The Amazon room is packed full, and many more familiar faces have emerged.
Among them are Charles "Woody" Moore, Jacob Bazeley, John Cynn, Tyler Patterson, Annette Obrestad, Bart Hanson, Faraz Jaka, Cody Brinn, Austin Buchanan, Craig Varnell, Azaan Nagra, James Dorrance, Jason Ramos, Jeremy Stein, Ronit D'Angelo, Daniel Dizenzo, Shola Akindele, Bill Klein, Vinny Pahuja, Justin Bond, Sam Cohen, and let's not forget 2015 Main Event champion Joe McKeehen.
The record holder for most WSOP cashes Douglas Carli, and Melissa Gillett, who took fourth place in Event #12 last week for a six-figure payday, are also taking a shot in the Millionaire Maker today.
Samuel Taylor raised to 150 in late position and the big blind defended.
The flop came and the big blind checked. Taylor bet 150 and the big blind called.
On the turn, the big blind checked, Taylor bet 300, and the big blind called again.
The river was the and this time, the big blind led out 1,050. After a long pause, Taylor put together a raise to 5,625. The big blind called and Taylor tabled for nines full of kings.
His opponent showed for trip nines and Taylor took down the pot, putting him to double starting stack early. His opponent was left with just 1,050 after the hand.
We've scanned the purple and orange sections to find players we will be following today. More will follow once we have walked through the other sections and rooms. Please find the list below:
Day 1b of Event #20: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Millionaire Maker begins at 10 a.m. today. Yesterday's first flight drew 3,438 entries with 509 players advancing for Day 2 tomorrow. Today is the final chance to get in and take a shot at that $1,000,000 guaranteed first-place prize! Boris Kolev is the 1a big stack setting the pace so far with 290,700 chips.
The $1,500 buy-in gets you 7,500 chips and play today will last 10 levels of 60-minute duration. There will be 20-minute breaks every two levels with a 90-minute dinner break after Level 6. Players are allowed to reenter this event once per flight, and have until the end of the dinner break to do so (around 6:10 p.m.).
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