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

2018-06-26 22:06 UTC-7

Tach Takes Down a Big Pot, Talbot Joins the Tournament

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Niveau 7 : 250/500, 400 ante

While the board was already reading Farukh Tach was involved in a pretty big pot. There was about 10,000 in the middle as both players checked to see the complete the board. Tach's opponent bet out 4,900 on the river and Tach snap-called the bet.

Tach showed down to win the pot as he gave Parker Talbot some change for a 5,000 chip since he joined the table in the middle of that hand.

Tach sits now in the middle of Scotty Nguyen and Talbot. The latter was verbally very excited about the big blind ante format of the tournament.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Farukh Tach	49,000 20,000	20,000
Scotty Nguyen	31,000 17,500	17,500

Parker Talbot	15,000 15,000	15,000

Tags: Farukh Tach Parker Talbot Scotty Nguyen

2018-06-26 22:07 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

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Niveau 7 : 250/500, 400 ante

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Alex Keating	61,000 46,000	46,000

Kristen Bicknell	59,000 44,000	44,000

David Pham	49,000

Pierre Neuville	48,000 25,000	25,000
Shawn Buchanan	48,000

Maurice Hawkins	44,000 -7,000	-7,000
Aymon hata	41,000 26,000	26,000
Valentin Vornicu	29,000 9,000	9,000
Kathy Liebert	29,000 14,000	14,000

Pablo Mariz	27,000 12,000	12,000

Leo Margets	26,000 15,000	15,000

Alex Foxen	23,000 5,000	5,000

Michael Gathy	18,500 500	500

Samuel Chartier	18,500 3,500	3,500
Daniel Weinman	14,000 -1,000	-1,000

Juicy Li	13,000 -10,000	-10,000
James Chen	12,500 -2,500	-2,500

Andrew Lichtenberger	12,000 -1,000	-1,000

Frank Kassela	10,000

Loni Harwood	8,000 -4,500	-4,500

Maria Lampropulos	7,000 -8,000	-8,000
Norm Macdonald	Eliminé

2018-06-26 22:15 UTC-7

Charania Eliminates a Short Stack

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Niveau 7 : 250/500, 400 ante

Mohsin Charania found himself in an all-in situation against a very short-stacked player. The player had just 1,500 chips behind and lost them all to Charania with against .

It all got a bit exciting on the flop, but the turn and gifted the pot to Charania.

Ben Heath busted out of the tournament a couple tables over.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Mohsin Charania	28,000 13,000	13,000

Ben Heath	Eliminé

Tags: Ben Heath Mohsin Charania

2018-06-26 22:27 UTC-7

Assorted Stack Updates

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Niveau 7 : 250/500, 400 ante

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Matthew Leecy	75,000 -4,500	-4,500
Chance Kornuth	59,000 49,000	49,000

Joe Serock	55,000 27,000	27,000

Andrey Zaichenko	54,000 11,000	11,000

[Removed:17]	52,000 12,000	12,000
Matt Salsberg	51,000 36,000	36,000
Darren Elias	41,000 31,900	31,900

Heidi May	40,000 -7,000	-7,000

Sylvain Loosli	39,000

Chris Hunichen	38,000 16,000	16,000

Qui Nguyen	38,000 21,000	21,000

Kitty Kuo	36,000 16,000	16,000
Maria Konnikova	36,000 6,000	6,000

Rainer Kempe	27,000 18,000	18,000
David Guay	21,000 6,000	6,000

Stephen Chidwick	18,000 3,000	3,000

Benoit Jean	18,000 -5,000	-5,000
Dylan Wilkerson	13,000 -2,000	-2,000
Muskan Sethi	13,000

Martin Jacobson	11,000 -9,000	-9,000

Matt Waxman	10,000 -5,000	-5,000

Griffin Benger	Eliminé

2018-06-26 22:32 UTC-7

Late Entries

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Niveau 7 : 250/500, 400 ante

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
David "ODB" Baker	15,000

Jonathan Abdellatif	15,000

Jean Gaspard	15,000

Manig Loeser	15,000

Dominik Nitsche	15,000

2018-06-26 22:45 UTC-7

Kuo Cut Down by Aces and Jacks

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Niveau 7 : 250/500, 400 ante

A player in middle position opened to 1,000 and Ricky Guan three-bet to 9,000, the majority of his stack, from late position. Kitty Kuo made the call out of the small blind only to see the middle position player four-bet jam for 29,800. Guan called all in for 2,700 more and Kuo called to put both opponents at risk.

Middle Position:
Ricky Guan:
Kitty Kuo:

The board ran out and Guan made a full house to triple up. Kuo was also forced to pay the balance of the middle position player's stack to the tune of 18,100 leaving herself with just five big blinds.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Ricky Guan	35,000 23,300	23,300
Kitty Kuo	3,200 -32,800	-32,800

Tags: Kitty Kuo Ricky Guan

Niveau: 8

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 600

2018-06-26 23:01 UTC-7

No Longer in Contention

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Niveau 8 : 300/600, 600 ante

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Kahle Burns	Eliminé

Kelly Minkin	Eliminé
Chris Moorman	Eliminé

Ryan Riess	Eliminé

Olivier Busquet	Eliminé
James Alexander	Eliminé
Adrian Mateos	Eliminé

Joseph Cheong	Eliminé

Jason Wheeler	Eliminé

Ian O'Hara	Eliminé
David Peters	Eliminé

Niall Farrell	Eliminé

Anatoly Filatov	Eliminé

Lars Kamphues	Eliminé
Matas Cimbolas	Eliminé
Kevin Song	Eliminé

2018-06-26 23:02 UTC-7

The PokerNews MyStack App is Live

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Niveau 8 : 300/600, 600 ante

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2018-06-26 23:08 UTC-7

Lichtenberger Eliminated

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Niveau 8 : 300/600, 600 ante

Andrew Lichtenberger got his chips in the middle while he was ahead of his opponent, but an unlucky river sent him to the rail.

Lichtenberger bet out 3,000 on the flop and got called by his opponent. The turn was the and that's where all the chips went to the middle. Lichtenberger was holding and had to hold against his opponent's .

The river was a and Lichtenberger was eliminated from the tournament.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Andrew Lichtenberger	Eliminé

Tags: Andrew Lichtenberger