Femi Fashakin Bags Piles on Day 1 of Event #11: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
A packed house of 5,715 players showed up to the 2022 WSOP at Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas for Event #11: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack. By day's end, Femi Fashakin (3,215,000) led the pack of 289 survivors who advanced to Day 2 for a chance at the coveted WSOP gold bracelet.
Fashakin won his first bracelet in 2019 at the WSOP in the Big 50 where he took home an eye-popping $1,147,449. He will bring a sizeable advantage into tomorrow to chase his second.
Other notables to bag include Jimmy D’Ambrosio (1,107,000), who made a sick call to vault back up the leaderboard. Yuri Dzivielevski (540,000), Gabriel Andrade (475,000), Ankush Mandavia (605,000) and Vanessa Kade (340,000).
The players generated a prize pool of $2,914,650 and first place will earn $335,286.
Some of the players to fall throughout the day included WSOP bracelet winners Benjamin Moon, Chad Holloway, Bertrand Grospellier, Scott Ball, Michael Mizrachi and Daniel Lazrus.
Others to go were content creators Lexy Gavin and Brad Owen, as well as Mike Caro and Tiffany Michelle.
The remaining players will return at noon on Tuesday, June, 7, and will play down to a winner.
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hit the flop and the turn 
sealed the deal for D'Ambrosio with a set of kings as the 
hit the river. 
, the big blind checked and the original raiser bet 37,000. Only D'Ambrosio called. 
, the early position player check-called a bet of 27,000 from D'Ambrosio. 
river to put four hearts out there. The early position player sized up to 70,000 and sent D'Ambrosio deep into the tank. 
for top pair. D'Ambrosio had that beat though with his 
for a straight and picked up a nice pot.
and has now clawed back to chip average.
sealed the deal as he pushed his stack up to half a million near the bubble.
on the turn had Avnilov betting 45,000 into D'Ambrosio, who sat in thought before turning on the table talk, proclaiming: "You know what? I'll put your ass all in." Avnilov snap-called.
turn. The big blind called and they saw the river 
. 
full house of D'Ambrosio. Meanwhile, Lazrus was eliminated with 
. 
the small blind led with an all-in and D'Ambrosio let it go. He showed his 
