Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
2017 World Series of Poker
Event #63: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Players Left 1 / 1,750
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Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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31,000
27,500
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27,500 |
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21,000
14,000
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14,000 |
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11,000
2,500
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2,500 |
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9,500 | |
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5,000 | |
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5,000 | |
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4,000 | |
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3,500 | |
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
A player made it 650 and got four callers, including Mike Souza in the big blind.
The flop came 
and the small blind checked, Souza checked and a player bet 2,000. It folded to Souza who moved all in for around 8,000 and he was called.
Souza: 
Opponent: 
The turn was a 
and river an 
to give the opponent a straight and eliminate Souza.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Marvin Rettenmaier just entered the tournament this level and raised to 900, an opponent moved all in from behind for 3,800, and Rettenmaier called.
Rettenmaier: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
and Rettenmaier eliminated his opponent.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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14,000
14,000
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14,000 |
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Players are on a 90-minute dinner break and will return to play four more levels about 7:19 p.m.
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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69,000
69,000
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69,000 |
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52,000
52,000
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52,000 |
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33,500
8,000
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8,000 |
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31,000
10,000
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10,000 |
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28,000
9,000
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9,000 |
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27,000
18,000
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18,000 |
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24,000
3,000
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3,000 |
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18,000
18,000
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18,000 |
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17,700
17,700
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17,700 |
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12,000
10,000
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10,000 |
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11,000
11,000
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11,000 |
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7,000
4,000
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4,000 |
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7,000
300
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300 |
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6,300
2,800
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2,800 |
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6,000
6,000
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6,000 |
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Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 75
Level 7
: 250/500, 75 ante
Loni Harwood joined the field late and is already over double starting stack.
Harwood raised to 1,100 and was called by one opponent. Another player moved all in, and Harwood pushed her stack all in, as well. The middle player folded, and it was heads-up.
Harwood: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
, and Harwood inherited some chips and sent her opponent to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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14,000
14,000
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14,000 |
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Level 7
: 250/500, 75 ante
With Monte Carlo Championship winner Raffaele Sorrentino and high-stakes regulars Sergi Reixach, Jaoa Vieira, and Jason Les at the table, former poker reporter Marc Convey has anything but an easy table. Still, he doesn't have a great deal to worry about, as he's top dog with a massive stack of 65,000 chips in front of him.
Convey relayed a hand that was largely to credit for his fortunate situation, and it was an amazing one. It might be the hand of the tournament, and it's only Day 1.
A player in middle position opened the action with a raise to 900. Convey, seated in the hijack, three-bet to 2,600. His three neighbors — the cutoff, button, and small blind — all shoved in rapid succession. Vieira folded in the big blind, and action was on Convey.
Convey held 
and needed about six seconds to make up his mind. He glanced at the stacks that had just been shoved to the middle and he called as soon as he found out he had the biggest of them all, covering everyone by about 10,000.
Convey figured that one of them might have aces and hoped it was one of the smaller ones. He turned out to be right. Partially.
All the cards were tabled, and Convey was not up against just a single pair of aces; two of his opponents had aces! One of them showed 
, and the other showed 
. The third opponent was trailing all of them but had a big hand of his own, showing 
.
Kings versus queens versus aces versus aces — a hand you usually only see in bad poker movies where the script writer doesn't know much more about the game than the basics. But here it was, live in the flesh, at the biggest poker tournament in the world: the World Series of Poker.
As if the situation wasn't crazy enough just yet, the board upped the ante.
The flop came 
, improving both the queens and Convey with the kings. Runner-runner straight for the aces and runner-runner flush for one of them was still a possibility, and the case queen hitting the board wasn't out of the realm of possibility either.
The 
hit the turn, leaving just a single out in the deck to ruin Convey's amazing hand. The last queen stayed in the deck. Instead, the 
hit, giving Convey quads.
Three players hit the rail. All Convey had to do was stack his newfound chips. That took him some time though, as the pot was huge.
"I honestly would've thought about folding," Convey said, "if one of them had a bigger stack."
"I was pretty sure one of them had aces," Convey continued, "I just wished it was one of the smaller stacks."
With Convey covering all of them by some margin, that didn't happen. And you can bet that Convey has no regrets now. The tournament has just started, the money is levels away, but the man from London already has an anecdote to tell for years.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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65,000 |
