Event #52: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship Day 1 | 2019 World Series of Poker

06-23-2019 00:27 UTC-7

Record Breaker

Milko van Winden

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

The tournament has broken the record number of players in this event. There are a total of 486 players on the clock and last year's tournament attracted 476 hopefuls.

Registration for the tournament is still open until the start of Day 2 tomorrow. We do know that defending champion Loren Klein isn't going to win his fifth bracelet in this event since he was eliminated from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Loren Klein	Busted

Tags: Loren Klein

06-23-2019 00:16 UTC-7

Pescatori Eliminated

Milko van Winden

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

Max Pescatori got his last 20,200 in the middle when the board read . Pescatori showed and he was up against the of his opponent who already had a straight.

The river was the and Pescatori wasn't able to improve so he was sent to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Max Pescatori	Busted

Tags: Max Pescatori

06-23-2019 00:14 UTC-7

More Late Night Chip Counts

BrandonTemple

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan D'Angelo	215,000	5,000
Chris O'Hara	200,000
Kahle Burns	190,000	63,000
Chance Kornuth	185,000	50,000
Martin Zamani	175,000	23,000
Robert Mizrachi	145,000	30,000
Roger Teska	140,000	-14,000
Nick Guagenti	110,000	30,000
Scott Clements	106,000	-29,000
Roman Valerstein	88,000	55,500
Jared Bleznick	46,000	-24,000
Loren Klein	29,500	7,500

06-23-2019 00:12 UTC-7

Late Night Chip Counts

BrandonTemple

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Negreanu	175,000	13,000
Sasha Liu	135,000
Robert Minion	101,000	-12,000
Joseph Cheong	99,000	-31,500
Phil Galfond	96,000	-27,600
Will Failla	95,000	35,000
Chris Hunichen	91,000	58,000
Josh Arieh	91,000	39,000
Rep Porter	76,000	17,000
Ryan Laplante	72,000	-23,600
Scott Baumstein	60,000	60,000
Anthony Zinno	57,000	-38,000
Tom Marchese	31,000	-29,000

Level: 9

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 0

06-22-2019 23:46 UTC-7

Last Break of the Night

BrandonTemple

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

The remaining field is off on their final fifteen-minute break of the evening. When they return, they'll play two more one-hour levels before bagging and tagging for the night.

06-22-2019 23:43 UTC-7

Geilich Getting Shorter and Shorter

Milko van Winden

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

Ludovic Geilich had a very decent start of the day but has been all down since. Geilich is down to only 16,000 which is 16 big blinds for the next five minutes until the blinds go up.

Geilich defended his big blind when Joao Vieira raised to 2,500 from the cutoff. The flop fell and both players checked. The turn was the and Geilich checked again. Vieira now fired a bet of 4,000 and that was enough to make the Scotsman fold.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joao Vieira	160,000	73,000
Ludovic Geilich	16,000	-79,000

Tags: Joao Vieira Ludovic Geilich

06-22-2019 23:41 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

BrandonTemple

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Brandon Shack-Harris	148,000	14,000
Oleg Eltsov	145,000	27,000
Josh Reichard	135,000	73,000
Jared Bleznick	70,000	20,500
Christian Harder	64,000	64,000
Thomas Midena	62,500	62,500
Josh Arieh	52,000	31,500
Tony Hartmann	50,000	50,000
Erik Seidel	44,000	44,000
Jesse Sylvia	Busted

06-22-2019 23:18 UTC-7

Beauprez Sends One to the Rail

BrandonTemple

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

A player opened to 3,500 from the cutoff, leaving himself just 2,200 behind. The small blind called, and John "KasinoKrime" Beauprez made the call from the big blind.

The small blind bet 2,200 on the flop, and Beauprez and the cutoff both called.

The turn was checked through, and the small blind tossed a single 1k chip out on the river. Beauprez called, and the small blind said, "Two pair," before showing , but he was bested by Beauprez and his , while the cutoff mucked and left the table.

Player	Chips	Progress
John Beauprez	80,000	19,000

Tags: John Beauprez

06-22-2019 23:07 UTC-7

Updated Counts

Milko van Winden

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Fahredin Mustafov	260,000	207,000
Roger Teska	154,000	-6,000
Pim de Goede	126,000	52,000
David Benyamine	113,000	24,000
Tim McDermott	95,000	-12,000
Anthony Zinno	95,000	5,000
Mike Watson	70,000	6,800
Jason Somerville	55,000
Barney Boatman	35,000