2019 World Series of Poker

Event #28: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2019 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
99
Prize
$341,854
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$2,229,300
Entries
2,477
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000

Laak Flops Set, Shows

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante
Phil Laak
Phil Laak

A player raised preflop from early position to 500 and was called by Phil Laak in the hijack. The player in the small blind three-bet to 2,000 and action folded back to Laak, who made the call. The flop came {q-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{7-Clubs} and the small blind checked. Laak bet 3,100 and his opponent folded after about 20 seconds.

Laak tabled {7-Hearts}{7-Spades} for the flopped set, exclaiming his opponent was lucky he didn't have something like an overpair.

Player Chips Progress
Phil Laak us
Phil Laak
WSOP 1X Winner
27,000 7,000

Tags: Phil Laak

Mckellar Short Early

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante
Pierce Mckellar
Pierce Mckellar

Pierce Mckellar was just shoving all in for his last 2,600 chips and taking down the blinds preflop. Mckellar recently took 7th place in Event #16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6 Handed, making the unofficial final table and earning a payday of $48,954.

Player Chips Progress
Pierce Mckellar us
Pierce Mckellar
2,900 -17,100

Tags: Pierce Mckellar

Level: 2

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

More Early Runners

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante

Here is another round of arrivals in Level 1.

Player Chips Progress
Faraz Jaka us
Faraz Jaka
WSOP 1X Winner
20,000 20,000
Mark Dube us
Mark Dube
20,000 20,000
Michael Tureniec se
Michael Tureniec
WSOP 1X Winner
20,000 20,000
Aaron Frei us
Aaron Frei
20,000 20,000
Kenna James us
Kenna James
20,000 20,000
Alex Jacob us
Alex Jacob
20,000 20,000
Kevin Song us
Kevin Song
WSOP 1X Winner
20,000 20,000
Phil Laak us
Phil Laak
WSOP 1X Winner
20,000 20,000
Pierce Mckellar us
Pierce Mckellar
20,000 20,000
Vadim Shlez ua
Vadim Shlez
WSOP 1X Winner
20,000 20,000
Dylan Linde us
Dylan Linde
WSOP 1X Winner
20,000 20,000
Dan Ott us
Dan Ott
20,000 20,000

Early Runners

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante

With the field size nearing 1,000 entrants midway through Level 1, play is going on in both the Brasilia and Miranda rooms. Here are a couple faces who were in the tournament by the time the cards started flying.

Player Chips Progress
Barry Greenstein us
Barry Greenstein
WSOP 3X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
20,000 20,000
Henry Zou us
Henry Zou
20,000 20,000
Alexander Greenblatt us
Alexander Greenblatt
20,000 20,000
Bryan Piccioli us
Bryan Piccioli
WSOP 2X Winner
20,000 20,000
Nikhil Gera us
Nikhil Gera
20,000 20,000
David Mock us
David Mock
20,000
Matt Affleck us
Matt Affleck
20,000
Amir Lehavot il
Amir Lehavot
WSOP 1X Winner
20,000
Nelson Resendiz us
Nelson Resendiz
20,000

Shuffle Up and Deal

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante
Cards and Chips
Cards and Chips

The tournament has finished making all announcements and has announced the beginning of Level 1 with instructions to the dealers to shuffle up and deal.

Level: 1

Blinds: 100/100

Ante: 0

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Welcome To Day 1 of Event #28: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Cards and Chips
Cards and Chips

Welcome back to another exciting day at the 2019 World Series of Poker! This year has already been full of action and record-breaking field sizes and that could be set to continue because today marks the beginning of Event #28: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em.

Although tournaments of this game and buy-in level are nothing new to the World Series of Poker, this specific event with regards to its structure has never been run. In today’s tournament, players receive starting stacks of 20,000 and levels will each last 40 minutes.
There will be 20-minute breaks at the completion of every three levels, with a 75-minute dinner break after the ninth level of play. Players will be allowed one-re entry should they be eliminated from the tournament and registration will be open until the beginning of Level 10, which will be around 6:55 p.m. local time.

Cards will be in the air at 11 a.m. local time. Day 1 will play a total of 15 levels, with the remaining players coming back Wednesday at noon local time. With shorter levels than the typical one-hour structures at the Series, Day 2 is scheduled to play down until the final six players, who will then return the following day to play for what is certain to be life-changing money and a WSOP gold bracelet.

Stay tuned to PokerNews for live coverage throughout the day and for the entire 2019 World Series of Poker.

Event #28: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 1 Started