Although some may have seen Monday as a quiet day on the 2014 World Series of Poker schedule, they would be wrong as Event #47: $1,500 Ante-Only No-Limit Hold'em took center stage as the only tournament that would start on the day.
In it's second run last year, the Ante-Only format attracted 678 players and had rave reviews, and in the third running this year a whopping 714 players took to the felt to create a $963,900 first prize that had $212,093 reserved for the victor.
As expected, play was incredibly fast as players consistently fell to the rail throughout the day, and even registering after dinner break couldn't help prevent a hasty exit as players still managed to only last a few hands. With play winding up for the evening, the chance to make the money seemed possible, but as played slowed down in the final few orbits only 80 players would survive meaning that eight players would return tomorrow and leave empty-handed.
Leading the field into Day 2 is Ryan D'Angelo who rode somewhat of a roller coaster in the latter few levels before soaring to an impressive 120,400 to end the day as one of the few players in the six-figure club. Recent bracelet winner Dan Kelly made a huge comeback over the last few hands to end with 98,400 while Max Silver (73,700), Eddy Sabat (56,800), Jason Somerville (51,800) and Maria Ho (50,300) all finished with above average stacks.
WSOP stalwarts Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth and Erik Seidel also ended with healthy stacks while 2013 WSOP Champion Ryan Riess is still in contention and looking at claiming his third cash for the series.
Play resumes at 1:00 p.m. (PDT) on Tuesday afternoom in the Amazon Room, and the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand to provide all the live updates as we look to play down to the Event #47 final table.
Robert "Uncle Krunk" Panitch has just been eliminated from today's tournament.
Panitch was all in holding against Dustin Goldklang's , and when the final board read , Panitch headed to the rail as Goldklang soared to 104,000 in chips.
As David Vamplew exited the tournament area, we noticed Daniel Negreanu stacking chips and asked if he could spare us the details of Vamplew's elimination.
According to Negreanu, Vamplew limp-called Negreanu's raise before check-raising all in with on a board. Negreanu called and held , and when the landed on the turn, Vamplew would be left drawing dead.
Matt Marafioti called the minimum as four other players also came in for 100, including David Vamplew, Jeff Gross and Daniel Negreanu.
Marafioti checked the flop dark as Vamplew fired out 800 and Gross called. With the action on Negreanu on the button, he announced he was all-in and pushed out his 5,700 to force three swift folds as the action returned to Gross.
After a few moments of umm'ing and ahh'ing, Gross made the call, tabling his to be in bad shape against Negreanu's .
The turn and river landed the and to see Negreanu double through to over 14,000, and Gross was left crippled with just 1,500 in chips.
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Leo Wolpert joins Nate and Andrew from Las Vegas to discuss safety precautions for staying in hotels, the Rio flu, and the trio beak down three hands that Wolpert played at the World Series of Poker.
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Andrea Dato limped and Kyle Bowker raised to 500 with Barry Woods making the call. The action returned to Dato, and he moved all in for 3,600 with both Bowker and Woods calling.
The flop fell and Bowker bet out 1,800 only to have Woods move all in for roughly 20,000. Bowker instantly folded.
Dato:
Woods:
The turn and river landed the and and Dato headed to the rail as Woods soared to roughly 35,000 in chips.
Zo Karim made it 200 first to act and four players called, one of whom was German poker phenom, Ole Schemion.
The dealer spread a flop and the action checked round to the button who bet 400. Only Schemion would call, then the landed on the turn and the German check-called another bet of 700. The river then brought the and both players quickly checked.
"Who shows?" asked Schemion.
"Turn your cards over!" cried several players as their table was in the midst of being broken.
"No, who shows?" asked Schemion again, asking which player had to show his hand first.
The dealer told Schemion that he did, and with that the German — who is playing his first WSOP and his very first event — tabled his for a full house to scoop the pot and move to just under 10,000.
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