Event #49: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2024 World Series of Poker

06-20-2024 02:01 UTC-8

Seat Draw for Day 2

Matthew Pitt

Casino	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
Horseshoe	601	1	Ankit Ahuja	India	298,000	30
Horseshoe	601	2	Najeem Ajez	Australia	523,000	52
Horseshoe	601	3	Shai Zurr	Israel	101,000	10
Horseshoe	601	4	Minh Nguyen	United States	597,000	60
Horseshoe	601	5	Bryce McVay	United States	76,000	8
Horseshoe	601	6	Amir Lehavot	Israel	58,000	6
Horseshoe	601	7	Han Ming Feng	United States	525,000	53
Horseshoe	601	8	Neil Warren	United States	201,000	20
Horseshoe	601	9	Sami Bechahed	United States	927,000	93

Horseshoe	602	1	Martin Jacobson	Sweden	526,000	53
Horseshoe	602	2	Derek Norton	United States	255,000	26
Horseshoe	602	3	Atanas Pavlov	United Kingdom	278,000	28
Horseshoe	602	4	Punnat Punsri	Thialand	260,000	26
Horseshoe	602	5	Martin Zamani	United States	429,000	43
Horseshoe	602	6	Nicolas Betbese	Argentina	76,000	8
Horseshoe	602	7	Luc Bindel	France	43,000	4
Horseshoe	602	8	Luis Pinho	Portugal	126,000	13
Horseshoe	602	9	Onur Unsal	Turkey	422,000	42

Horseshoe	603	1	Loni Harwood	United States	187,000	19
Horseshoe	603	2	Christopher Staats	United States	186,000	19
Horseshoe	603	3	Colin Robinson	United States	248,000	25
Horseshoe	603	4	Bradley Gafford	United States	97,000	10
Horseshoe	603	5	[Removed:548]	Austria	385,000	39
Horseshoe	603	6	Ping Lin	China	97,000	10
Horseshoe	603	7	Jake Schwartz	United States	86,000	9
Horseshoe	603	8	Rodney Assous	France	309,000	31
Horseshoe	603	9	Pierce Mckellar	United States	80,000	8

Horseshoe	604	1	John O'Neal	United States	155,000	16
Horseshoe	604	2	Jack O'Neill	United Kingdom	159,000	16
Horseshoe	604	3	Ronald Sewell	United States	530,000	53
Horseshoe	604	4	Andjelko Andrejevic	United States	856,000	86
Horseshoe	604	5	Brian Luo	United States	237,000	24
Horseshoe	604	6	Emilien Pitavy	France	247,000	25
Horseshoe	604	7	Frank Funaro	United States	41,000	4
Horseshoe	604	8	Alex Greenblatt	United States	315,000	32
Horseshoe	604	9	Guoliang Wei	China	103,000	10

Horseshoe	605	1	Baruch Forst	United States	64,000	6
Horseshoe	605	2	Marko Grujic	United States	836,000	84
Horseshoe	605	3	Joey Weissman	United States	211,000	21
Horseshoe	605	4	Simas Karaliunas	Lithuania	822,000	82
Horseshoe	605	5	Kuljinder Singh Sidhu	United Kingdom	169,000	17
Horseshoe	605	6	Lander Lijo	Spain	218,000	22
Horseshoe	605	7	Lloyd Yamada	United States	220,000	22
Horseshoe	605	8	Boshuang Gao	China	157,000	16
Horseshoe	605	9	Arian Stolt	United States	79,000	8

Horseshoe	606	1	Peter Cross	United States	336,000	34
Horseshoe	606	2	Vuong Do	United States	362,000	36
Horseshoe	606	3	Mario Navarro	Spain	247,000	25
Horseshoe	606	4	Jackob Datashvili	United States	376,000	38
Horseshoe	606	5	Anthony Alway	United States	340,000	34
Horseshoe	606	6	David Stamm	United States	1,165,000	117
Horseshoe	606	7	Alexandre Reard	France	44,000	4
Horseshoe	606	8	Anuj Kwatra	United States	281,000	28
Horseshoe	606	9	John Kenner	United States	1,089,000	109

Horseshoe	607	1	Michael Rossitto	United States	47,000	5
Horseshoe	607	2	Ran Koller	Israel	26,000	3
Horseshoe	607	3	Michael Acevedo	Costa Rica	199,000	20
Horseshoe	607	4	Erlend Melson	Norway	138,000	14
Horseshoe	607	5	Bahar Musa	Bulgaria	38,000	4
Horseshoe	607	6	David Medley	United States	175,000	18
Horseshoe	607	7	Antonio Galiana	Spain	225,000	23
Horseshoe	607	8	Clemen Deng	United States	365,000	37

Horseshoe	608	1	Nikolay Yosifov	Bulgaria	130,000	13
Horseshoe	608	2	Connor Heelis	United Kingdom	116,000	12
Horseshoe	608	3	Stoyan Madanzhiev	Bulgaria	193,000	19
Horseshoe	608	5	Aristeidis Moschonas	Greece	148,000	15
Horseshoe	608	6	Alan Hamza	United States	333,000	33
Horseshoe	608	7	Lyudmil Ivanov	Bulgaria	149,000	15
Horseshoe	608	8	Maxim Kogay	Canada	379,000	38
Horseshoe	608	9	Gianluca Cedolia	Canada	85,000	9

Horseshoe	609	1	Anthony Hu	United States	172,000	17
Horseshoe	609	2	Kou Vang	United States	203,000	20
Horseshoe	609	3	Eric Afriat	Canada	601,000	60
Horseshoe	609	4	David Fhima	France	398,000	40
Horseshoe	609	5	Roman Hrabec	Mexico	212,000	21
Horseshoe	609	6	Babak Behgam	United States	171,000	17
Horseshoe	609	7	Bryce Yockey	United States	105,000	11
Horseshoe	609	8	Kristofer Kneale	United States	136,000	14
Horseshoe	609	9	Lee Rzentkowski	United States	257,000	26

Horseshoe	610	1	Renji Mao	China	228,000	23
Horseshoe	610	2	Wen Lyu	United States	109,000	11
Horseshoe	610	3	Daniel Parra	Spain	159,000	16
Horseshoe	610	4	Gabriel Villanueva	United States	98,000	10
Horseshoe	610	5	David Kaufmann	Germany	664,000	66
Horseshoe	610	6	Vladislav Donchev	Bulgaria	175,000	18
Horseshoe	610	7	Richard Bai	United States	247,000	25
Horseshoe	610	8	Erfan Geula	United States	651,000	65
Horseshoe	610	9	Ilija Savevski	Austria	321,000	32

Horseshoe	611	1	Michael Faterkowski	United States	167,000	17
Horseshoe	611	2	Stanislav Barshak	United States	189,000	19
Horseshoe	611	3	Albert Tran	France	389,000	39
Horseshoe	611	4	Eddy Sabat	United States	267,000	27
Horseshoe	611	5	Tadamasa Mori	Japan	263,000	26
Horseshoe	611	6	Leo Soma	France	603,000	60
Horseshoe	611	7	Johan Schultz-Pedersen	Austria	113,000	11
Horseshoe	611	8	Ivan Uzunov	Bulgaria	150,000	15
Horseshoe	611	9	Andres Vasquez	United States	262,000	26

Horseshoe	613	1	Congya Zhang	China	199,000	20
Horseshoe	613	2	Jacob Barlow	United States	103,000	10
Horseshoe	613	3	Damien Le Goff	United Kingdom	148,000	15
Horseshoe	613	4	James Carroll	United States	180,000	18
Horseshoe	613	5	Oleksii Mezhenkov	United Kingdom	130,000	13
Horseshoe	613	6	Kyle Julius	United States	90,000	9
Horseshoe	613	7	Grant Juric	United States	431,000	43
Horseshoe	613	8	Jonathan Schwartz	United States	457,000	46
Horseshoe	613	9	Scott Eskenazi	United States	104,000	10

Horseshoe	614	1	Nicolas Godoy	Argentina	254,000	25
Horseshoe	614	2	Uri Reichenstein	Israel	639,000	64
Horseshoe	614	3	Daniel Hachem	Australia	265,000	27
Horseshoe	614	4	Zdenek Zizka	Germany	522,000	52
Horseshoe	614	5	Jiacong Zhang	United States	324,000	32
Horseshoe	614	6	Carlos Hey De Lima	Brazil	180,000	18
Horseshoe	614	7	Andrey Pateychuk	Russia	336,000	34
Horseshoe	614	8	Kendra Dieter	United States	120,000	12
Horseshoe	614	9	Artur Martirosian	Russia	79,000	8

Horseshoe	615	1	Bernd Gleissner	Germany	515,000	52
Horseshoe	615	2	Joao Barroso Valli	Brazil	448,000	45
Horseshoe	615	3	Robert Noce	United States	461,000	46
Horseshoe	615	4	Edgar Moreno	United States	131,000	13
Horseshoe	615	5	Gus Vergos	United States	122,000	12
Horseshoe	615	6	Christopher Brewer	United States	444,000	44
Horseshoe	615	7	Jeremy Joseph	United States	131,000	13
Horseshoe	615	8	Eli Frenkel	United States	257,000	26
Horseshoe	615	9	Timothy Miles	United States	137,000	14

Horseshoe	616	1	Dean Lyall	United Kingdom	92,000	9
Horseshoe	616	2	Daniel De Almeida	Brazil	236,000	24
Horseshoe	616	3	Bryan Obregon	United States	68,000	7
Horseshoe	616	4	Pavels Spirins	Latvia	324,000	32
Horseshoe	616	5	Logan Anderson	United States	548,000	55
Horseshoe	616	6	Prahlad Friedman	United States	158,000	16
Horseshoe	616	7	Ivan Ruban	Russia	1,476,000	148
Horseshoe	616	8	Florian Bordet	Italy	89,000	9
Horseshoe	616	9	Martin Stoyanov	Bulgaria	318,000	32

Horseshoe	620	1	Maxx Coleman	United States	216,000	22
Horseshoe	620	2	George Wolff	United States	308,000	31
Horseshoe	620	3	Ben Hoy	United States	294,000	29
Horseshoe	620	4	Mitchell Hynam	United Kingdom	202,000	20
Horseshoe	620	5	Carl Shaw	United Kingdom	622,000	62
Horseshoe	620	6	Damien Luis	France	234,000	23
Horseshoe	620	7	David Dibernardi	United States	146,000	15
Horseshoe	620	8	Kevin Schulz	United States	460,000	46
Horseshoe	620	9	Ionnis Oikonomidis	Greece	368,000	37

Horseshoe	621	1	David Kuder	United States	314,000	31
Horseshoe	621	2	Jamie Flynn	United States	156,000	16
Horseshoe	621	3	Rafael Reis	Brazil	46,000	5
Horseshoe	621	4	Joseph Carden	United States	157,000	16
Horseshoe	621	5	Mengqi Chen	China	467,000	47
Horseshoe	621	6	Pedro Madeira	Brazil	227,000	23
Horseshoe	621	7	Asher Conniff	United States	29,000	3
Horseshoe	621	8	Blas Torres	Italy	166,000	17
Horseshoe	621	9	Tsz Chau	United Kingdom	241,000	24

Horseshoe	622	1	Silvio Costa	Portugal	201,000	20
Horseshoe	622	2	David Rich	United States	222,000	22
Horseshoe	622	3	Jeremy Becker	United States	355,000	36
Horseshoe	622	4	Goto Takeshi	Japan	190,000	19
Horseshoe	622	5	Mathew Frankland	United Kingdom	114,000	11
Horseshoe	622	6	Javier Zarco	Spain	454,000	45
Horseshoe	622	7	Upeshka De Silva	United States	193,000	19
Horseshoe	622	8	Andrei Stoenescu	Romania	204,000	20
Horseshoe	622	9	Julien Stropoli	France	152,000	15

Horseshoe	623	1	Jonas Lauck	Austria	44,000	4
Horseshoe	623	2	Kenneth O'Donnell	United States	322,000	32
Horseshoe	623	3	Matthew Johnson	United States	69,000	7
Horseshoe	623	4	Maximiliano Gallardo	Argentina	671,000	67
Horseshoe	623	5	Konstantin Held	Germany	337,000	34
Horseshoe	623	6	Jesse Solano	United States	132,000	13
Horseshoe	623	7	Farhad Jamasi	United States	110,000	11
Horseshoe	623	8	Jack Strange	United States	358,000	36
Horseshoe	623	9	Ian Ohara	United States	196,000	20

Horseshoe	624	1	Junhao Wu	Singapore	157,000	16
Horseshoe	624	2	Brett Shaffer	United States	565,000	57
Horseshoe	624	3	Jordan Glazer	United States	144,000	14
Horseshoe	624	4	John Morgan Petro	United States	122,000	12
Horseshoe	624	5	Domyo Aqmelli	Italy	414,000	41
Horseshoe	624	6	Jin Kim	United States	105,000	11
Horseshoe	624	7	Marco Johnson	United States	180,000	18
Horseshoe	624	8	Yingxin Chen	United States	96,000	10
Horseshoe	624	9	Mateusz Moolhuizen	Netherlands	106,000	11

Horseshoe	625	1	Weiran Pu	China	209,000	21
Horseshoe	625	2	Marco Guibert	Argentina	446,000	45
Horseshoe	625	3	Iulian Blebea	Bulgaria	96,000	10
Horseshoe	625	4	Ben Keeline	United States	119,000	12
Horseshoe	625	5	Minh Tran	France	71,000	7
Horseshoe	625	6	Aroha Ngata	New Zealand	123,000	12
Horseshoe	625	7	Yang Wang	China	180,000	18
Horseshoe	625	8	Cody Wiegmann	United States	199,000	20
Horseshoe	625	9	Daichi Sawayanagi	Japan	285,000	29

Event #49: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em

Day 2 Started

06-20-2024 09:51 UTC-8

Martin Jacobson and Chris Brewer Headline Day 2 as Ivan Ruban Leads in $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em

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Tyler Boyer

Day 2 of Event #49: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em is set to resume at 12 p.m. local time at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Only 187 will return on Day 2 for their shot at a gold bracelet here at the 2024 World Series Of Poker.

The chip leader coming into the day is Russia's Ivan Ruban who managed to bag 1,476,000 after Day 1 concluded. Only two other players were able to come into Day 2 with over a million chips and that is American's David Stamm (1,165,00) in second, and John Kenner (1,089,000) in third.

Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Ivan Ruban	Russia	1,476,000	148
2	David Stamm	United States	1,165,000	117
3	John Kenner	United States	1,089,000	109
4	Sami Bechahed	United States	927,000	93
5	Andjelko Andrejevic	United States	856,000	86
6	Marko Grujic	United States	836,000	84
7	Simas Karaliunas	Lithuania	822,000	82
8	Maximiliano Gallardo	Argentina	671,000	67
9	David Kaufmann	Germany	664,000	66
10	Erfan Geula	United States	651,000	65

There are several big stories to look out for coming into Day 2 including 2014 Main Event Champion Martin Jacobson (526,000), who comes into the day 19th in chips. Also in the mix is high stakes crusher and two-time bracelet winner Chris Brewer (444,000). Another story to watch for on Day 2 is rising star Jeremy Becker (355,000). He is involved in the highly anticipated summer long cross-book matchup against Landon Tice and will be looking to extend his lead with a deep run in this event.

There were 1,252 players entered into this tournament, creating a prize pool of $3,342,840, with a top prize of $523,195. The 187 returning players have all locked up at least $6,024 as they were able to burst the money bubble at the end of Day 1.

Remaining Prize Pool

Place	Prize	Place	Prize
1st	$523,195	27th-35th	$15,199
2nd	$348,784	36th-44th	$12,872
3rd	$249,005	45th-53rd	$11,074
4th	$180,127	54th-62nd	$9,679
5th	$132,053	63rd-71st	$8,598
6th	98,128	72nd-80th	$7,763
7th	$73,925	81st-89th	$7,128
8th	$56,472	90th-98th	$6,657
9th	$43,751	99th-125th	$6,325
10th-11th	$34,385	126th-187th	$6,024
12th-13th	$27,418
14th-17th	$22,188
18th-26th	$18,225

When action resumes, the players will start with 12 minutes left on the tournament clock in Level 17 at the 5,000/10,000/10,000 blind levels. They are expected to play ten 60-minute levels before calling it a night. There will also be a 15-minute break after every two levels, as well as a 60-minute dinner break after Level 23.

Make sure to stay tuned into PokerNews as we will have live coverage and updates of this event throughout the day.

Tags: Andjelko Andrejevic Chris Brewer David Kaufmann David Stamm Erfan Geula Ivan Ruban Jeremy Becker John Kenner Landon Tice Marko Grujic Martin Jacobson Maximiliano Gallardo Sami Bechahed Simas Karaliunas

06-20-2024 11:02 UTC-8

Shuffle Up and Deal

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Jeff McMillan

Day 2 is underway with cards in the air and 12 minutes left remaining in Level 17.

06-20-2024 11:12 UTC-8

Valli Raises

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Jeff McMillan

Action was on the flop as it read 7♠4♦J♠. From the cutoff, Eli Frenkel bet 25,000. From the big blind, Joao Barroso Valli raised it up to 65,000.

Frenkel thought for several moments before he gave it up.

Elsewhere, Asher Conniff and Ian O'Hara were among the early eliminations.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joao Barroso Valli	518,000 70,000	70,000
Eli Frenkel	210,000 47,000	47,000
Asher Conniff	Busted

Minh Tran	Busted
Rafael Reis	Busted
Ian O'Hara	Busted

Tags: Eli Frenkel Joao Barroso Valli

Level: 18

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 12,000

06-20-2024 11:17 UTC-8

Melson Wakes Up With A Hand

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Tyler Boyer

Level 18 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Actoin folded to Erlend Melson in the small, who rasied the big blind Bahar Musa all in for 54,000. Musa made the call to put himself at risk.

Bahar Musa: Q♥2♥ All in
Erlend Melson: A♦K♦

Musa was behind the ace-king of Melson, and when the flop came 6♣J♥K♣ he was only left to running cards to stay alive. However the turn did bring those in a form of a flush draw when the 3♥ came on the turn. However, the river was the Q♦ which did improve Musa, but Melson's pair of kings was still best, and Musa was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Erlend Melsom	235,000 97,000	97,000

Bahar Musa	Busted

Tags: Bahar Musa Erlend Melson

06-20-2024 11:21 UTC-8

Petro Slays Kings in Three-Way All In

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Jeff McMillan

Level 18 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

There was a three-way all in in progress.

Yingxin Chen: K♣2♣ All in
Morgan Petro: Q♦9♦ All in
Marco Johnson: K♦K♥

Marco Johnson had the chance to spurn two players at once with kings, The flop came 2♦J♣Q♠. The turn was the 4♣ and the river came the 9♥ to give Petro two pair and stay alive and hurt Johnson while eliminating Chen.

Player	Chips	Progress
Morgan Petro	295,000 295,000	295,000
Marco Johnson	131,000 49,000	49,000

Yingxin Chen	Busted

Tags: Marco Johnson Morgan Petro Yingxin Chen

06-20-2024 11:32 UTC-8

Acevedo Takes Big One With Broadway

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Jeff McMillan

Level 18 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Action was joined at the very end of a hand as the board was completed to read Q♥6♣2♠10♦A♦. Michael Acevedo moved all in into a pot that was about 135,000.

Martin Stoyanov called quickly.

Michael Acevedo: K♥J♥ All in
Martin Stoyanov: 6x6x

Acevedo turned over broadway which crushed the set that Stoyanov to give Acevedo the big pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Acevedo	410,000 8,000	8,000

Martin Stoyanov	240,000 78,000	78,000

Tags: Martin Stoyanov Michael Acevedo Michael Acevedp

06-20-2024 11:33 UTC-8

Quick Eliminations at the Start of Day 2

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Monika Kostanjevec

Level 18 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Many players waited out the bubble with their short stacks at the end of Day 1, which means that players are getting eliminated left and right at the start of Day 2.

One of the recent eliminations was Tsz Chau.

The hand started with an open from Joseph Carden in middle position. Chau was in the small blind and shoved for 130,000. Carden called.

Tsz Chau 7♠7♣ All in
Joseph Carden: K♥Q♠

The flop 8♦Q♦10♥ gave Carden the edge, and Chau didn’t improve on the 3♠ turn and the A♣ river.