Event #36: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed
Day 1 Started
Event #36: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed
Day 1 Started
Event #36: 5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-handed begins this afternoon, starting at 3 p.m. This is a four-day event with no re-entry. The schedule calls for 10 one-hour levels today, with a 20-minute break every two levels.
Last year in this event, Michael Gathy from Belgium bested the field of 541 players to pick up the first-place prize of $560,843 and his third World Series of Poker gold bracelet. Gathy has 20 WSOP cashes, two of them being from this summer, and 1,723,867 in WSOP earnings.
The $5,000 buy-in gets players 25,000 chips to try to run up. Registration is opened through the first eight levels and will close around 12:20 a.m.
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Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
The dealer has announced, ''Shuffle up and deal!'' and play is underway!
The tournament has just started but a few notables are already in the field including Niall Farrell, Chance Kornuth, Mike Leah, Erik Seidel, and Anatoly Filatov.
Many top tournament players are filling in the six-handed tables in Amazan Purple. Among them are players who have had much success here at the WSOP including 2010 WSOP Main Event winner and 2015 $111,111 High Roller for One Drop winner Jonathan Duhamel. Joseph Cheong, who took third in the Main Event the year Duhamel won, is here too.
Also in the field are Brian Yoon, Daniel Strelitz, Jonathan Little, Craig Casino, Ankush Mandavia, Dylan Linde, Galen Hall, Kitty Kuo, Andy Spears, and Eric Baldwin.
We will keep an eye out for more big names to get in before registration closes after Level 8.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Brian Yoon
|
25,000 | 25,000 |
Alex Keating
|
25,000 | 25,000 |
Dylan Linde
|
25,000 | 25,000 |
Galen Hall
|
25,000 | 25,000 |
Andy Spears | 25,000 | 25,000 |
Kitty Kuo | 25,000 | 25,000 |
Daniel Strelitz
|
25,000 | 25,000 |
Matt Stout | 25,000 | 25,000 |
James Alexander | 25,000 | 25,000 |
Greg Jennings | 25,000 | 25,000 |
Jonathan Duhamel
|
25,000 | 25,000 |
Jerry Payne | 25,000 | 25,000 |
Eric Rivkin | 25,000 | 25,000 |
Tristan Wade
|
25,000 | 25,000 |
James Chen
|
25,000 | 25,000 |
Caufman Talley | 25,000 | 25,000 |
Shannon Shorr
|
25,000 | 25,000 |
Jonathan Little | 25,000 | 25,000 |
Joseph Cheong
|
25,000 | 25,000 |
Eric Baldwin
|
25,000 | 25,000 |
Craig Casino | 25,000 | 25,000 |
Sam Grafton | 25,000 | 25,000 |
Ankush Mandavia
|
24,000 | 24,000 |
Jerry Payne opened on the button to 300 and Brian Yoon three-bet to 1,100 in the small blind. The big blind was not in his seat, and Payne called.
They both checked the flop and the turn was the . Yoon bet 1,200 and Payne folded.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Brian Yoon
|
26,000 | 1,000 |
Jerry Payne | 24,000 | -1,000 |
With more than 6,500 in the pot already and the board reading , the player in the small blind checked and Larry Greenberg bet 4,200 on the button. His opponent then check-raised to 12,200 and Greenberg asked him, "Do you have ace-ten?"
He thought for just a little while and called with for the straight to the king for the second-nuts. His opponent tabled for two pairs and Greenberg took down the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Larry Greenberg | 40,000 | 40,000 |
Antonio Esfandiari opened to 500 from the cutoff. The player in the big blind called.
The dealer swiped on the table. Esfandiari bet 500 and his opponent called.
The turn was the . Esfandiari continued for 1,100 and the player in the big blind stuck around.
The river was the . Esfandiari bet 3,100 and his opponent instantly threw in a chip, signalling a call.
Esfandiari showed and took down the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Antonio Esfandiari
|
38,000 | 38,000 |
Action folded around to Chance Kornuth in the button who opened to 250. The small blind and the big blind both called.
The dealer spread a flop of and it was checked to Kornuth who bet 200. The player in the small blind called but the one in the big blind let his hand go.
The turn was the and was checked through the river. The player first to act checked and Kornuth threw in a bet of 500 that was enough to make his opponent fold.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Chance Kornuth
|
16,000 | -9,000 |