Event #79: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2019 World Series of Poker

07-10-2019 18:24 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Mario De La Puente	Busted
Marc MacDonnell	Busted
Justin Young	Busted
Mate Mecs	Busted
Nicholas Stowell	Busted
Jeremy Ausmus	Busted

Javier Gomez	Busted
Michael Finstein	Busted
Ian Steinman	Busted

Dalton Brinker	Busted
Dan Zack	Busted
Raminder Singh	Busted
Robert Layne	Busted
Rainer Kempe	Busted
Aleksei Istomin	Busted
Peter Vitantonio	Busted
Duncan McCallum	Busted
Asher Conniff	Busted

Givens Shoves the Turn

AaronMcBride

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Will Givens at the 2019 Event #59 Final Table

The flop fell , and with 130,000 in the pot, Andres Gonzalez checked from middle position.

Will Givens bet 25,000 from the cutoff and Gonzalez called.

Gonzalez checked again after he saw the hit the turn, and Givens moved all in for 90,000.

Gonzalez snap-folded and Givens took the pot to move up to 300,000.

The two players discussed their hands just moments later, with Givens saying he held pocket kings, and Gonzalez replying he held pocket queens.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andres Gonzalez	320,000 -35,000	-35,000
Will Givens	300,000 192,000	192,000

Tags: Andres Gonzalez Will Givens

07-10-2019 18:42 UTC-7

Polychronopoulos Wins With a Three-Bet

Milko van Winden

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

It folded to David Gonzalez on the button and he raised to 10,000. Small blind Athanasios Polychronopoulos three-bet to 33,000 and the player in the big blind got out of the way.

Gonzalez ended up folding and Polychronopoulos won the pot uncontested.

Player	Chips	Progress
Athanasios Polychronopoulos	140,000 -90,000	-90,000

David Gonzalez	110,000 -42,500	-42,500

Tags: Athanasios Polychronopoulos David Gonzalez

07-10-2019 18:44 UTC-7

Break

AaronMcBride

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

The players are now on a 15-minute break.

Level: 15

Blinds: 3,000/5,000

Ante: 5,000

07-10-2019 19:12 UTC-7

Mermelstein Doubles Through Bonomo

AaronMcBride

Level 15 : 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

The completed board was down and there was around 60,000 in the middle.

Aaron Mermelstein had checked from the small blind and saw Justin Bonomo bet 200,000 from the hijack.

"I don't think I can fold this," said Mermelstein, sat with 160,000 behind.

Mermelstein went back into deep thought for close to 90 seconds but then called.

Bonomo revealed for a flush, but was behind against Mermelstein's nut flush with .

Mermelstein received the full double and Bonomo was left with 240,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aaron Mermelstein	398,000 228,000	228,000
Justin Bonomo	240,000 -180,000	-180,000

Tags: Aaron Mermelstein Justin Bonomo

07-10-2019 19:15 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Meddi Ferrah	Busted
Kevin Ayow	Busted
Massimo Mosele	Busted
Kami Hudson	Busted
Pete Chan	Busted
Benjamin Underwood	Busted
Ronald Paolucci	Busted
Markus Prinz	Busted
James Hundt	Busted
Paraskevas Tsokaridis	Busted

Leonard Eliminates Kaneoya

Milko van Winden

Level 15 : 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Patrick Leonard raised from middle position to 13,000 and it was Renato Kaneoya who pushed his last 68,000 to the middle. The action folded back to Leonard and he quickly called as he tabled . Kaneoya was in trouble with .

The flop split Kaneoya's outs in half and he couldn't catch up on the turn and river.

Leonard has his seventh in-the-money finish of the series but he has yet to reach an official final table.

Player	Chips	Progress
Patrick Leonard	330,000 180,000	180,000

Renato Kaneoya	Busted

Tags: Patrick Leonard Renato Kaneoya

07-10-2019 19:26 UTC-7

Khan Cracks Aces to Survive

AaronMcBride

Level 15 : 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Hafiz Khan was all in for 57,000 and saw Larry Greenberg call.

Hafiz Khan:
Larry Greenberg:

Board:

Khan needed help to survive and saw a favorable flop fall despite Greenberg holding his lead. The turn gave Khan the advantage with a straight, and he held on the river to crack aces to survive.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hafiz Khan	130,000 60,000	60,000
Larry Greenberg	60,000 10,000	10,000

Tags: Larry Greenberg Hafiz Khan

07-10-2019 19:32 UTC-7

Ponakovs Eliminated

Milko van Winden

Level 15 : 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Aleksejs Ponakovs got his last 60,000 in the middle with against the of Michael Tureniec and the flop fell . He had a ton of outs but he wasn't able to hit any of them on the turn and the river.