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2018 World Series of Poker Main Event Day 5: Michael Dyer Leads Final 109

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Day 5 of the 2018 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in main event came to a close in a peculiar fashion. The Amazon room experienced a power outage as a result of the thunderstorm that was pounding Las Vegas late on Monday night. Although there was some light available, the tournament staff decided it was best to halt play for the evening and send the remaining players home.

There are now just 109 players left from the 7,874 that entered this year’s main event, making it the second largest in the tournament’s history. The remaining players are all now guaranteed a $57,010 payday at a minimum, but surely they all have their eyes on the championship bracelet and the $8,800,000 top prize.

The chip leader going into day six is Michael Dyer (pictured above) with 12,180,000. The American has over $130,000 in prior live tournament earnings, including a final table finish in a 2009 WSOP $2,000 no-limit hold’em event for $65,905

There are plenty of notables still remaining with a shot at becoming poker’s next world champion. Three-time bracelet winner Brian Yoon bagged up 8,395,000 for the second largest stack heading into day 6.

France’s Benjamin Pollak finished day five with 5,715,000. The 2017 main event third-place finisher took home $3,500,000 last year, and is looking to add to his $8,866,323 in career earnings with another deep run. Other recognizable names still in contention include bracelet winner Barry Hutter (5,695,000), two-time bracelet winner Eric Froehlich (5,365,000), Ivan Luca (4,580,000), Shannon Shorr (2,915,000), another three-time bracelet winner in Shaun Deeb (2,610,000), Yueqi Zhu (2,210,000) and James Obst (1,730,000).

Card Player TV caught up with Eric Froehlich on the final break of the night for a video interview regarding him stepping away from playing poker full time and making a deep run in the main event after making that decision. Check out the video below:

2009 WSOP main event champion and three-time bracelet winner Joe Cada is the only player in the field who has a chance to win this tournament for the second time. He ended the day with 2,965,000.

From 301 female entrants in this year’s main event, now only one remains. With the elimination of Natalie Teh in 120th place ($57,010), Kelly Minkin became the ‘last woman standing’ for the second time. Minkin had previously garnered this distinction in 2015, when she finished 29th in the main event for $211,821. Minkin held the chip lead at one point during the day, but ended up with 1,205,000 by the time play was halted for the night.

A total of 201 players were eliminated during day 5, including the two-time bracelet winner and 2016 main event third-place finisher Cliff Josephy. The man known to many in the poker world as ‘JonnyBax’ got his last chips in with pocket kings against the AClub SuitKClub Suit of Michael Dyer. The ace on the river saw Dyer soar into the chip lead, while Josephy was sent home in 123rd place with $57,010.

Other notables who hit the rail on day 5 include the likes of Brian Altman (113th – $57,010), Scott Davies (126th – $57,010), three-time bracelet winners Antonio Esfandiari (132nd – $57,010) and Paul Volpe (142nd – $57,010), two-time bracelet winner Ben Yu (150th – $57,010), Kyle Julius (186th – $49,335), Ema Zajmovic (215th – $49,335), Chris Bjorin (253rd – $42,980), five-time bracelet winner Daniel Alaei (265th – $42,980), Chris Moorman (273rd – $42,980) and three-time bracelet winner Barbara Enright (292nd – $37,705).

Day 6 is set to resume at 11:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday, July 10, with blinds at 30,000-60,000 with an ante of 10,000 for level 26.

Here is a look at the top 20 stacks at the end of day 5:

Rank Player Chip Count
1 Michael Dyer 12,180,000
2 Brian Yoon 8,395,000
3 Jeff Trudeau 8,305,000
4 Hari Bercovici 7,650,000
5 Bart Lybaert 7,530,000
6 Peter Campo 6,935,000
7 Konstantin Beylin 6,930,000
8 Paulo Goncalves 6,840,000
9 Alexander Gross 6,755,000
10 Artem Metalidi 6,525,000
11 Cole Miller 6,195,000
12 Alexander Haro 6,180,000
13 Richard Robinson 5,950,000
14 Samuel Bernabeu 5,835,000
15 Nishant Sharma 5,800,000
16 Benjamin Pollak 5,715,000
17 Barry Hutter 5,695,000
18 Frederik Jensen 5,635,000
19 Tony Miles 5,600,000
20 Chris Da-Silva 5,600,000

Hutter and Altman Bag Big in the Main Event; 310 Remain After Day 4

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A busy Day 4 in the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event has seen the field slashed to its final 310 players, each still in the hunt for this year’s $8.8 million first prize. Leading the way into Monday’s Day 5 is Sarasota, Florida’sBarry Hutter, shown at right, who bagged an impressive 5,597,000 in chips after the day’s 11 hours of play.

Hutter was in or near the lead throughout the second half of Day 4’s play, and he closed the day’s final half-level in strong fashion while being the first player to top five million in chips. Hutter previously won a WSOP bracelet in a $1,500 no-limit hold’em shootout in 2015, and also collected a Circuit ring back in 2010.

Hutter’s big Day 4 gives him the overnight lead, but several players are close behind. Claremont, CA’s Alexander Haro made a late push to become the second player to top five million, finishing the night at 5,031,000. Two more players finished the night north of four million, Longmeadow, MA’s Brian Altman (4,861,000) and Mar del Plata, Argentina’s Andres Jeckeln (4,506,000). Israel’s Hari Bercovici (3,510,000) and Tucson, AZ’s Kelly Minkin(3,459,000) rounded out the top six.

Minkin spoke briefly with the WSOP about her Day 4 surge, in between posting updates to her sizable fan base on social media. Asshe told the WSOP, “I’ve just been hyper-focused. Other than for a few mistakes I made earlier in the day, I feel like I’ve been playing really well. When faced with aggression, I’ve been able to make the tough call.”

That was a reference to one of the biggest hands of the entire Day 4, when Minkin made a river call with just middle pair in a pot that ended up holding nearly two million in chips. In Minkin’s own words: “Leading up to that, this player had made a few really aggressive lines with other players, betting three times the pot and shoving rivers. I knew that if I was going to be in a hand with him, it could be potentially for all of the effective stack sizes, which was roughly 900,000 [each].

“Prior to even seeing a flop, I knew that – and was prepared to – play for his entire stack. When I flopped second pair and he was barreling into me, I just made a decision to… call.” The hand put Minkin among the leaders, where she remained at the end of the night’s play.

Yet Minkin was doing more than just making the hero call; she was making herself a seat to be reckoned with. As she raked in a pot during the evening’s play, one of her tablemates remarked to another, “You can’t beat her if you don’t play her.”

Minkin commented on that as well. “They’ve seen that I’ve been playing really solid poker, so I don’t blame them for not wanting to get involved in a hand with me.” That lesson was illustrated through the hero call that gave Minkin most of her current stack.

Yet Day 4 for many was a day of survival, just trying to bag some chips in hopes of reaching the larger paydays ahead. There was the largely overlooked tale of Poker Hall of Famer Barbara Enright, who has clawed through four days of play and finished Day 4 with just 275,000 in chips. Enright was the first woman to cash in the Main Event, way back in 1995, when she finished fifth, and she hadn’t cashed in the ME since 2005 before this year.

Enright’s run has been a Das Boot-type survival tale so far, and she bagged one of the shortest Day 4 totals, at 275,000, despite never topping 360,000 during her entire four days of play to date. “It’s a miracle I’m still here,” Enright said. “I’ve been a short stack on all of Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4. I got as high as 360 [thousand], while others are at three million, four million….” Yet the three-time bracelet winner endured while many others fell.

San Francisco’s Eric Hicks, one of this year’s Main Event’s most entertaining players, endured a wild up-and-down day before busting out late. Hicks built his stack as high as 1.2 million on three different occasions, but crashed out when he had pocket nines, his opponent had 8-7, the flop came 10-8-7, and the chips went in. Hicks found no more help as the board ran out, and he rushed off with his 401st-place cash of $33,305 to play in Event #69, $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed.

“It was one of the most awesome experiences of my life,” said Hicks, shortly after his bustout. Hicks also commented on the amulet he wore on a thick chain around his neck throughout the event. It was an oversized, wire-wrapped piece of smoky gray quartz with hundreds of fine crystals that glittered in the lights of the Amazon Room. “We bought this in Vegas our first night last year,” Hicks said, referring to his girlfriend and business partner Ashley, who has played some smaller events at the Rio this summer. “I wore it the last time I made a final table at the WSOP. I bought it from a Rastafarian; supposedly it brings you strength and power. He made it and had it around his neck and I bought it from around his neck.”

Whether raking in the chips or not, Hicks remained upbeat as he went off to play more poker. Also rushing off to play in that 6-handed PLO tourney was Event #42 winner Shaun Deeb, though Deeb late-registered while sitting on a 1.5 million stack in the Main Event, then returned to push that stack over two million by night’s end.

All 1,182 players that returned to Main Event action on Day 4 were already guaranteed a minimum $15,000 payday, following last night’s bubble-bursting bustout by Matthhew Hopkins in 1,183rd place. With the bubbleburst, the day began with a wave of bustouts, with more than a third of the field heading to the payout line in the day’s first two levels.

Day 4’s bustout list included dozens of talented, feared players who ended up on the wrong side of the cards’ fortune this day. Among the many notables who cashed but didn’t survive the Day 4 carnage were Lacey Jones, Max Altergott, Ryan LaPlante, Jan-Eric Schwippert, Jake Cody, Jason Strasser, Pierre Neuville, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Kevin MacPhee, TJ Shulman, Barry Greenstein, Joe Ebanks, Patrik Antonius, Chris Klodnicki, Taylor Paur, Loni Harwood, Alex Bolotin, Allen Cunningham, Jonathan Tamayo, Per Hildebrand, Amir Lehavot, Steven Snyder, Steve Billirakis, 1987 and 1988 Main Event winner Johnny Chan, Damian Salas, Men Nguyen, Jessica Dawley, Todd Brunson, Shawn Buchanan, Kristen Bicknell, Jean Gaspard, Ian Johns, Dan Heimiller, 1983 Main Event champ Tom McEvoy, earlier leader Frankie Flowers, Robert Hankins, Jason Lester, 2010 Main Event champ Jonathan Duhamel, Liv Boeree, and Phil Ivey.

Ivey, the 10-time bracelet winner, had made a strong surge on Day and added more chips to his stack early on Day 4, cresting well over the million-chip mark. However, Ivey crashed quickly and exited roughly halfway through the day’s session. Massachusetts’ Altman collected most of Ivey’s chips, picking off a river jam by Ivey to send the feared pro to the rail.

The bustout hand began with Ivey opening to 22,000, Altman re-raising to 75,000 from late position, and Ivey calling. The flop came    ; Ivey checked, Altman bet 60,000, and Ivey called. Both players checked on a   turn, but the   river brought big action. Ivey checked, Altman bet 195,000, and Ivey check-raised all-in for 629,000. Altman called after a minute or two of thought, and the call was correct: Ivey had   , but Altman had   for two pair and the knockout.

“Given the spot,” as Altman later related, “I took a relatively short amount of time for the river call, probably 90 to 120 seconds. My hand was just too strong to fold. I thought he was very capable of turning hands like and black tens and black nines into bluffs as well as something with the ace of spades in it. So, I just went with my gut.”

Despite the ouster of Ivey and other prominent players, plenty of star power remains. Just outside the top ten are Shannon Shorr and Brian Yoon, both over three million. A host of big names bagged more than two million, including Benjamin Pollak, James Obst, James Akenhead, and Shaun Deeb, who still had a couple of hours of PLO to play after the Main Event bagged for the night.

Others moving on to Day 5 include Cliff Josephy, Chino Rheem, Sylvain Loosli, Ben Yu, Eric Froelich, Ivan Demidov, Antonio Esfandiari, Yueqi Zhu, Paul Volpe, Bart Lybaert, Daniel Alaei, Chris Moorman, 2009 Main Event winner Joe Cada, Chris Bjorin, and Joe Kuether.

This year’s Main Event, the largest in 12 years, offers a $74,015,600 prize pool, with the proverbial lion’s share still to be awarded. A hefty $8.8 million awaits this event’s winner when action concludes on Saturday, July 14.

Official top ten chip counts for Day 4:

1 — Barry Hutter 5,597,000
2 — Alexander Haro 5,031,000
3 — Brian Altman 4,861,000
4 — Andres Jeckeln 4,506,000
5 — Hari Bercovici 3,510,000
6 — Kelly Minkin 3,459,000
7 — Franklin Azevedo 3,410,000
8 — Ubaid Habib 3,300,000
9 — Nicholas Newport 3,269,000
10 — Krasimir Yankov 3,264,000

Longsheng Tan Wins 2018 WSOP $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em for $323,472

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An overall of 1,351 players ended up for the 2018 WSOP $1,500 no-limit hold ’em poker, the very first bracelet occasion at the series to start after the start of the continuous main event. The strong turnout constructed a prize pool of $1,823,850. In the end, the lion’s share of that was granted to Longsheng Tan. The 34-year-old poker gamer and property representative based from Las Vegas made $323,472 and his very first gold bracelet for the win.

This was his 8th final table surface of the year, primarily in smaller sized buy-in events. This was his 2nd title of the year, having actually taken down a $400 event at the Wynn for $9,521. As a result of his remarkable consistency, Tan has actually shot into 51st place in the 2018 POY rankings with 1,936 points and $427,841 in year-to-date revenues.

Tan entered into day 3 of this occasion as the chip leader with remaining 26 players, when action was stopped with 6 players remaining Tan still held the lead. Tan extended his benefit by busting Adam Laskey in 5th place ($75,497), tumbling a set versus Laskey’s leading set.

Jayaram Kovoorchathoth eliminated Trey Brabham in 4th location ($103,212), however still was the fastest stack with 3 players staying. Lanny Levine knocked Kovoorchathoth to enter heads-up play against Tan, starting at simply even worse than a 3-to-2 chip drawback.

It took only 17 hands for Tan to seal the deal. In the final hand, Tan raised to 200,000 from the button with the blinds at 40,000-80,000 with an ante of 10,000 holding the ADiamond Suit7Heart Suit. Levine made the call holding the 10Spade Suit7Spade Suit. The flop brought the QSpade Suit9Heart Suit7Club Suit and both players checked. The turn was the ASpade Suit, giving Tan two pair and Levine a pair and a flush draw. Levine checked and Tan bet 175,000. Levine called and the 7Diamond Suit hit the river. Levine bet 400,000 and Tan raised to 1,400,000. Levine moved all-in for 2,930,000 and Tan quickly called with his sevens full of aces. Levine’s trip sevens were no good, and he was sent to the rail as the runner-up with $199,862.

Official Final Table Payouts

Place Player Country Prize Money
1 Longsheng Tan United States $323,472
2 Lanny Levine United States $199,862
3 Jayaram Kovoorchathoth United States $142,785
4 Trey Brabham United States $103,212
5 Adam Laskey United States $75,497
6 Stephen Bierman United States $55,892
7 John Pannucci United States $41,884
8 Georgiios Tavoularis Israel $31,775
9 Jason Paradis United States $24,409

Money Bubble Bursts In 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event

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After complete three days of play, the 2018 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event has actually narrowed the second-largest field in the competition’s history (7,874 entries) down to simply 1,182 players remaining. With the removal of Matthew Hopkins, the final 1,182 players remaining locked up a min-cash of at least $15,000 payday in this year’s world champion. Obviously, they all still have their eyes on the champion bracelet and the prize of $8,800,000.

Hopkins was gotten rid of when moved all-in over the top of Bryce McVay’s 15,000 raise from middle position. Hopkins jammed for 49,000 with the AClub Suit5Heart Suit and McVay called with the ADiamond SuitQSpade Suit. McVay remained in a dominant position heading into the flop, and the board went out 10Heart Suit8Diamond Suit6Diamond Suit2Heart SuitASpade Suit to put an end to hand-for-hand play. Although he was knocked out on the bubble, Hopkins did not leave empty-handed. The WSOP provided him a consolation prize: a seat into the 2019 centerpiece.

When the dust settled In Sun Geoum was the chip leader with 1,696,000. Other top stacks include Frankie Flowers (1,624,000), Samuel Bernabeu (1,418,000), Michael Lavenburg (1,356,000) and Julius Malzanini (1,292,000).

A variety of the most significant names in the game are still in with a lot of chips, consisting of a set of two-time bracelet winners in Eric Froelich (1,235,000) and Ben Yu (1,040,000), online tournament poker’s greatest winner Chris Moorman (969,000), three-time World Poker Tour main event winner Chino Rheem (904,000), ten-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey (827,000), Patrik Antonius (460,000) and a lot more.

2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event 29th location finisher Kelly Minkin was the last player standing that year. She bagged up 795,000 at the end of day 3, and is seeming the last player of any gender staying in 2018. Card Player Television overtook Minkin previously in the day for a fast interview concerning her begin to day 3 and more. Have a look at the video listed below:

5 previous winners of the main event are still alive with an opportunity of ending up being repeat champs. Johnny Chan (162,000) is the only player entrusted to a chance at ending up being a three-time champ in this occasion, having actually won back-to-back titles in 1987 and 1988. 2010 winner Jonathan Duhamel (450,000), 2009 champ Joe Cada (211,000), 2002 winner Robert Varkonyi (181,100) and 1998 champ Scotty Nguyen (74,300) are all still in contention too.

A few of the many significant gamers that cannot endure day 3 consist of six-time bracelet winner Chris Ferguson, Jason Koon, David Bach, Anthony Zinno, Alex Foxen, Steffen Sontheimer, Erick Lindgren, Jason Mercier, comic Ray Romano, 2012 champ of this occasion Greg Merson and all-time WSOP bracelet leader Phil Hellmuth.

The ‘Poker Brat’ got the last of his stack in preflop with ASpade SuitKClub Fit ahead of his Jans Arends’ ADiamond Suit9Diamond Match. A 9 increased the river to send out Hellmuth house midway through the day.

The last 1,182 gamers will return for day 4 at 11 a.m. PT on Sunday, July 8.

 

Phil Ivey Bags Big Stack In 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event

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The poker world is now officially on high alert. Phil Ivey has chips in the World Series of Pokermain event!

Ivey, the ten-time bracelet winner and poker hall of famer who has spent the better part of the last five years fighting casinos in court over baccarat winnings, only recently returned to the felt. He won a combined $2.27 million in Montenegro at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in May, before taking ninth in the $50,000 WSOP Poker Players Championship.

Now, the 41-year-old is looking to go deep in the $10,000 main event, bagging up one of the biggest stacks in the room during day 2C at the Rio on Friday. Ivey, who last cashed in the WSOPmain event back in 2014 (430th), is looking to improve upon his personal best of seventh place, which he accomplished back in 2009, earning $1.4 million. He finished play with 434,200, which was good enough for 11th in the flight, and 26th overall entering day 3.

One of the few players to top Ivey’s performance during the day was Reedley, California farmer Ignacio Sanchez, who bagged up a whopping 627,200 to lead the field. Sanchez, who has cashed in the main event once before, will take 313 big blinds with him into day 3.

At the start of play, there were still 3,480 players remaining in the flight. But by the end of the day, which consisted of five, two-hour levels, just 1,655 had survived. They will join the remaining players from day 2AB, combining for day 3 with 2,786 total remaining. Only the final 1,182 players will make the money, earning a minimum payout of $15,000.

Other notables who advanced from the flight with a big stack included Andrey Pateychuk (434,200), Yueqi Zhu (429,200), Chino Rheem (390,800), Daniel Opsina (331,200), Dario Sammartino (309,600), Jordan Cristos (304,000), Cliff Josephy (285,400), Xuan Liu (279,600), Dan Heimiller (263,000). 14-time bracelet winner and former main event winner Phil Hellmuth (162,700), and Card Player’s own Jeff Shulman (69,300), also moved on.

The tournament resumes Saturday at 11 a.m. PT with another five levels scheduled. Check out the overnight chip counts here.

Galen Hall Wins 2018 World Series of Poker $888 Crazy Eights Event

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The 2018 WSOP $888 buy-in ‘crazy eights’ No Limit Hold’em event drew in a massive field of 8,598 total entries. The outstanding turnout constructed a prize pool of $6,871,521. The largest portion of that money was awarded to ultimate champ Galen Hall, who took home his first career World Series Of Poker gold bracelet and the $888,888 first prize. This was the second largest score of Hall’s career behind the $2.3 million he earned as the winner of the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event. With the win, the American has more than $5.1 million in lifetime winnings.

New York CIty’s Galen Hall, 33, a Stanford University graduate came into the final table as one of the shorter stacks. After the removal of Philip Tom in eighth place ($90,888) he was the second shortest stack, with just 18 big blinds. Galen Hall won a flip with AClub SuitQHeart Suit against Jeremiah Miesen’s pocket tens, leaving him short. Miesen hit the rail in sixth place not too long after, earning $153,888. Hall continued his rise up the leaderboard by knocking out Alex Kuzmin in fifth place ($201,888) and bracelet winner Andrey Zaichenko in fourth place ($266,888).

With that Hall took the lead into three-handed play. Play was halted for the night late on Tuesday, July 3, with the remaining players agreeing to take the following day off so that they might play day 1C of the main event. In the end Hall won a couple of key preflop races in order to seal the deal. He first called Niels Herregodts’ four-bet all-in with the AClub SuitKClub Suit and won against Herregodts’ 4Club Suit4Diamond Suit by spiking a king on the flop. The Bulgarian earned $355,888 as the third-place finisher.

Not long after that Hall called Eduards Kudrjavcevs shoved from the button with the 9Spade Suit9Diamond Suit and found himself up against JHeart Suit10Club Suit. The board came down 8Heart Suit6Diamond Suit5Club Suit7Spade SuitKSpade Suit and Hall’s pair held up to earn him the pot and the title. Kudrjavcevs took home $476,888 as the runner-up.

Official Final Table Result

Position Player Country Prize
1 Galen Hall United States $888,888
2 Eduards Kudrjavcevs Latvia $476,888
3 Niels Herregodts Belgium $355,888
4 Andrey Zaichenko Russia $266,888
5 Alexander Kuzmin Russia $201,888
6 Jeremiah Miesen United States $153,888
7 Martin Stausholm Denmark $117,888
8 Philip Tom United States $90,888

WSOP Main Event Sees Record Turnout, Second-Biggest Overall Field Ever

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The final starting flight of the World Series of Poker Main Event is typically the busiest. However, with that final starting flight accompanying July 4 parties, numerous anticipated a frustrating turnout this year.

They were wrong. The World Championship had its busiest beginning day in its four-decade history. As lots of as 4,571 people showed up on Wednesday at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, to defeat last year’s record of 4,262 Day 1C contenders. While the specific variety of individuals that made it via all levels arranged for the day wasn’t immediately available at the time of writing, WSOP stated that there were approximately 3,500 individuals to bag as well as tag for the night.

This year’s field of the world’s most prominent No-Limit Hold’em tournament counts 7,874 participants and is the second largest in World Series of Poker history. A prize pool of $74,015,600 was produced over the occasion’s three starting flights. The remaining hopefuls will certainly hence contend for a first-place reward $8.8 million in addition to for a shiny gold bracelet, recognized to be one of the most desired non-monetary reward in poker, and of course the WSOP Main Event Champion title.

The event’s third starting flight kicked off at 11 am local time at the host casino and attracted more than 4,500 players of various nationality and of various level of poker experience. The Day 1C survivors will certainly return at the poker tables for Day 2C on Friday, July 5.

Some prominent poker pros also participated in Day 1C action and managed to make it through. Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, who made his Main Event return after missing the event for 6 years, Loni Harwood, and three-time WPT champ Chino Rheem were among the notables who will return at the host casino on Friday.

“It felt very special to be back,” said Antonius. “I got in after the dinner break, brought a lot of action to the table and managed to get some big hands. It was great to see so many poker players I have not seen in so long. I am very tired and going to rest for a while after this.”

There were also plenty of former WSOP Main Event champions including Phil Hellmuth, Jonathan Duhamel, and Joe Cada also joined the Day 1C field and bagged for the night. It is interesting to note that Hellmuth made quite an entrance into this year’s edition of the tournament. He arrived at the casino driving a chopper and wearing a Marvel’s Thor costume. He was flanked by a group of models scantily clad in Wonder Woman costumes.

This was not the very first time that the record-breaking champion of 14 WSOP gold bracelets made a grand entrance into the World Championship. In 2009, Hellmuth channeled Julius Caesar for his arrival for the tournament.

Main Event action is set to resume today at the host casino when the Day 1A and 1B survivors will return to fight for a seat into Day 3.

 

Dan Matsuzuki Denies Scott Bohlman His Second WSOP Bracelet Of The Summer

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Scottsdale, Arizona’s Dan Matsuzuki had no plans to enter the $10,000 stud eight-or-better event. In fact, he didn’t even play the first day of the tournament. It wasn’t until a friend convinced him to jump into day 2 that he put up the buy-in, joining a total field of 141 entrants.

“Come on, just gamble. Those were his exact words,” said Matsuzuki.

After a long day 2 grind, the 28-year-old Matsuzuki found himself at a stacked final table that included WSOP main event final tablist Jerry Wong (6th), as well as bracelet winners Bryce Yockey (7th), Christopher Vitch (4th), Ken Aldridge (3rd), and Scott Bohlman (2nd).

Matsuzuki, who had just five previous cashes at the summer series, came out on top to earn his first braclet, and the $364,387 first-place prize.

“The tournaments don’t really appeal to me too much,” Matsuzuki told WSOP reporters. “This may change my mind, I guess.”

Bohlman, who earned $225,210 for his runner-up finish, was gunning for his second bracelet of the summer. In mid-June, he won the $2,500 Mixed Big Bet event for $122,138 and he followed that up with a sixth-place showing in the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha event for $157,097.

Two-time bracelet winner Christopher Vitch banked $108,739 for his second fourth-place finish of the summer. Vitch was actually the defending champion of this event, winning it last year for $320,103.

Other notables that finished in the money included Mike Watson (12th), Jesse Martin (13th), Roland Israelashvili (15th), Yuval Bronshtein (19th), and Daniel Negreanu (20th).

Here is a look at the final table results.

Place Player Payout POY Points
1 Dan Matsuzuki $364,387 720
2 Scott Bohlman $225,210 600
3 Ken Aldridge $154,648 480
4 Christopher Vitch $108,739 360
5 Daham Wang $78,337 300
6 Jerry Wong $57,855 240
7 Bryce Yockey $43,833 180
8 Joseph Michael $34,089 120

2018 World Series of Poker Main Event Sees Day 1A Field Increase of 16 Percent

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The first of three starting flights in the 2018 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in main event is officially in the books. A total of 925 players showed up for day 1A, which is more than a 16 percent increase from the 795 in last year’s first flight.

One reason for the increase may be the earlier starting date. Last year’s WSOP main event began on July 8, while this year’s main event kicks off with 13 other bracelet events still to go on the schedule.

2017 main event champion Scott Blumstein got his title defense effort started early and he was even seated at the ESPN featured table, but his run ended in level 3 when he ran an overpair into the back-door flush of three-time bracelet winner Brian Yoon. Other former main event winners who couldn’t survive the day included Jerry Yang and Qui Nguyen.

After five, two-hour levels of play on day 1A, just 661 players remained, led by Timothy Lau with a stack of 338,700. Lau, Truyen Nguyen, and Chris Fraser were the only players to cross the 250,000 mark.

Comedians Ray Romano and Kevin Pollak both sat down in the main event, and both managed to advance to day 2, bagging up stacks of 61,100 and 71,300, respectively. Hollywood producer Randall Emmett, who went so far as to hire a marching band to accompany him to the Amazon room at the Rio, finished with 133,400.

Other notables moving on to day 2 include Matt Berkey (185,600), Jake Schindler (157,900), Jared Bleznick (155,000), Brian Yoon (145,000), Jason Lester (139,100), Matt Waxman (120,600), Lacey Jones (114,000), Owen Crowe (114,000), and Chris Hunichen (107,300).

Macau’s aggregated gross gaming revenues recover for June

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The over 30 casinos in Macau have reportedly recovered somewhat from a disappointing May to post a 12.5% increase year-on-year in aggregated gross gaming revenues for June to approximately $2.78 billion.

According to a Sunday report from GGRAsia citing official figures from Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, the most recent result means that the former Portuguese enclave’s casinos have seen their aggregated gross gaming revenues for the first six months of 2018 rise by just short of 19% year-on-year to stand at some $18.59 billion.

GGRAsia reported that the June figure was better than the 12.1% year-on-year improvement for May, which saw the city’s casinos record a 31-day tally of $3.15 billion, although it was still far below the 20% swell that had been predicted by some brokerage firms. This all came after April saw the local sector witness a 27.6% boost in takings to $3.18 billion while March’s total of $3.21 billion had represented a 22.2% escalation.

JP Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Limited reportedly detailed via an official memorandum last week that Macau’s aggregated gross gaming revenues for June were set to be ‘quite decent and resilient in our view, especially considering the slow seasonality post the holiday and negative impact from the [2018 FIFA] World Cup.’ It was highlighting its belief that takings were sure to be negatively impacted by China’s traditional Golden Week holiday as well as the lower betting volumes that are oftentimes witnessed around major sporting tournaments such as the festival of football that is currently taking place in Russia.

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