After 10 hours of play, twelve players advanced to Day 3 of Event #6: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout. The most well-known of the bunch is Josh Arieh, two-time bracelet winner and former third-place finisher in the Main Event, who has over $6 million in live cashes.
Arieh isn't the only poker millionaire to win his table today, though. Fellow bracelet winners Shawn Busse ($1 million in cashes) and Alex Bolotin ($2.2 million) also advanced, as did well-respected players like Dimitar Danchev ($3.2 million) and Jared Jaffee ($1.6 million). The final 12 will draw seats into two tables of six, combining when 10 players remain. Everyone brings 346,000 to 361,000 into Day 3, with variance due to imbalances in Day 1 tables.
A slew of notable players who failed to take down their tables today: Josh Pollock, Greg Merson, Dutch Boyd, Jordan Cristos, Steve Gross, Christian Harder, Isaac Baron, Mike Matusow, Eugene Katchalov, Jon Aguiar, Joseph Cheong, David "Bakes" Baker, Shannon Shorr, and Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler.
Players will resume the tournament at 1 p.m. tomorrow, so be sure to tune back in to PokerNews for the conclusion of Event #6.
Josh Arieh and Steven Curran saw a flop of and the two would get it all in with Arieh having Curran covered. Curran had but was behind Arieh's . The turn and river came and Arieh advances to the next round.
Jared Jaffee raised on the button, Rupesh Pattni three-bet from the big blind and Jaffee called to see a flop. Pattni check-raised a bet of Jaffee's, who responded with a reraise all in with the bigger stack. Pattni called all in with , leading Jaffee's .
The turn gave Jaffee a seven-high straight and it held up through the river.
Jaffee is the second player to advance to Day 3, which will consist of 12 players.
A self-proclaimed music curator, Scott Vener is the man behind the music of the hit shows Entourage, How To Make It In America and 90210, to name a few.
He is also an avid poker player, securing his first cash of the summer by winning his first table in Event #6: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout. Vener is still alive here in this event, and we caught up with him for a quick chat prior to the restart of Day 2 to talk poker and music.
We know you as the man behind the music on Entourage. Are you involved in the movie that is due out next summer?
Yes. Actually we have three pick-up days that are shooting and the movie will be wrapped but I have already started working on it.
Poker players love the poker scene from series. Is there more poker in the movie?
Not this time. I wish. I was actually in that scene. It was Nick’s [Cassavetes] idea to do that scene.
Did you play poker on the set? Were you even on the set?
I’m not normally on the set. I’m a post-production person, so once they shoot everything I go to work and get involved.
I haven’t actually played as much poker over the last year and a half as I normally do.
Why? Just too busy?
Yeah. I am trying to launch my music app, Musaic. I have been working really hard on it and it’s really exciting. We will be doing an official launch soon.
How did you get involved playing poker?
The truth is I was at a party with a friend of mine and we were drinking. After 2 a.m. you can’t drink anywhere in L.A. and he suggested we go play poker. I didn’t even know there were casinos in L.A. So we went, I bought in for $100 and was hooked ever since. It was soon after that when I started learning the game.
Do you play in any of the infamous Hollywood cash games?
I don’t really play too many big cash games. I just play kind of small. I really like tournament poker more than cash games. So I mostly stick with that.
Steven Geralis just defeated an extremely short-stacked Rick Hollman in a short heads-up match to become the first player to advance to Day 3. He flopped pair of queens with and topped Hollman's holdings.
Big blind Mike Matusow fired 6,000 on the end with the board reading , and button Cody Slaubaugh raised it up to 23,500. Matusow thought for about minute before verbalizing a call. Slaubaugh showed for trips, and Matusow mucked his hand.
We saw Greg Merson get out of his seat and put on his backpack, and when we arrived at Table 440, Douglas Foster was stacking the chips formerly belonging to the 2012 Main Event champ.
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Welcome to PokerNews' coverage of Day 2 of Event #6: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout. A total of 948 players participated in the Day 1 action, creating 120 tables of sit-and-go action. When it was all said and done, there were 120 winners that punched their tickets to Day 2 and a min-cash worth $4,411.
The remaining field is littered with excellent players, each looking to defeat their 10-handed table today to earn a spot in the final 12 on Day 3 tomorrow. First place pays $259,211 and among the masses still in the running include Greg Merson, Shannon Shorr, Amanda Musumeci, Jared Jaffee, Mike Matusow, Allen Kessler, Isaac Baron, Christian Harder, Josesph Cheong, and Eugene Katchalov.
Cards are set to be in the air at 1 p.m. local time, so be sure to keep it here throughout the day to see who which 12 players will duke it out on Day 3 for the bracelet.