$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 20: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante Players Remaining: 227 of 4,699
Tournament staff sent the 227 remaining players on another break as they color off the yellow 1K chips. The field continues to drop quickly and with the average stack at 415,000 (28 big blinds), it should continue that way for the foreseeable future.
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 20: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante Players Remaining: 262 of 4,699
Leif Force opened to 25,000 from early position and Ali Mehraban shoved for 58,000 from the small blind to get a quick call from Force.
Force: Mehraban:
It was a cooler for Mehraban and he called his friends over from the nearby payout line. He was drawing thin and blanked the entire board to exit in 263rd place.
Leif Force – 481,000 (40 bb) Ali Mehraban – Eliminated in 263rd Place ($940)
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 19: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante Players Remaining: 353 of 4,699
Players continue to roll through the payout line. They are being processed and sent to the cage to pick up their Event 1 money. Some of the notables going out recently include Tony Ruberto, David Bradshaw, Quyen Hoang, Victor Figueroa, David Poces, and Carlos Loving.
354th: Donal Maloney Jr – $800 355th: Manuel Soltero Luna – $800 356th: Harold O’Brien – $800 357th: Albert Rogers – $800 358th: David Bradshaw – $800 359th: Ronald Taylor – $800 360th: Richard Russ – $800 361st: Jordan Flaschner – $800 362nd: Jackson Martin – $800 363rd: Joshua Harrison – $800 364th: Quyen Hoang – $800 365th: DNR – $800 366th: Kyle Levassuer – $800 367th: Lucas Cominelli – $800 368th: Fredy Moreno – $800 369th: Carlos Bezara-Vivas – $800 370th: Euclid Zurbaran – $800 371st: DNR – $800 372nd: Victor Figueroa – $800 373rd: Robert Brown – $800 374th: Brian Stewart – $800 375th: Larry Sullivan – $800 376th: Carmine Floreno – $800 377th: Jonathan Hickman – $800 378th: Mateo Jimenez – $800 379th: Uriel Arnson – $800 380th: Myles German – $800 381st: David McLaren – $800 382nd: Michael Wetcher – $800 383rd: Kelly Slay – $800 384th: Deryl Luong – $800 385th: Wayne Edwards – $800 386th: Christopher Conyers – $800 387th: Marc Sacheli – $800 388th: Salomon Eskenazi – $800 389th: DNR – $800 390th: George Alberto – $800 391st: DNR – $800 392nd: Narimaan Ahmadi – $800 393rd: Claudel Joseph – $800 394th: Rodney Maclea – $800 395th: David Ciener – $800 396th: Michael Tait – $800 397th: Skyler White – $800 398th: Paul Gold – $800 399th: David Poces – $800 400th: Rodney Rodrigue – $800 401st: Aish Ayyash – $745 402nd: Douglas Lovelace – $745 403rd: Michael Krumenacker – $745 404th: Joseph Musa – $745 405th: Philip Wojtuniecki – $745 406th: Daniel Garcia – $745 407th: Francis Pasqualino – $745 408th: Matthew Zarcadoolas – $745 409th: DNR – $745 410th: Blaine McRae – $745 411th: David Castranova – $745 412th: Christopher Grove – $745 413th: Jonathan Dobson – $745 414th: Charles Lees – $745 415th: Carlos Loving – $745 416th: John Tobias – $745 417th: Moshe Tarich – $745 418th: Lascelle Peart – $745 419th: Yvonne McQuillan – $745 420th: Paul Louis – $745
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 19: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante Players Remaining: 355 of 4,699
Harold O’Brien opened the action from early position for 22,000 and Femi Fashakin called from the button with his big stack. The flop came , both players checked, and the turn was .
O’Brien moved all in for 280,000 and Fashakin called to put him at risk.
Fashakin: O’Brien:
Both players were drawing to the same open-ended straight but Faskakin was freerolling any club. The river complete the board and Faskakin’s club flush sent O’Brien out while moving his stack way up to 1,211,000.
Femi Fashakin – 1,211,000 (121 bb) Harold O’Brien – Eliminated in 356th Place ($800)
The second new tournament on today’s RRPO schedule will be a big one at 3 pm. Event 8 is a $1,700 Purple Chip Bounty NLH tournament with $500 of each buy-in going towards a bounty on each player’s head. It will juice up the action in the big buy-in game.
Players will sit down to 20,000 starting stacks and levels will last 30 minutes for the first four hours. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 7:30 pm and players are limited to a single re-entry option if they bust their first stack. After registration closes, blind levels will increase to 40 minutes until going up to 60 at the final table.
This is a two-day tournament and all remaining players at the end of Level 17 will bag their chips for a Day 2 return on Monday at 2 pm.
$100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 20,000 in chips
Levels 1-8 last 30 minutes; Levels 9+ last 40 minutes
Late registration/SINGLE re-entry available until start of Level 9
Day 1 will end after Level 17 or Tournament Director discretion
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante Players Remaining: 420 of 4,699
Tournament staff announced a 20-minute break as players were leaving the Seminole Ballroom, a little extra time to color off the 500 denom chips and put the 25K chips in play.
Once everything was done for a little while, there were actually 50 players eliminated over the last part of Level 17 to leave only 420 in the room after the break.
421st: Eric Fetter – $745 422nd: Boris Vaisman – $745 423rd: Kayeen Ellis-Kemp – $745 424th: David Ormsbee – $745 425th: Evg Harchenko – $745 426th: DNR – $745 427th: Ginold Rendel – $745 428th: Ty Gwizdala – $745 429th: Michael Alcantara – $745 430th: Aaron Kupin – $745 431st: Yunier Rodriguez – $745 432nd: James Joyner IV – $745 433rd: Robert Portas – $745 434th: Manuel Labandeira – $745 435th: Guy Naimi – $745 436th: Jeff Morzella – $745 437th: Jose Rivero – $745 438th: Russell Williams – $745 439th: David Seager – $745 440th: Manuel Martin – $745 441st: Vadims Ivanovs – $745 442nd: John Desoto – $745 443rd: Kenneth Watson – $745 444th: Andrew Sassen – $745 445th: John Orfanos – $745 446th: James Kerr – $745 447th: Steven Ramunni – $745 448th: Victor Merkel – $745 449th: Kevin Torres – $745 450th: Eric Swick – $745 451st: David Smith Jr – $665 452nd: Robert Alberro – $665 453rd: Daniel Bismuth – $665 454th: Michael Soroka – $665 455th: Steven Sechler – $665 456th: Samuel Thomas Jr – $665 457th: Michael Dorsch – $665 458th: Kobi Ribak – $665 459th: Tracy Scala – $665 460th: Lloyd Kapper – $665 461st: Jacob Naumann – $665 462nd: Jordan Schneider – $665 463rd: Don Flynn – $665 464th: Michael Vuong – $665 465th: Rafael Amador – $665 466th: Ryan Miller – $665 467th: Walter Mercado-Velez – $665 468th: Robert Dunn – $665 469th: Michael Damiani – $665 470th: Floyd McMurray – $665
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante Players Remaining: 440 of 4,699
After the quick pace of the first three levels, the break came at a good time for players to take a breather. With no bubble play, the short stacks slid into the money with no trouble and they picked up the action.
There were 30 players getting paid soon after and we will post the results once things settled down at the payout desk.
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante Players Remaining: 470 of 4,699
With the bubble nearing, tournament staff paused the action and asked dealers to stand when they were done the current hand. During that time, one player elimination was announced on Table 10. The clock was paused when all action was complete, heads were counted, and Event 1 was officially in the money without the need of hand-for-hand action.
There are 470 players remaining, all guaranteed to make some cash today.
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante Players Remaining: 504 of 4,699
The blinds are up as the money bubble nears. It will be a race between making the money or making the next break, it will be close.
Femi Fashakin, winner of the WSOP Big 50 title this summer (the biggest field in their history), began the day with 284,500 but now sits with 607,000 while others dropped around him. WSOP bracelet winner Michael Wang is also having a good day and up to 592,500 after coming to Day 2 with 187,500.
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 16: 2,500/5,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 592 of 4,699
Mark Dube did his part to help the quick exodus from Event 1. His opponent under the gun open-shoved for ~40,000, Dube called from the cutoff and the small blind called as well.
Both live players checked it down until the board read . The small blind player check again, Dube bet 20,000 and picked up a call. He tabled for a king-high straight, the small blind was second best with , and the at risk player was sent out with .
Mark Dube – 292,000 (58 bb)
Meanwhile, David Moses began the day with a big stack and continued to build over the first level. His 410,000 puts him among the leaders as the money bubble nears.