Day 1b of Event #20: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Millionaire Maker begins at 10 a.m. today. Yesterday's first flight drew 3,438 entries with 509 players advancing for Day 2 tomorrow. Today is the final chance to get in and take a shot at that $1,000,000 guaranteed first-place prize! Boris Kolev is the 1a big stack setting the pace so far with 290,700 chips.
The $1,500 buy-in gets you 7,500 chips and play today will last 10 levels of 60-minute duration. There will be 20-minute breaks every two levels with a 90-minute dinner break after Level 6. Players are allowed to reenter this event once per flight, and have until the end of the dinner break to do so (around 6:10 p.m.).
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The Amazon room is packed full, and many more familiar faces have emerged.
Among them are Charles "Woody" Moore, Jacob Bazeley, John Cynn, Tyler Patterson, Annette Obrestad, Bart Hanson, Faraz Jaka, Cody Brinn, Austin Buchanan, Craig Varnell, Azaan Nagra, James Dorrance, Jason Ramos, Jeremy Stein, Ronit D'Angelo, Daniel Dizenzo, Shola Akindele, Bill Klein, Vinny Pahuja, Justin Bond, Sam Cohen, and let's not forget 2015 Main Event champion Joe McKeehen.
The record holder for most WSOP cashes Douglas Carli, and Melissa Gillett, who took fourth place in Event #12 last week for a six-figure payday, are also taking a shot in the Millionaire Maker today.
With the board reading , Kelly Minkin checked in the big blind and her lone opponent in middle position bet 700. Minkin called and the turn was the . Minkin checked again and her opponent bet 2,000. She called again.
On the river, Minkin bet 6,000, enough to put her opponent to an all-in decision as he had just over 5,000. Her opponent went into the tank and, after more than three minutes, he mucked.
Tablemate Josh Turner said, "You should have called. You could have been famous."
Minkin disagreed. "No, they would have written 'so and so eliminated'..."
She is now up close to three times the starting stack.
Barry Greenstein, who has three bracelets, has been spotted in Pavilion and he is up to 17,000 chips, more than twice the starting stack. Fellow bracelet winner Robert Cheung is also in that section and sitting with a healthy stack of 25,000.
Joe Elpayaa, five-time Circuit ring winner Josh Turner, and two-time Circuit ring winner Kennii Nguyen, are also in Pavilion. They have already begun breaking tables from this section and sending players over to Amazon.
The player under the gun moved all in for 4,550 and Liv Boeree called in the big blind to put him at risk.
Boeree:
All-in player:
Boeree was behind but the gave Boeree a pair of jacks with the flush draw to take the lead. The turn and the river changed nothing and Boeree knocked out her opponent.
Boeree, who won her first WSOP bracelet in the $10,000 Tag Team Event this series, is now close to double the starting stack.
At one very tough table in Amazon, three-time bracelet winner Barry Greenstein is in Seat 6, followed by 2015 WSOP Main Event champion Joe McKeehen in Seat 7, and bracelet winner Ryan Laplante in Seat 10.
These three players represent a combined total of 145 WSOP cashes for a combined total of over $13 million in earnings in the WSOP alone.
The WSOP has just announced the prize pool and payouts.
In total, there were 7,761 entries spread over Days 1a and 1b. That generated a prize pool of $10,477,350. The final 1,165 players will cash in this event, and the winner of the Millionaire Maker will take home an incredible $1,221,407!
For more details on the payouts, please have a look at the payouts tab.
Shortly after losing an 80,000-chip pot with ace-king versus pocket queens on a flop of , Molly Mossey was down around 12,000 chips.
A player in late position min-raised, and Mossey went all in from the small blind. The big blind folded, and the initial raiser tank-called, putting Mossey at risk.
Mossey:
Opponent:
The flop was , giving her opponent a pair of aces to take the lead. The turn gave Mossey a gutshot straight draw, but she couldn't get there on the blank river, and she was eliminated here in Level 8.
We got to the table to see 2016 November Niner Kenny Hallaert sitting in the hijack, betting 1,200 after the player in the big blind had checked on the flop. His opponent took some time to think after Hallaert's bet and decided to raise to 3,200. Hallaert called.
The turn was the , Hallaert's opponent bet 3,600, and Hallaert called.
The on the river completed the board, and the other player bet 5,500, Hallaert went all in and had his opponent covered. His opponent called and showed for kings and nines, but Hallaert had him beat as he showed for a full house.
. Eric Baldwin bet 400 in early position and his opponent on the button called. 
and Baldwin bet 700. His opponent called again and the river was the 
. Both players checked and they showed down. 
, Kelly Minkin checked in the big blind and her lone opponent in middle position bet 700. Minkin called and the turn was the 
river, Minkin bet 6,000, enough to put her opponent to an all-in decision as he had just over 5,000. Her opponent went into the tank and, after more than three minutes, he mucked. 
gave Boeree a pair of jacks with the flush draw to take the lead. The 
turn and the 
, Molly Mossey was down around 12,000 chips. 
flop. His opponent took some time to think after Hallaert's bet and decided to raise to 3,200. Hallaert called.
, Hallaert's opponent bet 3,600, and Hallaert called.
on the river completed the board, and the other player bet 5,500, Hallaert went all in and had his opponent covered. His opponent called and showed 
