Event #6: High Roller for One Drop - $111,111 No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2017 World Series of Poker

06-03-2017 00:59 UTC-7

Martin Jacobson Leads The Way After Day 1

Mickey Doft

Level 8 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Event #6: High Roller for One Drop - $111,111 No-Limit Hold'em drew 119 entries on Day 1. After eight levels of play, 79 players remain and 2014 Main Event champion Martin Jacobson leads the way into Day 2 with 1,677,000, followed by Charlie Carrel with 1,624,000 and Doug Polk with 1,522,000.

The day saw many faces claim the top spot of the leaderboard, the first being Ari Engel. In the early to mid stages of the day, Engel won several sizable pots against Chris Johnson before making Johnson the first elimination of the day. Several more players started to fall afterward, mainly by the hands of Leon Tsoukernik who spent about two levels leading the pack. Tsoukernik soon gave way to others as Rainer Kempe, Doug Polk and Dietrich Fast each spent time as chip leader. However, it was a late surge from Jacobson that put him in pole position for Day 2.

Several past One Drop champions took to the felt today and enjoyed mixed results. Big One for One Drop champions Antonio Esfandiari (905,000) and Dan Colman (377,000) survived, while past One Drop High Roller champions Fedor Holz and Anthony Gregg were among those who did not make it to Day 2.

Registration will remain open for the first two levels on Saturday and should close around 4:20 pm. Play resumes at 2:00 and the schedule for the day calls for another eight levels.

Below is the Day 2 table and seat draw:

Tournament Room	Tables	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Brasilia	700	3	Bryn Kenney	United States	740,000	61
Brasilia	700	4	Dominik Nitsche	Germany	1,179,000	98
Brasilia	700	5	Seth Davies	United States	456,0000	38
Brasilia	700	6	Dan Shak	United States	739,000	61
Brasilia	700	7	Tobias Ziegler	United States	704,000	58

Brasilia	701	1	Ankush Mandavia	United States	224,000	18
Brasilia	701	2	Dan Colman	United States	377,000	31
Brasilia	701	3	Igor Kurganov	Russia	650,000	54
Brasilia	701	4	Moritz Dietrich	Austria	578,000	48
Brasilia	701	5	Antonio Esfandiari	United States	905,000	75

Brasilia	702	2	John Juanda	Indonesia	574,000	48
Brasilia	702	4	Sam Soverel	United States	242,000	20
Brasilia	702	5	Manig Loeser	Germany	217,000	18
Brasilia	702	7	Charlie Carrel	United Kingdom	1,624,000	135
Brasilia	702	8	Adrian Mateos	Spain	1,210,000	101

Brasilia	703	1	Steffen Schillhabel	Germany	371,000	31
Brasilia	703	5	Christian Christner	Germany	946,000	79
Brasilia	703	6	Ari Engel	Canada	479,000	40
Brasilia	703	7	John Morgan	United States	659,000	55
Brasilia	703	8	Nick Schulman	United States	799,000	66

Brasilia	704	1	James Chen	Taiwan	1,013,000	84
Brasilia	704	3	Felipe Ramos	Brazil	732,000	61
Brasilia	704	4	Niall Farrell	United Kingdom	584,000	48
Brasilia	704	6	Jake Schindler	United States	877,000	73
Brasilia	704	8	Scott Seiver	United States	1,199,000	100

Brasilia	705	2	Michael Kamran	United States	685,000	57
Brasilia	705	4	Ivab Luca	Argentina	774,000	64
Brasilia	705	5	Xuming Qi	China	1,137,000	95
Brasilia	705	7	Andrew Lichtenberger	United States	210,000	17
Brasilia	705	8	Jason Mercier	United States	589,000	49

Brasilia	706	1	Rainer Kempe	Germany	1,271,000	106
Brasilia	706	2	Erik Seidel	United States	339,000	28
Brasilia	706	3	Martin Finger	Germany	1,178,000	98
Brasilia	706	6	Robert Mizrachi	United States	227,000	19
Brasilia	706	7	Carl Leckner	United States	651,000	54
Brasilia	706	8	Bertrand Grospellier	France	888,000	74

Brasilia	707	1	Oleksii Khoroshenin	Ukraine	306,000	25
Brasilia	707	2	Chris Moore	United States	364,000	30
Brasilia	707	3	Haralabos Voulgaris	Canada	1,140,000	95
Brasilia	707	6	Cary Katz	United States	1,022,000	85
Brasilia	707	7	Isaac Haxton	United States	676,000	56

Brasilia	708	2	Phil Hellmuth	United States	617,000	51
Brasilia	708	3	Dario Sammartino	Italy	1,009,000	84
Brasilia	708	4	Blake Bohn	United States	489,000	40
Brasilia	708	5	Dan Smith	United States	1,360,000	113
Brasilia	708	7	Sam Stein	United States	601,000	50

Brasilia	709	1	Ryan Riess	United States	639,000	53
Brasilia	709	2	Lawrence Greenberg	United States	533,000	44
Brasilia	709	5	Sean Winter	United States	391,000	33
Brasilia	709	7	Anthony Zinno	United States	297,000	25
Brasilia	709	8	Jason Les	United States	238,000	20

Brasilia	710	1	Dietrich Fast	Germany	1,019,000	85
Brasilia	710	3	Martin Jacobson	Sweden	1,677,000	140
Brasilia	710	5	Andrew Robl	United States	497,000	41
Brasilia	710	7	Ben Tollerene	United States	546,000	46

Brasilia	711	1	Ben Sulsky	United States	1,018,000	85
Brasilia	711	2	Jason Koon	United States	633,000	53
Brasilia	711	3	Phil Galfond	United States	729,000	61
Brasilia	711	4	Michael Rosenfeld	United States	808,000	67
Brasilia	711	6	Paul Volpe	United States	844,000	70
Brasilia	711	7	Steffen Sontheimer	Germany	559,000	47

Brasilia	712	2	Doug Polk	United States	1,522,000	127
Brasilia	712	3	Daniel Negreanu	Canada	451,000	38
Brasilia	712	5	Connor Drinan	United States	662,000	55
Brasilia	712	6	Sergio Aido	Spain	801,000	67
Brasilia	712	7	Koray Aldemir	Germany	1,034,000	86
Brasilia	712	8	Jack Salter	United Kingdom	942,000	79

Brasilia	713	1	Brandon Steven	United States	512,000	43
Brasilia	713	3	Simon Lam	United States	918,000	77
Brasilia	713	4	Lauren Roberts	United States	266,000	22
Brasilia	713	5	Jonathan Jaffe	United States	340,000	28
Brasilia	713	6	Mustapha Kanit	Italy	661,000	55
Brasilia	713	8	Brian Rast	United States	1,456,000	121

Brasilia	714	1	David Peters	United States	353,000	29
Brasilia	714	2	Martin Kabrhel	Czech Republic	697,000	58
Brasilia	714	5	Tom Marchese	United States	970,000	81
Brasilia	714	6	Nick Petrangelo	United States	593,000	49
Brasilia	714	7	Leon Tsoukernik	Czech Republic	1,325,000	110
Brasilia	714	8	Antanas Guoga	Lithuania	655,000	55

Be sure to check back here then for live updates on all of the action.

06-02-2017 23:58 UTC-7

Engel Doubles Smith

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Level 8 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

We missed the action before the flop but were there to witness what happened post.

From the small blind, Ari Engel checked on a board of with already roughly 260,000 in the middle. Big blind Dan Smith bet 95,000 and Engel tanked for a bit. He eventually slid forward a small tower of chips with some white 100,000-chips in it. Smith moved in for slightly more than that and Engel called.

Dan Smith:
Ari Engel:

Smith was at risk for his last 485,000 but had the better of it. The on the turn and on the river were blanks and Smith doubled up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dan Smith	1,230,000	730,000
Ari Engel	595,000	-675,000

Tags: Ari Engel Dan Smith

06-02-2017 23:44 UTC-7

Vogelsang Eliminated

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Level 8 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Christoph Vogelsang, who won the Super High Roller Bowl a couple of days ago for $6,000,000, has just been eliminated.

As we arrived, he was already getting up to make his departure. Former table mate Koray Aldemir was kind enough to fill us in on the details.

Action folded to Tom Marchese in the small blind and he pushed all in to put Vogelsang to the test. The latter called for his last 150,000 with and was ahead against Marchese's . Marchese, however, made a flush and Vogelsang said his goodbyes.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tom Marchese	1,020,000	150,000
Christoph Vogelsang	Busted

Tags: Christoph Vogelsang Tom Marchese

06-02-2017 23:06 UTC-7

Polk the First to Cross 2 Million

Mickey Doft

Level 7 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Doug Polk raised from the button and Tobias Ziegler called from the big blind.

The flop came down and Ziegler checked to Polk who continued for 18,000. Zeigler called.

The turn was the and Ziegler led for 60,000. After about 60 seconds, Polk called.

The river was the and Ziegler bet 135,000. Polk raised all in and Ziegler quickly folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Doug Polk	2,100,000	270,000
Tobias Ziegler	300,000	-180,000

Tags: Doug Polk Tobias Ziegler

06-02-2017 22:56 UTC-7

Dietrich Fast Doubles Through Leon Tsoukernik

Mickey Doft

Level 7 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Dietrich Fast raised to 20,000 from under the gun, Jonathan Jaffe three-bet to 66,000 from the button, Leon Tsoukernik called from the big blind, Fast four-bet to 220,000, Jaffe folded, and Tsoukernik called.

The flop came down and Tsoukernik shoved for effectively 520,000-ish. Fast called immediately with for top set of kings, while Tsoukernik tabled for a pair of sevens with a flush draw.

The turn gave Tsoukernik outs to a straight as well, but the river was no help and locked up the double for Fast.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dietrich Fast	1,560,000	840,000
Leon Tsoukernik	745,000	-725,000

06-02-2017 22:23 UTC-7

Chance Kornuth Eliminated by Stefan Schillhabel

Mickey Doft

Level 7 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Just before the end of Level 6, Stefan Schillhabel raised to 13,500 from middle position and Sam Stein called from the button. Chance Kornuth three-bet shoved from the small blind for about 80,000, Schillhabel called and Stein folded.

Schillhabel:
Kornuth:

The flop came down , giving Schillhabel a set of queens. The turn was the , giving Kornuth the lead with an ace-high straight. However, the river delivered the to give Schillhabel queens full of tens to eliminate Kornuth.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stefan Schillhabel	498,000	68,000
Chance Kornuth	Busted

Tags: Chance Kornuth Sam Stein Stefan Schillhabel

06-02-2017 21:35 UTC-7

Andrew Lichtenberger Eliminated by Jonathan Jaffe

Mickey Doft

Level 6 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Leon Tsoukernik raised to 18,000 from under the gun, Jonathan Jaffe three-bet to 50,000 from the button, Andrew Lichtenberger four-bet to 112,000 from the big blind, Tsoukernik folded, Jaffe five-bet jammed for effectively 450,000-ish and Lichtenberger called all in.

Jaffe:
Lichtenberger:

The board ran out , giving Jaffe trip jacks to win the pot and eliminate Lichtenberger.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jonathan Jaffe	1,200,000	500,000
Andrew Lichtenberger	Busted

Tags: Andrew Lichtenberger Jonathan Jaffe Leon Tsoukernik

06-02-2017 21:28 UTC-7

Finger Busts Rosenfeld

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Level 6 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

On a flop of , from under the gun, Michael Rosenfeld pushed all in for his last 43,000. Martin Finger called from the hijack, Tom Marchese folded from the button.

Michael Rosenfeld:
Martin Finger:

The on the turn gave Rosenfeld 2 outs, but the on the river wasn't one of the cards he was looking for.

Player	Chips	Progress
Martin Finger	1,040,000	140,000
Michael Rosenfeld	Busted

Tags: Martin Finger Michael Rosenfeld

06-02-2017 20:14 UTC-7

Leon Tsoukernik Pulls Ahead

Mickey Doft

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

Picking up the action after the turn of a board that read with about 100,000 in the pot, action was on Erik Seidel in the big blind, tanking for his remaining 170,000-ish after being set all in by Leon Tsoukernik on the button. After a little while mulling it over, Seidel called all in.

Tsoukernik tabled for trip aces and had Seidel's drawing dead. The river was the inconsequential and Tsoukernik scored the elimination.

In the following hand, Jonathan Jaffe raised to 13,000 from under the gun and Tsoukernik three-bet to 40,000 from the cutoff. Jaffe called and the flop came down .

Jaffe checked, Tsoukernik bet 60,000, Jaffe called, and the turn was the . Jaffe checked again and Tsoukernik bet effectively 620,000. After mulling it over for about 45 seconds, Jaffe folded. Tsoukernik showed .

Player	Chips	Progress
Leon Tsoukernik	1,545,000	345,000
Jonathan Jaffe	620,000	-150,000
Erik Seidel	Busted

Tags: Erik Seidel Jonathan Jaffe Leon Tsoukernik

06-02-2017 18:22 UTC-7

Defending Champion Fedor Holz Eliminated by Antonio Esfandiari

Mickey Doft

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

Defending champion Fedor Holz was recently eliminated by Antonio Esfandiari, and tablemate Byron Kaverman relayed the details to us.

Holz raised from the button, Esfandiari called from the small blind, and the flop fell with two clubs. Esfandiari checked, Holz bet, Esfandiari check-raised, and Holz called. The turn was the and Esfandiari bet again. Holz called to see a river where Esfandiari bet effectively 200,000.