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Level 3
: Blinds 200/300, 300 ante
2022 World Series of Poker
Tournament of Champions
Day: 1
Event Info
2022 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
Prize Pool
$1,000,000
Total Entries
470
Level
30
Blinds
100,000 / 150,000
Ante
150,000
Entries
463
Players Left
144
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Level 3
: Blinds 200/300, 300 ante
Heads-up to the 
turn, Dan Zack bet 1,700 out of the big blind and won the pot to chip up slightly. The 2022 WSOP Player of the Year can be found on the table of the 2022 WSOP Dealer of the Year and received congratulations from Adam Friedman, who registered shortly after.
More notable late entrants can be found below.
Level 3
: Blinds 200/300, 300 ante
Eric Baldwin was all in for around 20,000 against Pedro Bromfman to his right, who had him covered.
Eric Baldwin: 
Pedro Bromfman: 
Baldwin's jacks were pipped by the queens of Bromfman and the queens held up as the board ran out 
to send Baldwin to the rail.
"That's the dream hand! Queens against jacks," said someone at the table.
Level: 3
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300
Level 2
: Blinds 100/200, 200 ante
Players are on their first 20-minute break of the day after two levels of play.
Level 2
: Blinds 100/200, 200 ante
With 13,700 in the middle on a completed board of 
, Mark Weisser bet 12,100 for nearly his entire remaining stack and that sent Phil Hui into the tank. Hui had just below the starting stack at his disposal and eventually sigh-folded as Weisser raked in the pot without showing his cards.
Level 2
: Blinds 100/200, 200 ante
Matthew Mendez opened the action and Paul Hizer then three-bet to 1,600 from one seat over. Anthony Close cold-called in the big blind and Mendez then reraised to 6,700. Hizer eventually called while Close folded.
Heads-up to the 
flop, Mendez continued for 8,700 and Hizer called reluctantly as the 
followed on the turn. Mendez then pushed all-in for 33,300, which had the 20,000 of Hizer covered. The Brit tank-called after some two minutes and the cards were revealed.
Paul Hizer:
Matthew Mendez: 
The on the river brought no miracle for Hizer and he was sent to the rail.
Level 2
: Blinds 100/200, 200 ante
Richard Ali, who in January took down a WSOP PA Circuit event for his third Circuit ring, was out of position in a heads-up pot against fellow Pennsylvanian Joe McKeehen on a board of 
.
Ali checked and called a bet of 1,000 from McKeehen. Ali checked again on the 
turn and the 2015 WSOP Main Event champ checked back.
Ali checked again on the 
river and McKeehen bumped his fist on the table for a check. Ali turned over 
, which was good to win the pot.
Level 2
: Blinds 100/200, 200 ante
Level 2
: Blinds 100/200, 200 ante
Joseph Rice three-bet to 2,000 in middle position and the action folded to Rodney Spriggs in the big blind, who four-bet jammed a stack of 18,800. Rice took a few moments and called with a bigger stack.
Rodney Spriggs: 
Joseph Rice: 
It was a classic race before the flop landed 
to give Rice a stranglehold on the hand with a set of queens.
"Oh, shit. I don't do very well in races," Spriggs said before the board finished out 
to send him out in the second level of play.
Rice, who in March won two Circuit rings at WSOP Circuit Turning Stone, including in the Main Event to win $238,870, gave a shoutout to his wife and kids after winning the big hand.
At the same table, Online Event #7: $500 No Limit Hold'em Deepstack winner Sane Chung built his stack up to around 45,000.
