Event #78: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty Day 1 | 2019 World Series of Poker

Event #78: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty

Day 1 Completed

07-09-2019 23:17 UTC-8

Tobias Schwecht Among The Top After Day 1 Of Event #78: $1,500 PLO Bounty

Anthony Thompson

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

Today saw the start of Event #78: $1,500 PLO Bounty at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. The tournament drew 1,130 entries, generating a prize pool of $960,500 with first place walking away with $177,823. Play began with players busting left and right as bounty hunters claimed scalps from a frantic start to a frenetic finish, with the tournament clock reading just 247 players at the end of the day.

At the end of Day 1, Tobias Schwecht looks to be close to the top as he bagged 419,200 chips and he is followed closely by Richard Kellett (414,600). Other players who bagged big stacks at the end of the night include Kazuhiko Yotsushika (359,600), Jason Young (356,300), Jan-Peter Jachtmann (354,100) and Bradley Butcher (341,200).

Day 1 saw many of the games top players join the field and some notable faces moving onto Day 2 include Jonathan Dimmig (276,800), Jesse Sylvia (205,800), Bryce Yockey (194,000), Anton Wigg (173,000), Andrew Donabedian (139,200), Matthew Waxman (65,500), Daniel Negreanu (64,800), and Phil Hellmuth (37,800).

While Day 2 will see many notable faces return some were less fortunate, those players include David Williams, Greg Raymer, Nathan Gamble, Ben Yu, Peter Eichhardt, Steven Wolansky, and defending champion Anderson Ireland.

Day 2 will have a noon restart with action picking up on level 11 where blinds will be 800/1,600. Blind levels will be 60-minutes long and players will receive a 15-minute break after every two levels along with a 60-minute dinner break at the end of level 16.

Tune in here tomorrow as the PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all of the bounty action.

Tags: Anderson Ireland Andrew Donabedian Anton Wigg Bradley Butcher Bryce Yockey Daniel Negreanu David Williams Greg Raymer Jason Young Jesse Sylvia Jonathan Dimmig Kazuhiko Yotsushika Matthew Waxman Nathan Gamble Peter Eichhardt Phil Hellmuth Richard Kellett Steven Wolansky Tobias Schwecht

07-09-2019 23:17 UTC-8

Seat Draw Day 2 Event #78: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty

Webjoker

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

Room	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Amazon	449	1	Shankar Pillai	United States	58,800	37
Amazon	449	2	Rod Fani	United States	106,800	67
Amazon	449	3	Jonathan Depa	United States	300,400	188
Amazon	449	4	Matthew Boone	United States	140,400	88
Amazon	449	6	Tim Seidensticker	United States	131,000	82
Amazon	449	7	Aditya Sushant	India	215,300	135
Amazon	449	8	Dash Dudley	United States	37,300	23
Amazon	449	9	Andreas Klatt	Germany	151,800	95

Amazon	450	1	Tony Dam	United States	31,000	19
Amazon	450	2	Jeffrey Mahoney	Canada	211,300	132
Amazon	450	3	Ryan Hong	Australia	152,400	95
Amazon	450	4	Nikolai Yakovenko	Russia	50,000	31
Amazon	450	6	JC Tran	United States	95,800	60
Amazon	450	7	Stephen Whitaker	United States	53,000	33
Amazon	450	8	Lance Howard	United States	94,000	59
Amazon	450	9	Steven Uccio	United States	105,000	66

Amazon	451	1	Robert Borick	United States	223,100	139
Amazon	451	3	Tyler Patterson	United States	100,100	63
Amazon	451	4	Arthur Morris	United States	83,200	52
Amazon	451	5	David Callaghan	Ireland	167,000	104
Amazon	451	7	Michael Amato	United States	70,500	44
Amazon	451	8	Michael Fennell	United States	86,800	54
Amazon	451	9	Antti Marttinen	Finland	188,300	118

Amazon	452	1	Dave Fox	United States	89,900	56
Amazon	452	2	Thibaut Klinghammer	France	62,500	39
Amazon	452	3	Daniel Harmetz	United States	130,000	81
Amazon	452	4	Corey Hochman	United States	139,700	87
Amazon	452	5	Matt Waxman	United States	65,500	41
Amazon	452	6	Darius Studdard	United States	31,100	19
Amazon	452	7	Florencio Bunal	United States	189,100	118
Amazon	452	8	Clyde Shimp	United States	47,900	30
Amazon	452	9	Yunye Lu	China	167,200	105

Amazon	453	1	Tom Midena	United States	117,400	73
Amazon	453	2	Andrew Weinstein	United States	73,200	46
Amazon	453	3	Roland Israelashvili	United States	1	0
Amazon	453	4	Carlos Alvarado	United States	194,400	122
Amazon	453	5	Robin Ylitalo	United States	62,800	39
Amazon	453	6	Robert Curotola	United States	79,900	50
Amazon	453	7	Michael Schwartz	United States	47,800	30
Amazon	453	8	Jerome Bradpiece	United Kingdom	110,000	69
Amazon	453	9	James Little	United States	69,100	43

Amazon	454	1	Anton Wigg	Sweden	173,000	108
Amazon	454	2	Jonathan Dimmig	United States	276,800	173
Amazon	454	3	Dennis Durante	United States	56,000	35
Amazon	454	4	Gabriel Iemmito	Italy	58,600	37
Amazon	454	5	Denilson Menezes	Brazil	101,000	63
Amazon	454	6	David Anderson	United Kingdom	57,700	36
Amazon	454	7	Vasil Medarov	Bulgaria	108,100	68
Amazon	454	8	Yichih Huang	United States	17,000	11
Amazon	454	9	Kenneth Tallent	United States	106,600	67

Amazon	455	1	Yohei Inasaki	Japan	74,400	47
Amazon	455	2	Andrew Donabedian	United States	139,200	87
Amazon	455	3	Timothy McDermott	United States	62,000	39
Amazon	455	4	Peter Kelly	United States	81,400	51
Amazon	455	5	Iori Yogo	Japan	43,500	27
Amazon	455	6	William Kakon	Marocco	30,000	19
Amazon	455	7	Akihide Shimizu	Japan	60,500	38
Amazon	455	8	Cole Jackson	United States	51,400	32
Amazon	455	9	Igor Sharaskin	Russia	234,100	146

Amazon	456	1	Yik Chiu	Hong Kong	132,600	83
Amazon	456	2	Vladimir Bozinovic	Serbia	60,300	38
Amazon	456	3	Alexander Condon	United States	14,500	9
Amazon	456	4	George Abdallah	United States	50,000	31
Amazon	456	5	Dejuante Alexander	United States	95,000	59
Amazon	456	6	Adam Taskinsoy	United States	32,800	21
Amazon	456	7	Rasmus Larsen	Denmark	68,400	43
Amazon	456	8	Caufman Talley	United States	127,400	80
Amazon	456	9	Travis Pearson	United States	151,700	95

Amazon	457	1	Joseph Liberta	United States	116,100	73
Amazon	457	2	Toby Lewis	United Kingdom	77,300	48
Amazon	457	3	Thomas Fusaro	United States	31,200	20
Amazon	457	4	George Wolff	United States	16,200	10
Amazon	457	5	Blake Barousse	United States	67,300	42
Amazon	457	6	Jason Stockfish	United States	114,500	72
Amazon	457	7	Damjan Radanov	United States	124,000	78
Amazon	457	8	Orhan Sen	Germany	222,000	139
Amazon	457	9	Matan Zohar	United States	1	0

Amazon	458	1	Jarred Graham	Australia	28,900	18
Amazon	458	3	Logan Trindade	United States	25,000	16
Amazon	458	4	Richard Gryko	United Kingdom	47,200	30
Amazon	458	5	Takashi Ogura	Japan	157,900	99
Amazon	458	6	Jie Shi	United States	51,400	32
Amazon	458	7	Qinghai Pan	United States	211,300	132
Amazon	458	8	Nick Schwarmann	United States	65,500	41
Amazon	458	9	Kevin Eyster	United States	123,000	77

Amazon	459	1	Cornel Cimpan	United States	98,700	62
Amazon	459	2	Mark Wahba	United States	224,000	140
Amazon	459	3	Benjamin Pomer	Germany	86,100	54
Amazon	459	4	Quinn Do	United States	78,000	49
Amazon	459	5	Khang Luong	Canada	11,300	7
Amazon	459	6	Connor Drinan	United States	124,300	78
Amazon	459	7	Oziel Velador	United States	21,590	13
Amazon	459	8	Joseph Reichenbacher	United States	17,000	11
Amazon	459	9	Luis Velador	United States	150,600	94

Amazon	460	1	Andrew Klivan	United States	136,300	85
Amazon	460	2	Javier Zarco	Spain	272,400	170
Amazon	460	3	Manh Nguyen	United States	152,700	95
Amazon	460	4	Minesha Lamba	India	100,700	63
Amazon	460	5	Jan Kotrla	Czech Republic	218,300	136
Amazon	460	6	Guillaume Diaz	France	52,600	33
Amazon	460	7	Nikolay Bibov	Bulgaria	161,200	101
Amazon	460	8	Desen Zhang	Canada	160,400	100
Amazon	460	9	Andrey Zaichenko	Russia	72,300	45

Amazon	461	1	Ronald Keys	Canada	113,900	71
Amazon	461	2	Jeff Lisandro	Australia	99,400	62
Amazon	461	3	Peter Costa	United Kingdom	52,300	33
Amazon	461	4	Stephen Ma	United States	101,700	64
Amazon	461	5	Mike Zhang	United States	1	0
Amazon	461	6	Jesse Chinni	United States	65,000	41
Amazon	461	7	Jim Collopy	United States	52,500	33
Amazon	461	8	Jessica Dawley	United States	42,100	26
Amazon	461	9	Owais Ahmed	United States	78,300	49

Amazon	462	1	Daniel Negreanu	Canada	64,800	41
Amazon	462	2	Andrew Peplinski	United States	179,600	112
Amazon	462	3	Christian Pereira	Argentina	210,000	131
Amazon	462	4	Aaron Cummings	United States	152,600	95
Amazon	462	5	Tobias Schwecht	Austria	419,200	262
Amazon	462	6	Michael Hahn	United States	40,100	25
Amazon	462	7	Oleh Ferkalyuk	United States	60,500	38
Amazon	462	8	Martin Zamani	United States	27,500	17
Amazon	462	9	Jennifer Lee	United States	190,900	119

Amazon	463	1	David Wells	United States	32,100	20
Amazon	463	2	Joseph Sanders	United States	110,800	69
Amazon	463	3	Michael Krasienko	United States	68,400	43
Amazon	463	4	Peter Levine	United States	52,400	33
Amazon	463	5	Stephen Bennette	United States	40,900	26
Amazon	463	6	Cheli Lin	China	107,800	67
Amazon	463	7	Amauri Grutka	Brazil	78,200	49
Amazon	463	8	Richard Tuhrim	United States	90,300	56
Amazon	463	9	Bradley Butcher	United States	341,200	213

Amazon	464	1	Minh Hau Nguyen	Austria	35,600	22
Amazon	464	2	Timothy Chung	United Kingdom	190,400	119
Amazon	464	3	Horacio Chaves Cortes	Paraguay	229,000	143
Amazon	464	4	Fumihiro Yasoshima	Japan	90,900	57
Amazon	464	5	Denis Strebkov	Russia	331,700	207
Amazon	464	7	Adam Hendrix	United States	158,200	99
Amazon	464	8	Jonathan Ng	United States	144,700	90
Amazon	464	9	Chris Gregg	United States	111,500	70

Amazon	465	1	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	38,900	24
Amazon	465	2	Andrew Choi	United States	245,000	153
Amazon	465	3	Fnu Shrey	United States	100,600	63
Amazon	465	4	Raj Vohra	United States	152,800	96
Amazon	465	5	Hieu Luu	United States	113,000	71
Amazon	465	6	Scott Sharpe	United States	98,300	61
Amazon	465	7	Cory Blum	United States	72,500	45
Amazon	465	8	Jason DeWitt	United States	61,600	39
Amazon	465	9	Hans Winzeler	United States	8,100	5

Amazon	466	1	Nicolas Fountotos	United States	52,900	33
Amazon	466	2	Matthew Meyerhoff	United States	43,600	27
Amazon	466	3	Stephen Wan	United States	32,100	20
Amazon	466	4	Joshua Green	United Kingdom	122,600	77
Amazon	466	5	Jesse Rockowitz	United States	62,600	39
Amazon	466	6	Michael Barnes	United States	86,000	54
Amazon	466	7	Matthew Mueller	United States	140,400	88
Amazon	466	8	Jesse Sylvia	United States	205,800	129
Amazon	466	9	Jason Young	United States	356,300	223

Amazon	467	1	Michael Song	United States	99,000	62
Amazon	467	2	Joao Simao	Brazil	141,600	89
Amazon	467	3	Zakhar Galper	Israel	71,800	45
Amazon	467	4	Sumit Bhattacharya	United States	251,000	157
Amazon	467	5	Kyle Ho	Canada	60,000	38
Amazon	467	6	Michael Tabarelli	Italy	104,100	65
Amazon	467	7	Chase Fujita	United States	143,200	90
Amazon	467	8	Arunas Garunkstis	Lithuania	23,700	15
Amazon	467	9	Filipe Marinho	United States	117,000	73

Amazon	468	1	Allan Le	United States	165,000	103
Amazon	468	2	Joseph Mobley	United States	163,600	102
Amazon	468	4	Kadu Campion	Brazil	183,600	115
Amazon	468	5	Bryce Yockey	United States	197,400	123
Amazon	468	6	Jerry Odeen	Sweden	65,000	41
Amazon	468	7	Kyle Knecht	United States	272,600	170
Amazon	468	8	Gordon Vayo	United States	90,600	57
Amazon	468	9	Corey Emery	United States	56,100	35

Amazon	469	1	Andrew Sexton	United States	34,200	21
Amazon	469	2	Gabe Ramos	United States	110,000	69
Amazon	469	3	Kyle Kellogg	United States	160,100	100
Amazon	469	4	Maximiliam Klostermeier	Denmark	293,600	184
Amazon	469	5	Vamshi Vandanapu	United Kingdom	73,600	46
Amazon	469	6	Omar Zazay	United States	113,000	71
Amazon	469	7	Joseph Weinberger	United States	125,500	78
Amazon	469	8	Gregory Jamison	United States	70,600	44
Amazon	469	9	Karim Lehoussine	France	93,000	58

Amazon	470	1	Derek Bowers	United States	166,200	104
Amazon	470	2	Yueqi Zhu	China	68,300	43
Amazon	470	3	Ryan Lenaghan	United States	131,300	82
Amazon	470	4	Jan-Peter Jachtmann	Germany	354,100	221
Amazon	470	5	Krzyszof Magott	Portugal	140,300	88
Amazon	470	6	Andriy Lyubovetskiy	United Kingdom	146,200	91
Amazon	470	7	Paul Fisher	United States	59,600	37
Amazon	470	8	Chris DeMaci	United States	29,100	18
Amazon	470	9	Kang Hyun Lee	Canada	273,800	171

Amazon	471	1	Aleksandr Gofman	Russia	113,000	71
Amazon	471	3	Christopher Licht	United States	33,800	21
Amazon	471	4	Paul Rigg	United Kingdom	166,400	104
Amazon	471	6	Kazuhiko Yotsushika	Japan	359,600	225
Amazon	471	7	Renato Marques	Brazil	101,600	64
Amazon	471	8	Jonathan West	United States	114,800	72
Amazon	471	9	Mike Puskarich	United States	19,400	12

Amazon	472	1	Noah Bronstein	United States	89,900	56
Amazon	472	2	Masayuki Hakoda	Japan	13,900	9
Amazon	472	3	Ismael Bojang	Austria	36,900	23
Amazon	472	4	Ha Diep	United States	121,400	76
Amazon	472	5	Phil Hellmuth	United States	38,800	24
Amazon	472	6	Veerachai Vongxaiburana	United States	80,600	50
Amazon	472	7	Brandon Shack-Harris	United States	30,000	19
Amazon	472	8	Chun Law	United States	61,900	39

Amazon	473	1	Guy Bowen	United States	172,700	108
Amazon	473	2	Jason Chung	United States	46,100	29
Amazon	473	3	Gary Herstein	United States	56,000	35
Amazon	473	4	Zachary Hench	United States	209,900	131
Amazon	473	5	Dermot Blain	Ireland	36,400	23
Amazon	473	6	Brant Hale	United States	75,000	47
Amazon	473	8	Dzmitry Urbanovich	Poland	49,700	31
Amazon	473	9	Josh Palmer	United States	38,200	24

Amazon	474	1	Heng Zhang	United States	128,000	80
Amazon	474	2	Max Pescatori	Italy	22,500	14
Amazon	474	3	Kunal Patni	United States	173,900	109
Amazon	474	4	James Hurley	United States	176,200	110
Amazon	474	5	Richard Kellett	United Kingdom	414,600	259
Amazon	474	6	Viktors Vorobjovs	Latvia	74,000	46
Amazon	474	8	Michael Perrone	United States	74,000	46
Amazon	474	9	Peter Arethas	United States	68,600	43

Amazon	475	1	Mathias Wessel	Germany	42,200	26
Amazon	475	3	Michael Scoma	United States	115,600	72
Amazon	475	4	Jon Stanfield	United States	64,800	41
Amazon	475	5	Michael Connelly	United States	19,900	12
Amazon	475	6	Daniel Zack	United States	51,300	32
Amazon	475	7	Michel Abecassis	France	100,100	63
Amazon	475	8	Mark Bixler	United States	290,300	181
Amazon	475	9	Benjamin Ludlow	United States	169,800	106

Amazon	476	1	Senovio Ramirez III	United States	302,400	189
Amazon	476	3	Yingui Li	China	379,400	237
Amazon	476	4	Christian Harder	United States	147,300	92
Amazon	476	5	Shlomo Cohen	Israel	108,300	68
Amazon	476	6	Brock Parker	United States	65,700	41
Amazon	476	7	Jimmy Guerrero	United Kingdom	18,600	12
Amazon	476	8	Kenneth Ruderman	United States	186,300	116
Amazon	476	9	Julian Segura	Colombia	169,100	106

Amazon	477	1	David Lin	United States	48,500	30
Amazon	477	2	Jack Duong	United States	151,700	95
Amazon	477	3	Teunis Kooij	Netherlands	107,000	67
Amazon	477	4	Anton Suarezjohansson	Switzerland	82,000	51
Amazon	477	5	Mike Arzoumanidis	United States	102,200	64
Amazon	477	6	LaDarren Banks	United States	195,100	122
Amazon	477	7	Jacob Snider	United States	51,600	32
Amazon	477	8	Elton Beebe	United States	46,400	29
Amazon	477	9	Stephen Brite	United States	122,500	77

07-09-2019 22:37 UTC-8

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Anthony Thompson

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Tobias Schwecht	419,200 419,200	419,200
Richard Kellett	414,600 64,600	64,600
Yingui Li	379,400
Kazuhiko Yotsushika	359,600 359,600	359,600
Jason Young	356,300 135,300	135,300

Jan-Peter Jachtmann	354,100 354,100	354,100

Bradley Butcher	341,200 341,200	341,200
Denis Strebkov	331,700

Senovio Ramirez III	302,400
Jonathan Depa	300,400
Maximilian Klostermeier	293,600

Mark Bixler	290,300
Jonathan Dimmig	276,800 60,800	60,800

Kang Hyun Lee	273,800

Kyle Knecht	272,600
Javier Zarco	272,400
Sumit Bhattacharya	251,000
Andrew Choi	245,000
Igor Sharaskin	234,100 189,100	189,100
Horacio Chaves Cortes	229,000
Mark Wahba	224,000
Robert Borick	223,100 63,100	63,100
Orhan Sen	222,000
Jan Kotrla	218,300
Aditya Sushant	215,300

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07-09-2019 22:28 UTC-8

Play Has Ended for the Day

Anthony Thompson

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

Play has ended for Day 1, final recap and end of day chip counts will follow shortly.

07-09-2019 22:07 UTC-8

Final Three Hands

Anthony Thompson

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

The tournament director has just told the dealers to deal the last three hands of the night.

07-09-2019 21:40 UTC-8

Updated Chip Counts

Anthony Thompson

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Matan Zohar	400,000 400,000	400,000
Jonathan Dimmig	216,000 191,000	191,000

Ken Ruderman	210,000 210,000	210,000
Florencio Bunal	190,000 80,000	80,000
Teunis Kooij	120,000 40,000	40,000
Anton Wigg	120,000 70,000	70,000
JC Tran	110,000 73,400	73,400

Ryan Leng	95,000 70,000	70,000

Jason DeWitt	90,000 85,000	85,000

Connor Drinan	85,000 85,000	85,000

Greg Raymer	80,000 -50,000	-50,000

Matthew Waxman	55,000 -25,000	-25,000
Phil Hellmuth	45,000 20,000	20,000

Daniel Negreanu	33,000 2,600	2,600

Corey Wright	20,000 -42,000	-42,000
David Williams	16,000 6,600	6,600

Nathan Gamble	Busted

John Richards	Busted
Vivian Saliba	Busted

Peter Eichhardt	Busted

Sam Farha	Busted

Matt O'Donnell	Busted
Anderson Ireland	Busted

Chino Rheem	Busted
Ben Yu	Busted