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2019 World Series of Poker

Event #1: $500 Casino Employees Event
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Event Info

2019 World Series of Poker

Resultados Finais
Campeão
Mão Vencedora
k♠8♦
Premiação
$62,345
Event Info
Buy-in
$500
Premiação
$297,975
Entries
685
Informações do Nível
Nível
33
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
250,000

Cosmo Andoloro Among Leaders After Day 1 of the $500 Casino Employees Event

Nível 17 : 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Cosmo Andoloro
Cosmo Andoloro

The opening event of the 50th Annual World Series of Poker saw 686 entrants hit the felt in search of a coveted WSOP Bracelet, and after a long Day 1 that lasted over sixteen levels, the bubble burst and just 103 players were left, all in the money with a min-cash of $727 guaranteed, with their eye on the WSOP bracelet and $62,345 top prize.

One of the leaders in the tournament is Cosmo Andoloro, who managed to bag a healthy 650,000 in chips. He gained the majority of his stack by flopping a flush with {j-Clubs}{9-Clubs} against the {10-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} of an opponent. Andoloro, a floor supervisor at Red Dragon Casino in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, scooped in the massive pot and never looked back.

Others to find a big bag include Planet Hollywood dealer Christopher Bowen (633,000), Thunder Valley Poker Room Manager Miguel Cardenas (512,000), Stephanie Otteson (479,000), and Talking Stick Poker Host Brad Helm (465,000). Joining them in Day 2 are WSOP Bracelet winner Jon Freidberg (360,000), Austin Roberts (342,000), who just finished in third place at the Run It Up Reno VIII Main Event, WSOP Poker Editor Isaac Hanson (249,000), and PokerNews Live Reporter Adam Lamers (116,000).

Likewise, multiple players from the DraftKings contingent that invaded the Rio made it through to Day 2, including Director of Community Team Steve McLoughlin (150,500), and Asad Abdullah (50,000), who McLoughlin shared with us has been playing poker for less than a year, and this was his first tournament cash. In addition, Abdullah got engaged on Saturday before making it down to the WSOP.

Not everyone was fortunate enough to make it through to Day 2. Some of those that hit the rail include former champion in this event Chad Holloway, a contingent from Team PokerNews including Yori Epskamp, Valerie Cross, Leo Contreras, Mo Nuwwarah, Milko van Winden, Oliver Biles, Brandyn Trenholm, and Kevin Mathers, DraftKings Senior Advisor and former WSOP Bracelet winner Jonathan Aguiar, last year's third-place finisher Katie Kopp, and three-time WSOP Bracelet winner Dutch Boyd.

Thursday's Day 2 will start at 12 noon, with all the remaining players in the money. The field will play down to the final six on Day 2, with those players returning on Friday at the same time to play down to a winner. All the action will be streamed on PokerGo on a 30-minute delay. Be sure to stay tuned right here on PokerNews to follow all the Day 2 action of the $500 Casino Employees Event!

RoomTableSeatPlayerCountryChip CountBig Blinds
Amazon4001Jason EiseleUnited States250,00042
Amazon4002Jeremy DaumUnited States175,00029
Amazon4003Travis WilliamsUnited States54,0009
Amazon4004Joshua GrevilleUnited States89,00015
Amazon4005Russell CorpisUnited States105,00018
Amazon4006Patrick FewellUnited States50,0008
Amazon4007John PostlUnited States46,0008
Amazon4008Justin WongUnited States183,00031
Amazon4009Filimon ZamoraUnited States69,00012
       
Amazon4011Brian WongUnited States42,0007
Amazon4012Justin SlavinUnited States201,00034
Amazon4013Isaac HansonUnited States249,00042
Amazon4014Rick MartingUnited States73,00012
Amazon4015Bryan WienhoffUnited States311,00052
Amazon4016Marco BrownUnited States203,00034
Amazon4017Austin RobertsUnited States324,00054
Amazon4018Miguel CardenasUnited States512,00085
Amazon4019Adrian HollieUnited States42,0007
       
Amazon4022Errol KrupiarzUnited States20,0003
Amazon4023Matthew MichUnited States87,00015
Amazon4024Eric FenzkeUnited States141,00024
Amazon4025Stephanie OttesonCanada479,00080
Amazon4026Corey EiferleUnited States248,00041
Amazon4027Derek ShoemakerUnited States311,00052
Amazon4028Benjamin ChangUnited States45,0008
Amazon4029William StroughUnited States34,0006
       
Amazon4031Jesse KertlandUnited States398,00066
Amazon4032Ian FellerUnited States269,00045
Amazon4033Shane PatreauCanada127,00021
Amazon4034Spencer BennettUnited States77,00013
Amazon4035Jeffrey FastCanada324,00054
Amazon4036Brian MatthiessenUnited States44,0007
Amazon4037Lap NguyenUnited States127,00021
Amazon4038Bradley HelmUnited States465,00078
Amazon4039Mark FucileUnited States197,00033
       
Amazon4041Evan ZlockUnited States103,00017
Amazon4042Chaan ThomasUnited States73,00012
Amazon4043Carlo ArgentinoUnited States43,0007
Amazon4044Gene LeeUnited States131,00022
Amazon4046Sieu CaoCanada231,00039
Amazon4047Christopher FieberUnited States59,00010
Amazon4048Jordan RaganUnited States203,00034
Amazon4049Sergey BabayanUnited States130,00022
       
Amazon4051Carlos AldazUnited States283,00047
Amazon4052Darrin PhillipsUnited States120,00020
Amazon4053Patrick ChungUnited States213,00036
Amazon4054Armando OsunaUnited States34,0006
Amazon4055Matthew SchlesingerUnited States75,00013
Amazon4056Chad RoedersheimerUnited States259,00043
Amazon4057Jeffrey ThompsonUnited States231,00039
Amazon4058Brian BurgessUnited States170,00028
Amazon4059Mike MajerusUnited States180,00030
       
Amazon4061Jason BardolUnited States64,00011
Amazon4062Vincent IkehUnited States132,00022
Amazon4063Rios DagobertoUnited States71,00012
Amazon4064Jeramie ContrerasUnited States48,0008
Amazon4065Adam LamersCanada116,00019
Amazon4066Cecil SimmsUnited States92,00015
Amazon4067Brett JanigaUnited States136,00023
Amazon4069Jorge RuizUnited States426,00071
       
Amazon4071Tomasz TrelskiUnited States68,00011
Amazon4072Michael ParkerUnited States104,00017
Amazon4073Thomas KubinUnited States91,00015
Amazon4074Joseph ApplerUnited States219,00037
Amazon4075Jose ZaragozaUnited States192,00032
Amazon4076Steven McloughlinUnited States151,00025
Amazon4077Thomas TimmonsUnited States309,00052
Amazon4078Cosmo AndoloroUnited States650,000108
Amazon4079Stephen DuvallUnited States141,00024
       
Amazon4081Frank NguyenUnited States205,00034
Amazon4082Jon FriedbergUnited States360,00060
Amazon4083Christopher BowenUnited States633,000106
Amazon4084Timothy SchonherrUnited States17,0003
Amazon4085Jesse OdenheimerUnited States290,00048
Amazon4086Wen WangUnited States52,0009
Amazon4087Zachary LeeUnited States140,00023
Amazon4089Brian MikeshUnited States70,00012
       
Amazon4092Yun ZhengUnited States264,00044
Amazon4093Richard MaxieUnited States167,00028
Amazon4094Fredric DavidUnited States193,00032
Amazon4095Rebecka HinsonUnited States76,00013
Amazon4096Brian BelkinUnited States316,00053
Amazon4097Daniel FlorioUnited States114,00019
Amazon4098Billie ParkerUnited States92,00015
Amazon4099Chris ConnerUnited States109,00018
       
Amazon4101Scott HeckerUnited States139,00023
Amazon4102Darren WakefieldUnited States165,00028
Amazon4103Bohao ZhuUnited States193,00032
Amazon4104Joseph LambertaUnited States186,00031
Amazon4105John MantouvalosUnited States123,00021
Amazon4106Christopher OrioUnited States281,00047
Amazon4107Nicholas HaynesUnited States185,00031
Amazon4108Asad AbdullahUnited States50,0008
Amazon4109Melchor EspirituUnited States166,00028
       
Amazon4111Andrew ProeschUnited States118,00020
Amazon4112Gregorios LamprinosUnited States28,0005
Amazon4113Keith Lauder IIIUnited States97,00016
Amazon4114Ron CampbellCanada39,0007
Amazon4115Daniel GoldmanUnited States133,00022
Amazon4116Robert OstlerUnited States64,00011
Amazon4117Leon WheelerUnited States67,00011
Amazon4118Kurtis HendricksonUnited States61,00010
Amazon4119Amanda WheelerUnited States124,00021

Tags: Asad AbdullahAustin RobertsBrad HelmBrandyn TrenholmChad HollowayChristopher BowenDutch BoydIsaac HansonJonathan AguiarKatie KoppKevin MathersMiguel CardenasMilko van WindenMo NuwwarahSteve McLoughlinValerie Cross

Cross Tangles With Janiga

Nível 14 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Valerie Cross
Valerie Cross

PokerNews Associate Editor Valerie Cross limped in on the button, and the small blind limped in as well. Brett Janiga, who runs the poker room at the Remington Bar and Casino in Whitefish, Montana, checked his option in the big blind.

Action checked over to Cross on a {7-Clubs}{7-Spades}{3-Diamonds} flop, and she bet 5,500. Only Janiga called.

Both players checked the {q-Spades} turn, and Janiga bet 6,000 on the {5-Diamonds} river. Cross gave Janiga a wry grin before mucking.

"Show the seven!" the small blind told Janiga. "I don't have a seven!" Janiga said back with a smile.

Jogador Fichas Progresso
Brett Janiga us
Brett Janiga 		155,000
Valerie Cross us
Valerie Cross
PokerNews
120,000 30,000

Tags: Valerie CrossBrett Janiga

McLoughlin Jams It In

Nível 14 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Steve McLoughlin
Steve McLoughlin

Steve McLoughlin raised to 7,000 from under-the-gun, and was called by a player in middle position, the hijack, and Harrah's poker dealer Austin Roberts in the big blind.

Action checked to the hijack on a {4-Diamonds}{10-Spades}{9-Spades} flop, and he bet 8,000. Roberts folded, and McLoughlin jammed for 54,500. The middle position player quickly folded, while the hijack paused for a few moments before tossing his hand to the muck as well.

Jogador Fichas Progresso
Steven McLoughlin us
Steven McLoughlin 		85,000 -4,500

Tags: Austin RobertsSteve McLoughlin

KevMath Can't Catch

Nível 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Kevin Mathers
Kevin Mathers

Kevin Mathers was standing up with empty felt in front of his seat. He was kind enough to share the details of his bustout with us.

A player raised to 4,500 from middle position, and Mathers three-bet shoved for 19,900. His opponent called.

Kevin Mathers: {a-Hearts}{k-Hearts}
Opponent: {k-}{k-}

Mathers was able to flop a flush draw on a {7-}{6-Hearts}{2-Hearts} flop, but improved no further on the turn or river to bust.

Jogador Fichas Progresso
Kevin Mathers us
Kevin Mathers
PokerNews
Eliminado

Tags: Kevin Mathers

Prize Pool Information Announced

Nível 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante
WSOP Bracelet
WSOP Bracelet

With registration for this event now closed, the prizepool information has been released. The 686 players created a total prize pool of $298,410. Of the remaining field, 103 will be paid with a min-cash worth $727. Making Day 3's streamed final table on PokerGo guarantees a payday of at least $9,776.

The eventual winner of this event will take home $62,345 and will be awarded the second World Series of Poker gold bracelet of the 2019 series, as the $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty event will finish a day earlier.

A full prizepool will be posted shortly.

DraftKings Data Science Engineer Sumanth Reddy Rounds Out the Squad

Nível 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante
Sumanth Reddy
Sumanth Reddy

The 50th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) kicks off today with $500 buy-in Event #1: Casino Employees Event. The tournament is open to those who either work in casinos or in the gaming industry, and thanks to their sportsbook in New Jersey, DraftKings personnel are permitted to play.
They’ll be well represented in their first year of eligibility as a team of six players traveled from the East Coast to compete for the summer’s first bracelet. PokerNews caught up with each DraftKings employee – one of which is already a WSOP bracelet winner – talk about the opening event of the 2019 WSOP.

Sumanth Reddy
Age: 32
DraftKings Position: Data Science Engineer

Rounding out the DraftKings team is Sumanth Reddy, who graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in Economics.

“My very supportive family includes a younger sister and two parents who have long been horrified by my interest in poker,” he said. “Rightly so of course, because it’s a dumb luck game and I have no skill.”

He continued: “It’s debatable that I’ve ever truly learned to play poker. My first time looking at cards and throwing chips into a pot was in high school. It was at this time that I believed you should play any hand with a face card, and that it was truly possible to read a person’s soul. Additionally, in your heart, some select people could know the perfect, winning decision, in every single hand.”
 
Reddy has played the WSOP before where he says his claim to fame is successfully bluffing Phil Ivey.

“No one approved of how I played the hand in any way, but that’s not important,” he offered.
 
Like many others, Reddy thinks Asad is the DraftKings man to beat.

“He is easily one of the luckiest people I’ve ever met, shipping bad beat jackpots and winning on days that I don’t. He hasn’t been playing poker very long, so he will clearly be underestimated by his competition. This perfect storm of factors is why I believe he is the overwhelming favorite to win the entire tournament.”

Tags: Sumanth Reddy

A Sigh of Relief For Epskamp

Nível 10 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante
Yori Epskamp
Yori Epskamp

A player limped in from under-the-gun, and Yori Epskamp raised to 4,000 next to act. A player in middle position called, as did the limper.

Action checked to Epskamp on an {a-Spades}{6-Hearts}{2-Diamonds} flop, and Epskamp bet 3,500. Both of his opponents quickly folded, and Epskamp pantomimed a sigh of relief before turning over {q-Spades}{j-Hearts} for a bluff.

"Pocket fours were good!" said the middle position player.

"They were, but I was going to hit a queen!" Epskamp told his opponent.

Jogador Fichas Progresso
Yori Epskamp nl
Yori Epskamp
PokerNews
48,000 -2,000

Tags: Yori Epskamp

DraftKings Director of Community Team Steve McLoughlin Returns to the Poker World

Nível 10 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante
Steve McLoughlin
Steve McLoughlin

The 50th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) kicks off today with $500 buy-in Event #1: Casino Employees Event. The tournament is open to those who either work in casinos or in the gaming industry, and thanks to their sportsbook in New Jersey, DraftKings personnel are permitted to play.

They’ll be well represented in their first year of eligibility as a team of six players traveled from the East Coast to compete for the summer’s first bracelet. PokerNews caught up with each DraftKings employee – one of which is already a WSOP bracelet winner – talk about the opening event of the 2019 WSOP.

Steve McLoughlin
Age: 49
DraftKings Position: Director of Community Team

Steve McLoughlin is no stranger to the WSOP and poker community; in fact, he’s been a part of the world since 2001. At 49 years old, he’s the oldest of the DraftKings crew and as he pointed out just a year away from eligibility for another WSOP tournament. 

“Next year I qualify for the dreaded Seniors Event,” he said. “Seniors events should be 60+, I’m still too young.”

McLoughlin, who enjoys cooking and dining experiences, joined DraftKings a little over a year ago as Director of Community Team, which means he and his team lobby on behalf of player needs to enact positive change that benefit all players.

“Poker was the first peer-to-peer game that ever caught my attention, and the game that still captures a significant amount of my attention since 2001,” said McLoughlin, who was a featured player on Poker Night in America during its first three seasons. “I read everything that was available and discovered the early version of 2+2 where I encountered posts from many of the future greats who were up and coming. In these early days I encountered many peers such as Greg Raymer, Ed Miller, Tom Dwan, Andrew Robl, Shaun Deeb, and my co-worker at DraftKings Jon Aguiar. They all got their start on the 2+2 forum.”

Additionally, McLoughlin has worked in the poker industry after a career in music.

“Within the online gaming industry, I have held numerous roles including time in management at the Two Plus Two Forums and PokerTracker,” he said. “I started my career in the music business as a recording engineer, working on what seems like a third of all hip-hop records that were recorded in NYC in the early 90s.”

As for which team member he likes to go deep, McLoughlin is going with the software engineer.

“Asad is the player that impresses me the most. He is brand new to poker yet has learned so
quickly.”

Tags: Steve McLoughlin

Guerena's Aces Cracked By "Chapz"

Nível 9 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Ben Guerena
Ben Guerena

A player called us over to tell us about a big hand that had happened a short time ago, and one of the players involved, Jose "Chapz" Zaragoza, a poker dealer at Players Casino in Ventura, California, was kind enough to fill us in on what had transpired.

A player raised to 2,200 from early position, and a middle position player called. Ben Guerena, a poker dealer at Pechanga Casino in California, three-bet to 7,000, and Zaragoza four-bet jammed for 42,200. Action folded back to Guerena, who called.

Ben Guerena: {a-}{a-}
Jose "Chapz" Zaragoza: {q-}{q-}

Guerena's aces were cracked on a queen-high flop, and to add insult to injury, another queen fell on the turn, securing the double for Zaragoza with quad queens.

Jogador Fichas Progresso
Jose Zaragoza us
Jose Zaragoza 		91,700 91,700
Ben Guerena us
Ben Guerena
10,000 -50,200

Tags: Ben GuerenaJose Zaragoza

2013 Casino Employees Champ Holloway Gets a Lucky Double

Nível 9 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Chad Holloway
Chad Holloway

A player opened in early position to 2,300, and Chad Holloway, who took down this event in 2013 for $84,915, three-bet shoved for 16,500. Action folded to his opponent, who tabled his hand without saying anything while reaching for chips.

"You folding?" Holloway said with a grin.

Chad Holloway: {j-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}
Opponent: {k-Clubs}{k-Spades}

Holloway had run into kings, but he found life on the {3-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds} flop, giving him a flush draw. The {10-Clubs} turn added a few more outs for Holloway, and he made a flush on the {7-Diamonds} river to double.

"Jack and coke magic! How lucky do I get?" Holloway said, beaming after his double.

Jogador Fichas Progresso
Chad Holloway us
Chad Holloway
WSOP 1X Winner
PokerNews
35,500 17,000

Tags: Chad Holloway

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