Event #25: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Completed
Event #25: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Completed
The first of four days has been played to completion in Event #25: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em – with Scott Drobes leading the way after bagging up 692,700 in chips through ten levels of play. Other big stacks belong to Jonathan Jaffe (425,000), Antoine Goutard (440,000) and Diogo Veiga (326,000).
The tournament attracted an abundance of poker talent, as expected in any high buy-in WSOP event. By the end of Day 1, of the 578 players who entered — only 192 remained. Some notables who bagged and tagged into Day 2 include with Kitty Kuo (94,100), Faraz Jaka (121,700), David Benyamine (101,100), Maria Ho (57,000), Joseph Cheong (81,100), Jason Somerville (40,500), and Erik Seidel (130,300).
Daniel Negreanu made a splash after registering late in the day by running up his stack early, due largely in part to running pocket aces into Chino Rheem's queens and later turning a full house to knock out another player. Negreanu will return to Day 2 with 265,400 in chips.
Registration for the event will remain open until the start of play tomorrow, which is set to begin at 2 p.m. local time. The returning players will come into level 11 (1200/2400/2400 blinds) and play an additional 10 hour-long levels.
Be sure to stick with PokerNews as we continue to bring you the action from this elite field of players leading to the next WSOP gold bracelet winner!
Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
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Amazon | 449 | 1 | Rok Gostisa | Slovenia | 142,500 | 59 |
Amazon | 449 | 2 | Brandon Sligh | United States | 90,500 | 38 |
Amazon | 449 | 3 | Jake Schwartz | United States | 162,600 | 68 |
Amazon | 449 | 4 | Paul DeGiulio | United States | 33,600 | 14 |
Amazon | 449 | 5 | Nacho Barbero | Argentina | 255,400 | 106 |
Amazon | 449 | 6 | Diogo Veiga | Portugal | 326,500 | 136 |
Amazon | 450 | 1 | Kenn Pluard | United States | 122,800 | 51 |
Amazon | 450 | 2 | Zachary Donovan | United States | 59,000 | 25 |
Amazon | 450 | 3 | James Chen | Taiwan | 211,500 | 88 |
Amazon | 450 | 4 | Markus Gonsalves | United States | 118,300 | 49 |
Amazon | 450 | 5 | Brett Brucaleri | United States | 159,900 | 67 |
Amazon | 450 | 6 | Benjamin Diebold | United States | 159,000 | 66 |
Amazon | 451 | 1 | Nolan Timon | United States | 92,000 | 38 |
Amazon | 451 | 2 | Nick Schulman | United States | 50,000 | 21 |
Amazon | 451 | 3 | Ziao Guo | United States | 175,500 | 73 |
Amazon | 451 | 4 | Daniel Buzgon | United States | 158,600 | 66 |
Amazon | 451 | 5 | Turbo Nguyen | United States | 30,100 | 13 |
Amazon | 451 | 6 | Richard Martell | United States | 56,400 | 24 |
Amazon | 452 | 1 | Audrius Stakelis | United States | 146,400 | 61 |
Amazon | 452 | 2 | Jinho Hong | South Korea | 92,700 | 39 |
Amazon | 452 | 3 | Vanessa Kade | Canada | 203,000 | 85 |
Amazon | 452 | 4 | Matthew Schwagler | United States | 173,400 | 72 |
Amazon | 452 | 5 | Justin Garcia | United States | 221,900 | 92 |
Amazon | 452 | 6 | David Coleman | United States | 73,600 | 31 |
Amazon | 453 | 1 | Bradley Anderson | United States | 181,200 | 76 |
Amazon | 453 | 2 | Matthew Gillingham | Canada | 61,600 | 26 |
Amazon | 453 | 3 | Karen Sarkisyan | Russia | 134,000 | 56 |
Amazon | 453 | 4 | Craig Mason | United States | 210,000 | 88 |
Amazon | 453 | 5 | David Pham | United States | 193,200 | 81 |
Amazon | 453 | 6 | Nathan Pitts | United States | 53,100 | 22 |
Amazon | 454 | 1 | George Wolff | United States | 52,000 | 22 |
Amazon | 454 | 2 | Scott Drobes | United States | 692,700 | 289 |
Amazon | 454 | 3 | David Benyamine | France | 101,100 | 42 |
Amazon | 454 | 4 | Kristijonas Andrulis | Lithuania | 30,600 | 13 |
Amazon | 454 | 5 | Cabanillas Rodriguez | United States | 210,300 | 88 |
Amazon | 454 | 6 | Nick Petrangelo | United States | 220,000 | 92 |
Amazon | 455 | 1 | Noah Novick | United States | 105,400 | 44 |
Amazon | 455 | 2 | Rogen Chhabra | United States | 181,700 | 76 |
Amazon | 455 | 3 | Sonny Franco | France | 289,000 | 120 |
Amazon | 455 | 4 | Ognyan Dimov | Bulgaria | 323,900 | 135 |
Amazon | 455 | 5 | Naor Slobodskoy | Israel | 27,500 | 11 |
Amazon | 455 | 6 | Darren Elias | United States | 84,900 | 35 |
Amazon | 456 | 1 | Mark Teltscher | United Kingdom | 191,900 | 80 |
Amazon | 456 | 2 | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 49,100 | 20 |
Amazon | 456 | 3 | Thomas Boivin | Belgium | 183,800 | 77 |
Amazon | 456 | 4 | Fabian Bernhauser | Austria | 51,200 | 21 |
Amazon | 456 | 5 | Boris Kolev | Bulgaria | 189,000 | 79 |
Amazon | 456 | 6 | Jim Collopy | United States | 127,500 | 53 |
Amazon | 457 | 2 | Gregor Sverko | Croatia | 61,200 | 26 |
Amazon | 457 | 3 | Casey Parker | United States | 102,100 | 43 |
Amazon | 457 | 4 | Brian Yoon | United States | 63,200 | 26 |
Amazon | 457 | 5 | Brandon Sheils | United Kingdom | 82,000 | 34 |
Amazon | 457 | 6 | Sung Joo Hyun | United States | 113,200 | 47 |
Amazon | 458 | 1 | DID NOT REPORT | United States | 1 | 0 |
Amazon | 458 | 2 | Luigi Curcio | United States | 126,000 | 53 |
Amazon | 458 | 3 | Tingyi Tsai | China | 256,800 | 107 |
Amazon | 458 | 4 | Barak Wisbrod | Israel | 67,500 | 28 |
Amazon | 458 | 5 | Shahar Levi | Israel | 325,300 | 136 |
Amazon | 458 | 6 | Michael Wang | United States | 55,500 | 23 |
Amazon | 459 | 1 | Christophe Benzimra | France | 175,200 | 73 |
Amazon | 459 | 2 | Mamad Arani | United States | 62,000 | 26 |
Amazon | 459 | 3 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 1 | 0 |
Amazon | 459 | 4 | Calvin Lee | United States | 146,600 | 61 |
Amazon | 459 | 5 | Raul Martinez | United Kingdom | 207,500 | 86 |
Amazon | 459 | 6 | Xuan Liu | China | 144,300 | 60 |
Amazon | 460 | 1 | Shandhy Sitepu | - | 162,700 | 68 |
Amazon | 460 | 3 | Maximiliano Gallardo | Argentina | 77,700 | 32 |
Amazon | 460 | 4 | Gal Yifrach | United States | 289,300 | 121 |
Amazon | 460 | 5 | Steven Sarmiento | United States | 156,700 | 65 |
Amazon | 460 | 6 | Steven Morris | United Kingdom | 357,100 | 149 |
Amazon | 461 | 1 | Mike Sowers | United States | 42,000 | 18 |
Amazon | 461 | 2 | Kitty Kuo | Taiwan | 94,100 | 39 |
Amazon | 461 | 3 | Kevin Rabichow | United States | 139,100 | 58 |
Amazon | 461 | 4 | Erik Seidel | United States | 130,300 | 54 |
Amazon | 461 | 5 | Vladimir Alexandrov | United States | 160,800 | 67 |
Amazon | 461 | 6 | Mark Dickstein | United States | 182,600 | 76 |
Amazon | 462 | 1 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 65,900 | 27 |
Amazon | 462 | 2 | Ryan Laplante | United States | 88,000 | 37 |
Amazon | 462 | 3 | James Carr | United States | 225,100 | 94 |
Amazon | 462 | 4 | Yosif Nawabi | United States | 490,100 | 204 |
Amazon | 462 | 5 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 265,400 | 111 |
Amazon | 462 | 6 | Taylor Paur | United States | 85,500 | 36 |
Amazon | 463 | 1 | Sam Grafton | United Kingdom | 186,700 | 78 |
Amazon | 463 | 2 | Jun Obara | Japan | 44,400 | 19 |
Amazon | 463 | 3 | Kevin Andriamahefa | United States | 42,000 | 18 |
Amazon | 463 | 4 | Shaun Oneil | United States | 135,300 | 56 |
Amazon | 463 | 5 | Anthony Hu | United States | 46,200 | 19 |
Amazon | 463 | 6 | Dashiell Shapiro | United States | 62,900 | 26 |
Amazon | 464 | 1 | Kristopher Townsend | United States | 64,200 | 27 |
Amazon | 464 | 3 | Mitchell Halverson | United States | 163,100 | 68 |
Amazon | 464 | 4 | Joshua Faris | United States | 43,500 | 18 |
Amazon | 464 | 5 | Yaniv Karniel | United States | 236,000 | 98 |
Amazon | 464 | 6 | Bruno Lopes | France | 198,600 | 83 |
Amazon | 465 | 1 | Yifu He | United States | 95,700 | 40 |
Amazon | 465 | 2 | Chance Kornuth | United States | 388,300 | 162 |
Amazon | 465 | 3 | Kyriakos Papadopoulos | United States | 122,300 | 51 |
Amazon | 465 | 4 | Anthony Zinno | United States | 79,600 | 33 |
Amazon | 465 | 6 | Manuel Ruivo | Portugal | 97,500 | 41 |
Amazon | 466 | 1 | William Fagerbakke | United States | 37,500 | 16 |
Amazon | 466 | 2 | Jeff Gross | United States | 234,500 | 98 |
Amazon | 466 | 3 | Dimitar Danchev | Bulgaria | 143,100 | 60 |
Amazon | 466 | 5 | Galen Hall | United States | 264,400 | 110 |
Amazon | 466 | 6 | Bertrand Grospellier | France | 63,000 | 26 |
Amazon | 467 | 1 | Matthew Wantman | United States | 84,300 | 35 |
Amazon | 467 | 2 | Vicent Bosca Ramon | Spain | 126,000 | 53 |
Amazon | 467 | 4 | Tony Dunst | United States | 116,000 | 48 |
Amazon | 467 | 5 | Raman Afanasenka | Russia | 257,000 | 107 |
Amazon | 467 | 6 | Pavlo Veksler | Ukraine | 36,800 | 15 |
Amazon | 468 | 1 | Andre Akkari | Brazil | 82,400 | 34 |
Amazon | 468 | 2 | Lennon Lee | United States | 285,000 | 119 |
Amazon | 468 | 4 | Arie Kliper | Israel | 417,500 | 174 |
Amazon | 468 | 5 | Maria Konnikova | United States | 131,000 | 55 |
Amazon | 468 | 6 | Ivan Zufic | Croatia | 263,800 | 110 |
Amazon | 469 | 2 | Timothy Miles | United States | 81,000 | 34 |
Amazon | 469 | 3 | Steven Kelly | United States | 51,200 | 21 |
Amazon | 469 | 4 | Masafumi Iijima | Japan | 146,600 | 61 |
Amazon | 469 | 5 | Jason Somerville | United States | 40,500 | 17 |
Amazon | 469 | 6 | Wendy Nguyen | United States | 133,800 | 56 |
Amazon | 470 | 1 | Eric Fields | United States | 277,900 | 116 |
Amazon | 470 | 2 | Rafael Dasilvamoraes | Brazil | 50,900 | 21 |
Amazon | 470 | 3 | Jason Kennedy | United States | 234,400 | 98 |
Amazon | 470 | 4 | Lawrence Greenberg | United States | 146,000 | 61 |
Amazon | 470 | 6 | Sergio Aido | Spain | 85,200 | 36 |
Amazon | 471 | 1 | Andrew Jeong | United States | 105,700 | 44 |
Amazon | 471 | 2 | Brock Wilson | United States | 80,300 | 33 |
Amazon | 471 | 3 | Landen Lucas | United States | 88,000 | 37 |
Amazon | 471 | 4 | Lily Kiletto | United States | 31,000 | 13 |
Amazon | 471 | 6 | Andjelko Andrejevic | United States | 34,000 | 14 |
Amazon | 472 | 1 | David Gonzalez | United States | 141,000 | 59 |
Amazon | 472 | 2 | Scott Ball | United States | 174,900 | 73 |
Amazon | 472 | 3 | Josh Kay | United States | 101,500 | 42 |
Amazon | 472 | 6 | Justin Liberto | United States | 193,700 | 81 |
Amazon | 473 | 1 | Alfred Mottur | United States | 82,900 | 35 |
Amazon | 473 | 2 | Antoine Goutard | France | 477,500 | 199 |
Amazon | 473 | 3 | Keyu Qu | United States | 58,000 | 24 |
Amazon | 473 | 4 | Jonathan Therme | France | 219,400 | 91 |
Amazon | 473 | 6 | Dan Shak | United States | 50,000 | 21 |
Amazon | 474 | 1 | Cary Katz | United States | 91,500 | 38 |
Amazon | 474 | 2 | Harry Lodge | United Kingdom | 155,400 | 65 |
Amazon | 474 | 4 | Asi Moshe | Israel | 298,400 | 124 |
Amazon | 474 | 5 | Brent Hanks | United States | 76,000 | 32 |
Amazon | 474 | 6 | Nicolas Vayssieres | United States | 70,300 | 29 |
Amazon | 475 | 1 | Jeffrey Mahoney | Canada | 52,000 | 22 |
Amazon | 475 | 2 | Tomas Jozonis | Lithuania | 43,600 | 18 |
Amazon | 475 | 3 | Fabian Gumz | Germany | 206,800 | 86 |
Amazon | 475 | 4 | Faraz Jaka | United States | 121,700 | 51 |
Amazon | 475 | 5 | Bin Weng | United States | 374,100 | 156 |
Amazon | 476 | 1 | Joseph Cheong | United States | 81,100 | 34 |
Amazon | 476 | 2 | Mario Mosbock | Austria | 172,000 | 72 |
Amazon | 476 | 3 | Julien Martini | France | 53,000 | 22 |
Amazon | 476 | 5 | Michael Walsh | United States | 34,000 | 14 |
Amazon | 476 | 6 | Simon Mattsson | Sweden | 104,700 | 44 |
Amazon | 477 | 1 | Benjamin Heath | United Kingdom | 243,600 | 102 |
Amazon | 477 | 3 | Justin Lapka | United States | 185,300 | 77 |
Amazon | 477 | 4 | Johan Guilbert | France | 179,800 | 75 |
Amazon | 477 | 5 | Lachezar Petkov | Bulgaria | 265,000 | 110 |
Amazon | 477 | 6 | Nick Phoenix | United States | 115,000 | 48 |
Amazon | 478 | 1 | Jon Gisler | United States | 40,000 | 17 |
Amazon | 478 | 3 | Marton Czuczor | Hungary | 214,200 | 89 |
Amazon | 478 | 4 | Andros Ioakimides | United States | 290,500 | 121 |
Amazon | 478 | 5 | Maria Ho | United States | 57,000 | 24 |
Amazon | 478 | 6 | Ian Ivers | Canada | 35,800 | 15 |
Amazon | 479 | 2 | Jamey Mckay | United States | 24,000 | 10 |
Amazon | 479 | 3 | Seth Foster | United States | 56,200 | 23 |
Amazon | 479 | 4 | Sandeep Pulusani | United States | 117,700 | 49 |
Amazon | 479 | 5 | Christian Harder | United States | 57,100 | 24 |
Amazon | 479 | 6 | Boris Akopov | United States | 131,200 | 55 |
Amazon | 480 | 2 | Brian Altman | United States | 132,900 | 55 |
Amazon | 480 | 3 | Jeffery Tahler | United States | 188,700 | 79 |
Amazon | 480 | 4 | Jonas Mackoff | Canada | 214,500 | 89 |
Amazon | 480 | 5 | Maxime Chilaud | France | 79,500 | 33 |
Amazon | 480 | 6 | William Devitt | United States | 230,300 | 96 |
Amazon | 481 | 1 | Nicholas Howard | United States | 179,900 | 75 |
Amazon | 481 | 2 | Steven Zazaian | United States | 270,600 | 113 |
Amazon | 481 | 4 | Vincent Huang | Australia | 328,400 | 137 |
Amazon | 481 | 5 | Frank Kassela | United States | 244,500 | 102 |
Amazon | 481 | 6 | Jonathan Jaffe | United States | 425,500 | 177 |
Amazon | 482 | 1 | Roman Hrabec | Mexico | 83,800 | 35 |
Amazon | 482 | 2 | Yuri Dzivielevski | Brazil | 220,800 | 92 |
Amazon | 482 | 4 | Jake Daniels | United States | 257,700 | 107 |
Amazon | 482 | 5 | John Racener | United States | 120,700 | 50 |
Amazon | 482 | 6 | Andres Gonzalez | Cartagena, ES | 189,000 | 79 |
Amazon | 483 | 1 | Frank Funaro | United States | 105,900 | 44 |
Amazon | 483 | 3 | Erwann Pecheux | France | 476,000 | 198 |
Amazon | 483 | 4 | Ian Ohara | United States | 119,100 | 50 |
Amazon | 483 | 5 | Brekstyn Schutten | United States | 152,300 | 63 |
Amazon | 483 | 6 | Joshua Gordon | United States | 126,000 | 53 |
Amazon | 484 | 1 | Darren Rabinowitz | United States | 60,700 | 25 |
Amazon | 484 | 2 | Anthony Spinella | United States | 277,000 | 115 |
Amazon | 484 | 3 | Todd Stewart | United States | 233,600 | 97 |
Amazon | 484 | 4 | Matthias Auer | Austria | 94,400 | 39 |
Amazon | 484 | 5 | Ryan Riess | United States | 89,600 | 37 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
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692,700 | 192,700 |
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490,100 | 490,100 |
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477,500 | 37,500 |
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476,000 | 476,000 |
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425,500 | 75,500 |
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417,500 | 292,500 |
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388,300 | 128,300 |
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374,100 | 374,100 |
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357,100 | 131,100 |
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328,400 | 328,400 |
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326,500 | 326,500 |
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325,300 | 325,300 |
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323,900 | 323,900 |
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298,400 | 28,400 |
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290,500 | 290,500 |
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289,300 | 149,300 |
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289,000 | 289,000 |
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285,000 | 285,000 |
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277,900 | 277,900 |
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277,000 | 277,000 |
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270,600 | 270,600 |
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265,400 | -84,600 |
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265,000 | 265,000 |
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264,400 | 264,400 |
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263,800 | 263,800 |
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Day 1 is completed. Stay tuned for the final Day 1 chip counts along with a recap of the day.
The action was picked up on the turn on a board of .
Daniel Negreanu reraised his opponent's turn bet to 64,000 and the opponent went all-in, Negreanu snapped called.
The river was the and Negreanu flipped over
for a full house fours over sixes and his opponent showed
before he hit the rails.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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350,000 | 170,000 |
On a completed board of and approximately 50,000 already in the middle — Erik Seidel was heads-up in the cutoff against a lone opponent in the big blind.
Seidel was checked to and he fired 30,000 into the middle. His opponent called and Seidel tabled for two pair, which was good as his opponent mucked.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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180,000 | 120,000 |
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With several thousand already in the middle, James Chen checked from under-the-gun on a flop to Xuan Liu, who bet 8,000 in the cutoff. Chen called.
Both players checked down on the turn and
river.
Chen tabled for set of jacks and Liu mucked — awarding the pot to Chen.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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180,000 | 180,000 |
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130,000 | 15,000 |
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Player | Chips | Progress |
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500,000 | |
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440,000 | |
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367,000 | 87,000 |
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350,000 | |
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270,000 | |
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260,000 | |
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260,000 | 30,000 |
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Level: 10
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000