Event #54: $2,500 Nine-Game Mix 6-Handed Day 1 | 2021 World Series of Poker

10-28-2021 22:08 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Holder	206,000 131,000	131,000
Vasu Amarapu	172,000 52,000	52,000
Adam Owen	165,000 17,000	17,000
Christian Roberts	138,000 4,000	4,000

Nick Guagenti	108,000 33,000	33,000

Todd Ivens	85,000 22,000	22,000
Alex Livingston	84,000 49,000	49,000

Qinghai Pan	70,000 33,000	33,000

Yueqi Zhu	68,000 18,500	18,500

Jake Schwartz	67,000 32,000	32,000
Andrew Barber	60,000 44,000	44,000

Yuri Dzivielevski	58,000 500	500

Brandon Shack-Harris	52,000 26,000	26,000

Kosei Ichinose	50,000 39,000	39,000
Stephen Moreschi	50,000 15,000	15,000
Jason Papastavrou	35,000 35,000	35,000
Vladimir Peck	25,000 25,000	25,000

Derek McMaster	25,000 3,500	3,500

Max Pescatori	22,500 9,500	9,500

Chip Jett	Busted

Livingston Raises Bojang

Josh Noy

Level 8

No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw

We caught up with the hand after the drawing action and Ismael Bojang betting 6,500 into Alex Livingston, who replied with a raise to 21,000. Bojang took some time considering the call, but ultimately folded as Livingston chipped up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alex Livingston	84,000

Ismael Bojang	78,000 18,000	18,000

Tags: Alex Livingston Ismael Bojang

10-28-2021 22:26 UTC-8

Another Round of Chip Counts

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Mike Patrick

Level 8

Player	Chips	Progress
Eli Elezra	175,000 140,000	140,000

Kyle Montgomery	162,000 77,000	77,000
Allan Le	95,000 5,000	5,000

David Williams	95,000 49,000	49,000

Christopher Vitch	90,000 54,000	54,000

Hernan Salazar	71,000 36,000	36,000
Ken Aldridge	59,000 24,000	24,000

Bradley Ruben	56,000 28,000	28,000
Victor Ramdin	50,000 15,000	15,000
Ashly Butler	48,000 5,000	5,000
Scott Abrams	48,000 20,000	20,000

Brian Rast	44,000 9,000	9,000

Mike Matusow	35,000 12,000	12,000

Kenneth Po	35,000 1,000	1,000
Matt Waxman	32,000 1,500	1,500

Frankie O'Dell	26,500 17,500	17,500

10-28-2021 22:36 UTC-8

One More Round of Counts

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Mike Patrick

Level 8

Player	Chips	Progress
Chad Eveslage	137,000 85,000	85,000

Tom Gity	80,000 33,000	33,000
Ben Ludlow	65,000 33,000	33,000
Daniel Negreanu	44,000 9,000	9,000

Nate Silver	39,000 3,000	3,000
Ari Engel	36,000 13,000	13,000

Dan Smith	35,000 35,000	35,000

Matt Grapenthien	32,000 3,000	3,000

Felipe Ramos	28,000 14,000	14,000

Kevin Gerhart	26,000 17,000	17,000

David "Bakes" Baker	20,000 33,000	33,000

10-28-2021 22:43 UTC-8

Massive Cooler Puts Friedman on Fumes, Eliminates Ohel

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Mike Patrick

Level 8

Pot-Limit Omaha

The last level before re-entry closes can bring some crazy pots, and this was certainly the case at table 532.

Randy Ohel, Adam Friedman and Kao Saechao each got almost 70,000 in preflop, with Ohel at risk.

Randy Ohel:
Adam Friedman:
Kao Saechao:

The board ran out , with Saechao making a runner-runner straight to eliminate Ohel and put Friedman on fumes.

Ohel had the ability to re-enter, but Friedman will have to run his stack up if he's to survive.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kao "Flexx" Saechao	195,000

Adam Friedman	20,500 60,500	60,500

Randy Ohel	Busted

Tags: Adam Friedman Kao Saechao Randy Ohel

10-28-2021 22:50 UTC-8

Final Break of the Night

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Josh Noy

Level 8

Players have reached the final 15-minute break of the night. Late registration will close when play resumes.

Level: 9

Limit Flop/Draw:
Small blind: 800
Big blind: 1500 Limits: 1500-3000
Stud Games:
Ante: 300
Bring-in: 500
Complete: 1500
Limits: 1500-3000
No-Limit/Pot-Limit Ante: 800/1200
Small blind: 400
Big blind: 800

10-28-2021 23:02 UTC-8

Registration Closes

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Josh Noy

Level 9

As level nine begins, late registration has closed. Phil Hellmuth was eliminated on his second and final bullet right before the break.

Payouts will be posted as soon as they become available.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phil Hellmuth	Busted

10-28-2021 23:14 UTC-8

Notable Late Entrants

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Josh Noy

Level 9

Shortly before the break, John Racener went all-in on his first bullet and found one caller.

John Racener:
Opponent:

Racener found no help on the runout, and quickly left the tournament area to re-enter.

Others joining Racener as late entries include Nam Le, Brett Richey, Roland Israelashvili and Tony Hartmann.

Player	Chips	Progress
John Racener	35,000 35,000	35,000

Brett Richey	35,000 35,000	35,000
Nam Le	35,000 35,000	35,000
Tony Hartmann	35,000 35,000	35,000
Roland Israelashvili	35,000 35,000	35,000

10-28-2021 23:24 UTC-8

Elezra May Have a Busy Friday

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Mike Patrick

Level 9

Eli Elezra has had a good day building a healthy stack of 161,000 as of this writing. If he can keep this going for another couple of hours, he'll be taking a nice bag of chips into Day 2 Friday afternoon.

One small problem though.

He's also got a 45 big blind bag awaiting him in Friday's Day 2 of the Seniors Event!

Play for that begins at 10:00 am local time, so with play in the nine-game event ending around 2:00 am, it could be a short night of sleep and a long day of double-dipping ahead for the hall of fame nominee.