Event #17: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold'em Day 1b | 2021 World Series of Poker

10-09-2021 16:40 UTC-7

Some Chip Counts From Around the Room

StephenVec

Level 6 : 300/600, 600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Cord Garcia	95,000 68,000	68,000
Maria Konnikova	56,000 4,000	4,000

Jeff Sluzinski	47,000 47,000	47,000
Faraz Jaka	39,000 39,000	39,000

Jesse Lonis	38,000 4,000	4,000

Allen Kessler	36,600 2,600	2,600

Ian O'Hara	26,000 26,000	26,000

10-09-2021 16:46 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Kelly Poon	44,000 44,000	44,000

Break

StephenVec

Level 6 : 300/600, 600 ante

Players are on a 20 minute break.

Level: 7

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 800

10-09-2021 17:41 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Ronnie Bardah	75,000 50,000	50,000

The action was picked up on the flop of , with about 24,000 in the middle. Faraz Jaka checked and middle position checked along with Robert James in late position. The turn was the and all three of the players ended up all in.

Faraz Jaka:
Robert James:
Middle Position:

The river was the and James scooped a big one with his set of nines.

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert James	128,000 128,000	128,000
Faraz Jaka	Busted

Tags: Faraz Jaka Robert James

Level: 8

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 1,000

10-09-2021 18:15 UTC-7

Some Chip Counts From Around the Room

StephenVec

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Greg Raymer	128,000 28,000	28,000

Georgios Sotiropoulos	85,000 21,000	21,000

Maria Konnikova	71,000 15,000	15,000

Kelly Minkin	58,000 58,000	58,000
Allen Kessler	48,000 4,000	4,000

10-09-2021 18:20 UTC-7

Clayton Chipping Up

benlysne

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

The action picked up on a flop of .

Russel "Rusty" Clayton bet 10,000 in the cutoff and his opponent called in early position.

The turn was the .

Clayton bet 45,000 and his opponent thought for a minute before going all-in for about 75,000. Clayton snapped called with chips behind and showed for two pair, He had caught up to his opponent's on the turn, and the river secured the win.

Clayton won the pot with two pair aces and jacks to knock his opponent out of the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Russell Clayton	260,000 235,000	235,000

10-09-2021 18:49 UTC-7

Notables In Pavilion

benlysne

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Sonia-Veronika Shashikhina	260,000 260,000	260,000
Eric Baldwin	130,000 105,000	105,000

Samantha Abernathy	71,000 46,000	46,000
$Gal Yifrach$ Gal Yifrach	70,000 70,000	70,000

Michael Dentale	42,000
Maurice Hawkins	39,000 33,000	33,000
Ben Mintz	29,000 -1,000	-1,000
Felipe Ramos	27,000 27,000	27,000

Jeff Gross	26,000 26,000	26,000