The tournament is now on the stone bubble, 239 left with 238 paid and play is hand-for-hand.
2017 World Series of Poker
Play has come to a brief halt to make sure numbers remaining are correct as the hand-for-hand bubble approaches.
All the chips were in preflop with Benjamin Reinhart making the decision to call.
Benjamin Reinhart:
Opponent:
The board ran out .
Quads over quads with Reinhart having the best of it with quad aces. His busted opponent took it well with Reinhart sat stunned in his seat.
Half of the players left in the tournament, though, erupted in excitement, dashing over as word of the hand spread and crowding round the table with their phones taking photos and videos to capture the moment.
“Only in the Giant,” one player said.
The floor restored order as the dealer swept the cards up and everyone returned to their game as they were reminded it was a turbo event and the bubble was approaching.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Benjamin Reinhart |
140,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
Nível: 16
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Orion Gallagher is another of the big stacks in the room with 340,000 attempting to creep up on Shannon Cass who is using the MyStack App to keep the world updated.
Others are not so fortunate and have been eliminated including Chris Ferguson who wasn’t able to add to his 12 cashes of the Series so far in what could turn out to be one of the stories of WSOP 2017.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Orion Gallagher | 340,000 | |
Chris Ferguson | Eliminado | |
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Victor Ramdin | Eliminado | |
Loni Harwood | Eliminado | |
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Dan Heimiller | Eliminado | |
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Shaun Deeb | Eliminado | |
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Barry Shulman | Eliminado | |
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Nível: 15
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Muhamet Perati |
288,000
-32,000
|
-32,000 |
Thomas Zanot |
233,000
224,100
|
224,100 |
Allen Cunningham |
225,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
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Fernando Pons |
170,000
131,000
|
131,000 |
Melanie Weisner |
120,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
Katie Lindsay |
115,000
97,800
|
97,800 |
Audley Harrison |
89,000
73,000
|
73,000 |
Ryan Riess |
78,000
61,000
|
61,000 |
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Chris Moorman | Eliminado | |
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With five more levels to play, here is what the big stacks will be aiming at come the end of the night.
Flight | Chipleader | Country | Chips | |
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Day 1a | Jeffrey Brin | United States | 718,000 | |
Day 1b | Valentin Vornicu | United States | 869,500 | |
Day 1c | Todd Louer | United States | 729,500 | |
Day 1d | ___ | ___ | ___ | |
Day 1e | ____ | ____ | ___ |
Nível: 14
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
There are 420 players currently with chips in front of them from 1,581 entries and 238 places getting paid the bubble is looming on the horizon.
For now though there is a festive Friday night atmosphere with plenty of joking around and the drinks flowing as the dealers do their best to cajole the players into both behaving themselves and put their antes in.