Event #31: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship Day 2 | 2017 World Series of Poker

06-17-2017 18:47 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts After the Dinner Break

Shirley Ang

Level 17 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
William Thomson	517,000	7,000
Dan Heimiller	322,000	166,000
Titan Nguyen	228,000	228,000
Bill Klein	189,000	28,500
Donna Lawton	150,000	89,600
Larry Wright	130,000	-41,000
Per Hildebrand	114,500	54,300
Gina Bacon	106,000	34,000
Greg Raymer	97,000	32,000
Kevin Dowling	90,000	-10,000

Level: 17

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500

06-17-2017 17:40 UTC-7

Dinner Break

Sandra Barbour

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Players are now on a 60-minute dinner break and will be back at 6:40 p.m. There are currently 184 players left.

06-17-2017 17:28 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
William Ellis II	310,000	275,900

Triple- and Double-Ups Don't Keep William Thomson from Chip Lead

Shirley Ang

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Willam Thomson, sitting in the under-the-gun position, limped. So did a player in middle position. Roger Carlson, in the hijack went all in for 23,500. Francine Ferguson, in the small blind, also went all in, but she had 50,000. Thomson called.

Roger Carlson:
Francine Ferguson:
William Thomson:

The board ran out . Carlson tripled up and Ferguson got the rest of the pot. Thomson is still comfortably in the chip lead, though.

Player	Chips	Progress
William Thomson	510,000	210,000
Roger Carlson	78,500	46,100
Francine Ferguson	55,000	11,700

Tags: Francine Ferguson Roger Carlson William Thomson

06-17-2017 17:24 UTC-7

Kevin O'Donnell Defends His Big Blind

Sandra Barbour

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

A player in early position opened to 12,000. Action folded around to Kevin O'Donnell in the big blind who tanked for a moment and said, ''You're going after my big blind!'' before making the call.

The flop was . O'Donnell bet 5,000, and his opponent called. The came on the turn. This time, O'Donnell checked. His opponent checked back.

The river completed the board. O'Donnell took a look at his opponent's stack and threw in a bet of 40,000. That was enough for him to take down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin ODonnell	250,000	41,000

06-17-2017 17:02 UTC-7

Pete Vilandos Turns a Set

Shirley Ang

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Larry Wright, on the button, raised to 11,500, and Pete Vilandos, in the big blind, called.

The flop came . Vilandos checked, and Wright bet 8,500. Vilandos shoved all in, and Wright snap-called.

Vilandos showed for bottom pair, and Wright showed for top two pair.

The turn brought the to give Vilandos trip fours. The on the river didn't change the outcome, and Wright had his hands in his hair in disbelief as the table looked on in shock.

The dealer counted Vilandos' stack, and he had 56,000 in total. Wright slowly counted out the chips he had to pay. The dealer tried to help, but Wright wouldn't let him.

"You don't touch my chips, the way you're dealing those cards!" Wright said.

Player	Chips	Progress
Larry Wright	160,000	-51,000
Pete Vilandos	145,000	116,300

Tags: Larry Wright Pete Vilandos

06-17-2017 16:55 UTC-7

Stacks Updates

Sandra Barbour

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Eluterio Rodriguez	490,000	316,200
Titan Nguyen	300,000	45,000
David Plastik	190,000	-20,000
Ross Dove	160,000	75,000
Paul Spitzberg	130,000	75,000
Peter Smaha	85,000	-20,000
Gina Bacon	72,000	15,000
Greg Raymer	65,000	16,000
Franco Cupello	50,000	-28,000
Donna Demarinis	27,000	2,000