Event #41: $1,500 Limit Hold'em
Jour 1 terminé
Event #41: $1,500 Limit Hold'em
Jour 1 terminé
Brian Vollick will lead the returning 174 players into Day 2 of Event #41: $1,500 Limit Hold'em after bagging up 71,500.
Vollick will be closely followed by WSOP ring winner Rex Clinkscales (69,900), Kurt Maier (68,200) and Jeremy Heartberg (66,200) when play gets underway at noon local time on Thursday, June 21.
A field of 596 players came together to create $804,600 prize pool, all with the aim of emulating last year's event winner Shane Buchwald.
This is one of three Limit Hold'em events that will take place during this year's series, and today ten 60-minute levels were played out as a host of notable names took their shot including bracelet winners Dutch Boyd, Andre Akkari, Mike Leah, Humberto Brenes, Phillip Hui, Michael Moore, Todd Witteles, Ryan Laplante, David 'ODB' Baker, David Bach, Chris Ferguson, Luis Calvo and 2008 WSOP Ladies Championship winner Svetlana Gromenkova.
However, of those names only Boyd (8,000), Bach (10,800) and Gromenkova (16,800) will return for Day 2.
A late entrant was six-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu, who won the 2004 and 2008 WSOP $2,000 Limit events. The Canadian lost a big pot in level 9 when his opponent turned a full house, and although he was able to make a small comeback, he ultimately was eliminated when Gromenkova's ace-high defeated his king-high before the end of the level.
Other familiar faces came and went as the action got underway including Marcel Luske and 2015 Main Event champion Joe McKeehen, who exited early after his ace-king was unable to beat Mike Lake's king-queen after the latter made two pair. Canadian professional Ari Engel, who boasts $5,820,708 in recorded live tournament cashes, was eliminated just before the dinner break at the end of level 6. Engel got his last bet in on the flop with pocket-nines and found he was behind to a Chip Jett's paired king. Alex Keating also had a brief stay after joining in level eight but didn't last the level after running into Rex Clinkscales' flush.
When the play resumes the limits will be 1,000-2,000 and the returning 174 will battle through another ten 60-minute levels in a bid to build a stack for Day 3 and a shot at the gold bracelet.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for more coverage from this event, and every event during this summer's World Series of Poker.
Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Bets |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon | 504 | 1 | Eric Seiler | United States | 17,200 | 9 |
Amazon | 504 | 2 | Jesse Hampton | United States | 44,700 | 22 |
Amazon | 504 | 3 | Robert Goodson | United States | 43,800 | 22 |
Amazon | 504 | 4 | Svetlana Gromenkova | United States | 16,800 | 8 |
Amazon | 504 | 5 | Benjamin Scholl | United States | 42,400 | 21 |
Amazon | 504 | 6 | Jimmy Fricke | United States | 2,500 | 1 |
Amazon | 504 | 7 | Jin Kim | United States | 34,900 | 17 |
Amazon | 504 | 8 | Troy Skinner | United States | 34,600 | 17 |
Amazon | 504 | 9 | Penh Lo | United States | 33,900 | 17 |
Amazon | 505 | 1 | Bernardo Gonzales | United States | 21,200 | 11 |
Amazon | 505 | 2 | Travis Endersby | United States | 15,900 | 8 |
Amazon | 505 | 3 | David Forster | United States | 20,800 | 10 |
Amazon | 505 | 4 | David Soble | United States | 7,200 | 4 |
Amazon | 505 | 5 | Ryan Olson | United States | 11,600 | 6 |
Amazon | 505 | 6 | Bryce Landier | United States | 38,300 | 19 |
Amazon | 505 | 7 | Jon Seaman | United States | 43,000 | 22 |
Amazon | 505 | 8 | Benjamin Lazer | United States | 38,600 | 19 |
Amazon | 505 | 9 | Tai Ly | United States | 40,500 | 20 |
Amazon | 506 | 1 | Sean Chen | United States | 20,400 | 10 |
Amazon | 506 | 2 | Matthew Dames | United States | 36,400 | 18 |
Amazon | 506 | 3 | Gordon Pike | United States | 43,900 | 22 |
Amazon | 506 | 4 | Tom McCormick | United States | 15,800 | 8 |
Amazon | 506 | 5 | Kenny Shei | United States | 27,200 | 14 |
Amazon | 506 | 6 | Dutch Boyd | United States | 8,000 | 4 |
Amazon | 506 | 8 | Michael Falk | United States | 34,000 | 17 |
Amazon | 506 | 9 | Eric Rabl | Switzerland | 43,000 | 22 |
Amazon | 507 | 1 | Grant Hansen | United States | 9,700 | 5 |
Amazon | 507 | 2 | David Bach | United States | 10,800 | 5 |
Amazon | 507 | 3 | Rex Clinkscales | United States | 69,900 | 35 |
Amazon | 507 | 4 | Jon Kyte | Norway | 31,600 | 16 |
Amazon | 507 | 5 | Richard Fuller | United States | 10,700 | 5 |
Amazon | 507 | 6 | Nick Tsoukalas | United States | 19,800 | 10 |
Amazon | 507 | 7 | Phil Goatz | United States | 64,200 | 32 |
Amazon | 507 | 9 | Clint Lieser | United States | 30,000 | 15 |
Amazon | 508 | 1 | Mitch Schock | United States | 16,200 | 8 |
Amazon | 508 | 2 | Jared Woodin | United States | 59,100 | 30 |
Amazon | 508 | 3 | Michael Lipner | United States | 37,000 | 19 |
Amazon | 508 | 5 | DID NOT REPORT 1 | United States | 1 | 0 |
Amazon | 508 | 6 | Matthew Skrodzki | United States | 23,900 | 12 |
Amazon | 508 | 7 | Paul Cogliano | United States | 11,900 | 6 |
Amazon | 508 | 8 | Skip Plotnicki | United States | 21,700 | 11 |
Amazon | 508 | 9 | Robert Nehorayan | United States | 19,000 | 10 |
Amazon | 511 | 1 | Jan Suchanek | New Zealand | 29,200 | 15 |
Amazon | 511 | 2 | Andrew Rudisill | United States | 32,800 | 16 |
Amazon | 511 | 3 | James Karamanis | United States | 14,400 | 7 |
Amazon | 511 | 4 | Marc Tokushige | United States | 10,000 | 5 |
Amazon | 511 | 5 | Jet Black | United States | 24,600 | 12 |
Amazon | 511 | 6 | Kurt Kachigan | United States | 14,900 | 7 |
Amazon | 511 | 7 | Dustin Sitar | United States | 35,000 | 18 |
Amazon | 511 | 8 | Robert Albrecht | United States | 9,000 | 5 |
Amazon | 511 | 9 | Evan Ross | United States | 31,300 | 16 |
Amazon | 512 | 1 | Ty Francis | United States | 30,500 | 15 |
Amazon | 512 | 2 | Ashish Gupta | Australia | 5,700 | 3 |
Amazon | 512 | 3 | Sean Berrios | United States | 39,500 | 20 |
Amazon | 512 | 4 | Kurt Maier | United States | 68,200 | 34 |
Amazon | 512 | 5 | Michael Coombs | United States | 26,100 | 13 |
Amazon | 512 | 6 | Paul Deng | United States | 33,000 | 17 |
Amazon | 512 | 7 | Levon Torosyan | United States | 17,500 | 9 |
Amazon | 512 | 8 | John Lutes | United States | 12,400 | 6 |
Amazon | 512 | 9 | Rellie Sigua | United States | 48,400 | 24 |
Amazon | 513 | 1 | Thomas Levesque | United States | 25,800 | 13 |
Amazon | 513 | 2 | Nguyen Nguyen | United States | 22,400 | 11 |
Amazon | 513 | 3 | Terricita Gutierrez | United States | 22,400 | 11 |
Amazon | 513 | 4 | Warren Colman | United Kingdom | 27,500 | 14 |
Amazon | 513 | 5 | Jeff Shulman | United States | 40,000 | 20 |
Amazon | 513 | 6 | Bryce Clark | United States | 5,800 | 3 |
Amazon | 513 | 7 | Renato Disilvestro | United States | 26,500 | 13 |
Amazon | 513 | 8 | Dave Alfa | United States | 23,400 | 12 |
Amazon | 513 | 9 | Diego Cordovez | United States | 13,200 | 7 |
Amazon | 514 | 1 | Andrey Danilyuk | Russia | 36,400 | 18 |
Amazon | 514 | 2 | Thomas Chung | United States | 7,100 | 4 |
Amazon | 514 | 3 | Jeremy Heartberg | United States | 66,200 | 33 |
Amazon | 514 | 4 | Richard Spencer | United States | 13,400 | 7 |
Amazon | 514 | 5 | Anh Van Nguyen | Canada | 21,600 | 11 |
Amazon | 514 | 6 | William Romaine | United States | 45,100 | 23 |
Amazon | 514 | 7 | Maurice Mcclaine | United States | 1 | 0 |
Amazon | 514 | 8 | Oleg Chebotarev | Russia | 29,400 | 15 |
Amazon | 514 | 9 | Luan Do | United States | 12,800 | 6 |
Amazon | 515 | 1 | Matt Molinari | United States | 37,800 | 19 |
Amazon | 515 | 2 | Cary Augustine | United States | 39,900 | 20 |
Amazon | 515 | 3 | Jeb Morrow | United States | 25,200 | 13 |
Amazon | 515 | 4 | Andrew Yip | Canada | 55,900 | 28 |
Amazon | 515 | 5 | Kirk Tambara | United States | 22,700 | 11 |
Amazon | 515 | 6 | Daryn Firicano | United States | 30,800 | 15 |
Amazon | 515 | 7 | Cody Riedel | United States | 68,600 | 34 |
Amazon | 515 | 8 | Preben Stokkan | United States | 5,000 | 3 |
Amazon | 515 | 9 | Saket Chadda | United States | 6,800 | 3 |
Amazon | 518 | 1 | Alan Bittikofer | United States | 55,300 | 28 |
Amazon | 518 | 2 | Chip Jett | United States | 36,000 | 18 |
Amazon | 518 | 3 | Guy Cicconi | United States | 26,400 | 13 |
Amazon | 518 | 4 | Matt Grapenthien | United States | 18,400 | 9 |
Amazon | 518 | 5 | Andrew Stevens | Canada | 31,700 | 16 |
Amazon | 518 | 6 | Jason Duong | Canada | 9,200 | 5 |
Amazon | 518 | 7 | Truong Nguyen | United States | 24,100 | 12 |
Amazon | 518 | 8 | Robert Hilton | United States | 34,700 | 17 |
Amazon | 518 | 9 | Kevin Song | United States | 35,800 | 18 |
Amazon | 519 | 1 | Andres Risquez | United States | 19,800 | 10 |
Amazon | 519 | 2 | James Dorrance | United States | 29,600 | 15 |
Amazon | 519 | 3 | Scott Brown | United States | 36,700 | 18 |
Amazon | 519 | 4 | David Gee | United States | 12,100 | 6 |
Amazon | 519 | 5 | Jordan Polk | United States | 42,100 | 21 |
Amazon | 519 | 6 | Daniel Vanvoorst | United States | 20,600 | 10 |
Amazon | 519 | 7 | Matthew Elsby | United States | 15,400 | 8 |
Amazon | 519 | 8 | Daniel Needleman | United States | 64,600 | 32 |
Amazon | 519 | 9 | David Nabutovsky | United States | 9,400 | 5 |
Amazon | 520 | 1 | Daniel Idema | Canada | 28,000 | 14 |
Amazon | 520 | 2 | Peter Schneider | United States | 31,900 | 16 |
Amazon | 520 | 3 | Christopher Schaler | United States | 39,600 | 20 |
Amazon | 520 | 4 | Philip Tom | United States | 18,900 | 9 |
Amazon | 520 | 5 | Phanora Prom | United States | 45,000 | 23 |
Amazon | 520 | 6 | David Leighton | United States | 11,600 | 6 |
Amazon | 520 | 7 | Louise Francoeur | United States | 30,200 | 15 |
Amazon | 520 | 8 | Robert Yass | United States | 17,600 | 9 |
Amazon | 520 | 9 | Phillip Riley | Canada | 29,200 | 15 |
Amazon | 521 | 1 | Michael Jex | United States | 49,300 | 25 |
Amazon | 521 | 2 | Suk Lee | United States | 21,100 | 11 |
Amazon | 521 | 3 | Mark Bassaly | United States | 22,200 | 11 |
Amazon | 521 | 4 | Duane Yoshioka | United States | 4,700 | 2 |
Amazon | 521 | 5 | Brian Vollick | United States | 71,500 | 36 |
Amazon | 521 | 6 | Amir Turkzadeh | United States | 35,000 | 18 |
Amazon | 521 | 7 | Brandon Cantu | United States | 23,500 | 12 |
Amazon | 521 | 8 | DID NOT REPORT 2 | United States | 40,000 | 20 |
Amazon | 522 | 1 | Kai Wang | United States | 15,100 | 8 |
Amazon | 522 | 2 | Ching Choy | United States | 8,300 | 4 |
Amazon | 522 | 3 | Todd Barlow | United States | 32,100 | 16 |
Amazon | 522 | 4 | Jonathan Tamayo | United States | 29,600 | 15 |
Amazon | 522 | 5 | Carlos Figueroafernandez | United States | 16,500 | 8 |
Amazon | 522 | 6 | Yaser Alkeliddar | United States | 46,200 | 23 |
Amazon | 522 | 7 | John Pires | United States | 39,200 | 20 |
Amazon | 522 | 8 | Kenneth Gonzales | Canada | 8,600 | 4 |
Amazon | 522 | 9 | Daniel Ospina | Colombia | 23,800 | 12 |
Amazon | 525 | 1 | Robert Kole | United States | 6,800 | 3 |
Amazon | 525 | 2 | Douglas Carli | United States | 12,800 | 6 |
Amazon | 525 | 3 | Daniel Huseman | United States | 19,500 | 10 |
Amazon | 525 | 4 | Philip Cordano | United States | 41,300 | 21 |
Amazon | 525 | 6 | Brad Albrinck | United States | 19,800 | 10 |
Amazon | 525 | 7 | Angelo Karimalis | United States | 15,600 | 8 |
Amazon | 525 | 8 | William Hagen | United States | 13,300 | 7 |
Amazon | 525 | 9 | Sunil Nair | United States | 8,300 | 4 |
Amazon | 526 | 1 | Varadarajan Iyengar | United States | 24,900 | 12 |
Amazon | 526 | 2 | Ross Tesser | United States | 9,000 | 5 |
Amazon | 526 | 3 | Gary Garibyan | Armenia | 31,700 | 16 |
Amazon | 526 | 4 | Robert Michel | United States | 25,700 | 13 |
Amazon | 526 | 5 | Lloyd Scheibner | United States | 37,100 | 19 |
Amazon | 526 | 6 | Christopher Bartley | United States | 11,600 | 6 |
Amazon | 526 | 7 | Connie Rim | United States | 15,800 | 8 |
Amazon | 526 | 8 | Michael Thurman | United States | 10,200 | 5 |
Amazon | 526 | 9 | Andrew Beversdorf | United States | 30,100 | 15 |
Amazon | 527 | 1 | Steven Iino | United States | 5,600 | 3 |
Amazon | 527 | 2 | Cyrus Samii | United States | 20,000 | 10 |
Amazon | 527 | 3 | Noah Bronstein | United States | 15,500 | 8 |
Amazon | 527 | 4 | Kevin Law | United States | 32,300 | 16 |
Amazon | 527 | 5 | Jose Olegario | United States | 20,800 | 10 |
Amazon | 527 | 6 | Matt Russell | United States | 36,300 | 18 |
Amazon | 527 | 7 | Mickey Appleman | United States | 5,600 | 3 |
Amazon | 527 | 8 | Matthew Woodward | United States | 9,000 | 5 |
Amazon | 527 | 9 | Jack McClelland | United States | 6,000 | 3 |
Amazon | 528 | 1 | Matt Szymaszek | United States | 40,300 | 20 |
Amazon | 528 | 2 | Mark Radoja | Canada | 18,500 | 9 |
Amazon | 528 | 3 | Carlos Rodriguez | United States | 14,900 | 7 |
Amazon | 528 | 4 | Ronald Matsuura | United States | 29,000 | 15 |
Amazon | 528 | 5 | Kevin Gross | United States | 14,200 | 7 |
Amazon | 528 | 6 | Ivan Sapozhnikov | United States | 40,500 | 20 |
Amazon | 528 | 7 | Joshua Smith | United States | 5,400 | 3 |
Amazon | 528 | 9 | Adam Tyburski | United States | 8,900 | 4 |
Amazon | 529 | 1 | Frank Prior | United States | 52,400 | 26 |
Amazon | 529 | 2 | Michael Lau | United States | 17,700 | 9 |
Amazon | 529 | 3 | Francis Mariani | United States | 22,300 | 11 |
Amazon | 529 | 4 | John Galbraith | United States | 16,400 | 8 |
Amazon | 529 | 5 | Ly Le | United States | 29,000 | 15 |
Amazon | 529 | 6 | Scott Hilton | United States | 12,200 | 6 |
Amazon | 529 | 7 | Sergei Tolkachov | United States | 8,800 | 4 |
Amazon | 529 | 8 | Joe Brindle | United Kingdom | 11,900 | 6 |
Amazon | 529 | 9 | Alan Steinberg | United States | 16,900 | 8 |
Day 1 play has concluded. A recap of the day's action will be posted shortly.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Brian Vollick |
71,500
71,500
|
71,500 |
|
||
Rex Clinkscales |
69,900
37,900
|
37,900 |
Cody Riedel |
68,600
68,600
|
68,600 |
Kurt Maier |
68,200
68,200
|
68,200 |
Jeremy Heartberg |
66,200
66,200
|
66,200 |
Daniel Needleman | 64,600 | |
Phil Goatz |
64,200
64,200
|
64,200 |
Jared Woodin |
59,100
5,100
|
5,100 |
Andrew Yip |
55,900
55,900
|
55,900 |
Alan Bittikofer |
55,300
55,300
|
55,300 |
Frank Prior |
52,400
52,400
|
52,400 |
Michael Jex |
49,300
49,300
|
49,300 |
Rellie Sigua |
48,400
48,400
|
48,400 |
Yaser Alkeliddar |
46,200
46,200
|
46,200 |
William Romaine |
45,100
45,100
|
45,100 |
Phanora Prom |
45,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
Jesse Hampton |
44,700
44,700
|
44,700 |
Gordon Pike
|
43,900
36,400
|
36,400 |
Robert Goodson |
43,800
43,800
|
43,800 |
Eric Rabl |
43,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
Jon Seaman |
43,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
Benjamin Scholl |
42,400
42,400
|
42,400 |
|
||
Jordan Polk |
42,100
42,100
|
42,100 |
|
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Philip Cordano |
41,300
41,300
|
41,300 |
Ivan Sapozhnikov |
40,500
40,500
|
40,500 |
The players are now playing their last hand of the day and bagging their chips.
The tournament clock has been paused when 10 minutes remaining and the tournament director has announced that four more hands will be played today.
Starting out short, Don Zewin bet and Jeff Shulman three-bet. Zewin moved his last chips in the middle for a total stack around 1,800 and Shulman completed to create the following showdown:
Don Zewin:
Jeff Shulman:
The board came down , bringing no help to the man who finished third behind Phil Hellmuth and Johnny Chan in the 1989 WSOP Main Event and he got eliminated from the tournament.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Jeff Shulman |
41,000
34,700
|
34,700 |
Don Zewin | Eliminé |
Andrew Stevens bet and it was called David Bach on the button, Dutch Boyd in the small blind and the player in the big blind. The flop came and all the players checked.
On the turn, Boyd and the big blind checked and Stevens continued with another bet. Only Bach made the call and the dealer revealed the on the river. Stevens bet and Bach announced all-in for 1,500 chips. Stevens completed and showed for trip nines. Bach, however, tabled for a straight and earned the double up.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Andrew Stevens
|
34,500
34,500
|
34,500 |
David Bach |
8,000
6,500
|
6,500 |
|
Brad Albrinck opened with a raise from middle position and Jared Woodin called in the big blind. Woodin check-called a bet on the flop and again check-called Albrinck's bet on the turn.
When the river came the it was to be the same scenario and Albrinck's third and final bet was called and he tabled .
Big stack Woodin mucked and two-time WSOP ring winner Albrinck took down the pot.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Jared Woodin |
54,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
Brad Albrinck |
23,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson was another of the well-known faces to enter the event just before registration closed and, like many of the field's players, has not been able to survive the day.
Daniel Needleman was the man to send him to the rail after he informed us that he hit queens-full against Ferguson's pocket aces.