Event #33: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2017 World Series of Poker

06-18-2017 17:08 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
En-Ching Wu	Busted
Michael Fenton	Busted
Bo Oh	Busted
Young Sik Eum	Busted

Michael Shannon	Busted
Scott Davies	Busted

Valentin Vornicu	Busted
Aron Dermer	Busted
Jason Les	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Heidi May	670,000 200,000	200,000

Michael Gagliano	490,000 150,000	150,000

Nacho Barbero	430,000 176,000	176,000

Max Pescatori	250,000 10,000	10,000

Pratyush Buddiga	235,000 55,000	55,000
Arkadiy Tsinis	225,000 83,000	83,000

Joseph Elpayaa	220,000 142,000	142,000
Adrian Mateos	196,000 11,000	11,000

Aymon Hata	180,000 120,000	120,000
Christopher Frank	170,000 95,000	95,000

Tom Hall	98,000 3,000	3,000
Kami Hudson	90,000 36,000	36,000

Jonathan Abdellatif Knocked Out by Noah Vaillancourt

Shirley Ang

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

Jonathan Abdellatif raised to 28,000 from the under-the-gun position. Noah Vaillancourt, in middle position, and Patrick Uzan, on the button, both called.

The flop came , Abdellatif went all in for his remaining 5,500, Vaillancourt raised, and Uzan snap-folded.

Abdellatif showed , and Vaillancourt showed . Abdellatif needed some help to survive. The on the turn and the on the river didn't give him any help, so he grabbed his stuff and went to the payout desk.

Player	Chips	Progress
Patrick Uzan	458,000 188,000	188,000
Noah Vaillancourt	315,000 58,000	58,000
Jonathan Abdellatif	Busted

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06-18-2017 16:50 UTC-8

Payouts From Places 91-99

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Shirley Ang

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

The players below took $3,333 home:

Player	Chips	Progress
Matthew Roling	Busted
Bob Keegan	Busted
Mike Sowers	Busted
[Removed:4]	Busted
Timothy Flattery	Busted
Mikhail Semin	Busted
John Reynolds	Busted
Michael Martin	Busted

06-18-2017 16:48 UTC-8

Christopher Kostoulas Wins Huge Pot

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

Yuhei Sanada opened the action from late position, and Christopher Kostoulas called in the small blind.

The flop was , and Kostoulas check-called a bet of 8,000 from Sanada. The turn was the , and Kostoulas led out for 14,000, which Sanada called. The river was the , and Sanada moved all in, overbetting the pot by some margin and just covering Kostoulas’ stack. There was a fair bit of agonizing, but Kostoulas called.

Yuhei Sanada tabled , but it was no good against Kostoulas' .

A jubilant Kostoulas clapped his hands, and the adrenalin shot him out of his seat, relieved to have made the right call and win a huge pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Christopher Kostoulas	290,000 227,300	227,300
Yuhei Sanada	42,000 24,000	24,000

Tags: Christopher Kostoulas Yuhei Sanada

06-18-2017 16:47 UTC-8

Faraz Jaka: New Face of Brazilian Poker?

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

06-18-2017 16:45 UTC-8

Payouts From Places 100-126

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Shirley Ang

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

These players below took $3,016 home:

Player	Chips	Progress
Kurt Jewell	Busted
Hao Sun	Busted
Laurent Manderlier	Busted
Brett Schwertley	Busted
Dmitry Savelyev	Busted
Peter Lewis	Busted
Zo Karim	Busted
Jimmie James	Busted
Renato Marques	Busted
Patrice Porteleoni	Busted
Johann Tiemann	Busted
David Lee	Busted
todd rodgers	Busted
Lloyd Crisp	Busted
Johanssy Joseph	Busted
Haipeng Li	Busted
Bas De Laat	Busted
Idan Raviv	Busted

Scott Epstein	Busted
Mel Wiener	Busted
Phillip Berres	Busted
Brett Stein	Busted
Alexis Fleur	Busted
Martin Messier	Busted
Paul Awodey	Busted

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Level: 16

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

06-18-2017 16:30 UTC-8

Arash Behnam vs. Ryan Leng

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Shirley Ang

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Ryan Leng, in middle position, raised to 7,500, and Arash Behnam, in the hijack, called.

The flop gave them , Leng continued for 11,000, and Behnam called. The came on the turn. Leng bet 21,000, and Behnam called again. The on the river completed the board, and both of them checked.

Leng showed for a pair of tens on the board with a king kicker, and Behnam showed for two pair, tens and eights.

Player	Chips	Progress
Arash Behnam	178,000 94,800	94,800
Ryan Leng	50,000 28,900	28,900

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06-18-2017 16:29 UTC-8

Valentin Vornicu Eliminated

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Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Khorchidian Nichan had just moved to Valentin Vornicu’s table, and he opened the pot. Vornicu greeted the new arrival by shoving for 70,000. Nichan called with , and Vornicu tabled .

The board ran out .

Start-of-day chip leader Vornicu flopped an open-ended straight draw but bricked out on the turn and river to finish off a disastrous couple levels which saw him busted from the tournament.