PokerNews Impromptu: Aaron Massey Celebrates His Birthday
Yesterday Aaron Massey celebrated his 30th birthday while playing Day 1 of Event #35: $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold'em. Find out what he did to celebrate and his plans coming into Day 2.
Yesterday Aaron Massey celebrated his 30th birthday while playing Day 1 of Event #35: $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold'em. Find out what he did to celebrate and his plans coming into Day 2.
Nível: 11
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Welcome back to the 2014 World Series of Poker Event #35: $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold'em. Yesterday this tournament attracted 550 of the best players in the world, which created a prize pool of $2,585,000. Today, 170 of those players will return for 10 more one-hour levels of play, during which time they hope to crack the top 56 players to make the money with the hope of making it all the way to the $633,341 first-place prize.
The man best positioned to make a run at it is none other than 2012 WSOP $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop runner-up Sam Trickett, who will begin today as the chip leader with 172,000. Josh Arieh (151,200), Dan Smith (144,400), Steven Kerr (123,900), and Fred Kulikowski (122,500) round out the top five big stacks.
Others returning today include Jeff Madsen (114,500), Chris Tryba (111,900), Sorel Mizzi (84,000), Jason Somerville (78,200), Dan Shak (77,000), Mike “Timex” McDonald (51,000), Vanessa Selbst (39,500), Igor Kurganov (39,200), Jennifer Tilly (36,200), Philipp Gruissem (28,700), John Juanda (25,200), and Jason Mercier (18,200).
Day 2 action is set to get underway at 1 p.m. local time, which is about an hour from now. Stay tuned as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team brings you all the latest and greatest from Event #35: $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold'em.
Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
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424 | 1 | Mayu Roca Uribe | 9,600 |
424 | 2 | Anton Smirnov | 12,000 |
424 | 3 | Nick Schulman | 34,600 |
424 | 4 | Olivier Busquet | 27,100 |
424 | 5 | Massimo Mosele | 33,700 |
424 | 6 | Dan Heimiller | 18,400 |
424 | 7 | Nick Petrangelo | 44,000 |
424 | 8 | Aaron Massey | 20,100 |
425 | 1 | Mike McDonald | 52,100 |
425 | 2 | --Did Not Report-- | 53,700 |
425 | 3 | Kathy Saraf | 15,800 |
425 | 4 | Darren Rabinowitz | 11,700 |
425 | 5 | Kirill Rabtsov | 50,500 |
425 | 6 | Elia Ahmadian | 18,600 |
425 | 7 | Scott Zakheim | 13,900 |
425 | 8 | James Taylor | 86,500 |
426 | 1 | Joseph McKeehen | 10,100 |
426 | 2 | Matt Vengrin | 58,100 |
426 | 3 | Darryl Ronconi | 77,000 |
426 | 4 | Fabian Quoss | 10,600 |
426 | 5 | Hunter Frey | 29,000 |
426 | 6 | Vasil Medarov | 29,300 |
426 | 7 | Daniel Weinman | 26,300 |
426 | 8 | Michael Mizrachi | 13,600 |
427 | 1 | Bryan Pimlott | 36,200 |
427 | 2 | Giuseppe Pantaleo | 87,100 |
427 | 3 | Sorel Mizzi | 84,000 |
427 | 4 | Russell Rosenblum | 16,300 |
427 | 5 | Vanessa Selbst | 39,500 |
427 | 6 | Stan Jablonski | 19,400 |
427 | 7 | Ardit Kurshumi | 65,300 |
427 | 8 | Jonathan Duhamel | 45,300 |
428 | 1 | Daniel Strelitz | 63,300 |
428 | 2 | Kristina Holst | 41,000 |
428 | 3 | Tony Cousineau | 48,800 |
428 | 4 | Isidro Sandoval | 11,600 |
428 | 5 | Ankush Mandavia | 14,100 |
428 | 6 | Michael Hill | 24,300 |
428 | 7 | Thomas Lutz | 38,500 |
428 | 8 | Daniel Buzgon | 33,400 |
429 | 1 | Michael Ferrell | 50,100 |
429 | 2 | Joseph Melancon | 60,800 |
429 | 3 | Charles Chattha | 9,500 |
429 | 4 | Thomas Paul | 58,900 |
429 | 5 | Justin Kindred | 54,400 |
429 | 6 | Justin Conley | 78,300 |
429 | 7 | Timo Pfutzenreuter | 101,500 |
429 | 8 | Kyle Welsh | 69,900 |
430 | 1 | --empty-- | -- |
430 | 2 | Jason Somerville | 78,200 |
430 | 3 | Russell Thomas | 32,300 |
430 | 4 | Hyoung Chae | 15,700 |
430 | 5 | --Did Not Report-- | 22,600 |
430 | 6 | Steven Watts | 38,400 |
430 | 7 | Sergio Aidoespina | 55,700 |
430 | 8 | Mihails Morozovs | 44,000 |
431 | 1 | Paolo Compagno | 85,500 |
431 | 2 | Alexander Venovski | 14,900 |
431 | 3 | Brandon Meyers | 39,700 |
431 | 4 | Yuri Dzivielevski | 62,100 |
431 | 5 | Matt Marafioti | 30,600 |
431 | 6 | Brian Yoon | 69,000 |
431 | 7 | Craig McCorkell | 39,500 |
431 | 8 | Ronit Chamani | 22,900 |
432 | 1 | Sam Trickett | 172,000 |
432 | 2 | Blake Kelso | 10,000 |
432 | 3 | Yong Lu | 19,900 |
432 | 4 | Jeremy Menard | 20,500 |
432 | 5 | Erwann Pecheux | 86,200 |
432 | 6 | Jeffrey Schnettler | 10,400 |
432 | 7 | Ryan Franklin | 14,400 |
432 | 8 | Kenna James | 9,800 |
433 | 1 | Fred Kulikowski | 122,500 |
433 | 2 | Amanda Musumeci | 39,400 |
433 | 3 | Michael Rocco | 109,200 |
433 | 4 | Kunal Patel | 24,200 |
433 | 5 | Greg Ostrander | 48,000 |
433 | 6 | Steven Levy | 58,500 |
433 | 7 | David Singontiko | 78,900 |
433 | 8 | George Wong | 83,000 |
434 | 1 | Eugene Todd | 29,900 |
434 | 2 | Dan Shak | 77,000 |
434 | 3 | Kyle Bowker | 35,600 |
434 | 4 | Josh Arieh | 151,200 |
434 | 5 | Joshua Bergman | 119,300 |
434 | 6 | Jon Turner | 25,500 |
434 | 7 | Leo Wolpert | 66,300 |
434 | 8 | Senh Ung | 35,300 |
435 | 1 | Kevin MacPhee | 65,600 |
435 | 2 | David Pham | 80,200 |
435 | 3 | Fabrice Touil | 57,300 |
435 | 4 | Eric Froehlich | 37,200 |
435 | 5 | Brent Wheeler | 63,900 |
435 | 6 | Ravi Raghavan | 65,400 |
435 | 7 | Chris Moore | 28,900 |
435 | 8 | Stephen Graner | 18,700 |
436 | 1 | --empty-- | -- |
436 | 2 | --Did Not Report-- | 44,500 |
436 | 3 | Dmitry Vitkind | 48,000 |
436 | 4 | Chamath Palihapitiya | 36,700 |
436 | 5 | Mustapha Kanit | 77,500 |
436 | 6 | Ludovic Riehl | 31,400 |
436 | 7 | Chou Chou | 48,000 |
436 | 8 | Nam Le | 46,500 |
437 | 1 | Judd Halenza | 30,700 |
437 | 2 | Jacob Bazeley | 24,600 |
437 | 3 | Richard Woodall | 40,700 |
437 | 4 | Matthew Davenport | 110,500 |
437 | 5 | Dan Smith | 144,400 |
437 | 6 | Brock Parker | 30,900 |
437 | 7 | Sylvain Loosli | 76,800 |
437 | 8 | Mark Teltscher | 17,200 |
438 | 1 | Rock Cloutier | 69,700 |
438 | 2 | David Fhima | 48,500 |
438 | 3 | Jason Wheeler | 18,700 |
438 | 4 | Daniel Engels | 64,700 |
438 | 5 | Isaac Baron | 9,500 |
438 | 6 | Pratyush Buddiga | 30,800 |
438 | 7 | Josue Sauvageau | 79,500 |
438 | 8 | Allen Kessler | 33,700 |
439 | 1 | Rumen Nanev | 29,400 |
439 | 2 | Jim Collopy | 86,100 |
439 | 3 | --empty-- | -- |
439 | 4 | Ben Warrington | 28,300 |
439 | 5 | Victor Shuchleis | 103,500 |
439 | 6 | Benjamin Pollak | 31,300 |
439 | 7 | Joey Weissman | 11,000 |
439 | 8 | Dan O'Brien | 55,100 |
440 | 1 | Nick Grippo | 19,200 |
440 | 2 | Jeremy Kottler | 94,100 |
440 | 3 | Konstantin Tolokno | 37,700 |
440 | 4 | Gennady Kalin | 52,000 |
440 | 5 | Dario Sammartino | 22,100 |
440 | 6 | Noah Vaillancourt | 119,000 |
440 | 7 | Bastian Fischer | 56,300 |
440 | 8 | Jennifer Tilly | 36,200 |
441 | 1 | Danyel Boyciyan | 33,100 |
441 | 2 | Griffin Benger | 15,000 |
441 | 3 | David Peters | 19,400 |
441 | 4 | Nick Rampone | 74,700 |
441 | 5 | Dani Stern | 71,000 |
441 | 6 | Zach Clark | 11,400 |
441 | 7 | Jeff Madsen | 114,500 |
441 | 8 | James Mackey | 19,100 |
442 | 1 | Scott Baumstein | 56,100 |
442 | 2 | Russell Crane | 101,500 |
442 | 3 | Timothy Adams | 69,600 |
442 | 4 | Sam Stein | 27,500 |
442 | 5 | John Juanda | 85,200 |
442 | 6 | Christopher Tryba | 111,900 |
442 | 7 | Jonathan [Removed:250] | 33,300 |
442 | 8 | Steven Silverman | 43,200 |
443 | 1 | Steven Lake | 33,600 |
443 | 2 | Jason Mercier | 18,200 |
443 | 3 | Jose Garcia | 67,300 |
443 | 4 | Pierre Peretti | 19,800 |
443 | 5 | Micah Raskin | 41,000 |
443 | 6 | Philipp Gruissem | 28,700 |
443 | 7 | Sebastien Didier | 18,300 |
443 | 8 | --empty-- | -- |
444 | 1 | --empty-- | -- |
444 | 2 | Chris Johnson | 47,600 |
444 | 3 | Heinz Kamutzki | 53,300 |
444 | 4 | Igor Kurganov | 39,200 |
444 | 5 | Steven Kerr | 123,900 |
444 | 6 | Maurice Hawkins | 60,400 |
444 | 7 | Stephen Chidwick | 47,600 |
444 | 8 | Eric Baldwin | 52,900 |
445 | 1 | Grayson Ramage | 61,200 |
445 | 2 | Taylor Paur | 30,000 |
445 | 3 | Rene Angelil | 31,800 |
445 | 4 | Zo Karim | 77,700 |
445 | 5 | Tomer Lidor | 86,900 |
445 | 6 | Afshin Majidi | 59,100 |
445 | 7 | Pierre Naim | 40,000 |
445 | 8 | --empty-- | -- |
Event #35: $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold'em
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