
Total Entries
112
Level
83
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 112
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Level: 2
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 0
Level 1
: 200/300, 0 ante
There are a couple of marquee matchups over on Table 418 with Doug Polk making his return to the felt for the first time in what seems to be forever. Polk is facing off against 4x bracelet winner Joe Cada while Chance Kornuth and Thomas Boivin are duking it out on the opposite side of the table.
Boivin raised to 700 on the button and Kornuth called to see a flop of 
. Kornuth check-called a bet of 500 from Boivin and the 
hit the turn. Kornuth led out for 700 this time and Boivin called.
The river brought the 
which shut down Kornuth as he tapped the table this time. Boivin made a large bet of 4,000 and Kornuth tossed his cards to the muck.
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George Wolff has become the first player to win his play-in match after defeating Yingui Li. It was a result of two big pots that saw Li's stack reduced to zero.
In the first hand, Wolff opened and called a three-bet from 800 to 2,700 and Wolff called. On the 
flop, Li continued for 1,700 and picked up a call before firing another 7,000 on the 
turn. Wolff reluctantly called and Li then bet the 
river for 20,000. This time, Wolff instantly called and Li showed 
for turned two pair.
Wolff had that beat with 
for rivered two pair.
Soon after, both players flopped trips eights and Wolff had the best of it with 
versus 
, even filling up to a full house.
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With 18,000 in the middle and the completed board showing 
, Dimitar Danchev bet 15,000 and Matthew Schreiber called. Danchev rolled over 
for a ten-high straight and that won the pot.
Level 1
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In one of the match ups with two well-known players, Johan Guilbert called a Chris Ferguson raise to 800. Both players opted to check down the board of 
and Guilbert announced ace-ten before rolling over the 
. Ferguson had that beat with the 
.
Other nearby match ups include Alex Foxen versus Dario Sammartino and Juan Pardo vs Danny Tang.
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Rainer Kempe raised to 700 on the button and Benjamin Yu three-bet to 3,500. Kempe called and the two players saw a flop of 
. Yu led out for 2,300 and Kempe stuck around to see the on the turn.
Yu tossed in another bet of 10,000 and Kempe still called. The paired the board on the river and Yu finally shut down with a check. Kempe checked it back and Yu turned over 
for a missed flush draw. Kempe tabled 
for two pair and collected the first pot of their match.
Level 1
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Here are the "play-in" round matchups (these are not in bracket form).
The bracket will be determined once 64 players remain.
| Sam Higgs | vs. | Jimmy Guerrero |
| Anatoliy Duka | vs. | Ole Schemion |
| Michael Song | vs. | [Removed:321] Abedi |
| Zachary Clark | vs. | Yong Wang |
| Darren Elias | vs. | Lachezar Petkov |
| Branden Hampton | vs. | Paul Martino |
| Erik Seidel | vs. | Boris Kolev |
| Ivan Derya | vs. | Charles Furey |
| Peter Kelly | vs. | Jan Lakota |
| Rainer Kempe | vs. | Ben Yu |
| Ricky Guan | vs. | Lucas Reeves |
| Adrian Mateos | vs. | Matthias Eibinger |
| Marius Gierse | vs. | Pedro Waldburger |
| Doug Polk | vs. | Joe Cada |
| Thomas Boivin | vs. | Chance Kornuth |
| Keith Block | vs. | Richard Tuhrim |
| Sean Swingruber | vs. | Bill Klein |
| Ben Maya | vs. | Nick Schulman |
| Alex Foxen | vs. | Dario Sammartino |
| Conor Beresford | vs. | Thiago Nishijima |
| Scott Baumstein | vs. | Elias Talvitie |
| Layne Flack | vs. | Sean Perry |
| Basil Yaiche | vs. | Manig Loeser |
| Aaron Mermelstein | vs. | Michael Addamo |
| Warwick Mirzikinian | vs. | Caufman Talley |
| Timothy Tenpas | vs. | Patrick Leonard |
| Scott Seiver | vs. | John Smith |
| Richard Sklar | vs. | Joe McKeehen |
| Gregory Jensen | vs. | Dominik Nitsche |
| Cord Garcia | vs. | Brian Green |
| Jacob Daniels | vs. | James Dambrosio |
| Kevin Forte | vs. | Kane Kalas |
| David Peters | vs. | Jonathan Jaffe |
| Benjamin Jones | vs. | Manuel Saavedra |
| George Wolff | vs. | Yingui Li |
| Chris Ferguson | vs. | Johan Guilbert |
| Joel Micka | vs. | Sam Soverel |
| Joshua Heinzl | vs. | Olivier Busquet |
| Raul Martinez Gallego | vs. | Mark Burford |
| Anton Morgenstern | vs. | Matthew Gonzales |
| Joao Vieira | vs. | Ryan Hall |
| Brandon Steven | vs. | Vicent Bosca Ramon |
| Alex Epstein | vs. | Julien Martini |
| Brian Rast | vs. | Stefan Schillhabel |
| Cary Katz | vs. | Steven Sarmiento |
| Matthew Schrieber | vs. | Dimitar Danchev |
| Juan Pardo Dominguez | vs. | Danny Tang |
| Eric Wasserson | vs. | Gabor Szabo |
Level: 1
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 0
With 112 entries, 16 players have received byes into the Round of 64. Those who are playing in the "play-in" round are essentially playing in a $5,000 satellite. They will receive half of their $10,000 entry back.
Forty-eight play-in matches are now underway, and we'll have those listed shortly.
