Event #57: $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2019 World Series of Poker

06-24-2019 15:50 UTC-7

Team Gerrits Going Well

Shirley Ang

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

Team Gerrits is off to a great start, having eliminated two other teams already including Team Lahmani.

Team Lahmani raised from the button and the player in the small blind three-bet. Martijn Gerrits called in the big blind and Team Lahmani shoved. The small blind got out of their way and Gerrits made the call with while Team Lahmani held .

No help on the board for Team Lahmani as Gerrits held to eliminate them during the second level of the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Martijn Gerrits - Preston Lee - Kane Kalas	61,000 35,000	35,000
Oshri Lahmani - Shahar Levi - Shalev Halfa	Busted

Tags: Martijn Gerrits

06-24-2019 16:09 UTC-7

Defending Champion Team

Shirley Ang

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

Nikita Luther and Aditya Sushant have teamed up this year. Luther won last year with Guiseppe Pantaleo while Sushant won this event in 2017 with Nipun Java.

Player	Chips	Progress
Blair Hinkle - Mason Hinkle - James Mackey	20,000 20,000	20,000
Alex Keating - Anton Morgenstern - Katharina Soehren	20,000 20,000	20,000
Joey Weissman - Seth Berger - Nellie Park	20,000 20,000	20,000
Barry Shulman - Allyn Shulman - Jess Shulman	20,000 20,000	20,000
Marcin Chmielewski - Michal Lubas	20,000 20,000	20,000
Kevin Kansler - Jordan Young - Peter Vlantis - Brad Radziewicz	20,000 20,000	20,000
Christopher Frank - Melissa Wang	20,000 20,000	20,000
Erkut Yilmaz - Esra Yilmaz	20,000 20,000	20,000
Nikita Luther - Aditya Sushant	20,000 20,000	20,000

Ioannis Angelou-Konstas - Orestis Kanakopoulos	20,000 20,000	20,000
Pierre Calamusa - Tony Miles	20,000 20,000	20,000

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 200

06-24-2019 16:40 UTC-7

Some More New Teams

Shirley Ang

Level 3 : 100/200, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Taylor Williams - Elio Fox - Dylan Linde	20,000 20,000	20,000
Nikhil Gera - Craig Chait - Jared Griener - Adam Swan	20,000 20,000	20,000
Eyal Bensimhon - Yonathan Shfir	20,000 20,000	20,000
Babis Lappas - Georgios Kapalas	20,000 20,000	20,000
Kostas Gennaios - Kyriakos Papadopoulos	20,000 20,000	20,000
Joe Cada - Robert Koss - Nick Yunis - Christopher Moon	20,000 20,000	20,000
Tobias Peters - Freek Scholten	20,000 20,000	20,000
Kevin MacPhee - Dhaval Mudgal - Abhinav Iyer - Siddarth Karia	20,000 20,000	20,000
Andrea Buonocore - Nicola Bracchi	20,000 20,000	20,000
Chen An Lin - Lin Hong Tan - Cheng How Pan - Ching Chen	20,000 20,000	20,000
Stefan Fabian - Neculai Macovei	20,000 20,000	20,000
Harry Lodge - Leo Worthington-Leese - Andy Wilson - Brandon Sheils	20,000 20,000	20,000
Mikhail Semin - Valeria Kobakhidze - Arsenii Karmatckii	20,000 20,000	20,000

06-24-2019 17:09 UTC-7

Jeopardy's Holzhauer Tags In

Shirley Ang

Level 3 : 100/200, 200 ante

James Holzhauer is part of Team Sexton with Mike Sexton and has just tagged in. The professional sports gambler is probably known by most Americans for his amazing Jeopardy run of 32 wins.

Holzhauer used to be a semi-professional online poker player but has admitted that he hasn't played in eight years. Sexton contacted Holzhauer and offered to buy him in for the $1,500 Bounty and to team up for this event. Holzhauer has pledged to donate 50% of his winnings to Project 150 which serves the needs of more than 6,300 homeless, displaces, and disadvantaged high school students at almost 80 high schools in Nevada.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike Sexton - James Holzhauer	21,000 1,000	1,000

Tags: Mike Sexton James Holzhauer

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/300

Ante: 300

06-24-2019 17:40 UTC-7

Team Thibodaux Busts Team Tamayo

Shirley Ang

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante

Team Thibodaux eliminated Team Tamayo earlier and they were kind enough to relay what had happened:

Joe McKeehen raised from under the gun, another player three-bet, and Joshua Thibodaux four-bet from the big blind with . The flop came , Thibodaux continued with a bet and McKeehen called.

The turn was no ace nor king, Thibodaux bet just over half the pot and McKeehen called again.

The river completed the flush and straight draw. Thibodaux now checked and McKeehen shoved which Thibodaux snap-called with the set of eights. McKeehen never showed his cards and was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joshua Thibodaux - Cory Albertson	40,000 20,000	20,000
Jonathan Tamayo - Joe McKeehen	Busted

Tags: Joe McKeehen Joshua Thibodaux

06-24-2019 17:53 UTC-7

Team Hawkins Eliminated Too

Shirley Ang

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante

Maurice Hawkins lost a big hand earlier today with versus the of his opponent when it all went in on the rainbow flop. Hawkins had his opponent covered though. Hawkins chipped back up but shortly after Catherine Dever lost the remainder of their stack with when she shoved it in after a raise by the player who held . No help on the board as Team Hawkins was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Maurice Hawkins - Cathrine Dever - Edward Dixon	Busted

Tags: Catherine Dever Maurice Hawkins

06-24-2019 18:10 UTC-7

More New Teams

Shirley Ang

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kiryl Radzivonau - Anatoly Zyrin - Becca Israelashvili	40,000 40,000	40,000
Anna Antimony - Alex Jim	34,000 34,000	34,000
Jeff Platt - Dave Consolazio	30,000 30,000	30,000
Michael Wang - Dan Zack - Ajay Chabra	20,000 20,000	20,000
Lisa Costello - Anthony Alberto	20,000 20,000	20,000
Ryan D'Angelo - Meikat Siu	20,000 20,000	20,000
Andrew Lichtenberger - Dan Smith - Stephen Lichtenberger	20,000 20,000	20,000
Dominik Panka - Mikolaj Zawadzki	20,000 20,000	20,000
Will Failla - Richard S	20,000 20,000	20,000
Cathal Shine - Andy Black	20,000 20,000	20,000
Eric Mizrachi - Donny Mizrachi - Robert Mizrachi - Michael Mizrachi	20,000 20,000	20,000
Alex Rocha - Megan Milburn	20,000 20,000	20,000
Jason Wheeler - Matt Iles	20,000 20,000	20,000
Ted Gilles - Steve Buckner	20,000 20,000	20,000
Ryan Leng - Lisa Leng - Nikki Grandt - Ilana Grandt	20,000 20,000	20,000
Jan Lakota - Jimmy D'Ambrosio - Andrey Spitsyn	20,000 20,000	20,000
Dragos Trofimov - Alexandru Papazian - Florian Duta	20,000 20,000	20,000
Danny Noam - John Racener - Sarah Brocca	20,000 20,000	20,000
Daria Feshchenko - Manig Loeser - Aylar Lie	4,000 4,000	4,000
Calvin Anderson - Upeshka De Silva - Dan Colpoys	3,500 3,500	3,500

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 400