Event #67: $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed High Roller Day 1 | 2017 World Series of Poker

07-05-2017 19:37 UTC-8

Players are Still Registering

Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

Registration for this event remains open until the start of Day 2, and several players are taking advantage of that. Sam Trickett, Matt Glantz, and Dan Smith all skipped the first five levels and just showed up very recently to take their seats with fresh stacks on separate tables.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dan Smith	125,000 125,000	125,000

Matt Glantz	125,000 125,000	125,000

Sam Trickett	124,000 124,000	124,000

Tags: Dan Smith Matt Glantz Sam Trickett

Level: 6

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 0

07-05-2017 19:35 UTC-8

Tollerene Back in Action

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 400/800, 0 ante

Micah Smith limped in, and Ben Tollerene raised to 3,000 in the cutoff. Ajay Chabra three-bet the pot to 12,800 on the button, and the action folded back to Tollerene, who called.

On the flop, Tollerene checked, and Chabra bet the pot. Tollerene check-raisee all in for his last 46,200, Chabra called, and the cards were tabled.

Ben Tollerene: (flush)
Ajay Chabra: (top set)

Neither the turn nor the river paired the board, and Tollerene doubled.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ben Tollerene	120,000 85,500	85,500

Tags: Ajay Chabra Ben Tollerene Micah Smith

07-05-2017 19:22 UTC-8

Lunkin Squashes Benyamine

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Level 5 : 400/800, 0 ante

On the turn of a board, Vitaly Lunkin bet 26,000, and David Benyamine called, leaving himself with less than 1,000.

The river completed the board, and Lunkin tossed out a yellow T-1,000 chip, putting Benyamine to the test. Benyamine called and mucked when Lunkin tabled .

Player	Chips	Progress
Vitaly Lunkin	185,000 13,000	13,000

David Benyamine	Busted

Tags: David Benyamine Vitaly Lunkin

07-05-2017 19:16 UTC-8

Calderaro and Parvizi Entertain the Table

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 400/800, 0 ante

There was plenty of laughter to hear from Yevgeniy Timoshenko and JC Tran, and plenty of banter emerged on their table between James Calderaro and Iraj Parvizi. Apparently, the latter had just doubled through the former in a big pot, and Calderaro joked, "I don't want to say I got it in in a bad way. It was a shit way."

"You want to finish me off?" Calderaro asked and raised the next hand to 2,800. Parvizi called on the button, and the flop came . Calderaro bet 3,000, and Parvizi called. "I check, I can't beat the nuts," Calderaro announced before the appeared on the turn. Parvizi checked back, and the river completed the board. Calderaro bet 5,000, and Parvizi folded, before Calderaro said, "I had a flush draw," while flashing .

The outcome? Parvizi is among the chip leaders while Calderaro dropped well below the starting stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Iraj Parvizi	295,000 180,000	180,000
James Calderaro	80,000 85,000	85,000

Tags: Iraj Parvizi James Calderaro

07-05-2017 19:06 UTC-8

Tollerene Runs Bad

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 400/800, 0 ante

The stack of Ben Tollerene keeps shrinking, and he was just involved in a five-way hand that also included Micah Smith and Quan Zhou. The latter bet the flop for 6,000 from the big blind, and Tollerene was the only caller. Both then checked the turn and river.

Tollerene announced a flush and showed , but it was no good against Zhou's turned full house with .

Player	Chips	Progress
Quan Zhou	155,000 10,000	10,000
Micah Smith	140,000 30,000	30,000
Ben Tollerene	34,500 20,500	20,500

Tags: Ben Tollerene Micah Smith Quan Zhou

07-05-2017 19:02 UTC-8

Chop it Up

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 400/800, 0 ante

On a four-way flop of , Zorlu Er bet 8,000 from the button, and Jan-Peter Jachtmann check-raised to 25,000 from the small blind. That forced out Anthony Zinno, in the big blind, and Michael Huntress, under the gun, before Er raised the pot. Jachtmann moved all in, and Er called.

Jan-Peter Jachtmann:
Zorlu Er:

Both players had flopped a full house, and neither one had a redraw to a better hand, having blocked each other's outs. Jachtmann shrugged and smiled while the meaningless turn and river completed the board.

Jachtmann dropped to just below the starting stack, while Er is back to exactly the starting stack after the hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Zorlu Er	125,000 10,000	10,000
Jan-Peter Jachtmann	115,000 25,000	25,000

Tags: Anthony Zinno Jan-Peter Jachtmann Michael Huntress Zorlu Er

07-05-2017 18:58 UTC-8

A Whole Lot of Counts

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 400/800, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jan Collado	290,000 10,000	10,000
Tommy Le	275,000 30,000	30,000

Alexey Rybin	255,000 25,000	25,000
Ben Lamb	225,000 85,000	85,000

Sean Winter	200,000 70,000	70,000
Jason Gray	190,000 10,000	10,000
Cliff Josephy	180,000 27,000	27,000

James Calderaro	165,000 40,000	40,000

Ismael Bojang	150,000 25,000	25,000

Noah Schwartz	150,000 45,000	45,000

Ashly Butler	145,000
Quan Zhou	145,000 17,000	17,000
Norbert Szecsi	135,000 30,000	30,000

Ognjen Sekularac	130,000 130,000	130,000
Vivian Saliba	130,000 40,000	40,000

JC Tran	130,000 5,000	5,000

Jyri Merivirta	122,000 122,000	122,000
Connor Drinan	115,000 60,000	60,000

Chance Kornuth	96,000 24,000	24,000

Anthony Zinno	95,000 13,000	13,000

Mohsin Charania	95,000 30,000	30,000

Lee Hon Cheong	70,000 45,000	45,000
Brandon Shack-Harris	52,000 18,000	18,000

Josh Arieh	50,000 20,000	20,000

George Wolff	14,000 48,000	48,000

07-05-2017 18:46 UTC-8

Late Arrivals During the Break

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Level 5 : 400/800, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
James Calderaro	125,000

JC Tran	125,000

Anton Morgenstern	125,000
Phil Galfond	125,000

07-05-2017 18:41 UTC-8

Romanello Takes a Hit

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Level 5 : 400/800, 0 ante

With about 50,000 brewing in the pot on a board, Roberto Romanello bet 20,400 into his heads-up opponent. His opponent quickly raised, making it 55,000, and Romanello slid his cards into the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Roberto Romanello	62,000 41,000	41,000

Tags: Roberto Romanello