Event #37: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack
Dia 2 Iniciado
Event #37: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack
Dia 2 Iniciado
Welcome to Day 2 of Event 37: $800 Deepstack No-Limit Hold’em! Today’s action will begin with 671 players out of an original field of 2,808 entries. It will undoubtedly be a manic day of action as the plan is to play all the way down to the final six. The money bubble will hit at some point in the early half of the day, as the top 422 players will cash.
Leading the field will be Jose Brito of Portugal who amassed an incredible stack of 776,000 as play ended last night. He will start Day 2 in good shape as he has more than 100,000 more than Danny Ghobrial who is second in chips with 671,500. Ben Gilbert (577,500), Toan Nguyen (555,500) and Bruce Rosenberg (535,000) round out the top five largest stacks. Also among the largest stacks to end the day was Jimmy D’Ambrosio, with 525,500 in chips.
Two of the biggest names in all of poker will return to compete today. Phil Ivey, who spent much of Day 1 short-stacked after a late in the day entry, will enter day Day 2 with a healthy stack of 260,000. And Phil Hellmuth, who will look to make another deep run in a large field No-Limit Hold’em event as he brings back 231,000 in chips.
Joining the Ivey, Hellmuth and the big stacks, are some other well known poker names such as Elio Fox (444,000), Kelly Minkin (289,000), Chris Moorman (269,500) and Jeremy Ausmus (159,500). All of these players and many more will be aiming to make a deep into the elite and big money stages of this tournament.
Play will restart at 12 p.m. local time at Level 16 with blinds at 2,500/5,000 and with a 5,000 big blind ante. Levels will remain at 40 minutes in length. There will be a 15-minute break after every three levels of play and a 60-minute dinner break after Level 24, the ninth level of play today.
Pokernews live updates team will be on hand to bring you all the fast-paced action as the field is trimmed all the way down until a final table.
Play has begin on Day 2.
Nível: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 5,000
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Jose Brito | 776,000 | |
Kelly Minkin | 289,000 | |
Chris Moorman
|
269,500 | |
Phil Ivey
|
260,000 | |
John Gorsuch
|
253,000 | |
Erik Cajelais
|
228,000 | |
Athanasios Polychronopoulos
|
187,000 | |
Jeremy Ausmus
|
159,500 | |
Aladin Reskallah
|
140,000 | |
Sean Yu | 115,000 | |
Chris Ferguson
|
78,000 | |
James Calderaro
|
74,500 | |
Kristen Bicknell
|
48,500 |
Phil Ivey and Chris Moorman are seated next to each other on Day 2 and they were involved in an early pot.
On a board that read Ivey bet 30,000 into a pot of roughly the same size. Moorman thought for a moment and folded to give Ivey the pot.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Phil Ivey
|
290,000 | 30,000 |
Chris Moorman
|
235,000 | -34,500 |
Preflop action folded to Andrea Benelli, and he raised it to 11,000 from the button. The player in the small blind folded, but Robert Williams chose to defend his big blind. After Williams check-called the 13,000 continuation bet from Benelli on the flop, both players checked the turn. Williams then led out on the river with a bet of 52,000, which got an immediate reaction of uneasiness from Benelli. Benelli then counted his stack, re-checked his cards, and thought for a few more moments before he sent them to the muck.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Andrea Benelli | 331,000 | -24,000 |
Robert Williams | 268,500 | 26,500 |
A call of clock was heard, Thomas Middleton had moved all in on the river with the board reading . Carlos Vasconcelos was deep in the tank contemplating the shove. The floor came over to start the countdown clock on Vasconcelos but before reaching the end he decided to fold and showed Middleton an ace.
Middleton showed to confirm that Vasconcelos had made the correct fold.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Carlos Vasconcelos | 450,000 | -75,500 |
Thomas Middleton | 170,000 | 56,000 |
In an already gargantuan pot of over 300,000 in the middle the flop read . Maxim Panyak was all in, while Virtus Davis was involved in a side pot with another player.
The turn was the . The third player in the hand moved all in for his remaining 130,000. Davis wanted a count and eventually determined that he was pot committed and made the call.
Davis was hoping for a diamond the river as he showed the . Panyak showed while the was shown by the third player.
The river was a blank to give Panyak a double up and greatly damage Davis's previously large stack as he also lost the side pot.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Maxim Panyak | 253,000 | 126,500 |
Virtus Davis | 222,000 | -260,500 |
Nível: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000