Scott Bohlman: K♣J♦3♠/4♠2♣A♥8♣
Raymond Bentley: A♣Q♣J♣/7♣4♥3♣7♦
Mike Thorpe: XxXx/5♠J♠4♣8♦/Xx
The action was picked up on fifth street, where Scott Bohlman bet out and was called by Raymond Bentley and Mike Thorpe. After Bentley paired on sixth street, the action checked to Bohlman, who put in another bet.
Bentley and Thorpe both stuck around and called, after which seventh street checked through.
Bentley tabled a flush, and Bohlman had an eight-low.
"I don't know what I have," Thorpe claimed as he squeezed his hole cards. Eventually, he saw he could not beat either hand as he mucked his cards, seeing the pot chopped between Bohlman and Bentley.
Shaun Deeb spent most of the day making a deep run in the $2,500 Mixed Big Bet event. When he finally came over to play Event #77: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship, he wasted little time putting himself in position to do it again by amassing a huge stack.
Deeb ended Day 1 with 310,000, good for second place on the leaderboard. He’s looking up only at Walter Chambers, who took the chip lead over the remaining 78 players with 372,500.
Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Bets
1
Walter Chambers
United States
372,500
47
2
Shaun Deeb
United States
310,000
39
3
Scott Bohlman
United States
284,500
36
4
Anthony Zinno
United States
273,000
34
5
Paul Houvener
United States
259,500
32
6
Qinghai Pan
United States
250,500
31
7
Nikolay Fal
Russian Federation
232,500
29
8
Christopher Claassen
United States
229,000
29
9
Brian Hastings
United States
221,000
28
10
David Lin
United States
215,500
27
Scott Bohlman, currently second in the Player of the Year standings, sits in third place with 284,500. Anthony Zinno (273,000) and Paul Houvener (259,500) round out the top five. Other big stacks include Brian Hastings (221,000), Felipe Ramos (206,500), Brad Ruben (200,000), $1,500 Stud Hi-Lo champion Blaz Zerjav (197,000). Mike Gorodinsky (156,500), and Viktor Blom (143,000). Esther Taylor, coming off her third-place run in the Poker Players Championship a few days ago, was back at it today and finished with 174,000.
Esther Taylor
Allen Kessler (141,000), poker funny man Norman Chad (124,000), Benny Glaser (102,000), Ari Engel (75,500), and Dylan Smith (24,000) are also among the players who return tomorrow at 1 p.m. local time for Day 2.
Defending champion Arash Ghaneian has yet to make an appearance in the field, but last year’s runner-up Richard Sklar did but has his work cut out for him if he hopes to make another run after finishing with just 46,500. Among those to bust on Day 1 included Nick Schulman, Erick Lindgren, Brandon Shack-Harris, Huck Seed, Mike Matusow, Patrick Leonard, and Scott Seiver.
A total of 160 players entered throughout 10 levels today. With late registration still open for the first level of Day 2, the field should far surpass last year’s 167 entries. The action will pick up on Level 11 with limits of 4,000/8,000. Levels 11-15 will remain 60 minutes before being extended to 90 minutes beginning on Level 16.
PokerNews will be back tomorrow following all the action from this star-studded field.
