Level: 7
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
Level: 7
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
Melvin Eleazar raised to 1,500 from middle position, and Leanardo Castro moved all in for 42,000 from the button, and Eleazar quickly made the call. The whole table moaned when both players flipped their cards.
Melvin Eleazar: A♦A♥
Leanardo Castro: A♣A♠
Both players dodged the flush when the board came out with K♣3♥7♥6♦6♥, and a chop was completed.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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43,000 | |
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37,000 |
It took little time for a $1 million mystery bounty to be pulled on Sunday at the World Series of Poker (WSOP).
Tyler Montoya, 23, opened the lucky envelope on Day 2 of Event #1: $1,000 Mystery Millions, a no-limit hold'em tournament that attracted 19,654 entrants across five Day 1 starting flights.
Jeremy Wien is grinding his way up in this tournament after a disappointing finish in Event #3: $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em, where he sat at an action table with Shaun Deeb and Niall Farrell.
Wien is impressed so far at how smoothly the new WSOP+ app is operating, considering the learning curve for all of the employees.
Wien won his last bracelet at the 2018 49th Annual World Series of Poker Event #20: Big Blind Antes $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em, so yesterday's knockout was bittersweet.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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65,600
65,600
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65,600 |
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Neil Zonenashvili has joined the chip leaders here on Day 1, winning a crucial flip to stay in the tournament versus Ramaswamy Pyloore.
Pyloore was left with just a single 100 chip, one-fifth of a big blind. Alas, no Cinderella story will happen here as he got in holding 10♥3♦ versus his opponent's Q♠Q♣, and the runout did not cooperate.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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100,000
100,000
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100,000 |
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Busted |
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
Life Outside Poker is a podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.
In the 27th episode, Connor talks with World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner and venture capitalist David Daneshgar, who used poker winnings to launch a successful start-up that raised tens of millions. The Californian with $2.5 million in Hendon Mob earnings talks about his companies BloomNation and Whippy AI, teaching a college poker class, quitting his finance job to play poker, and getting Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss to write his letter of recommendation to business school.
Daneshgar also spoke about getting cheated in private LA games, AI in poker, and why entrepreneurs should play in poker games.
The Life Outside Poker podcast is available on major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud and iHeartRadio. You can also watch the interview with David Daneshgar by heading to the PokerNews YouTube channel.
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