Ivan Uzunov is the latest player to hit the rail after getting 7,500,000 all in on the cutoff. Juan Endara was sat in the small blind and he moved all in over the top and with no other takers, they flipped their cards over.
Juan Endara:
Ivan Uzunov:
Uzunov was live but the flop hit massive for Endara who had top pair, top kicker and the nut flush draw. The turn was the giving Uzunov a few more outs but the sealed the deal for Endara, who scooped it up.
Ravi Subramanian went all in for 11,450,000 on the cutoff and found got a call from Andres Korn in the small blind.
Andres Korn:
Ravi Subramanian:
Subramanian had got in good but the first card out on the flop paired Korn's ace and Subramanian needed one of two queens on the turn or river. The poker gods didn't oblige, with landing instead and Subramanian hit the rail.
Ben Alloggio min-raised to 2,000,000 first to act and Koji Takagi called in the cutoff, Kevin Wright was forced all in for 900,000 in the big blind. Wright checked in the dark on the flop and Takagi checked behind. On the turn, Alloggio check-raised all in and Takagi forfeited a bet of 2,000,000.
Kevin Wright:
Ben Alloggio:
Wright was already drawing dead and the river a mere formality to send the Canadian out in 15th place for $33,814.
Bracelet winner Jeff Madsen has been eliminated after calling all in from the big blind following an all-in from Andres Korn in the cutoff.
Andres Korn:
Jeff Madsen:
The bracelet winner was ahead and remained so on the flop. The on the turn was good too, adding a flush draw to his outs. He wasn't able to fade the river though, with the falling and giving Korn a big boost, which he celebrated with his rail.
Juan Endara raised to 3,000,000 first to act and Jeremy Saderne studied the other table, then made the call with 5,600,000 behind. The flop came and Saderne check-called the shove of Endara.
Jeremy Saderne:
Juan Endara:
The turn and river left Endara with three big blinds.
One hand later, Saderne pushed from the small blind and Endara called all in.
Juan Endara:
Jeremy Saderne:
The board improved Saderne to a pair of nines and Endara was eliminated in 13th place for $33,814.
Lula Taylor had scooped a pot off Yi Ma and showed pocket fours on an ace-high flop. Right after, Taylor was in the big blind and Matthew Nugent pushed for 11,700,000. Yi Ma on the button tossed in a chip for the call and Taylor also announced the call, but already rolled over her .
The floor was called and the hand was ruled as active, which sent Ma and Taylor to the flop. Ma verified with the floor that it was her turn to act and Taylor immediately bet 10,000,000, Ma snap-folded.
Nugent showed his and the turn and river ended his tournament in 12th place for $43,002. For exposing her cards out of turn, Taylor was given a one round penalty, but she earned a healthy pot to boost her stack.
Yi Ma pushed into Stefan Widmer on table 101 and got through with it and Jeremy Saderne jammed the button at the same time on the other table. Atrayon Trevino eventually called for around 26,000,000 in the small blind and the cards were turned over.
Atrayon Trevino:
Jeremy Saderne:
The board let Saderne celebrate as Trevino was sent to the rail in 10th place for $43,002. All remaining nine players will redraw to the final table and action of the day concludes when the last eight have been determined.
Hand #17: Yi Ma raised to 6,000,000 from middle position and James Stewart pushed for his last five big blinds out of the big blind, Ma called and Stewart was all in and at risk for the second hand in a row.
James Stewart:
Yi Ma:
The Chinese rail and Ma celebrated on the flop, and the turn and river ended Stewart's tournament in 9th place for $55,118. The remaining eight players will now bag and tag for the night with the chip counts and a recap of today's action to follow.
After almost 20 levels of fast-paced action, the inaugural Event #69: $1,000 Mini Main Event has been cut down to the final eight players out of a massive field of 5,521 and it is an international mix of poker pros and recreational players that will be back on the Amazon feature table tomorrow at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino to determine yet another bracelet winner at the 2019 World Series of Poker.
Seven different nationalities will be represented and it Andres Korn that enters the final day in the lead with 75,000,000. Korn already knows what it feels like to lift a gold bracelet for the winner photos in Las Vegas after taking down Event #56: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em in 2017 for his first gold bracelet and a payday of $618,285.
Sitting in second place on the leaderboard is French poker pro Jeremy Saderne with 64,000,000, China's Yi "Cameron" Ma is in third with 62,600,000. Koji Takagi will aim to win the third WSOP bracelet for Japan and enters the eight-handed showdown with a stack of 44,000,000. Lula Taylor, who led the field after Day 1, continued to entertain the table opponents and rail alike with her unorthodox playing style and straight forward chat on the way to claiming 30,500,000 chips.
The remaining finalists are Stefan Widmer (28,400,000), Ben Alloggio (13,900,000) and Philip Gildea (12,400,000). Action resumes at 12 noon local time with 17 minutes remaining at blinds of 1,000,000/2,000,000 and a big blind ante of 2,000,000. The button will be on Saderne with a dead small blind and Alloggio as the single big blind.
All eight hopefuls are already guaranteed at least $71,199 for their efforts, but one of them will walk home with the coveted gold bracelet and a top prize of $628,654 that comes along with it.
Event #69: $1,000 Mini Main Event Final Table
Seat
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Ben Alloggio
United States
13,900,000
7
2
Andres Korn
Argentina
75,000,000
38
3
Stefan Widmer
Switzerland
28,400,000
14
4
Yi Ma
China
62,600,000
31
5
Koji Takagi
Japan
44,000,000
22
6
Philip Gildea
Ireland
12,400,000
6
7
Lula Taylor
United States
30,500,000
15
8
Jeremy Saderne
France
64,000,000
32
Action of the Day
What started with 546 hopefuls returning to their seats in the Pavilion White section soon turned into an all in festival as 100 players headed to the payout desk in the first 30-minute level of the day. The seat open announcements came so frequently that a line of several dozen people emerged at the payout desk in the first few hours of the day.
Among those waiting in line were the WSOP bracelet winners Yuval Bronshtein, David Peters, Barry Greenstein, Chris Ferguson and Adrian Buckley to name just a few. Ferguson saw his hopes of an even deeper run destroyed when he ran with tens into the pocket queens of Truong Nguyen.
Other big names that fell before the dinner break were Tim Finne, Nick Pupillo, Stephen Song, and Aleksandr Merzhvinskii. With rapidly increasing blind limits, the casualties continued to pile up and Nipun Java was among those to bow out before the dinner, too. Only 33 still had chips to their name and Yi Ma was at the top of the leaderboard after he had scored a triple knockout and entered a three-way all in the very next hand.
Blair Hinkle, Jamila von Perger, and Jamees Dempsey were among those to bow out shortly after returning to their seats as the chips went flying left and right with the redraw of the last three and two tables a matter of levels and not hours. Jeff Madsen was among the shorter stacks and mounted an impressive comeback with a double, triple and another double up in quick succession. However, the four-time WSOP bracelet winner busted in unfortunate fashion in 14th place when his king-jack suited with clubs flush draw ended up second-best against the queen-ten of Andres Korn.
Jeremy Saderne went from shorter stack to chip leader by doubling through Juan Endara, sending Endara to the rail and also winning a flip with sevens against the king-queen suited of Atrayon Trevino. Korn would beat Saderne to the top spot after forcing a fold from Lula Taylor and James Stewart failed to hold up in his second consecutive all in showdown to become the final casualty of the night.
With 165 big blinds in play and 30-minute levels until a champion is crowned, the action will remain fast-paced on the final table and you can follow the live stream action and all updates from start to finish right here on PokerNews at the same time as Day 1a of the $10,000 Main Event kicks off.