Event 1: Dinner Break

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$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 23: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining: 110 of 4,558

The clock is ticking down and the remaining 110 players are preparing to take their 40-minute dinner break. They’ve shown no slowdown and Day 2 lost 560 players in six hours of play.

We will scope out the big stacks on break and prepare to play out the day when they return.

Event 1: Martin Ryan Scoops Huge Pot; Sends Three Out

$360 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 22: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 144 of 4,558

Martin Ryan

We mentioned earlier that Martin Ryan is running well lately, even winning our poker room Sunday promotion (twice), and now he’s running up a stack in Event 1.

We didn’t see the preflop action but we heard the noise from Table 13 when there was a four-way all in.

Eric Penner (195,000), Antonio Monduy (200,000) and Brandon Caputo (600,000) were all at risk and in a ton of trouble.

Caputo: KhKc
Monduy: AdJd
Penner: AhKd
Ryan: AsAc

Ryan had the rockets and his three opponents were holding a lot of each other’s outs. The board ran all low 9c2c2h8s4d to put three players out at once and ship a huge pot to Ryan.

Martin Ryan – 2,200,000 (110 bb)
Brandon Caputo – Eliminated in 145th place ($1,367)
Antonio Monduy – Eliminated in 146th place ($1,367)
Eric Penner – Eliminated in 147th place ($1,367)

Event 1: More Results

$360 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 21: 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 192 of 4,558

The pace of eliminations is still going at a frenitic pace and the quickly dropped under 200 players remaining after the second break. We grabbed the next round of eliminations and you can see the entire list by clicking the link below.

Among the recently departed were Jonathan Hilton, Jon Brody, Qasem Jamhour, Neil Blumenfield, Joelle Guarino, Steven Bennett, and former SHRPO Big 4 champ Ruslan Dykshteyn.

Continue reading Event 1: More Results

Event 1: Two Big Stacks Back to Back

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$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 20: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 225 of 4,558

Peter Pacifico (left) and Justin Slavin (right)

By the luck of the draw, or unlucky draw might be correct for those at Table 31, chip leader Justin Slavin was moved across the room and he took a seat next to fellow big stack Peter Pacifico shortly before the second break.

Slavin cruised his stack even higher and will return to a castle worth 1,645,000 while Pacifico is no slouch with 960,000.

At nearby Table 32, Chuck Polania isn’t doing too shabby himself and has 1,300,000 coming back to Level 21.

Event 1: Matthew Yorra Doubles

$360 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 20: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 236 of 4,558

Matthew Yorra

Matthew Yorra was sliding into the danger zone and was down to 156,000 when he put them in the middle. His opponent took his time to think it through, so long that the clock was called. Before the time ran out, he called to put the two-time SHRP at risk.

Yorra: AcTd
Opponent: 8h8d

Yorra was racing to stay in, missed the KcQc2s flop, but picked up some more outs. The Ts turn did the job and he made trip tens on the Tc river to double up.

Matthew Yorra – 342,000 (29 bb)

Event 1: Justin Slavin Over a Million

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Level 19: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 290 of 4,558

Justin Slavin

Another level down and another 100 players were sent to the payout desk. Stacks are getting bigger and it appears none can beat start of Day 2 leader Justin Slavin. He’s a few chips over 1,000,000 but several players are close.

Pavlos Kasselouris, Peter Pacifico, and David Laufer are well over 900,000 and they might fluctuate into seven digits with one hand.

Pavlos Kasselouris
Peter Pacifico

Event 1: Recent Results

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Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 388 of 4,558

SHR Tampa regular Deborah Farmer made the money in Event 1

Once the money bubble quickly burst, we had an immediate rush to the payout desk when play resumed. Short stacks who slid into the money were trying to double up into contention and bigger stacks were taking advantage.

Level 17 came to an end, they took a quick color up break to take the 500 denoms off the table, and they resume the carnage after the break. The field quickly dropped more than 60 players and tables are breaking fast.

Results 389th through 450th:

389th: Jeffrey Gabus – $684
390th: Jorge Cuesta – $684
391st: Rolando Martinez – $684
392nd: Richard Freedman – $684
393rd: Harvey Ayers – $684
394th: David Harmon – $684
395th: Phil Consolo – $684
396th: Randy Burstein – $684
397th: Marcelo Acherman – $684
398th: Michael Elbilia – $684
399th: Unclaimed – $684
400th: Vladimir Smoliakov – $684
401st: Ira Schwartz – $636
402nd: Courtney Rowe – $636
403rd: Vadims Ivanovs – $636
404th: Brian Vasquez Lagos – $636
405th: Alan Nowak – $636
406th: Georges Boyadjian – $636
407th: Patrick Spense – $636
408th: Donald Maloney – $636
409th: Angela Smith – $636
410th: Raymond Millard – $636
411th: Linda Hipkins – $636
412th: Shaiff Nassar – $636
413th: Ronald Levy – $636
414th: Harvey Freedman – $636
415th: Volodymyr Tamarovych – $636
416th: Tai Nguyen – $636
417th: Chrisopher Young – $636
418th: James Hamburger – $636
419th: Kevin Choe – $636
420th: Carlos Garcia – $636
421st: Nicholas Marsico – $636
422nd: William Handwerker – $636
423rd: Charles Odenz – $636
424th: Daniel Kasper – $636
425th: Robert Panno – $636
426th: Cyrenus Frederick – $636
427th: Rajesh Vohra – $636
428th: Sanjib Acharya – $636
429th: Deborah Farmer – $636
430th: Alfredo Fernandez – $636
431st: Joshua Mancuso – $636
432nd: Alvaro Jirau Ramos – $636
433rd: Steven Gilbert – $636
434th: David Bradshaw – $636
435th: Shawn Curry – $636
436th: Ryan Wince – $636
437th: Stephen Kendrick – $636
438th: Jason Bartig – $636
439th: Edina Pantinchin – $636
440th: Jack Shea – $636
441st: Scott Efron – $636
442nd: Ramsey Jones – $636
443rd: Matthew Ahmed – $636
444th: Travis Gentile – $636
445th: Joseph Levitt – $636
446th: Charles Fleury – $636
447th: William Smith – $636
448th: Gerald Spott – $636
449th: Michel Simoneau – $636
T450th: James Gavin – $318
T450th: Roberto Alberro – $318

Event 1: Roberto Alberro and James Gavin Eliminated on the Bubble

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Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 449 of 4,558

Dealers stand before the bubble

Tournament staff asked all dealers to stand when their hand was complete, they counted down the remaining players, and Event 1 was officially on the money bubble with 451 remaining and 450 getting paid.

They dealt one hand and we had four all-ins called at separate tables. We had two doubles but two knockouts.

Kyle Carino opened for a min-raise and picked up three callers to a Ac5c3h flop. He bet, Roberto Alberro raised, and the other two players released. Carino put in a fourth bet and all the chips went in the middle, Alberro at risk for 220,000.

Carino: 5h5s
Alberro: Jc8c

Carino flopped middle set and needed to dodge the flush draw of Alberro. Or make a full house on the As river to leave Alberro drawing dead to the flush-giving 4c river. He was eliminated on the bubble but we still had one more hand to go.

Kyle Carino – 510,000 (85 bb)

Roberto Alberro

James Gavin jammed for 89,000 from middle position and it folded to George Navarro on the button. Navarro had Gavin well covered and he called. The blinds folded and Gavin waited patiently while the remaining tables finished up their hands.

James Gavin

After a couple minutes, tournament supervisor Jordan Cutter approached the table and Gavin and Navarro exposed their hands.

Gavin: AdKd
Navarro: AhJh

Gavin had the best of it, but it was his stack that was at risk.

Runout: 8s7d2hJd4h

After fading the flop, Gavin met his fate with the Jd turn. Navarro hit the three-outer coming from behind to take the lead in the hand and leave Gavin busted for half of a min-cash.

George Navarro – 520,500 (86 bb)

Both players chopped up 450th place money and received $318.

Event 1: Martin Ryan Running Good

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Level 16: 2,500/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 460 of 4,558

Martin Ryan

Martin Ryan is riding a bit of a heater these last few weeks. He won his sixth WSOP Circuit ring at Coconut Creek along with the Casino Championship, went to another stop to win his seventh ring, and decided to stop back in South Florida on his way home to Trinidad and Tobago.

Ryan bagged big in Flight A and was sitting with more than 400,000 when his name was paged by tournament staff.

The Poker Room is running a promotion where quads and full houses give players an entry into a Sunday drawing. Every time the designated team kicks a field goal or scores a touchdown, a random name is drawn with a TD earning $1,000 and a FG worth $500.

Today’s team is the Atlanta Falcons, they kicked a field goal, and pulled Ryan’s name out of the virtual hat to book himself a $500 cash before Event 1 hit the money.