Daniel Sepiol raised to 11,000 in the cutoff and the small blind went all-in for 180,000. Action folded back to Sepiol who snap-called and the cards were tabled.
Daniel Sepiol:
Small Blind:
The flop came out , which gave Sepiol a flush draw and his opponent three sixes. The turn came out a and the river came the , which improved the opponent to quads and left Sepiol with no chips.
Day 1 of Event #61: $600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold'em has come to a conclusion. There were a total of 3,916 entrants generating a prize pool of $1,997,160. The winner will take home the first-place prize of $252,491 paired with the coveted 2021 World Series of Poker gold bracelet.
They were 588 players to make the money but only 448 players advanced to Day 2 and are guaranteed a payout of $1,051.
Among the players leading the field into Day 2 is ten-time World Series of Poker Circuit ring winner Robert Hankins who bagged a whopping 868,000 from a starting stack of 30,000. Hankins recently won his tenth WSOP ring in August of this year at Harrah’s Cherokee for the first-place prize of $132,241. He has now put himself in a position to capture his first WSOP bracelet which would add to his already impressive list of accomplishments in the tournament poker world.
Samuel Taylor (838,000), Justin Arnwine (779,000), Nana Senachika (646,000), Cole Ferraro (625,000) and two-time WSOP bracelet winner Mark Seif (550,000) follow close behind.
Event #61 Day 1 Top 10 Chip Counts
RANK
PLAYER
CITY / STATE / COUNTRY
CHIP COUNT
Big Blinds
1
Robert Hankins
United States
868,000
87
2
Samuel Taylor
United States
838,000
84
3
Radoslav Stoyanov
Bulgaria
830,000
83
4
Dhaval Mudgal
India
786,000
79
5
Justin Arnwine
United States
779,000
78
6
Kc Vaughan
United States
743,000
74
7
Matas Budginas
United States
719,000
72
8
Ping Liu
United States
702,000
70
9
Nissar Quraishi
United States
687,000
69
10
Alan Ferraro
Italy
686,000
69
Mark Seif
Day 2 will restart at 12 p.m. local time on Nov. 2 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. The 448 remaining players will be starting at Level 18 with 5,000/10,000 blinds and a 10,000 big blind ante. They will play 10 levels with a duration of 60-minutes. There will be 15-minute breaks every two levels and a 60-min dinner break after Level 23 (≈ 6:30 p.m.).
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, which gave Sepiol a flush draw and his opponent three sixes. The turn came out a 
and the river came the 
, which improved the opponent to quads and left Sepiol with no chips.
and Hallaert got a double after nursing his short stack on the bubble.
