Event #86: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship Day 1 | 2019 World Series of Poker

07-13-2019 18:05 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Grafton	42,000	-18,000

Kurtzman Wins Big With Straight Flush

AaronMcBride

Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

Aliaksei Boika was seen departing from Table #441 in Amazon Purple, in what was described as "the craziest hand I've ever seen" by one player at the table.

Boika held , Steven Highfill held , and Eric Kurtzman held .

With board down , all the money went into the middle on the river.

Highfill had the ace-high flush, and Boika a full house, but neither player could beat Kurtzman who had a straight flush.

Kurtzman had Boika covered, and Highfill survived but was left with just 3,000 to spin up with Kurtzman moving up to a massive 230,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eric Kurtzman	230,000	170,000
Steven Highfill	3,000	3,000
Aliaksei Boika	Busted

Tags: Aliaksei Boika Eric Kurtzman Steven Highfill

07-13-2019 17:41 UTC-7

Three In, One Out

AaronMcBride

Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

Another four players took their seats recently but only three remains.

Patrick Leonard, Mustapha Kanit, Jeremy Ausmus, and Danny Tang joined but brand new bracelet winner Tang was seen departing from the tournament area early in level 3.

Player	Chips	Progress
Patrick Leonard	60,000
Mustapha Kanit	60,000
Jeremy Ausmus	60,000
Danny Tang	Busted

Tags: Danny Tang Jeremy Ausmus Mustapha Kanit Patrick Leonard

07-13-2019 17:32 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Lauren Roberts	135,000	75,000
Chance Kornuth	102,000	42,000
Adrian Mateos	70,000	10,000
Alexandros Theologis	67,000	7,000
John Cynn	63,000	3,000
Aliaksei Boika	61,000	6,000
Jules Dickerson	55,000	-5,000
Ben Heath	55,000	-5,000
Sylvain Loosli	50,000	-10,000
Barry Hutter	50,000	-12,000
Ryan Laplante	46,000	-14,000
Ali Imsirovic	45,000	-15,000
Brian Yoon	35,000	-25,000
Adrien Delmas	35,000	-25,000
James Chen	30,000	-30,000

New Entries

AaronMcBride

Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Simon Deadman	60,000
Leo Fernandez	60,000
Joao Simao	60,000
Bertrand Grospellier	60,000
John Hennigan	60,000
Anthony Zinno	60,000
Dominik Nitsche	60,000
Joey Weissman	60,000
Ioannis Angelou-Konstas	60,000
Corentin Ropert	60,000

Level: 3

Blinds: 200/300

Ante: 300

07-13-2019 17:00 UTC-7

Break

AaronMcBride

Level 2 : 100/200, 200 ante

The players are now on a 15-minute break.

07-13-2019 16:53 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
John Cynn	60,000	60,000
Sam Grafton	60,000	60,000
Julien Martini	60,000	60,000
Koray Aldemir	60,000
Igor Yaroshevskyy	60,000	60,000
Michael Gathy	60,000	60,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Anuj Agarwal	74,000	14,000

Hutter Hunts For Further Six-Max Success

AaronMcBride

Level 2 : 100/200, 200 ante

Barry Hutter is in action in Event #86 and is looking for a third six-handed tournament deep run.

Twelve days ago, Hutter secured sixth place in Event #70 $5,000 No Limit Hold'em - 6-Handed for $110,127, and just six days later the American finished in seventh place for $27,612 out of 1,560 runners in the Event #76 $800 No Limit Hold'em - WSOP.com Online 6-Handed.

Hutter has the chance to make it a hattrick of cashes over the next few days in the $10,000 6-Handed Championship.