Event #47: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em MONSTER STACK
Day 1b Completed
2017 World Series of Poker
Event #47: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em MONSTER STACK
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$9,066,600
Entries
6,716
Level
39
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
100,000
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Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Matt Downs ended the day with a suitably monstrous stack of 320,200 chips and will begin Day 2 as the outright leader of the two flights.
When registration closed at the beginning of level nine, the final numbers were tallied, and the prize pool was announced. With 2,676 players registered on Day 1a and 4,040 on Day 1b, the entries totaled 6,716 across both flights. The attendance generated a prize pool of $9,066,600. There will be 1,008 places paid, with a min-cash worth $2,249. The winner will get a gold bracelet and $1,094,349.
Day 1a saw 758 players survive the 10 levels of play, while Day 1b had 1,272 bag up chips. Day 2 will therefore see a combined filed of 2,030 resume play.
Some of the notables who played Day 1b and managed to make it through include Joseph McKeehen, Maurice Hawkins, Kitty Kuo, Matt Affleck, Michael Tureniec, Bruno Politano, Scott Davies and Aditya Agarwal.
Others weren’t so lucky, and among those that didn’t make it to the end and failed to bag chips were Pierre Neuville, Martin Kabrhel, Jackie Glazier, Allen Kessler, Randy Lew, and Antonio Esfandiari, who registered at the very last minute in an attempt to spin up his starting stack.
Esfandiari announced his arrival at the table by saying, “You’ve been sitting here working hard all day, and I was out goofing around.” He promptly ran jacks into a set of sevens to bust. Another very late entrant was Barny Boatman, but his opening salvo didn’t quite have the same enthusiasm, as he remarked with some surprise, “I didn’t realise the blinds would be so high.”
Play resumes Monday at the slightly later time of 11 a.m. and is scheduled to play another 10 one-hour levels as this five-day event continues its march. The PokerNews Live Reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the latest exclusive updates.
For a full Day 2 seat draw, visit WSOP.com.
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
320,200 | |
|
298,000
268,200
|
268,200 |
|
||
|
|
233,000
233,000
|
233,000 |
|
231,700 | |
|
|
185,000
185,000
|
185,000 |
|
|
183,600
183,600
|
183,600 |
|
|
176,200
176,200
|
176,200 |
|
160,400
160,400
|
160,400 |
|
158,200
158,200
|
158,200 |
|
|
||
|
157,600
157,600
|
157,600 |
|
154,600
87,000
|
87,000 |
|
151,700
151,700
|
151,700 |
|
|
149,600
149,600
|
149,600 |
|
149,400
29,400
|
29,400 |
|
|
148,100
148,100
|
148,100 |
|
145,000
145,000
|
145,000 |
|
144,200
9,700
|
9,700 |
|
140,300
64,300
|
64,300 |
|
138,800
138,800
|
138,800 |
|
137,000
137,000
|
137,000 |
|
136,500
136,500
|
136,500 |
|
135,400
135,400
|
135,400 |
|
|
||
|
|
135,300
135,300
|
135,300 |
|
133,200
133,200
|
133,200 |
|
||
|
132,300
132,300
|
132,300 |
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
320,200
320,200
|
320,200 |
|
|
231,700
231,700
|
231,700 |
|
115,000
106,000
|
106,000 |
|
|
||
|
114,500
4,500
|
4,500 |
|
103,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
|
||
|
88,000 | |
|
|
||
|
|
43,200
43,200
|
43,200 |
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
They played four more hands before bagging up for the night.
Stay tuned for some headline chip counts and a recap of the day's events before final numbers and chip counts are reconciled, verified, and published.
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Alex Saza, in the hijack, moved all-in for a total of 12,500. The player in the big blind was the only caller.
Alex Saza: 
Opponent: 
The flop was 
, and the turn was the 
. Saza stood from his chair and was getting ready to leave until the dealer slammed the 
on the river. "Oh my God! Oh my God!" Saza started yelling. "This is for my tournament life!"
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
26,500
26,500
|
26,500 |
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
120,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
|
110,000
82,800
|
82,800 |
|
|
76,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
76,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
74,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
|
72,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
71,000
31,500
|
31,500 |
|
44,500
17,500
|
17,500 |
|
29,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
|
||
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Allen Kessler found another one of his premium hands and wagered his entire remaining stack with it. This time, Kessler got a call from Jarrod Lacero and had to wait while the remaining players considered their decisions before folding and leaving them to it.
Kessler was the player at risk with 
. Lacero tabled his 
, and Kessler wanted to know why Lacero had just called with his hand.
The board ran out 
. Kessler was unable to add to his current three WSOP 2017 cashes, with another one pending in THE GIANT.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
62,000
62,000
|
62,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
A player in middle position opened to 2,400. Raffaele Sorrentino, in the hijack, called.
The flop was 
. The raiser bet 2,500, and Sorrentino called. The turn was the 
. The player in middle position continued for 6,500, and Sorrentino stuck around with a call. The 
river completed the board, and Sorrentino's opponent bet 12,000. Sorrentino tanked for a minute before responding by moving all in for a total of 33,300. His opponent tank-folded.
Sorrentino showed , and his opponent said, "I had queen-jack. I was open-ended. You want me to call you with queen-high?"
Sorrentino raked in the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
50,000
1,900
|
1,900 |
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Antonio Esfandiari has been eliminated, and Todd Taylor, a bounty hunter from Los Angeles, told us how he hunted down his man to double his own stack.
Taylor and Esfandiari saw a flop together, and it came queen-high with a seven and another low card. Esfandiari tried to talk to his pursuer to throw him off the scent, asking what Taylor’s kicker was. Taylor kept tight-lipped, though, and Esfandiari eventually called with a pair of Jacks.
Taylor showed pocket sevens for a flopped set that held to put the cuffs on the Magician.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
Busted | |
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