Event #29: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw
Day 2 Started
Event #29: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw
Day 2 Started
Casino | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chips |
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Bally's | 646 | 1 | Nicolai Morris | United States | 52,500 |
Bally's | 646 | 2 | Alexander Fluke | United States | 86,500 |
Bally's | 646 | 3 | Jonathan McGowan | United States | 172,000 |
Bally's | 646 | 4 | Robert McLaughlin | United States | 99,500 |
Bally's | 646 | 5 | Ryan Goindoo | PORT OF SPAIN, TT | 50,500 |
Bally's | 646 | 6 | Steve Zolotow | United States | 31,500 |
Bally's | 646 | 7 | Aditya Prasetyo | United States | 70,000 |
Bally's | 647 | 1 | April Shih | United States | 79,500 |
Bally's | 647 | 2 | Philip Jaffe | United States | 99,000 |
Bally's | 647 | 3 | Jon Turner | United States | 74,000 |
Bally's | 647 | 4 | Junya Kubo | JP | 64,000 |
Bally's | 647 | 5 | Jameson Painter | United States | 52,500 |
Bally's | 647 | 6 | Gabe Paul | United States | 189,500 |
Bally's | 647 | 7 | Ryan Leng | United States | 95,000 |
Bally's | 648 | 1 | Matt Vengrin | United States | 85,500 |
Bally's | 648 | 2 | Tom McCormick | United States | 42,000 |
Bally's | 648 | 3 | Maxx Coleman | United States | 118,500 |
Bally's | 648 | 4 | Ryan Johnson | United States | 46,000 |
Bally's | 648 | 5 | Richard Bai | United States | 64,000 |
Bally's | 648 | 6 | Timothy Wong | United States | 89,500 |
Bally's | 648 | 7 | Ray Villaman | United States | 118,000 |
Bally's | 649 | 1 | Mike Matusow | United States | 149,500 |
Bally's | 649 | 2 | Kane Kalas | United States | 90,500 |
Bally's | 649 | 3 | Barry Greenstein | United States | 61,500 |
Bally's | 649 | 4 | Ryan Lenaghan | United States | 28,000 |
Bally's | 649 | 5 | Yosif Nawabi | United States | 170,500 |
Bally's | 649 | 6 | Ryan Depaulo | United States | 97,500 |
Bally's | 649 | 7 | Michael Palumbo | United States | 61,000 |
Bally's | 650 | 1 | Todd Brunson | United States | 55,000 |
Bally's | 650 | 2 | Travis Erdman | United States | 108,500 |
Bally's | 650 | 3 | Phil Hellmuth | United States | 121,000 |
Bally's | 650 | 4 | Louis Abronson | United States | 59,000 |
Bally's | 650 | 5 | Roman Hrabec | MX | 75,000 |
Bally's | 650 | 6 | Brant Hale | United States | 33,500 |
Bally's | 650 | 7 | Michael Rocco | United States | 84,500 |
Bally's | 651 | 1 | Christopher Brewer | United States | 117,500 |
Bally's | 651 | 2 | Daniel Zack | United States | 25,000 |
Bally's | 651 | 3 | Daniel Ospina | CO | 113,500 |
Bally's | 651 | 4 | Alex Foxen | United States | 127,500 |
Bally's | 651 | 5 | Samuel Haber | United States | 106,000 |
Bally's | 651 | 6 | Aaron Kupin | United States | 111,000 |
Bally's | 651 | 7 | Matthew Dames | United States | 62,500 |
Bally's | 654 | 1 | Paul-François Tedeschi | France | 71,000 |
Bally's | 654 | 2 | Alex Livingston | Canada | 103,000 |
Bally's | 654 | 4 | Melissa Saphier | United States | 38,000 |
Bally's | 654 | 5 | Gregory Raymer | United States | 62,000 |
Bally's | 654 | 6 | Yuri Dzivielevski | Florianopolis, , BR | 131,500 |
Bally's | 654 | 7 | Antonio Lievano | United States | 43,000 |
Bally's | 655 | 1 | David Matthews | United States | 53,500 |
Bally's | 655 | 2 | Jake Schwartz | United States | 157,500 |
Bally's | 655 | 3 | Carlton Fitzgerald | United States | 65,500 |
Bally's | 655 | 4 | Matt Szymaszek | United States | 49,500 |
Bally's | 655 | 5 | Owais Ahmed | United States | 132,500 |
Bally's | 655 | 6 | Michael Lang | United States | 185,000 |
Bally's | 655 | 7 | Neeraj Nayak | United States | 35,000 |
Bally's | 656 | 1 | Ilkka Heikkila | Tampere, , FI | 172,500 |
Bally's | 656 | 2 | Jonathan Glendinning | United States | 66,500 |
Bally's | 656 | 3 | Michael Hartzheim | United States | 71,000 |
Bally's | 656 | 4 | Thomas Newton | United States | 102,500 |
Bally's | 656 | 5 | Mark Dickstein | United States | 32,500 |
Bally's | 656 | 7 | Brian Hastings | United States | 75,000 |
Bally's | 657 | 1 | Daniel Coen | United States | 90,000 |
Bally's | 657 | 2 | Jon Kyte | Bergen, NO | 213,500 |
Bally's | 657 | 3 | Ian Steinman | United States | 29,000 |
Bally's | 657 | 4 | Matthew Rosen | United States | 78,000 |
Bally's | 657 | 5 | Brandon Shack-Harris | United States | 235,500 |
Bally's | 657 | 6 | Bin Weng | United States | 50,500 |
Bally's | 657 | 7 | David "ODB" Baker | United States | 90,500 |
Bally's | 658 | 1 | Shawn Buchanan | Canada | 100,000 |
Bally's | 658 | 2 | Kenneth Po | United States | 53,500 |
Bally's | 658 | 3 | Joshua Ray | United States | 80,000 |
Bally's | 658 | 4 | Jason Daly | United States | 79,000 |
Bally's | 658 | 5 | Dan Colpoys | United States | 91,500 |
Bally's | 658 | 6 | Adam Kipnis | United States | 28,000 |
Bally's | 658 | 7 | Kyle Montgomery | United States | 139,000 |
Bally's | 659 | 1 | Christina Hill | United States | 114,500 |
Bally's | 659 | 2 | Adrian Buckley | United States | 51,500 |
Bally's | 659 | 3 | Michael McKenna | United States | 105,500 |
Bally's | 659 | 4 | Millard Hale | United States | 46,500 |
Bally's | 659 | 5 | Adam Crawford | Canada | 77,000 |
Bally's | 659 | 6 | Landen Lucas | United States | 135,500 |
Bally's | 659 | 7 | Christopher Grzadziel | United States | 154,500 |
Bally's | 662 | 1 | Michael Rodrigues Pires Santos | Portugal | 65,500 |
Bally's | 662 | 2 | Roland Israelashvili | United States | 70,000 |
Bally's | 662 | 3 | Tom Schneider | United States | 207,500 |
Bally's | 662 | 5 | Steven Wolansky | United States | 69,500 |
Bally's | 662 | 6 | Daniel Weinman | United States | 51,500 |
Bally's | 662 | 7 | Adam Pritchett | United States | 115,000 |
Bally's | 663 | 1 | Yashuo Chin | United States | 73,000 |
Bally's | 663 | 2 | Eric Tipsword | United States | 120,000 |
Bally's | 663 | 3 | Tomas Szwarcberg | Mexico | 51,000 |
Bally's | 663 | 4 | Maurizio Melara | Italy | 127,500 |
Bally's | 663 | 5 | Lu Yuan | United States | 6,500 |
Bally's | 663 | 6 | Mark Fraser | United States | 156,000 |
Bally's | 663 | 7 | Shawn Hierl | United States | 44,000 |
Bally's | 664 | 1 | William O'Neil | United States | 41,500 |
Bally's | 664 | 2 | Frank Kassela | United States | 152,500 |
Bally's | 664 | 3 | Timothy Mcguigan | United States | 51,000 |
Bally's | 664 | 4 | Dennis Eichhorn | United States | 53,500 |
Bally's | 664 | 5 | Antonin Teisseire | France | 63,000 |
Bally's | 664 | 6 | Max Kruse | Germany | 11,800 |
Bally's | 664 | 7 | Naoya Kihara | Japan | 52,500 |
Bally's | 665 | 1 | Maury Barrett | United States | 144,500 |
Bally's | 665 | 2 | Men Nguyen | United States | 46,000 |
Bally's | 665 | 3 | George Danzer | Germany | 100,000 |
Bally's | 665 | 4 | Jon Shoreman | United Kingdom | 40,000 |
Bally's | 665 | 5 | Tom Franklin | United States | 112,500 |
Bally's | 665 | 6 | Hyungyu Park | South Korea | 41,500 |
Bally's | 665 | 7 | Todd Baker | United States | 44,500 |
Bally's | 666 | 1 | Ian O'hara | United States | 294,500 |
Bally's | 666 | 2 | John Thibodeaux | United States | 14,000 |
Bally's | 666 | 3 | Jonathan Aguiar | Portuga; | 99,000 |
Bally's | 666 | 4 | Kevin Gerhart | United States | 153,000 |
Bally's | 666 | 5 | Nick Schulman | United States | 89,500 |
Bally's | 666 | 6 | Yanni Raz | United States | 166,000 |
Bally's | 666 | 7 | Phillip Hui | United States | 20,500 |
Bally's | 667 | 1 | Kelly Wolfe | United States | 140,000 |
Bally's | 667 | 2 | Shaun Deeb | United States | 42,500 |
Bally's | 667 | 3 | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 92,000 |
Bally's | 667 | 4 | Kyle Miholich | United States | 46,000 |
Bally's | 667 | 5 | Tobias Schwecht | Austria | 75,000 |
Bally's | 667 | 6 | Drew Scott | Canada | 153,000 |
Triumphant returns are the theme heading to Day 2 of Event #29: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw.
Phil Hellmuth returned from a week away and bagged up 121,000, just 121 players between him and back-to-back bracelets in this event. George Danzer, who has hardly played at the WSOP since winning Player of the Year in 2014 and hasn’t cashed in an event in six years, is back on a leaderboard with 100,000. Then there is Yanni Raz, the 2-7 rookie who liked the game so much, he decided to reenter last night and finished with a top-10 stack at 166,000.
Ian O’Hara leads the remaining 122 players, amassing a huge chip lead of 294,500, nearly 60,000 more than second-place Brandon Shack-Harris. He’ll be chased on Day 2 by the likes of Tom Schneider (207,500), Jake Schwartz (157,500), Mike Matusow (149,500), and Alex Foxen (127,500).
Place | Player | Country | Chips |
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1 | Ian O'Hara | United States | 294,500 |
2 | Brandon Shack-Harris | United States | 235,500 |
3 | Jon Kyte | Norway | 213,500 |
4 | Tom Schneider | United States | 207,500 |
5 | Gabe Paul | United States | 189,500 |
6 | Michael Lang | United States | 185,000 |
7 | Ilkka Heikkila | Finland | 172,500 |
8 | Jonathan McGowan | United States | 172,000 |
9 | Yosif Nawabi | United States | 170,500 |
10 | Yanni Raz | United States | 166,000 |
The plan, when Day 2 begins at 2 p.m. local time, is to play down to the final five players. First, however, the main goal of the surviving players is to make the money, which will come at 66th place. A min-cash will be worth $2,417, all the way up to the top prize of $127,809.
Play will begin on Level 11, with 1,000-2,000 blinds and a 3,000 big blind ante. There will be a 60-minute dinner break after Level 16, which should come around 8:30 p.m.
It was a record-smashing field of 437 entries that began the event. By the end of Day 2, there will be only five remaining. PokerNews will be on hand the entire way at Bally’s Event Center as Hellmuth chases bracelet No. 17 and 121 opponents try to stop him.
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 3,000
The remaining 122 players have unbagged their chips and taken their seats, and Day 2 is now underway.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Joao Vieira | Busted | |
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Lu Yuan
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Busted | |
William O'Neil | Busted | |
Millard Hale | Busted |
Michael Rocco, who finished runner-up to Jeremy Ausmus in the $3,000 6-Handed Limit Hold'em event yesterday, has just doubled up on one of the first hands of the day.
Roman Hrabec opened the pot with a raise to 4,500 before Brant Hale reraised all in for around 35,000. Rocco called and Hrabec folded after a brief tank.
Both players stood pat and Hale showed ten-eight. Rocco, though, had ten-seven to secure the pot. The stacks were counted down and Hale barely had Rocco covered.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Roman Hrabec |
70,000
-5,000
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-5,000 |
Michael Rocco |
60,000
-24,500
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-24,500 |
Brant Hale |
10,000
-23,500
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-23,500 |
Tom McCormick was all in before the draw for around 35,000 and up against Matt Vengrin. McCormick took his time on the draw not realizing that Vengrin had already stood pat before he threw away a ten.
Vengrin showed a jack-low. "Aw, shit," McCormick said, turning over as he threw away the best hand. But he got another ten on the draw to secure the double up.
"Got another one," the WSOP veteran said following the hand.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Tom McCormick |
70,000
28,000
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28,000 |
Matt Vengrin |
45,000
-40,500
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-40,500 |
Maury Barrett raised to 6,000 on the button and was three-bet by George Danzer in the big blind.
Both players drew one, then Danzer took almost a full minute before deciding on a check, After a slightly shorter deliberation, Barrett put out a bet of 12,000, which Danzer eventually called.
Barrett showed for the winner and Danzer mucked his hand.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Maury Barrett |
230,000
85,500
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85,500 |
George Danzer |
78,000
-22,000
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-22,000 |
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Player | Chips | Progress |
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Melissa Saphier | Busted | |
Nicolai Morris | Busted | |
Ian Steinman | Busted | |
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Ryan Goindoo | Busted | |
Matt Szymaszek | Busted | |
Steve Zolotow | Busted | |
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Adam Crawford | Busted |