Event #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event World Championship
Day 6 Started
2022 World Series of Poker
Event #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event World Championship
Day: 6
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Players Info - Day 6
2022 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$80,782,475
Entries
8,663
Entries
123
Players Left
35
Seat Draw For Day 6
| Casino | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bally's | 606 | 1 | Antoine Labat | France | 4,790,000 | 60 |
| Bally's | 606 | 2 | Andrew Yeh | United States | 5,830,000 | 73 |
| Bally's | 606 | 3 | Jeremy Steel | Australia | 1,840,000 | 23 |
| Bally's | 606 | 4 | Timur Margolin | Israel | 1,095,000 | 14 |
| Bally's | 606 | 5 | Elliot Stern | United States | 2,250,000 | 28 |
| Bally's | 606 | 6 | Koray Aldemir | Austria | 3,800,000 | 48 |
| Bally's | 606 | 7 | Igor Ioffe | United States | 1,250,000 | 16 |
| Bally's | 606 | 8 | Jack Allen | United Kingdom | 900,000 | 11 |
| Bally's | 606 | 9 | Stuart Ruff | United States | 1,740,000 | 22 |
| Bally's | 608 | 1 | Terence Reid | United States | 5,085,000 | 64 |
| Bally's | 608 | 2 | Pierre De Almeida | France | 3,330,000 | 42 |
| Bally's | 608 | 4 | Robert Welch | United States | 4,630,000 | 58 |
| Bally's | 608 | 5 | Rok Gostisa | Slovenia | 4,340,000 | 54 |
| Bally's | 608 | 6 | Stuart Young | United States | 1,790,000 | 22 |
| Bally's | 608 | 7 | Muhammad Abdel Rahim | United States | 1,300,000 | 16 |
| Bally's | 608 | 8 | Mayank Madan | United States | 6,620,000 | 83 |
| Bally's | 608 | 9 | Andres Jeckeln | Argentina | 1,255,000 | 16 |
| Bally's | 610 | 1 | Robert Reed | United States | 4,455,000 | 56 |
| Bally's | 610 | 2 | Adam Demersseman | United States | 2,485,000 | 31 |
| Bally's | 610 | 3 | Andy Taylor | United Kingdom | 6,700,000 | 84 |
| Bally's | 610 | 4 | Michael Duek | United States | 1,625,000 | 20 |
| Bally's | 610 | 5 | Johan Schumacher | Belgium | 3,100,000 | 39 |
| Bally's | 610 | 6 | Lander Lijo | Spain | 7,200,000 | 90 |
| Bally's | 610 | 8 | Rahul Rastogi | Australia | 2,705,000 | 34 |
| Bally's | 610 | 9 | Gabi Livshitz | Israel | 3,400,000 | 43 |
| Bally's | 612 | 1 | Marco Johnson | United States | 2,820,000 | 35 |
| Bally's | 612 | 2 | Oliver Bithell | United Kingdom | 2,200,000 | 28 |
| Bally's | 612 | 3 | Andrew Watson | United States | 5,415,000 | 68 |
| Bally's | 612 | 4 | Tzur Levy | Israel | 8,340,000 | 104 |
| Bally's | 612 | 5 | William Nunley | United States | 7,410,000 | 93 |
| Bally's | 612 | 6 | Jorge Hou | Panama | 9,500,000 | 119 |
| Bally's | 612 | 7 | Aaron Mermelstein | United States | 10,680,000 | 134 |
| Bally's | 612 | 8 | Serge Chechin | France | 3,520,000 | 44 |
| Bally's | 612 | 9 | Asher Conniff | United States | 4,660,000 | 58 |
| Bally's | 613 | 1 | Dan Smith | United States | 2,030,000 | 25 |
| Bally's | 613 | 2 | Andrew Ostapchenko | United States | 5,670,000 | 71 |
| Bally's | 613 | 3 | Mack Khan | United States | 2,385,000 | 30 |
| Bally's | 613 | 4 | Kenneth Baime | United States | 3,385,000 | 42 |
| Bally's | 613 | 5 | Dingxiang Ong | Singapore | 9,500,000 | 119 |
| Bally's | 613 | 6 | Brian Kim | United States | 7,865,000 | 98 |
| Bally's | 613 | 7 | Joseph Altman | United States | 2,150,000 | 27 |
| Bally's | 613 | 8 | Efthymia Litsou | United States | 11,675,000 | 146 |
| Bally's | 613 | 9 | Michael Rocco | United States | 465,000 | 6 |
| Bally's | 616 | 1 | Gerald Morrell | United States | 9,775,000 | 122 |
| Bally's | 616 | 2 | Edmund Chan | Canada | 1,385,000 | 17 |
| Bally's | 616 | 3 | Robert Correa | United States | 2,195,000 | 27 |
| Bally's | 616 | 4 | Seungmook Jung | South Korea | 5,150,000 | 64 |
| Bally's | 616 | 5 | Anthony Maio | United States | 1,120,000 | 14 |
| Bally's | 616 | 6 | Damian Salas | Argentina | 2,435,000 | 30 |
| Bally's | 616 | 7 | Jimmy Setna | Canada | 3,160,000 | 40 |
| Bally's | 616 | 8 | James Hobbs | United States | 12,505,000 | 156 |
| Bally's | 616 | 9 | Kamal Bittar | Paraguay | 5,980,000 | 75 |
| Bally's | 618 | 1 | Frank Funaro | United States | 5,610,000 | 70 |
| Bally's | 618 | 2 | Jordyn Miller | United States | 5,180,000 | 65 |
| Bally's | 618 | 3 | Karim Rebei | Algeria | 8,150,000 | 102 |
| Bally's | 618 | 4 | Antonio Lievano | United States | 5,850,000 | 73 |
| Bally's | 618 | 5 | Oliver Weis | Germany | 2,735,000 | 34 |
| Bally's | 618 | 6 | Nicholas Ramsey | United Kingdom | 2,250,000 | 28 |
| Bally's | 618 | 7 | Robert Minor | United States | 9,160,000 | 115 |
| Bally's | 618 | 8 | Espen Jorstad | Norway | 4,665,000 | 58 |
| Bally's | 618 | 9 | Adrian Attenborough | Australia | 7,785,000 | 97 |
| Bally's | 620 | 1 | George Turner | United Kingdom | 3,080,000 | 39 |
| Bally's | 620 | 2 | Artem Suhak | Ukraine | 2,400,000 | 30 |
| Bally's | 620 | 3 | Ramiro Petrone | Argentina | 2,315,000 | 29 |
| Bally's | 620 | 5 | John Eames | United Kingdom | 4,000,000 | 50 |
| Bally's | 620 | 6 | Tyler Hirschfeld | United States | 3,260,000 | 41 |
| Bally's | 620 | 7 | Timothy McDermott | United States | 2,730,000 | 34 |
| Bally's | 620 | 8 | Austin Wilson | United States | 3,960,000 | 50 |
| Bally's | 620 | 9 | Rudy Cervantes | United States | 2,395,000 | 30 |
| Bally's | 621 | 1 | Alejandro Lococo | Argentina | 10,020,000 | 125 |
| Bally's | 621 | 2 | Matthew Paoletti | United States | 7,755,000 | 97 |
| Bally's | 621 | 3 | Bassam Elia | United Kingdom | 1,450,000 | 18 |
| Bally's | 621 | 4 | Haim Or Krief | United States | 4,715,000 | 59 |
| Bally's | 621 | 5 | Gilbert Cruz | Dominican Republic | 3,730,000 | 47 |
| Bally's | 621 | 6 | Nathanael Kogel | United States | 7,335,000 | 92 |
| Bally's | 621 | 7 | Kenny Tran | United States | 6,600,000 | 83 |
| Bally's | 621 | 8 | Stanley Lee | United States | 1,270,000 | 16 |
| Bally's | 621 | 9 | Matthew Shepsky | United States | 790,000 | 10 |
| Bally's | 625 | 1 | Tom Kunze | Germany | 4,070,000 | 51 |
| Bally's | 625 | 2 | Fabian Schaefer Carreno | United States | 4,980,000 | 62 |
| Bally's | 625 | 3 | Christopher Kojack | United States | 1,705,000 | 21 |
| Bally's | 625 | 4 | Aaron Duczak | Canada | 5,035,000 | 63 |
| Bally's | 625 | 5 | Victor Li | Canada | 1,960,000 | 25 |
| Bally's | 625 | 6 | Pierce Mckellar | United States | 6,610,000 | 83 |
| Bally's | 625 | 7 | Jacob Meeks | United States | 6,455,000 | 81 |
| Bally's | 625 | 8 | David Rothschild | France | 4,485,000 | 56 |
| Bally's | 625 | 9 | Shelby Wells | United States | 1,955,000 | 24 |
| Bally's | 627 | 1 | Jon Gisler | United States | 5,270,000 | 66 |
| Bally's | 627 | 2 | Michael Lavenburg | United States | 4,015,000 | 50 |
| Bally's | 627 | 3 | Zilong Zhang | United States | 6,985,000 | 87 |
| Bally's | 627 | 4 | Evan Krentzman | United States | 945,000 | 12 |
| Bally's | 627 | 5 | David Levine | United States | 4,295,000 | 54 |
| Bally's | 627 | 6 | Shijia Liu | United States | 6,085,000 | 76 |
| Bally's | 627 | 7 | Mikael Guenni | France | 980,000 | 12 |
| Bally's | 627 | 8 | Jose Jaraiz | Spain | 2,000,020 | 25 |
| Bally's | 627 | 9 | Cedrric Trevino | United States | 3,210,000 | 40 |
| Bally's | 630 | 1 | Henry Fischer | Brazil | 5,160,000 | 65 |
| Bally's | 630 | 2 | Imran Bhojani | South Africa | 8,635,000 | 108 |
| Bally's | 630 | 3 | Vadim Rozin | Canada | 4,510,000 | 56 |
| Bally's | 630 | 4 | Paul Spitzberg | United States | 1,535,000 | 19 |
| Bally's | 630 | 5 | Matthew Su | United States | 3,555,000 | 44 |
| Bally's | 630 | 6 | David Diaz | United States | 2,740,000 | 34 |
| Bally's | 630 | 7 | Matija Dobric | Croatia | 8,445,000 | 106 |
| Bally's | 630 | 8 | Rodrigo Semeghini | Brazil | 2,070,000 | 26 |
| Bally's | 630 | 9 | Mohammed Radwan | United States | 1,705,000 | 21 |
| Bally's | 632 | 1 | Philip Neiman | United States | 3,000,000 | 38 |
| Bally's | 632 | 2 | Mikiya Kudo | Japan | 2,555,000 | 32 |
| Bally's | 632 | 3 | Caleb King | United States | 1,635,000 | 20 |
| Bally's | 632 | 4 | Jonathan Rosa | United States | 1,785,000 | 22 |
| Bally's | 632 | 5 | Philippe Souki | United Kingdom | 9,425,000 | 118 |
| Bally's | 632 | 6 | William Smith | United States | 7,010,000 | 88 |
| Bally's | 632 | 7 | Rafael Mota | Brazil | 2,635,000 | 33 |
| Bally's | 632 | 8 | Benjamin Moon | United States | 995,000 | 12 |
| Bally's | 632 | 9 | Cameron Blazevich | United States | 7,440,000 | 93 |
| Bally's | 634 | 1 | Daniel Sewnig | United States | 1,835,000 | 23 |
| Bally's | 634 | 2 | Chris Dasilva | United Kingdom | 3,600,000 | 45 |
| Bally's | 634 | 3 | Robert Paddock | United States | 1,350,000 | 17 |
| Bally's | 634 | 4 | Danny Hannawa | United States | 1,365,000 | 17 |
| Bally's | 634 | 5 | Kristopher Tong | United States | 2,040,000 | 26 |
| Bally's | 634 | 6 | Eddy Sabat | United States | 1,225,000 | 15 |
| Bally's | 634 | 7 | Jeffrey Farnes | United States | 7,720,000 | 97 |
| Bally's | 634 | 8 | Roland Rokita | Austria | 3,530,000 | 44 |
| Bally's | 634 | 9 | Matteo Cavelier | France | 6,150,000 | 77 |
Hobbs Leads Final 123 Heading Into Day 6 of Event #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event World Championship
Out of a near record breaking starting field of 8,663 entries, just 123 players return for Day 6 of Event #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event World Championship at the 20222 WSOP at Bally's and Paris Las Vegas. Everyone who takes their seat today is guaranteed at least $62,500, but so deep in the flagship event of the poker calendar, all eyes must now turn to the stratospheric payouts that are suddenly within reach, as well as the opportunity to etch their name into poker lore.
James Hobbs leads the field coming into the day with a stack of 12,505,000, good for 156 big blinds. Close on his heels is one of two remaining women, Efthymia Litsou, sitting on 11,675,000. Aaron Mermelstein rounds out the top three with 10,680,000.
Several notables remain in contention, including two former WSOP Main Event champions in Koray Aldemir (3,800,000) and Damian Salas (2,435,000). Were Aldemir to go back to back in the main event, it would surely rank among the greatest achievements in poker since Stu Ungar won his third title in 1997. High stakes regular and gold bracelet winner Dan Smith also returns, sitting on 2,030,000 after nursing a shortstack for pretty much the entirety of Day 5.
Top Ten Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Hobbs | United States | 12,505,000 | 156 |
| 2 | Efthymia Litsou | United States | 11,675,000 | 146 |
| 3 | Aaron Mermelstein | United States | 10,680,000 | 134 |
| 4 | Alejandro Lococo | Argentina | 10,020,000 | 125 |
| 5 | Gerald Morrell | United States | 9,775,000 | 122 |
| 6 | Jorge Jou | Panama | 9,500,000 | 119 |
| 7 | Dingxiang Ong | Singapore | 9,500,000 | 119 |
| 8 | Philippe Souki | United Kingdom | 9,425,000 | 118 |
| 9 | Robert Minor | United States | 9,160,000 | 115 |
| 10 | Imran Bhojani | South Africa | 8,635,000 | 108 |
The tournament resumes at 1p.m. PDT Tuesday, July 12th halfway through Level 26 with blinds of 40,000/80,000 with a 80,000 big blind ante. Play will continue for five and a half more levels at which point the survivors will bag for the night.
Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews as its live reporting team continues to provide comprehensive coverage of this, the most prestigious tournament in the world, as we approach the business end of proceedings.
Level: 26
Blinds: 40,000/80,000
Ante: 80,000
Su Gets After It with an Early Check-Raise
Level 26
: Blinds 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
Imran Bhojani opened to 175,000 in the cutoff and Matthew Su defended from the big blind. The flop came 
and Su checked to Bhojani who continued with a bet of 150,000. Su check-raised to 450,000 and Bhojani called.
The turn brought the 
and Su put together a bet of 700,000 this time. Bhojani knuckled the table and slid his cards to the muck, allowing Su to drag in the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
7,300,000 | -1,335,000 |
|
3,980,000 | 425,000 |
Spitzberg Loses Flip to Radwan
Level 26
: Blinds 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
Mohammed Radwan raised it up to 185,000 and then called the shove by Paul Spitzberg on the button for what appeared to be 1,595,000.
Paul Spitzberg: 
Mohammed Radwan: 
The 
flop and 
turn were of no help to Radwan but he got there on the 
river. "Always the last card, Spitzberg sighed before he headed to the payout desk.
At almost the same time, Timur Margolin was eliminated on the right side feature table as the field was reduced to the final 121 contenders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,300,000 | 1,595,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Weis Dodges Everything to Double
Level 26
: Blinds 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
Karim Rebei in the cutoff called a 160,000 raise before the flop as action folded around to Oliver Weis in the small blind. Weis shoved for 2,500,000, the original raiser folded, and Rebei went into the tank.
Rebei asked for a confirmation of the total before calling after several minutes. He showed 
and was up against Weis' .
A collective gasp arose from the table as the flop came 
, giving Weis top pair but Rebei a flush draw to go along with his two over cards. The 
on the turn was safe for Weis and he secured the double up when the fell on the river.
"Yes," he yelled as the pot was pushed in his direction.
"How did you feel after the flop," a tablemate asked.
"I mean, it is what it is," Weis replied.
"You saw what he felt. He went oof," Rebei added, taking the hit to his stack in stride. "I'm a calling station."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
5,500,000 | -2,650,000 |
|
5,200,000 | 2,465,000 |
Taylor Snaps Off Reed
Level 26
: Blinds 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
Robert Reed and Andy Taylor went heads-up to a flop of 
. Reed tossed in a bet of 125,000 from the hijack and Taylor raised to 380,000 on the button. Reed called and the 
landed on the turn.
Both players checked and the 
paired the board on the river. Reed sized up a bet of 590,000 and Taylor instantly flicked in a chip to call. Reed turned over 
but Taylor got there with for trip aces.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
8,120,000 | 1,420,000 |
|
3,140,000 | -1,315,000 |
Trevino Gets A Fold
Level 26
: Blinds 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
Michael Lavenburg opened to 160,000 from early position and was called by Jose Jaraiz in the small blind as well as Cedrric Trevino out of the big blind.
Both blinds checked on a flop of 
and Lavenburg continued for 165,000. Jaraiz wasted little time in folding but Trevino decided to raise, making it 425,000 to go. After some consideration, Lavenburg released his holding to send an early pot Trevino's way.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,700,000 | -315,000 |
|
3,500,000 | 290,000 |
|
1,600,000 | -400,020 |
Smith Left Short as Altman Doubles
Level 26
: Blinds 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
Joseph Altman was seen in the cutoff collecting a double with his 1,860,000 chips against Dan Smith in the big blind, leaving Smith with only a few big blinds.
Altman held 
against Smith's 
, and the completed board showed 
to give Altman Broadway and the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,900,000 | 1,750,000 |
|
300,000 | -1,730,000 |