Today has not gone Daniel Negreanu's way. From 601,000 to bust in level 1, he told his phone on a selfie stick the story of his demise: "Now I'm the guy talking about his exit...he (pointing at his eliminator) had aces, I raised with jacks. Aces are better than jacks. Going to jump into the $5k now. Could have happened an hour ago..."
While all remaining tables were already on their 45-minute break, a long hand played out on one of the tables near the rail, drawing a sizable crowd as eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel was involved in the action.
It was Jose Preciado who opened up with a raise to 50,000. Erik Seidel called all in for his final 27,000, Dave Alfa called, and Ken Saito called as well. All players quickly tapped the table on the flop.
Saito, having just 48,000 behind, shoved all in when the turn came the . Preciado called, while Alfa pitched his cards in the muck. With two players at risk and no more action, the three hands were on their backs.
Erik Seidel:
Ken Saito:
Jose Preciado:
Saito was ahead with two pair sevens and eights while Seidel needed a non-diamond deuce to save his tournament life. The river, however, brought the to pair Preciado's ten for a bigger two pair and give him the double-knockout.
Matt Stout and Maurice Hawkins got into in a shouting match several times and things kept getting worse as the afternoon progressed. While the players were going on break, Hawkins and Stout started arguing again, with the floor having to step in to break up the shouting match that was echoing throughout the Amazon Poker Room.
We'll keep you updated on the tournament throughout the day but tensions continue to rise with both Hawkins and Stout as the event gets deeper into the money.
There's no stopping Frenchman Sebastien Chamorro this level. Already leading the field, he just performed a double elimination of short-stacked opponents to boost his stack even further ahead.
Chamorro's all-in opponents held and respectively. Chamorro, tabling , called for his "one time" while the board ran out .
"Oui!" he shouted at the top of his lungs, then translated for the table: "Yes! Incredible." He kissed his fingers and aimed them at the ceiling, stacking his towers even higher.
A story we've been following is that of David Elet who was on his way out to receive his payout slip when one of the players at the table notice that he still had three chips left (15,000).
He has now managed to build his chip stack to over 10 million. Everyone at the poker tables is talking about how he's managed to not only stay alive but accumulate so many chips.
Currently down to 19 players and we will continue to keep you updated on this incredible story and all the live action.
So popular did Event #9: $600 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack prove to be (there were 6,150 entries in total) that it has had to be extended to a third day of play. Returning to contend for the WSOP bracelet and $398,281 tomorrow, June 5th at 3 pm will be nine players led by Paul Jain.
Perhaps the most surprising final table appearance is that of David Elet who was heading to collect his payout slip when it was realized that he still had 15,000 chips – this amount, however, not even enough for a big blind. After proving that “a chip and a chair” could indeed win you a bracelet, David Elet will be playing at the final table with 21,300,000 in chips.
Seat
Player
Country
Chip Count
1
Paul Jain
United States
41,700,000
2
Tan Nguyen
United States
18,400,000
3
John Skrovan
United States
11,600,000
4
Juan Magana
Mexico
19,500,000
5
Dan Kuntzman
United States
11,600,000
6
Benjamin Underwood
Canada
17,600,000
7
Noomis Jones
United States
21,100,000
8
David Elet
United States
21,300,000
9
Jeremy Pakarek
United States
21,800,000
Finishers in the money today included start-of-day chip leader Paul Dhaliwal and a host of bracelet winners including Daniel Negreanu, Phillip Hui, Justin Liberto, Ylon Schwartz, Aditya Sushant, Alexander Ziskin, Scott Davies, and Robert Peacock. For full payouts from this event (923 places in total are paid) visit the Payouts tab.