Event #31: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Day 1 | 2019 World Series of Poker

Event #31: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed

Day 1 Completed

06-13-2019 02:45 UTC-7

Griffin Benger Bags Top Stack on Day 1 of Event #31: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed

Sandra Barbour

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Day 1 of Event #31: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed is in the books after 10 levels of play. This event attracted a field of 754 poker enthusiasts filtering into six-packs, but only 140 of them were able to find a bag for Day 2.

The Amazon room was packed with notables and at the end of the day, it was Griffin Benger who bagged the chip lead with an impressive stack of 427,500, the only stack above the 400,000 mark. Benger has over $1,500,000 in earnings at the WSOP including a seventh-place finish in the 2016 WSOP Main Event. He will be looking to make a big score in his first cash of the summer. Benger was sitting near the top of the leaderboard during most of the day. He took over the chip lead when he made quad deuces during the last level of the night and managed to get paid.

Other big stacks include Manig Loeser (245,000), Onur Unsal (258000), and Michael Tureniec (230,000). Loeser already has three cashes this summer including a six-figure score after getting 10th in Event #5: High Roller - $50,000 No-Limit Hold'em for the 50th Annual. Tureniec already has a bracelet and will try to add another one to his collection.

Other notables who made it through include 2018 WSOP Main Event Runner-Up Tony Miles with a decent stack of 208,000, as well as six-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu (79,500), Anthony Spinella (97,500), Adrian Mateos (98,500), Ricky Guan (94,500), Daniell Ott (94,000), Victor Choupeaux (121,500), Andre Akkari (60,500), Bas de Laat (58,500), and Sylvain Loosli (46,000).

The top 114 spots will get a share of the $2,035,800 prize pool with a min-cash being worth $4,482. However, everyone will have their eyes on the top prize of $414,766 and the prestigious WSOP gold bracelet.

Some other big names who took a shot at more glory through this event but weren't able to make it another day include Jason Somerville, Craig Varnell, Jared Jaffee, Betrand Grospellier, Ana Marquez, Maria Ho, Jordan Young, Matt Berkey, Alex Foxen, Chino Rheem, Rainer Kempe, and Daniel Ott.

The remaining players will return to the Amazon room on Thursday, June 13th at 2 p.m. local time to continue to battle it out. Action resumes at Level 11, which features a small blind of 1,000, big blind of 2,000, and a 2,000 ante.

Tags: Adrian Mateos Alex Foxen Ana Marquez Andre Akkari Anthony Spinella Chino Rheem Daniel Negreanu Daniel Ott Griffin Benger Jason Somerville Jordan Young Manig Loeser Maria Ho Matt Berkey Michael Tureniec Rainer Kempe Sylvain Loosli Tony Miles Victor Choupeaux

06-13-2019 02:35 UTC-7

Seat Draw Day 2 Event #31: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed

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Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Room	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Amazon	436	1	Jeremy Menard	United States	154,000	77
Amazon	436	2	Ioannis Angelou Konstas	Greece	56,500	28
Amazon	436	3	Aditya Agarwal	India	90,500	45
Amazon	436	4	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	70,500	35
Amazon	436	5	Samuel Bernabeu	Spain	58,500	29
Amazon	436	6	Ryan Feldman	United States	191,000	96

Amazon	437	1	Asi Moshe	Israel	148,500	74
Amazon	437	2	Robert Bickley	United Kingdom	221,500	111
Amazon	437	3	Onur Unsal	Cyprus	258,000	129
Amazon	437	4	Kane Kalas	United States	172,000	86
Amazon	437	5	Anthony Spinella	United States	97,500	49
Amazon	437	6	Andy Tsai	United States	75,000	38

Amazon	438	1	Brent Roberts	United States	77,000	39
Amazon	438	2	[Removed:321] Abediarani	United States	98,000	49
Amazon	438	3	Russell Thomas	United States	75,200	38
Amazon	438	4	Elia Ahmadian	United States	32,000	16
Amazon	438	5	Thomas Cazayous	United Kingdom	191,000	96
Amazon	438	6	Chris Ferguson	United States	33,500	17

Amazon	439	1	Ludovic Riehl	France	185,000	93
Amazon	439	2	Jonathan Proudfoot	United Kingdom	158,000	79
Amazon	439	3	Joe Cada	United States	205,000	103
Amazon	439	4	Ivan Galinec	Croatia	108,000	54
Amazon	439	5	Gianluca Speranza	Italy	112,000	56
Amazon	439	6	Maksim Pisarenko	Russia	106,500	53

Amazon	440	1	Kunuk Shin	United States	221,000	111
Amazon	440	2	Paul Pires Trigo	France	152,000	76
Amazon	440	3	Steven McCartney	United States	114,000	57
Amazon	440	4	Danny Wong	United States	42,500	21
Amazon	440	5	Michael Gagliano	United States	32,500	16
Amazon	440	6	Aaron Kaiser	United States	40,500	20

Amazon	441	1	Benjamin Heath	United Kingdom	102,500	51
Amazon	441	2	Brandon Meyers	United States	33,000	17
Amazon	441	3	Pavel Plesuv	Czech Republic	86,500	43
Amazon	441	4	Erwann Pecheux	France	115,000	58
Amazon	441	5	Artur Papazayan	United States	73,500	37

Amazon	442	1	Donald Dorey	United States	25,000	13
Amazon	442	2	David Rudolf	United States	92,000	46
Amazon	442	3	Nikita Kalinin	Russia	34,000	17
Amazon	442	5	Tony Miles	United States	208,000	104
Amazon	442	6	Josh Weiss	United States	60,000	30

Amazon	443	1	Angel Guillen	Mexico	131,000	66
Amazon	443	2	Andrey Zaichenko	Russia	118,000	59
Amazon	443	3	Christopher Frank	Germany	86,000	43
Amazon	443	4	Michael Tureniec	Sweden	263,000	132
Amazon	443	5	Samad Rashid	United States	131,000	66
Amazon	443	6	Amir Mirrasouli	United States	66,000	33

Amazon	444	1	Tom Cannuli	United States	209,500	105
Amazon	444	2	Sylvain Loosli	France	46,000	23
Amazon	444	3	Jimmy D'Ambrosio	United States	120,500	60
Amazon	444	4	Yashell Doddanavar	India	103,500	52
Amazon	444	5	Jesse Vilchez	United States	90,500	45
Amazon	444	6	Wojciech Barzantny	Germany	54,000	27

Amazon	445	1	Amir Lehavot	United States	49,000	25
Amazon	445	2	Oihan Abarzuza	Spain	158,000	79
Amazon	445	3	Ricky Guan	United States	94,500	47
Amazon	445	4	David Ormsby	Canada	65,000	33
Amazon	445	5	Peter Traply	Hungary	32,500	16
Amazon	445	6	Ta-Wei Tou	Taiwan	94,500	47

Amazon	446	1	Ariel Celestino	Brazil	153,000	77
Amazon	446	2	Daniel Negreanu	Canada	79,500	40
Amazon	446	3	Erik Lemarquand	Canada	61,500	31
Amazon	446	4	Luke Martinelli	Austria	42,000	21
Amazon	446	5	Daniel Ott	United States	84,000	42
Amazon	446	6	Daniel Smiljkovic	Germany	18,000	9

Amazon	447	1	Jan Bednar	Czech Republic	111,500	56
Amazon	447	2	Darren Rabinowitz	United States	17,500	9
Amazon	447	3	Calvin Lee	South Korea	118,000	59
Amazon	447	4	Pedro Madeira	Brazil	12,500	6
Amazon	447	5	Daniel Tang	United Kingdom	196,500	98
Amazon	447	6	Nicholas Howard	United States	189,500	95

Amazon	448	1	Stephen Chiovaro	United States	49,500	25
Amazon	448	2	Kyle Cartwright	United States	207,500	104
Amazon	448	3	Yaji Ren	United States	67,000	34
Amazon	448	4	Adrien Allain	France	83,500	42
Amazon	448	5	Jeremy Saderne	France	27,500	14
Amazon	448	6	Pablo Fernandez Campo	United Kingdom	97,500	49

Amazon	449	1	Glen Cressman	United States	121,000	61
Amazon	449	2	Phong Turbo Nguyen (CA)	United States	81,000	41
Amazon	449	3	Taylor Hart	United States	55,000	28
Amazon	449	4	Arthur Conan	France	123,000	62
Amazon	449	5	Veerab Zakarian	Canada	79,500	40
Amazon	449	6	Sandeep Pulusani	United States	124,500	62

Amazon	450	1	Stephen Robinson	Canada	21,000	11
Amazon	450	2	Michael Kane	United Kingdom	125,000	63
Amazon	450	3	Ping Liu	United States	126,500	63
Amazon	450	4	Richard Bai	United States	75,500	38
Amazon	450	5	Anton Wigg	Sweden	43,300	22
Amazon	450	6	Javier Zarco	Spain	88,000	44

Amazon	451	1	Paul Fontan	United Kingdom	81,000	41
Amazon	451	2	Timo Kamphues	Germany	137,500	69
Amazon	451	3	Jeonggyu Cho	South Korea	40,000	20
Amazon	451	4	Ryan Jones	United States	89,000	45
Amazon	451	5	Torrey Korsog	United States	85,000	43
Amazon	451	6	Dianlei Zhang	China	54,500	27

Amazon	452	1	Pablo Melogno	Uruguay	181,000	91
Amazon	452	2	Jake Schindler	United States	30,000	15
Amazon	452	3	Ryan Drossel	United States	18,500	9
Amazon	452	4	Bas de Laat	Netherlands	58,500	29
Amazon	452	5	Toby Lewis	United Kingdom	57,500	29
Amazon	452	6	Blair Hinkle	United States	81,000	41

Amazon	453	1	Daniel Colpoys	United States	130,000	65
Amazon	453	2	Jordan Cristos	United States	112,000	56
Amazon	453	3	Alan Sternberg	United States	140,000	70
Amazon	453	4	Dave Stefanski	United States	74,000	37
Amazon	453	5	Ken Aldridge	United States	142,500	71
Amazon	453	6	Tamon Nakamura	Japan	57,000	29

Amazon	454	1	Andrea Dato	Italy	76,000	38
Amazon	454	2	Harry Bienenfeld	United States	91,000	46
Amazon	454	3	Francisco Torrecillas	Spain	219,500	110
Amazon	454	4	Craig McCorkell	United Kingdom	62,000	31
Amazon	454	5	Dejuante Alexander	United States	73,000	37
Amazon	454	6	Lior Orel	United States	219,500	110

Amazon	455	1	Raul Martinez	United Kingdom	161,000	81
Amazon	455	3	Andre Akkari	Brazil	60,800	30
Amazon	455	4	Louis Salter	United Kingdom	46,500	23
Amazon	455	5	Gergely Kulcsar	United States	66,500	33
Amazon	455	6	Sebastian Percysmith	Denmark	91,000	46

Amazon	456	1	Aleksandr Shevliakov	Russia	222,000	111
Amazon	456	2	Ian Kalman	United States	209,000	105
Amazon	456	3	Griffin Benger	Canada	427,500	214
Amazon	456	4	Michael Miller	United States	165,180	83
Amazon	456	5	Adrian Mateos	Spain	98,500	49
Amazon	456	6	Seth Fischer	United States	23,000	12

Amazon	457	1	James Obst	Australia	242,000	121
Amazon	457	2	Victor Choupeaux	France	121,500	61
Amazon	457	3	Jeremy Wien	United States	161,000	81
Amazon	457	4	Yan Shing Tsang	Hong Kong	109,500	55
Amazon	457	5	Seth Davies	United States	69,000	35
Amazon	457	6	Andrew Moreno	United States	79,000	40

Amazon	458	1	Demosthenes Kiriopoulos	Canada	111,000	56
Amazon	458	2	John Gravagna	United States	177,000	89
Amazon	458	3	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	30,500	15
Amazon	458	4	Stephen Graner	United States	29,500	15
Amazon	458	6	Rafael Moraes	Brazil	57,500	29

Amazon	459	1	Manig Loeser	Germany	245,000	123
Amazon	459	2	Upeshka De Silva	United States	306,000	153
Amazon	459	3	Denis Timofeev	Russia	69,000	35
Amazon	459	4	David Guay	Canada	58,000	29
Amazon	459	5	Ryan Hughes	United States	212,500	106
Amazon	459	6	Morten Mortensen	Denmark	132,500	66

06-13-2019 02:15 UTC-7

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Sandra Barbour

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Griffin Benger	427,500	62,500
Upeshka De Silva	306,000	306,000
Michael Tureniec	263,000	33,000
Onur Unsal	258,000	-2,000
Manig Loeser	245,000	55,000
James Obst	242,000	42,000
Aleksandr Shevliakov	222,000	222,000
Robert Bickley	221,500	221,500
Kunuk Shin	221,000	221,000
Francisco Torrecillas	219,500	219,500
Lior Orel	219,500	219,500
Ryan Hughes	212,500	212,500
Tom Cannuli	209,500	209,500
Ian Kalman	209,000	209,000
Tony Miles	208,000	-7,000
Kyle Cartwright	207,500	135,500
Joe Cada	205,000	205,000
Daniel Tang	196,500	196,500
Ryan Feldman	191,000
Thomas Cazayous	191,000	191,000
Nicholas Howard	189,500	189,500
Ludovic Riehl	185,000	185,000
Pablo Melogno	181,000	181,000
John Gravagna	177,000	-37,000
Kane Kalas	172,000	172,000

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06-13-2019 02:13 UTC-7

Play Has Halted for the Day

Sandra Barbour

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

The remaining players have bagged their chips. End-of-day chip counts and a recap will follow shortly.

06-13-2019 01:52 UTC-7

Three More Hands

Sandra Barbour

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Three more hands will be played at each table before the remaining players bag and tag for the night.

06-13-2019 01:45 UTC-7

Rabinowitz Doubles Up

Sandra Barbour

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Darren Rabinowitz was all in from the hijack for his last 15,800 against the player on the cutoff.

Darren Rabinowitz:
Opponent:

The runout was and Rabinowitz took down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Darren Rabinowitz	34,000	8,000

Tags: Darren Rabinowitz

06-13-2019 01:32 UTC-7

More Counts

Sandra Barbour

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Griffin Benger	365,000	365,000
Onur Unsal	260,000	260,000
Michael Tureniec	230,000	-35,000
Tony Miles	215,000	125,000
Manig Loeser	190,000	122,000
Victor Choupeaux	135,000	88,000
Daniel Negreanu	96,000	-17,000
Andre Akkari	51,000	10,000