Event #54: Big Blind Antes $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Dia 1 | 2018 World Series of Poker

2018-06-27 01:04 UTC-7

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Andrey Zaichenko	109,000	55,000
Daniel Strelitz	81,000
Matt Salsberg	57,000	6,000
David Prociak	53,000	-1,000
Sylvain Loosli	49,000	10,000
Jonathan Jaffe	43,000
Ben Yu	35,000
Maria Konnikova	32,000	-4,000
Kitty Kuo	19,000	15,800
Qui Nguyen	14,000	-24,000
Bryan Piccioli	12,000	12,000
Muskan Sethi	11,500	-1,500
Chris Hunichen	Eliminado

With a field of 1,020 entrants, the tournament generated a prize pool of $2,754,000. The money will be reached tomorrow when there are 153 players remaining in the field. Players who end up in the money are guaranteed to take home at least $4,513. The winner will take home $522,715 and a WSOP gold bracelet.

For more information on the prize pool click the "Payouts" tab above.

2018-06-27 00:42 UTC-7

Late Night Snaps of the Field

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Courtesy of Jamie Thomson

2018-06-27 00:39 UTC-7

Yin Eliminates Van Zadelhoff

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Nível 9 : 400/800, 800 ante

Liu Yin has over more than 100,000 after busting two players, including Steven van Zadelhoff.

In the first hand, Van Zadelhoff raised to 1,800 and Liu Yin three-bet to 4,600. The third player in the pot four-bet all in from the blinds for 21,000. When the action was back on Van Zadelhoff he pushed all in as well for 24,700 and Yin called both players.

Liu Yin:
Steven van Zadelhoff:
Third Player:

The flop instantly brought and it was completely over on the turn. Yin busted out two people in one hand and chipped up to around 100,000.

In the next hand, he raised to 1,800 and saw the player on his direct left three-bet to 5,400. Yin called and the flop was . Yin check-called another bet of 3,800 before they both checked on the turn. Yin fired a bet of 5,500 himself on the river and his opponent folded.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Liu Yin	110,000	60,000
Steven van Zadelhoff	Eliminado

Tags: Liu Yin Steven van Zadelhoff

2018-06-27 00:37 UTC-7

Assorted Stack Updates

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Nível 9 : 400/800, 800 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Matt Stout	116,000	7,000
Samuel Chartier	74,000	55,500
Kristen Bicknell	61,000	2,000
Elio Fox	54,000
Maurice Hawkins	46,000	2,000
Max Silver	44,000	6,000
Alex Foxen	29,000	6,000
Bertrand Grospellier	18,500	-5,500
Daniel Weinman	15,000	1,000
Valentin Vornicu	13,000	-16,000
Leo Margets	12,500	-13,500
Frank Kassela	11,000	1,000
Dan Shak	Eliminado

2018-06-27 00:34 UTC-7

Hunichen Runs into a House

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Nível 9 : 400/800, 800 ante

A completed board reading lay in front of Chris Hunichen and his heads-up opponent. There was about 30,000 gathered in the middle and Hunichen had checked. His opponent bet 23,000 sending Hunichen into the tank. A couple of moments went by as Hunichen tried to get some information.

Eventually, Hunichen made the call and his opponent tabled the for a full house. Hunichen quickly mucked.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Chris Hunichen	21,000	-34,000

Tags: Chris Hunichen

2018-06-27 00:28 UTC-7

A Round of Counts

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Nível 9 : 400/800, 800 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Luciano Hollanda	127,000	15,000
Joe Serock	84,000	29,000
Michael Gathy	65,000	46,500
Alex Keating	63,000	2,000
Jan Suchanek	55,000
James Chen	45,500	33,000
Benoit Jean	44,500	26,500
Pierre Neuville	31,000	-17,000
Chance Kornuth	31,000	-28,000
Loni Harwood	17,000	9,000
Upeshka De Silva	17,000	16,700
Kathy Liebert	11,000	-18,000

Nível: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 800

2018-06-26 23:54 UTC-7

Break

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Nível 8 : 300/600, 600 ante

Players are on their final 15-minute break of the day. Late registration is officially closed at the end of this break and the prize pool information will be released shortly.

2018-06-26 23:46 UTC-7

"You Only Need a Five Baby"

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Nível 8 : 300/600, 600 ante

Scotty Nguyen got a lot of his chips in the middle against of his table mates. Nguyen tabled and saw he was well ahead of his opponent's .

"You only need a five baby. You can win by hitting a five."

The flop came down and his opponent was getting ready to leave the tournament area. The turn was the to end his opponent's chances right there, but the river was a and the table started laughing.