$1,500 Main Event
Día 1ef empezado
$1,500 Main Event
Día 1ef empezado
Welcome back to another exciting day of poker here at the Winter Poker Open hosted by Champions Club Poker Room in Houston, Texas. Today will feature the fifth starting flight, Day 1e, of the $1,500 NLH $1 Million GTD Main Event! The current stack to beat is held by Kassim Panjwani with an impressive 1,319,000 from yesterday and behind him is Viet Vo with 1,151,000.
This flight will kick off at noon local time and registration will be open for a whopping nine hours and fifteen minutes (approximately 9:15 pm) and play will continue until 12% of the field remains.
| Place | Player | Country | Chip Count |
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| 1 | Kassim Panjwani | United States | 1,319,000 |
| 2 | Viet Vo | United States | 1,151,000 |
| 3 | Joel Vazquez | United States | 1,068,000 |
| 4 | Dora Coyle | United States | 1,041,000 |
| 5 | Jonathan Vuong | United States | 880,000 |
| 6 | Ethan Goldstein | United States | 763,000 |
| 7 | Bohdan Slyvinskyi | United States | 761,000 |
| 8 | Isaac Eliason | United States | 735,000 |
| 9 | Trevor Lewis | United States | 721,000 |
| 10 | Filip Cvetinovic | United States | 714,000 |
Players will receive a starting stack of 60,000 and levels will be 40 minutes in length for all starting flights, and then will be increased to 60 minutes on Day 2.
The two-day event culminates with a live-streamed final table on Monday, February 17th once all survivors from the six opening flights have been thinned to nine remaining contenders. Those opening flight returnees will come back to the Champions Club poker room at noon to continue their chase for a six-figure payday.
As always, keep a bookmark on PokerNews as we will be providing you with all of the action here at Champions Club!
The cards are in the air and the chips are flying as day 1e of the Main Event is now underway!
With already 35 entries and counting this is will certainly be the largest flight of the tournament.
Nivel: 1
Ciegas: 100/200
Ante: 200
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60,000 | |
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60,000 | |
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60,000 | |
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60,000 | |
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60,000 | |
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60,000 | |
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60,000 | |
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60,000 | |
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60,000 | |
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60,000 | |
On a three-way flop of 8♣7♥4♣, Suzan Samuels bet 1,500 and was called by Takehiko Kanazawa and Randall Campbell to see the turn A♣.
Campbell fired again for 3,500 and was called only by Kanazawa to continue to the river 8♠.
"Seven," Samuels announced after both players checked and showed 6♦7♦, but then Kanazawa tabled a surprisingly strong holding of A♠Q♣ to take down the pot.
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
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82,000 | |
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62,000 | |
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53,600
6,400
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6,400 |
Nivel: 2
Ciegas: 200/300
Ante: 300
After a limp from Belle Wallace, Benjamin Gonzalez opened to 1,600 from the cutoff and was called by Loong Voong on the button. Wallace also decided to come along and the three players went to a flop of A♥A♦5♣.
Wallace checked, Gonzalez continued for 1,600, Voong called, and Wallace folded.
On the turn K♣, bet another 2,200, and again Voong just called. When the river hit the J♣, Gonzalez fired for 6,800, but then Voong raised him to 18,000.
"Call, full house!" Gonzalez quickly announced as he tossed out chips and tabled J♠J♦ for a rivered boat, but his reaction quickly turned sour as Voong rolled over A♣A♠ for flopped quads!
"Wow," Gonzalez shook his head in disbelief, "Thank God for deep-stacked tournaments!"
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
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85,000 | |
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50,000 | |
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47,000 |
The action was picked up on a heads-up turn that read 4♣4♠10♣3♦ with 24,000 in the middle when Will Benson checked to Kelechi Amadi who then moved all in for 16,200.
Benson then went into the tank for over a minute, as this bet was half of his own stack, but after a while, he decided to make the call to put Amadi at risk.
Kelechi Amadi: K♥K♦
Will Benson: 10♥8♦
Amadi was well in the lead with his kings and only needed to dodge a ten to stay alive. He did manage to dodge it as the river was the 2♦ to secure him the double.
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
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56,500 | |
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16,600 |
Nivel: 3
Ciegas: 200/400
Ante: 400