Event #68: $1,000 Million Dollar Bounty Dia 2 | 2022 World Series of Poker

2022-07-05 12:15 UTC-7

Cheong Among The Leaders; Bonomo, Aldemir, and Greenstein Remain In Day 2 of the Million Dollar Bounty

A total of 14,112 entrants tossed their hats in the ring over the four flights available in Event #68: $1,000 Million Dollar Bounty No-Limit Hold’em. Day 2 will begin with 825 survivors, all looking for the WSOP gold bracelet and the $1,000,000 bounty, which will more than likely be acquired today.

The leader coming into today is Armando Figueroa who bagged 3,150,000 after Day 1b’s flight. The only player with over 3 million in chips, Figueroa has put himself into prime position in terms of bounty collection. Figueroa has secured his biggest cash of the series thus far and a whole host of bounties should make the deep run in this event feel even better.

Top Ten Chip Counts

Position	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Armando Figueroa	United States	3,150,000
2	Ismail Abou Sharkh	United States	2,800,000
3	Vincent Meli	United Kingdom	2,705,000
4	Gabriel Schroeder	Brazil	2,545,000
5	Gabriel Moura	United States	2,530,000
6	Joseph Cheong	United States	2,415,000
7	Freddy Granados	Croatia	2,405,000
8	David McGowan	United States	2,265,000
9	Fabian Foster	United States	2,130,000
10	Cory Smith	United States	2,100,000

Also cracking the top ten in chip counts is WSOP bracelet winner Joseph Cheong who bagged 2,415,000 after Flight 1b. Cheong is no stranger to deep runs in massive fields, with his biggest cash being a third place finish in the WSOP 2010 Main Event for $4,130,049. Cheong has cashed five times at this WSOP and looks to make this run his best cash of the series thus far, with the added hope of collecting big bounties.

Other players that have made it today include WSOP Main Event Champion Koray Aldemir (1,180,000), Robert Campbell (855,000), Justin Bonomo (685,000), and Barry Greenstein (625,000). All of them will be looking to collect lots of players' stacks and seek another piece of WSOP jewelry.

Players will return to Paris Black with blinds at 20,000/40,000 and a 40,000 big blind ante. Levels have been upped to 40 minutes each with a 15-minute break occurring at the conclusion of every three levels. A 60-minute dinner break will happen after Level 31, around 7:30 p.m., after which play will continue until only five remain. Stay tuned to PokerNews for all updates regarding the World Series Of Poker.

Tags: Armando Figueroa Barry Greenstein Cory Smith David McGowan Fabian Foster Freddy Granados Gabriel Moura Gabriel Schroeder Ismail Abou Sharkh Joseph Cheong Justin Bonomo Koray Aldemir Robert Campbell Vincent Meli

2022-07-05 13:36 UTC-7

Prize Pool Details Announced

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The prize pool details have been announced. There were 14,112 entries in total to create a prize pool of $12,559,680 with $4,233,600 of it going into the bounty part of the prize pool to leave $8,326,080 for the general prize pool.

All 826 remaining players have secured at least $1,900 but the eventual winner will claim $750,120 plus the bounties they've earned along the way.

This is what they are all playing for:

Place	Prize	Place	Prize	Place	Prize	Place	Prize
1	$750,120	10-11	$60,440	72-80	$9,900	351-413	$3,510
2	$463,610	12-13	$48,180	81-89	$8,360	414-476	$3,120
3	$351,800	14-17	$38,650	90-98	$7,120	477-539	$2,780
4	$268,550	18-26	$31,200	99-161	$6,100	540-602	$2,500
5	$206,250	27-35	$25,350	162-224	$5,260	603-665	$2,270
6	$159,380	36-44	$20,730	225-287	$4,560	666-764	$2,070
7	$123,910	45-53	$17,060	288-350	$3,990	765-826	$1,900
8	$96,940	54-62	$14,130
9	$76.316	63-71	$11.790

As mentioned before, $4,234,000 will be distributed in bounties, players who earn a bounty can go to any table around the room where tablets are set up. Prizes will be shown there immediately unless it's a prize of above $25,000. If the gold chest is shown on the tablet, they will be sent to the center of the Paris Ballroom to draw a bounty there with the big prizes including the $1,000,000 bounty. Jeff Platt will be MC-ing the proceedings all day long!

This is how that prize pool is set up as:

Number of Bounties	Bounty Prize
1	$1,000,000
1	$500,000
1	$250,000
3	$100,000
6	$50,000
38	$25,000
20	$5,000
52	$2,500
704	$1,000

*If two players bust the same player, they will get to share the bounty that is pulled

2022-07-05 13:49 UTC-7

Hof Doubles On First Hand

Nível 23 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Natalie Hof shoved all in from the cutoff on the first hand of the day. The short stacked Hof had just 145,000 and the small blind made the call, cards were tabled.

Natalie Hof:
Opponent:

The board ran out to double Hof up.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Natalie Hof	360,000 215,000	215,000

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2022-07-05 13:53 UTC-7

Del Vecchio First to Go to the Gold Chest

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Nível 23 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Mike Del Vecchio was the first player to go to one of the tablets to claim a bounty and saw $1,000 appear but on his second try, he saw the gold chest appear.

He quickly made his way to the chest in the middle of the room where Jeff Platt welcomed him. He pulled an envelope and peeled it to eventually see he won $25,000 for this bounty.

Tags: Mike Del Vecchio Jeff Platt

2022-07-05 14:02 UTC-7

Phan Collects $25,000 Too

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Nível 23 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Young Phan made his way to the chest in the middle of the room too while filming himself and put his hand in it. After opening the envelope, he revealed the $25,000 mystery bounty prize.

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2022-07-05 14:06 UTC-7

Moon Binks Two Bounties

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Nível 23 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Harvey Alegado shoved for about 200,000, Benjamin Moon got it in from the small blind and the big blind also called all in for less.

Big Blind:
Harvey Alegado:
Benjamin Moon:

Moon was in front with king-high and the runout paired his trey to score the double KO.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Benjamin Moon	580,000

Harvey Alegado	Eliminado

Tags: Benjamin Moon Harvey Alegado

2022-07-05 15:07 UTC-7

First $100,000 Bounty Awarded to Timmons

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Nível 23 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

David Timmons' name was shown on the screens as he was the next player who would be allowed to make his way to the stage and chest. He walked over, walked onto the stage, and was welcomed by Jeff.

He took a deep breath, pulled an envelope out, and quickly revealed the $100,000 bounty. He put both arms and hands up in the air.

He told Jeff Platt that this was his first World Series of Poker and spoke to his wife a few days ago who told him that he had to go out there!

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2022-07-05 15:08 UTC-7

Proscia Busts Yu

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Nível 23 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Ben Yu shoved his last 450,000 on the flop and Gennaro Proscia called with the bigger stack.

Ben Yu:
Gennaro Proscia:

Yu held a flush draw but was behind the pair of kings of Proscia.

The runout was not what Yu needed as he headed to the payout desk.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Gennaro Proscia	2,100,000 50,000	50,000
Ben Yu	Eliminado

Tags: Ben Yu Gennaro Proscia

2022-07-05 15:10 UTC-7

Kempe Hits His Four

Nível 23 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Rainer Kempe moved his remaining 500,000 from the cutoff and an opponent called for his remaining 360,000 from the small blind with all other players folding.

Opponent:
Rainer Kempe:

The board that followed contained a four as well as an ace and the turn and river provided no help to the small blind player as he left the tournament while Kempe collected the bounty.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Rainer Kempe	930,000 180,000	180,000

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2022-07-05 15:54 UTC-7

Glantz Gets the BIG Bounty Prize of $1,000,000

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Nível 24 : Blinds 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante

Matt Glantz was the next player to make his way to the chest to draw his bounty.

"I have my bounty hat on," he commented while walking up and smiling.

He decidedly looked at all the envelopes when the lid of the chest was opened. He picked one: "It's heavy..."

He opened the seal, and slowly peeled the paper back. "It's a one," he said with some excitement in his voice.

He then revealed a comma and that was enough for him to quickly reveal the rest.

"OH BABY!!!" he shouted while jumping up and down with the $1,000,000 bounty paper in his hand. "LET'S GO!"

He flexed his muscles, celebrated, and hugged Jeff Platt before Mike Dentale ran over to congratulate him.

"It's great to be lucky!" Glantz commented. "The trick is having Paul Volpe have 10 percent and and Shaun Deeb having 10 percent. With the luck of those two, it was just a matter of time."

Bounty Payouts

Number of Bounties	Bounty Prize	Collected By
1	$1,000,000	Matt Glantz
1	$500,000
1	$250,000
1	$100,000
1	$100,000
1	$100,000	David Timmons
1	$50,000
1	$50,000
1	$50,000	David Shmuel
1	$50,000	Tjan Tepeh
1	$50,000	Spencer Champlin
1	$50,000	Danny Bigelow
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000
1	$25,000	Artan Dedusha
1	$25,000	Patrick Tardif
1	$25,000	Giovanni Petroni
1	$25,000	Brandon Sheils
1	$25,000	Eric Bonin
1	$25,000	John MacDonald
1	$25,000	Young Phan
1	$25,000	Mike Del Vecchio

Tags: Jeff Platt Matt Glantz Mike Dentale Paul Volpe Shaun Deeb