Mark Wilds had raised from middle position and Steven Firestone three-bet all in from the small blind. Wilds made the call and Firestone was at risk.
Firestone:
Wilds:
"I thought I could get away with it," Firestone said as the dealer delivered the board of . Neither player connected with the community cards, and the ace-high of Wilds won the pot, sending Firestone to the cashier to collect $13,953 for his result.
Shortly after getting down to three tables, Robert Georato moved all in for 75,000 over the top of an open raise from Justin Conley. Conley made the call with and faced . Neither queen nor ten showed up on the board, instead Conley even had the nut flush draw as well.
In the last hand before the dinner break, according to Vinny Pahuja, he and Barry Greenstein were involved in a very large pot.
Pahuja stated, on a flop of , Greenstein raised a 10,000 bet from Pahuja to 35,000. Pahuja then three-bet shoved all in and Greenstein made the call for his tournament life.
Pahuja:
Greenstein:
Pahuja's pair of nines had faded an open-ended straight flush draw and eliminated Greenstein.
There was about 40,000 in the pot already with the action on the turn and the on the board. The play was heads up between Vinny Pahuja and Barry Greenstein, and Pahuja check-called the 20,000 bet from Greenstein.
The river was the and Greenstein announced he was all in when Pahuja checked. After a few moments, Pahuja tossed a couple chips in to signal a call call, and then mucked when Greenstein showed for trip twos.
We arrived to the table on the turn with the board reading and Thomas Muehloecker had slid out a bet of 16,500. His opponent on the button made the call and the dealer flipped over the final card: the .
Muehloecker led out on the river for 29,000 and his opponent spent a minute counting his chips, removing his hat, rubbing his head, shuffling his stack, and then made the call. Muehloecker turned over for a turned straight and the other player mucked, saying "nice hand."
Evan McNiff is our new chip leader after a huge clash between him and Artem Metalidi. Metalidi raised preflop with and called the three-bet to see a flop. A raising war broke out between the two and McNiff ended up being all in with to improve thanks to a two outer on the turn.
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Jason Johnson is our chip leader for day 2
On the first day, a total of 1,914 players entered Event #44: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em of the 2014 World Series of Poker. Despite many big names taking a shot and hitting the rail early, plenty of familiar faces on the international poker circuit will return to the tables of the Rio's Amazon Room at 1 p.m. Las Vegas time to continue the quest.
Play will resume in Level 12 with the blinds 600/1,200 and an ante of 200 with 212 participants remaining, and the full redraw can be found here. The top 198 spots will get paid at least $2,919 and the coveted gold bracelet will go to the winner along with a top prize of $478,102.
Topping the field thus far is Jason Johnson, who already finished eighth in the record-breaking Millionaire Maker Event #8 this year for $ 211,394.
Only five other players accumulated a six-digit stack after 11 levels of play on Day 1: Louis Laxineta (111,600), Kennii Nguyen (108,000), Ray Foley (105,600), Robert Georato (103,600) and Theo Tran (103,300). Other notables with above average stacks included Randal Flowers (94,400), Jesse Cohen (81,200), Sebastian Saffari (78,700), Thomas Muehloecker (77,600), Nicolas Yunis (72,800), Artem Metalidi (63,900), Victor Ramdin (60,400), Jake Balsiger (60,200), and Barry Greenstein (59,100).
The field is only 14 spots away from the money and bubble play is expected to be reached within the first half an hour of play. Tune into the exclusive PokerNews Live Reporting to find out who makes the cut and who advances one day further on the way to becoming the next WSOP champion.
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. Neither player connected with the community cards, and the ace-high of Wilds won the pot, sending Firestone to the cashier to collect $13,953 for his result.
and faced 
, Greenstein raised a 10,000 bet from Pahuja to 35,000. Pahuja then three-bet shoved all in and Greenstein made the call for his tournament life.
on the board. The play was heads up between Vinny Pahuja and Barry Greenstein, and Pahuja check-called the 20,000 bet from Greenstein.
and Greenstein announced he was all in when Pahuja checked. After a few moments, Pahuja tossed a couple chips in to signal a call call, and then mucked when Greenstein showed 
for trip twos.
and Thomas Muehloecker had slid out a bet of 16,500. His opponent on the button made the call and the dealer flipped over the final card: the 
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for a turned straight and the other player mucked, saying "nice hand."
flop. A raising war broke out between the two and McNiff ended up being all in with 
