| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
|
175,000
3,700
|
3,700 |
|
|
||
|
|
150,000
6,500
|
6,500 |
|
|
121,000
17,800
|
17,800 |
|
|
||
|
|
102,000
15,400
|
15,400 |
|
|
||
|
|
92,000
10,100
|
10,100 |
|
|
84,500
2,700
|
2,700 |
|
|
83,000
2,300
|
2,300 |
|
|
||
|
|
81,000
3,300
|
3,300 |
|
|
77,000
700
|
700 |
|
|
||
|
|
74,000
1,400
|
1,400 |
|
|
67,400
9,900
|
9,900 |
|
|
||
|
|
60,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
58,600
1,200
|
1,200 |
|
|
||
|
|
48,400
5,300
|
5,300 |
|
|
||
|
|
47,000
25,400
|
25,400 |
|
|
||
|
|
45,300
4,300
|
4,300 |
|
|
||
|
|
45,000
6,800
|
6,800 |
|
|
45,000
40,900
|
40,900 |
|
|
||
|
|
44,500
6,400
|
6,400 |
|
|
||
|
|
41,000
19,700
|
19,700 |
|
|
||
|
|
38,000
200
|
200 |
|
|
||
|
|
21,200
4,600
|
4,600 |
|
|
||
|
|
20,500
4,700
|
4,700 |
|
|
17,000
16,100
|
16,100 |
|
|
||
|
|
17,000
4,800
|
4,800 |
2017 World Series of Poker
"Dealer Change 622!"
That was the call coming out of the middle of the Miranda room just as William Kassouf sat down. Already Kassouf was firing off, talking at 100 words a minute, faster than anyone could even keep up with.
"I was up til 8:45 a.m.," Kassouf said. "I was just checking out Facebook, chatting with the mates, only got two hours of sleep. Staying up all night, like a boss"
Mostly the only person responding to Kassouf's banter, was the dealer.
"I'm going to need your I.D. and pink slip," the dealer asked Kassouf.
"You mean you don't know who I am?" Kassouf shot back. "Alright alright."
Kassouf produced his I.D. and his pink slip eventually and play got underway for him.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
|
47,800
100
|
100 |
|
|
||
Paul Welke and William Fortner have been eliminated. Fortner got his stack in after a king-high turn holding ![]()
only to see Jarod Ludemann snap-call with ![]()
for the flopped straight. The same table also features Dieter Dechant, who finished third in the Seniors Event and won the bracelet in THE GIANT.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
|
180,000
40,900
|
40,900 |
|
|
Eliminé | |
|
|
Eliminé |
Tetsuya Noguchi raised and called the three-bet of Justin Fawcett in the big blind to see a flop of ![]()
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. Fawcett bet 8,000 and Noguchi raised to 20,000, enough to put Fawcett all in. He obliged and called for the following showdown:
Justin Fawcett: ![]()
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Tetsuya Noguchi: ![]()
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The
turn settled things for Fawcett, making the
river a formality.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
|
55,000
25,500
|
25,500 |
|
|
52,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
||
Following a flop of ![]()
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, Shahriar Assareh wound up all in from the cutoff for about 31,000 with ![]()
against DJ MacKinnon in middle position with ![]()
.
The turn was the
, giving Assareh a few outs to survive. However, the river was the
to lock up the pot for MacKinnon.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
|
98,000
34,500
|
34,500 |
|
|
Eliminé |
A player in middle position raised to 1,300 and Michael Mizrachi called from the next seat over.
The flop came down ![]()
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and the middle-position player bet 1,400. Mizrachi called, the
turn fell, and the player in middle position checked. Mizrachi bet about 3,000, his opponent folded, and Mizrachi collected the pot.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
|
85,000
3,500
|
3,500 |
|
|
||
At 2 minutes past noon, Jack Effel has kicked things off today with the "shuffle up and deal" announcement. Cards are in the air and the shuffling of chips is already echoing across the various rooms in the Rio.
Niveau: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 100
The following three tables will be featured in the Brasilia room at the start of Day 2c:
Main Feature Table / Mothership:
| Room | Table | Seat | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brasilia | 727 | 1 | Louise Francoeur | United States | 109,600 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 2 | Dario Minieri | Italy | 97,400 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 3 | Joseph Trezzo | United States | 85,800 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 4 | Phil Hellmuth | United States | 87,400 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 5 | Kou Vang | United States | 28,500 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 6 | Alan Cutler | United States | 46,600 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 7 | Ricky Lee | United States | 25,800 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 8 | Daniel Bartel | United States | 38,900 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 9 | Frank Bonacci | United States | 34,000 |
Secondary Feature Table
| Room | Table | Seat | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | 30 | 1 | Blake Kelso | United States | 31,100 |
| Amazon | 30 | 2 | Virgil Beddingfield | United States | 94,000 |
| Amazon | 30 | 3 | Vic Dezen | Canada | 49,000 |
| Amazon | 30 | 4 | David Levi | United States | 59,700 |
| Amazon | 30 | 5 | Cliff Josephy | United States | 28,500 |
| Amazon | 30 | 6 | Steven Gurney-Goldman | United States | 36,000 |
| Amazon | 30 | 7 | David Israelite | United States | 92,800 |
| Amazon | 30 | 8 | Hyoung Chae | United States | 41,001 |
| Amazon | 30 | 9 | Joseph Cheong | United States | 99,400 |
Third Feature Table
| Room | Table | Seat | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pavilion | 238 | 1 | Jed Hoffman | United States | 82,000 |
| Pavilion | 238 | 2 | Zarik Megerdichian | United States | 66,000 |
| Pavilion | 238 | 3 | Alejandro Anaya | Canada | 54,200 |
| Pavilion | 238 | 4 | Eric Nathan | United States | 228,500 |
| Pavilion | 238 | 5 | Stephen Buell | United States | 74,500 |
| Pavilion | 238 | 6 | Jacob Zalewski | United States | 67,700 |
| Pavilion | 238 | 7 | Pedro Oliveira | Portugal | 68,500 |
| Pavilion | 238 | 8 | Loni Harwood | United States | 52,500 |
| Pavilion | 238 | 9 | Joshua Hopkins | Canada | 55,400 |
The first players have their slip for Day 3 in hand. Day 2ab was a massive day at the World Series of Poker yesterday, and today we're doing it all over again. Day 1c attracted a gigantic field of 4,262 and lost 962 players, so today at noon, 3,300 players return to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino for five more levels of play on Day 2c.
Levels are once again each 2 hours long, with a 20-minute break after every level. The dinner break of 90 minutes takes place after Level 8, which should be around 6:40 p.m. The money will not be reached today; that most likely happens towards the end of Day 3, or beginning of Day 4.
| Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 300 | 600 | 100 |
| 20-minute break | |||
| 7 | 400 | 800 | 100 |
| 20-minute break | |||
| 8 | 500 | 1,000 | 100 |
| 90-minute break | |||
| 9 | 600 | 1,200 | 200 |
| 20-minute break | |||
| 10 | 800 | 1,600 | 200 |
All in all, this year’s Main Event is the third-largest in history (only topped in 2006 and 2010) and the prize pool sits at almost $68 million. First place is guaranteed $8,150,000, and the total places paid is 1,084 with a min-cash of $15,000.
Excitement was in the air as players from the first two Day 1 flights in the Main Event returned to the Rio to battle it out in Day 2a and 2b flights. When play got underway, 2,959 players in total were back in action with only about 1,100 making it through for Thursday’s Day 3.
During Tuesday’s action, the two flights remained separate. Leading the field from 2a was Lawrence Bayley with 618,000 chips and Mickey Craft in 2B with 608,100. Other notables remaining from 2ab are Marvin Rettenmaier (359,100), Charlie Carrel (343,000), 2016 November Niner Kenny Hallaert (331,800), Cherish Andrews (330,700), Melanie Weisner (319,400), Mike Matusow (228,200), Chris Vitch (221,200), Scott Seiver (195,600), 2005 Main Event champion Joe Hachem (134,700), and 2004 Main Event champion Greg Raymer (106,400). Reigning champion Qui Nguyen, however, did not make it through Day 2.
The Day 2c field of returnees will combine with those remaining from Tuesday into one big pool for Thursday’s third day of play. Leading the beginning 2c field is France’s Jerome Brion with 247,900 chips. Brion has more than $194,000 in tournament winnings, his biggest a seventh-place finish in an EPT-Barcelona €1,100 event for $98,169.
Other notables who will be in action on Day 3 include: Nick Maimone (213,000), Andre Akkari (189,900), Jason Koon (166,600), Brandon Shack-Harris (160,000), [Removed:532] (150,900), Ryan Hughes (147,300), 2017 WSOP Player of the year front-runner John Monnette (123,800), Brian Rast (126,900), Phil Hellmuth (87,400, and Daniel Negreanu (26,000).
Play is scheduled to reach the final table on Day 7 (Monday, July 17). Days 8-10 will then resume and be played on July 20-22 to reach a winner – all played out live in front of ESPN’s cameras. Wednesday’s action be live on PokerGo beginning at 12:30 p.m. and then live on ESPN from 5-7 p.m. Here is a look at the payouts for the final table:
| 1st | $8,150,000 |
| 2nd | $4,700,000 |
| 3rd | $3,500,000 |
| 4th | $2,600,000 |
| 5th | $2,000,000 |
| 6th | $1,675,000 |
| 7th | $1,425,000 |
| 8th | $1,200,000 |
| 9th | $1,000,000 |
Here's the complete Day 2c seat draw: