Event #9: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Day 2 | 2022 World Series of Poker

06-05-2022 21:55 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Alex Livingston	1,210,000 185,000	185,000

Kenny Hsiung	1,130,000 260,000	260,000

Brad Ruben	1,110,000 160,000	160,000

Hojeong Lee	920,000 100,000	100,000
Thomas Taylor	670,000 127,000	127,000
John Evans	650,000 203,000	203,000
Daniel Weinman	540,000 255,000	255,000

Oxana Cummings	480,000 15,000	15,000
Kevin MacPhee	470,000 135,000	135,000

John Racener	430,000

Valentin Vornicu	375,000 9,000	9,000
Elhindi Albarazi	220,000 80,000	80,000
Mitchell Putterman	154,000 12,000	12,000
Daniel Scroggins	135,000 156,000	156,000
Matt Grapenthien	115,000 65,000	65,000

Matthew Aronowitz	110,000 195,000	195,000

Levy Eliminated

Jeff McMillan

Level 22 : 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante

Salah Levy:
Brad Ruben:

Salah Levy was eliminated when the chips got in on fifth street and Brad Ruben ended up with the better hand to bring the tournament down to the two table redraw after a breakneck level of eliminations.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brad Ruben	950,000 15,000	15,000

Salah Levy	Busted

Tags: Brad Ruben Salah Levy

06-05-2022 21:35 UTC-8

Labandeira Kicked By Taylor

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Level 22 : 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante

Manuel Labandeira's race in this tournament is over.

The Spanish player has been eliminated by Thomas Taylor. On his last hand, Labandeira could not show better than pocket tens.

Taylor made a pair of Kings to eliminate one of the first chipleaders of this tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Taylor	543,000 133,000	133,000
Manuel Labandeira	Busted

06-05-2022 21:25 UTC-8

Castro Taken Out

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Jeff McMillan

Level 22 : 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante

Jorgio Castro:
Oxana Cummings:

Jorgio Castro was all in and behind with queens against the kings of Oxana Cummings. Castro could not improve and he was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Oxana Cummings	495,000 44,000	44,000
Jorgio Castro	Busted

Tags: Jorgio Castro Oxana Cummings

06-05-2022 21:21 UTC-8

Ruben Takes Big Three Way Pot

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Jeff McMillan

Level 22 : 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante

Alex Livingston: // folded on seventh street
Jason Gola: /
Brad Ruben: /

Action was on sixth street as Alex Livingston bet. He was raised by Jason Gola, Brad Ruben called as did Livingston.

On seventh street, Gola bet, Ruben called and Livingston folded after a while.

Gola had trip sixes but Ruben had the winner with the tabled for a flush to win the massive pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alex Livingston	1,025,000 215,000	215,000

Brad Ruben	965,000 465,000	465,000

Jason Gola	31,000 202,000	202,000

Tags: Alex Livingston Brad Ruben Jason Gola

06-05-2022 21:10 UTC-8

Bloch's Run Comes to an End

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Level 22 : 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante

Andy Bloch was short-stacked for a long time, but this time, he could not find another double up.

All of his chips were involved in the middle with a decent starting hand of .

He was facing the of Elhindi Albarazi who finished with a spade flush when the board ran out.

Player	Chips	Progress
Elhindi Albarazi	300,000 37,000	37,000
Andy Bloch	Busted

06-05-2022 20:55 UTC-8

Three Table Redraw

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Jeff McMillan

Level 22 : 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count
670	1	Oxana Cummings	United States	451,000
670	2	David Singer	United States	104,000
670	3	Daniel Weinman	United States	285,000
670	4	Edward Sass	United States	124,000
670	5	Alex Livingston	Canada	1,240,000
670	6	Jorgio Castro	United States	29,000
670	7	Jason Gola	United States	233,000
670	8	Brad Ruben	United States	500,000
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676	1	John Evans	United States	447,000
676	2	Elhindi Albarazi	United States	263,000
676	3	Andy Block	United States	69,000
676	4	Thomas Taylor	Canada	410,000
676	5	Matt Grapenthien	United States	100,000
676	6	Daniel Scroggins	United States	291,000
676	7	John Racener	United States	430,000
676	8	Manuel Labandeira	Spain	123,000
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677	1	Salah Levy	United States	64,000
677	2	Kevin MacPhee	United States	335,000
677	3	Matthew Aronowitz	United States	305,000
677	4	Ray Henson	United States	181,000
677	5	Valentin Vornicu	United States	366,000
677	6	Mitchell Putterman	United States	142,000
677	7	Kenny Hsiung	United States	870,000
677	8	Hojoeng Lee	United States	820,000

Level: 22

Limits: 15,000/30,000

Ante: 3,000

06-05-2022 19:53 UTC-8

Dinner Break Chip Counts (full)

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Jeff McMillan

Level 21 : 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante

The players are now on a 60-minute dinner break and will return to play at about 9:40 p.m. local time.

With the elimination of James Paluszek right as the players were heading to dinner, the three table redraw will occur immediately when play returns after dinner.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alex Livingston	1,240,000 205,000	205,000

Kenny Hsiung	870,000 70,000	70,000

Hojeong Lee	820,000 460,000	460,000
Brad Ruben	500,000 268,000	268,000

Oxana Cummings	451,000 186,000	186,000
John Evans	447,000 68,000	68,000
John Racener	430,000 152,000	152,000

Thomas Taylor	410,000 150,000	150,000
Valentin Vornicu	366,000 159,000	159,000
Kevin MacPhee	335,000 55,000	55,000

Matthew Aronowitz	305,000 201,000	201,000
Daniel Scroggins	291,000 11,000	11,000
Daniel Weinman	285,000 145,000	145,000

Elhindi Albarazi	263,000 73,000	73,000
Jason Gola	233,000 202,000	202,000

Raymond Henson	181,000 56,000	56,000
Mitchell Putterman	142,000 122,000	122,000
Edward Sass	124,000 116,000	116,000
Manuel Labandeira	123,000 307,000	307,000
David Singer	104,000 182,000	182,000
Matt Grapenthien	100,000 5,000	5,000

Andy Bloch	69,000 93,000	93,000
Salah Levy	64,000 16,000	16,000
Jorgio Castro	29,000 141,000	141,000
James Paluszek	Busted

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06-05-2022 19:41 UTC-8

MacPhee Hits River Ace Despite Aces in Henson's Hand

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Jeff McMillan

Level 21 : 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante

Raymond Henson:
Kevin MacPhee: /

Valentin Vornicu departed from the hand early after a two-bet and a three-bet. Kevin MacPhee found himself all in and trailing as he had buried queens while Henson had buried aces.

The river card was dealt and MacPhee tabled the case ace the to win the pot dramatically with two pair to greatly hurt Henson's stack as he flipped over his defeated cards quickly following the bad beat and Macphee staved off elimination.