Event #28: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2019 World Series of Poker

06-11-2019 17:05 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Taylor Black	39,000	-14,000
Filipp Khavin	38,500	-3,500
Vadim Shlez	37,800	-5,700
Aaron Massey	31,300	17,300
Nikhil Gera	29,000	3,200
Kenna James	28,000	3,400
Ben Keeline	23,500	-50,500
Jonathan Tamayo	20,300
Seon Kim	19,300	-19,700
Steve McNally	14,800	3,500
Faraz Jaka	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Emrah Cakmak	48,000

Poker Brat in the Building

HillKerby

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

Phil Hellmuth was recently seen in the tournament and has chipped up slightly. He sits with around a 30 big-blind stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phil Hellmuth	24,400

Tags: Phil Hellmuth

06-11-2019 16:29 UTC-7

A Few Chip Counts from Brasilia

HillKerby

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

Here are a few updated chip counts from around the room as the tournament begins its eighth level of play.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Affleck	120,400	43,900
Nelson Resendiz	71,000	29,000
David Mock	68,000	41,900
Ivan Ruban	58,100	19,600
Taylor Black	53,000	5,000
Romain Nussmann	46,200	26,200
Michael Trivett	39,700	-15,800
Kevin Song	34,000	5,400
Stanley Lee	24,200	11,900
Phil Laak	21,200	-3,800
Pat Lyons	18,500	-9,800
Alex Jacob	18,400	-1,100
Ryan Franklin	17,000	17,000
Henry Zou	16,700	-13,800
Muskan Sethi	16,600	-400
Aaron Massey	14,000	14,000
Barry Greenstein	13,500	-5,900
Ian Steinman	Busted

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 800

06-11-2019 16:16 UTC-7

Keeline Showers Kassela

HillKerby

Level 7 : 300/600, 600 ante

Ben Keeline was just gifted a stack by Frank Kassela who proclaimed that he hoped he would lose the hand so that he could go play today's $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. championship.

According to Keeline, Kassela raised from early position with -offsuit and Keeline called with . Kassela bet the remainder of his chips, which was around two-and-a-half times the size of the pot, on a flop of and Keeline now finds himself with a healthy stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ben Keeline	74,000	74,000
Frank Kassela	Busted

Tags: Ben Keeline Frank Kassela

06-11-2019 15:54 UTC-7

Chip Counts - Pavilion Green

HillKerby

Level 7 : 300/600, 600 ante

With the tournament still seeing registration growing, play has spilled over into the Pavilion Green section as well.

Player	Chips	Progress
Linglin Zeng	27,300	27,300
Bryan Piccioli	24,500	24,500
Andy Spears	24,200	24,200
Farhad Sinaei	20,300	20,300
Aaron Frei	20,300	300
Dylan Linde	19,700	4,000
Ong Dingxiang	19,000	19,000

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 600

06-11-2019 15:21 UTC-7

Break Time

HillKerby

Level 6 : 300/500, 500 ante

Players are on their second 20-minute break of the day.

06-11-2019 15:15 UTC-7

Affleck Chipping Up

HillKerby

Level 6 : 300/500, 500 ante

Matt Affleck just put his opponent all in on a board of from the hijack. His opponent was in the big blind and ended up check-folding for his last 16,000 or so, which was the size of the pot. Affleck is climbing up the leaderboard early and could be a name to watch as the day progresses.