Event #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship Dia 6 | 2017 World Series of Poker

2017-07-16 19:27 UTC-7

Dario Sammartino Eliminated in 43rd Place ($176,399)

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Nível 30 : 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante

Dario Sammartino open-shoved from early position with his short stack, and action folded all the way around to the Karen Sarkisyan in the big blind, who called.

Sarkisyan:
Sammartino:

The flop came down , keeping Sammartino way in the lead.

"Jack, jack!" Sammartino's rail cheered. Sammartino shushed them and ushered them quiet with a flat palm.

The turn was the , and the look on Sammartino's face went from calm and at ease to pained and restless as the lead had been snatched away from him. He needed a jack or a queen to survive, but the river was the , and that was it for him. Sammartino wished everyone at the table luck and made his exit from the tournament.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Karen Sarkisyan	15,600,000 975,000	975,000
Dario Sammartino	Eliminado

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2017-07-16 19:30 UTC-7

Brandon Meyers Eliminated in 42nd Place ($176,399)

Nível 30 : 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante

Brandon Meyers raised to 355,000 from early position, Christian Pham called in middle position, as did Jonathan Dwek on the button and Zu Zhou in the big blind.

The flop came , and all three players checked to the on the turn. Zhou and Meyers both checked, and Pham reached into his stack to cut out some chips. First he cut out 500,000, then 600,000, and finally decided on a bet of 875,000. Dwek and Zhou both folded, and the decision was now on Meyers. After counting out his stack, he check-raised all in for a total of 2,525,000. Pham asked for a count and then called.

Meyers stood up and tabled for the nut flush draw, while Pham showed for the second-nut flush.

Play was held for a moment as the TV crews got set up. The dealer then put out the on the river, and Meyers was eliminated, sending Pham to celebrate with his rail.

"That was a good dinner, man," yelled one of his supporters.

"We gonna eat tacos soon!" exclaimed Pham.

Meyers was eliminated in 42nd place for a payout of $176,399.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Christian Pham	9,100,000 3,800,000	3,800,000

Brandon Meyers	Eliminado

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2017-07-16 19:34 UTC-7

Ryan Leng Eliminated in 41st Place ($176,399)

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Nível 30 : 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante

Ben Lamb raised to 350,000 from middle position, Ryan Leng called from the small blind, and Neil Patel called from the big blind.

The flop came down , and action checked to Lamb, who continued for 525,000. Leng raised all in for about 2,925,000, Patel folded, and Lamb called.

Lamb:
Leng :

Leng was in the lead with a flush, but Lamb had an ace-high flush draw.

The turn was the to give Lamb the lead with an ace-high flush, but Leng still had outs to a straight flush to survive. However, the river was the , and Leng was eliminated from the Main Event in 41st place.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Ben Lamb	17,235,000 3,755,000	3,755,000

Ryan Leng	Eliminado

Tags: Ben Lamb Neil Patel Ryan Leng

2017-07-16 19:43 UTC-7

Hockey Player Josh Marvin Checking the Competition on Day 6

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Nível 30 : 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante

Josh Marvin may not be a name most poker fans recognize, but on Day 6 of the WSOP Main Event, he sits behind a mountain of more than 14 million chips, good for seventh as the event reached the dinner break with only 43 players remaining. If he can continue his run, Marvin has a chance to make a major mark on the poker world this summer.

A recreational hockey player who plays a few times a week back home in Sterling Heights, Michigan, Marvin hopes to keep skating past the competition. He played seven events this summer, but this is his first-ever WSOP cash — and it was certainly well worth the wait.

Marvin, 27, is normally a cash game player but mixes in a few tournaments each year. The Hendon Mob database lists eight tournament cashes for this rounder, but he notched a win for $724,200 in a $1,650 no-limit hold’em event in his home state in 2015.

While his regular game of choice is pot-limit Omaha, so far, Marvin has held his own in Texas hold’em on the game’s biggest stage and is enjoying his time as the action gets closer and closer to the final table.

“I don’t play many tournaments a year, so this is kind of fun,” he says. “I normally just focus on cash games. I fired a few bullets in the Milly Maker and played a few PLO events, but no luck until the Main Event — but this is the important one.”

A graduate of Oakland University in Auburn Hills with a degree in Finance, he now crunches numbers of a different sort. As play continued on Sunday, Marvin’s stack fluctuated a bit before gathering some nice pots with a fortuitous run of hands.

“I had a couple that vaulted me up and one that vaulted me down,” he says. “I chipped up to about 10 million, then went south to about 9 million, and then lost with kings to aces for about a 9-million-chip pot. Following that I had kings and queens three or four times in 10 hands, so I chipped back up. They were small pots, but they all added up.”

What’s been the reaction of friends and family back in the Great Lakes State to his streak through the Main Event?

“They’re all blowing up my phone nonstop,” he says, laughing. “My mom doesn’t really understand poker, so she’s been nervous since Day 3. If I final table, they’ll fly out here.”

If he can continue his big roll, stay sharp, and bring home a big score, Marvin hopes to put that Finance degree to good use.

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2017-07-16 19:51 UTC-7

Frank Crivello Eliminated in 40th Place ($176,399)

Nível 30 : 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante

Frank Crivello raised to 400,000 from late position, Benjamin Pollak called on the button, and Florian Lohnert called in the big blind.

The flop came , and Lohnert checked. Crivello quickly bet 1,100,000, and Pollak wasted no time calling. Lohnert folded. The turn was the . Crivello instantly moved all in for 3,535,000, and Pollak asked for a count. After about a minute, he called.

"Flush draw?" asked Crivello. He tabled for top pair with a king kicker, at risk against Pollak's for a pair of eights and a flush draw.

The river was the , and Pollak made his flush, sending him the pot and Crivello to the rail.

Crivello headed off to the payout desk to collect $176,399 for his 40th-place finish.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Benjamin Pollak	14,980,000 5,240,000	5,240,000
Frank Crivello	Eliminado

Tags: Benjamin Pollak Florian Lohnert Frank Crivello

2017-07-16 20:03 UTC-7

Player Spotlight: Jack Sinclair

Nível 30 : 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante

Jack Sinclair might not be a familiar face to many of the players in the field, but this 26-year-old has got some serious game. Sinclair mainly cut his teeth online and came to try his hand in the live games at the prodding of his friends, Philipp Gruissem and Anton Morgenstern. No big deal.

Being an online pro who doesn't play a lot live and having a huge chip stack with 40 people left in the Main Event has to be a surreal experience. We asked Sinclair what it felt like to be here and if the experience has started to sink in.

"I'm trying not to think too much about that. But, yeah, it is definitely surreal. I keep thinking, 'It's been fun.' If I make it to the next break, I'll be happy."

It's always an advantage to show up to the table with your opponents not having a clue who you are. The less people know about you at the table, the better. But apparently, Sinclair can't use that to his advantage for more than one hand.

"As soon as I sit down at a table, people automatically assume I'm three-betting them light and doing a bunch of crazy stuff. I don't know why; it must be the way I look at them or something. If someone looks me up, they are basically going to find nothing. They might think, 'This guy's going to be a huge fish.' I sit down and play one hand, and my image is completely gone. Maybe the first hand I play, I can get away with something. But overall no."

No one would argue that the Main Event is the ultimate grind. The days start to run together, hands are forgotten, and what happened when becomes a blur. Sinclair, however, was able to recall his Main Event journey with amazing detail. Here it is in his own words.

Sinclair's Main Event Journey (So Far) In Own Words

Day 1: It was just a breeze. I won most of the pots I played. Every bluff went through and value bet got called.

Day 2: It was kind of similar. It was quite smooth, but then I made a few bad decisions towards the end. I came through it with a decent-sized stack.

Day 3: I had a horrendous table draw. The first four hours of the day, it was just brutal. It was the toughest table I've played the entire tournament. In fact, it's probably the toughest table I've played live ever.

There was one really old woman. You know when you sit down at a table, and there's an old woman there, you're like, "Sweet." Then within the first hour, she three-bet four people, and I was like, "Dammit! I've got the most aggressive grandmother in the world." So that was really tough and I managed to survive.

I got really short coming into the bubble. I had just about 60k with about 200 people off the money. At this point, I was like, "This is going to suck because I'm going to have 10k on the bubble and sit there and fold."

I kept playing aggressively, and I jammed queens, and someone called me with nines. Then I won six of the next ten hands and went on a crazy heater. I had a big stack on the bubble and was able to abuse my table for the next couple of hours.

Day 4: I had Mickey Craft at my table on my direct left. That's an experience I'll never forget. Mickey was just completely insane. And we got moved to the secondary feature table, and he calmed down. He was much calmer than he was for the five hours before. I couldn't believe he was on my left. That was tilting.

I did manage to double up through Mickey three times. In between each double, I got quite low on chips and then doubled up and then got low. I did increase my stack a decent amount on that day. If I were on Mickey's left, then I would have probably won the tournament by now. Mickey's a great guy. It was actually the most fun I've had at a table, possibly ever.

Day 5: Again, it was quite tough. I started the day with 1.7 million and ended with 2.2 million. It wasn't a great day. I had some ups and downs. I had Shyam Srinivasan on my left, and he was tough, and I had David Guay on my right, and he was tough. Quite a tough table. I just kept thinking, "It can't be as bad as that Day 3."

So it kept me a little bit calm. I just scraped through the day. I won a flip at the end of the day to sort of have a dream, as it were.

Day 6: I came into the day with 30 big blinds and had an insane day. I came in with less than 30bbs, and now I've 17 and a bit million. It's been quite the day.

Tags: Anton Morgenstern David Guay Jack Sinclair Mickey Craft Philipp Gruissem Shyam Srinivasan

2017-07-16 20:08 UTC-7

Sean Gibson Eliminated in 39th Place ($176,399)

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Nível 30 : 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante

Sean Gibson raised to 400,000 from the hijack, John Hesp called from the small blind, and Michael Ruane called from the big blind.

The flop fell , and action checked to Gibson, who continued for 650,000. Hesp check-raised to 1,500,000, and Ruane folded. Gibson re-raised all in for about 4,400,000, and Hesp called instantly with , miles ahead of Gibson's .

The turn and river completed the board, no help to Gibson, ending his Main Event in 39th place.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
John Hesp	13,620,000 6,275,000	6,275,000
Sean Gibson	Eliminado

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2017-07-16 20:44 UTC-7

Jonathan Dwek Eliminated in 38th Place ($176,399)

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Nível 30 : 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante

Christian Pham raised to 425,000 in late position, and Jonathan Dwek announced a raise from the small blind. Dwek did not originally put out enough chips for a re-raise, so he was committed to the minimum of 690,000. Pham called.

The flop came . Dwek continued for 800,000, and Pham called to see the land on the turn. Dwek bet again for 1,400,000, and Pham once again continued along. The river brought the , and Dwek bet 2,000,000. Pham wasted no time moving all in, and the action was back on Dwek. He thought for a brief time, with around 5,300,000 remaining in his stack, before calling.

Pham tabled for a straight flush, and Dwek could only muster a straight with . In what turned out to be a huge pot, Pham also took a massive chip lead in the late stages of Day 6.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Christian Pham	25,800,000 10,600,000	10,600,000

Jonathan Dwek	Eliminado

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2017-07-16 21:02 UTC-7

Zu Zhou Eliminated in 37th Place ($176,399)

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Nível 30 : 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante

The action was folded around to Florian Lohnert in the small blind, and he shoved all in for around 3,800,000. Zu Zhou was in the big blind and had just 1,700,000 remaining. He thought for a moment and then moved a stack of chips into the pot.

Zhou was ahead with , but Lohnert had two overcards with . The board ran out , and Lohnert made two pair to eliminate Zhou.

There are just 36 players and four tables remaining with Level 30 nearing the end.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Florian Lohnert	5,700,000 330,000	330,000
Zu Zhou	Eliminado

Tags: Florian Lohnert Zu Zhou

2017-07-16 21:23 UTC-7

Travis Lutes Eliminated in 36th Place ($214,913)

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Nível 30 : 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante

Benjamin Pollak opened to 360,000 in the cutoff. Travis Lutes shoved for 1,560,000 in the small blind. Big blind Valentin Messina re-raised to 2,900,000. That made Pollak fold face-up.

Lutes:
Messina:

The flop missed Lutes but left him with a couple of outs to chop. The turn was a brick, as was the river.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Valentin Messina	16,000,000 1,800,000	1,800,000
Travis Lutes	Eliminado

Tags: Benjamin Pollak Travis Lutes Valentin Messina