The remaining 243 players are heading on their first break of the day. It will roughly be a 25-minute break as the tournament staff colors up the 1,000 denomination chips. Here is a look at what happened in the first level of Day 5:
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Carlos Matos-Erarte opened to 55,000 from under the gun and Marle Spragg moved all-in with a stack of 308,000.
Matos-Erarte shuffled his chips as a pair of TV cameras hovered overhead and he eventually folded.
Spragg was seen getting another three-bet jam through a few orbits earlier.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Carlos Matos-Erarte |
2,550,000
-45,000
|
-45,000 |
Marle Spragg |
370,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Yuhei Sanada raised and then near instantly called the shove by Joey Weissman for 440,000, which represented nearly half of his stack.
Joey Weissman:
Yuhei Sanada:
The board kept Weissman in contention as he once more doubled with his short stack.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Zachary Mcdiarmid |
5,500,000
-335,000
|
-335,000 |
Punnat Punsri |
3,100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Daniel Swartz |
2,600,000
850,000
|
850,000 |
Roongsak Griffeth |
2,200,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
Niko Koop |
1,750,000
-596,000
|
-596,000 |
Joey Weissman |
930,000
-70,000
|
-70,000 |
|
||
Weston Pring |
730,000
-120,000
|
-120,000 |
Marty Zabib |
650,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
Yuhei Sanada |
550,000
-607,000
|
-607,000 |
Jeffrey Trudeau raised to 50,000 from late position and then called the 175,000 three-bet Michael Lavin made from the cutoff.
The flop came , Trudeau check-called the 125,000 continuation bet from Lavin, then did the same for 250,000 after the turn, then again for 600,000 after the river.
Lavin rolled over for a pair of fours but it was no good as Trudeau held a made hand of to win the pot.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Jeffrey Trudeau |
4,720,000
1,748,000
|
1,748,000 |
Michael Lavin |
950,000
-312,000
|
-312,000 |
A completed board of was spread across the felt with around 750,000 in the middle already. Nick Petrangelo counted out a bet of 425,000 and Pierre De Almeida flicked in a chip to call.
Petrangelo turned over for a rivered straight while De Almeida showed for a set of tens. De Almeida stood up from the table in agony after being left with one of the shortest stacks in the tournament.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Ramon Colillas |
6,540,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
||
Mitchell Halverson |
4,280,000
480,000
|
480,000 |
Jeremy Joseph |
3,600,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Shai Arbel |
3,075,000
488,000
|
488,000 |
Jacob Connelly |
2,940,000
191,000
|
191,000 |
Fatima Nanji |
2,700,000
393,000
|
393,000 |
Nick Petrangelo |
2,550,000
585,000
|
585,000 |
|
||
Chance Kornuth |
2,350,000
-390,000
|
-390,000 |
|
||
Koray Aldemir |
1,840,000
-93,000
|
-93,000 |
|
||
Tyler Cornell |
1,240,000
-620,000
|
-620,000 |
|
||
Pierre De Almeida |
250,000
-1,232,000
|
-1,232,000 |
Jack Oliver bet the heads-up turn of to get raised by Richard Lee in the cutoff as confirmed by Tristan Wade. Oliver then checked the on the river and Lee moved all-in for 1,113,000 total. Oliver asked for a count and the camera crews rushed by to film a potential all-in showdown.
However, Oliver opted to fold instead as Lee dragged in the large pot.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Stephen Chidwick |
4,200,000
-176,000
|
-176,000 |
|
||
Keith Lehr |
3,300,000
500,000
|
500,000 |
|
||
Tristan Wade |
3,000,000
1,391,000
|
1,391,000 |
|
||
Hye Park |
2,320,000
900,000
|
900,000 |
|
||
Jack Oliver |
2,150,000
272,000
|
272,000 |
Richard Lee (NV)
|
1,900,000
-50,000
|
-50,000 |
Dan Dyke |
1,030,000
591,000
|
591,000 |
Jose Severino |
850,000
-68,000
|
-68,000 |
Benjamin Herman |
430,000
-492,000
|
-492,000 |
Photos by Alec Rome (PokerNews / WSOP).
Matthew Kaplan raised big from the button and Sammy Lafleur three-bet jammed from the small blind for the big blind to fold but for Kaplan to make the call with the shorter stack.
Matthew Kaplan:
Sammy Lafleur:
The board of bricked out for Kaplan and he was eliminated.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Sammy Lafleur |
2,080,000
1,514,000
|
1,514,000 |
Matthew Kaplan | Eliminé |
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Rittie Chuaprasert | Eliminé | |
Niv Decalo | Eliminé | |
Lewe Thiessen | Eliminé | |
Hao Sun | Eliminé | |
Rhett Wiseman | Eliminé | |
Mark Mazza | Eliminé | |
Oleksii Kravchuk | Eliminé | |
Nikolay Fal | Eliminé | |
|
||
Boshuang Gao | Eliminé | |
Carlo Solerti | Eliminé | |
Zachary Okin | Eliminé | |
Neel Choksi | Eliminé | |
Daniel Lowery | Eliminé | |
Michael Schneider | Eliminé |