Event #79: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2019 World Series of Poker

Event #79: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 1 Completed

07-10-2019 01:44 UTC-8

Vlad Darie Among Chip Leaders After Strong Day 1 in Event #79: $3,000 No-Limit Holdem

Milko van Winden

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Romania's Vlad Darie bagged the chip lead in Event #79: $3,000 No-Limit Holdem at the 2019 World Series of Poker held in the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. Darie managed to end the day with 284,000 in front of him and he is likely the chip leader after the first day of play. Other players that bagged big include Andras Nemeth (264,000) and David Margi (263,500).

There are 148 players remaining, but only 101 of those will make the money, with the min-cash worth $4,506 and the winner of the event taking home the WSOP gold bracelet and the first-place prize of $380,090.

Paul Volpe also bagged chips after he lost them all... literally. Volpe looked in front of him and all his chips were gone. "I was afraid I put them in my pocket, but I can't find them anywhere," Volpe said upon discovering his chips were gone.

Volpe's neighbor just won a big pot the hand before and the general consensus at the table was that he accidentally took Volpe's chips as well when he raked in the pot. Volpe eventually received 18,500 from his neighbor and play continued. He eventually bagged 46,500.

Day 2 action
The day started with about 100 players on the clock but there were 671 entries made in the tournament when the registration period ended. Just 162 of them remain after ten one-hour levels and one of the players that ended the day with chips is defending champion Diogo Veiga. The Portuguese won the tournament last year when it was one of the few tournaments on the schedule that featured the big blind ante format and bagged 65,000 today.

Another player that bagged chips is Dan Zack. The player-of-the-year candidate found his second bag of the day in this format after he bagged chips in Event #78: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty. This means that Zack starts at noon with Day 2 of the Omaha tournament and if he manages to still have chips at 2 p.m. local time he will have to multi-table both tournaments.

Others were less fortunate and didn't make it to Day 2. Norman Macdonald was one of the first players eliminated in the tournament and he wasn't able to make it to the second level of the day. Tony Miles, Pierre Neuville, Matt Berkey, Kitty Kuo, Mustapha Kanit, Faraz Jaka, Ryan Leng, Dietrich Fast, Dominik Nitsche, 888 poker ambassador Martin Jacobson, and Calvin Anderson also weren't able to find a bag.

Larry Greenberg escaped elimination in the first orbit of the tournament when he ran with pocket aces into pocket jacks. A jack fell on the flop and Greenberg was left with just 600 chips which were six big blinds in the first level. Greenberg managed to come back from the bad beat he received and he managed to end the day with 80,000 in chips which will be 40 big blinds at the start of Day 2.

Other players that survived the first day are two-time bracelet winners Athanasios Polychronopoulos (221,000) and Kristen Bicknell (192,000), three-time bracelet winners Justin Bonomo (170,500) and David Pham (133,000), Alex Keating (87,500), Rainer Kempe (80,500), Michael Soyza (75,500), and Christoph Vogelsang (70,500).

Play will resume on Wednesday, July 10, with the blinds at 1,000/2,000 and a big blind ante of 2,000. The plan is to play another ten one-hour levels with a 15-minute break after every two levels and a one-hour dinner break after the sixth level of the day.

PokerNews will be on site to give you the latest details on the tournament.

Tags: Alex Keating Andras Nemeth Athanasios Polychronopoulos Calvin Anderson Christoph Vogelsang Dan Zack David Margi David Pham Dietrich Fast Diogo Veiga Dominik Nitsche Faraz Jaka Justin Bonomo Kitty Kuo Kristen Bicknell Larry Greenberg Martin Jacobson Matt Berkey Michael Soyza Mustapha Kanit Norman Macdonald Paul Volpe Pierre Neuville Rainer Kempe Ryan Leng Tony Miles Vlad Darie

07-10-2019 01:24 UTC-8

Seat Draw Day 2 Event #79: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Webjoker

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Room	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Pavilion	174	1	Duncan McCallum	United States	46,000	23
Pavilion	174	2	Tsugunari Toma	Japan	34,000	17
Pavilion	174	3	Justin Bonomo	United States	170,500	85
Pavilion	174	4	Jinghan Yan	China	96,000	48
Pavilion	174	5	Kristen Bicknell	Canada	192,000	96
Pavilion	174	6	Aaron Mermelstein	United States	100,000	50
Pavilion	174	7	Mike Vanier	United States	123,500	62
Pavilion	174	8	Jay Sharon	United States	218,000	109
Pavilion	174	9	Kevin Ayow	Canada	48,000	24

Pavilion	175	1	Mario De La Puente	United States	86,000	43
Pavilion	175	3	Daniel Zack	United States	68,000	34
Pavilion	175	4	Barak Wisbrod	Israel	39,000	20
Pavilion	175	5	David Peters	United States	32,500	16
Pavilion	175	6	Rafael Moraes	Brazil	90,500	45
Pavilion	175	7	Brett Maistri	United States	133,500	67
Pavilion	175	8	Graeme Ladd	United Kingdom	56,500	28
Pavilion	175	9	Jesse Martin	United States	98,500	49

Pavilion	176	1	Chao Duan	China	22,500	11
Pavilion	176	3	Damien Le Goff	United Kingdom	59,500	30
Pavilion	176	4	Daniel Smiljkovic	Germany	142,000	71
Pavilion	176	5	Benoit Lam	France	151,000	76
Pavilion	176	6	Onur Unsal	Cyprus	114,000	57
Pavilion	176	7	Ivan Deyra	France	180,000	90
Pavilion	176	8	Mazin Khoury	United States	41,000	21
Pavilion	176	9	Manig Loeser	Germany	30,000	15

Pavilion	177	1	Danny Wong	United States	90,000	45
Pavilion	177	2	Fernando Pedro Tavares Barroso	Portugal	65,500	33
Pavilion	177	4	Peter Walsworth	United States	222,000	111
Pavilion	177	6	Javier Gomez	United States	46,000	23
Pavilion	177	7	Francois Evard	Switzerland	41,000	21
Pavilion	177	8	Kevin MacPhee	United States	82,000	41
Pavilion	177	9	Norbert Szecsi	Hungary	123,500	62

Pavilion	178	1	Sergio Grosso	Canada	69,000	35
Pavilion	178	2	Jovan Sudar	United States	64,000	32
Pavilion	178	3	Jose Paz-Gutierrez	Bolivia	50,500	25
Pavilion	178	4	David Margi	Israel	263,500	132
Pavilion	178	5	Aleksei Istomin	Russia	40,000	20
Pavilion	178	6	Dominique Mosley	United States	36,000	18
Pavilion	178	7	Orson Young	United States	96,000	48
Pavilion	178	8	Joao Vieira	Portugal	39,000	20

Pavilion	184	1	Andres Gonzalez	Spain	152,000	76
Pavilion	184	2	Massimo Mosele	Italy	83,500	42
Pavilion	184	3	David Weinstein	United States	167,000	84
Pavilion	184	4	Will Givens	United States	127,000	64
Pavilion	184	5	Ignacio Moron	Mexico	127,000	64
Pavilion	184	6	Abdulaziz Abdulaziz	France	38,000	19
Pavilion	184	7	Andrew Wisdom	United States	69,000	35
Pavilion	184	8	George Pappas	United States	52,500	26

Pavilion	185	2	Asher Conniff	United States	92,500	46
Pavilion	185	3	Justin Young	United States	44,500	22
Pavilion	185	4	Melvin Clark	United States	36,500	18
Pavilion	185	5	Kami Hudson	United States	54,000	27
Pavilion	185	6	Marton Czuczor	Hungary	29,500	15
Pavilion	185	7	Pete Chen	Taiwan	38,500	19
Pavilion	185	8	Jon Finton	United States	61,000	31
Pavilion	185	9	Lucas Greenwood	Canada	50,500	25

Pavilion	186	1	Oleg Eltsov	Russia	117,500	59
Pavilion	186	2	Markus Prinz	Germany	40,000	20
Pavilion	186	3	Rainer Kempe	Germany	80,500	40
Pavilion	186	4	Timothy Miles	United States	49,500	25
Pavilion	186	5	Allan Berger	Canada	99,000	50
Pavilion	186	6	David Pham	United States	133,000	67
Pavilion	186	8	William Draper	United States	53,500	27
Pavilion	186	9	Liran Twito	Israel	191,400	96

Pavilion	187	1	Matt O'Donnell	United States	82,000	41
Pavilion	187	3	Brock Wilson	United States	46,500	23
Pavilion	187	4	David Gonzalez	United States	152,500	76
Pavilion	187	5	Michael Soyza	Malaysia	75,500	38
Pavilion	187	6	Tom Bedell	Norway	142,000	71
Pavilion	187	7	Farhad Jamasi	United States	173,500	87
Pavilion	187	8	Kevin Killeen	Ireland	107,000	54
Pavilion	187	9	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	91,800	46

Pavilion	188	1	Stephan Intraligi	Canada	26,500	13
Pavilion	188	2	Benjamin Dobson	United Kingdom	20,000	10
Pavilion	188	4	Tamer Kamel	United Kingdom	43,000	22
Pavilion	188	5	Guillaume Nolet	Canada	230,000	115
Pavilion	188	6	Carlos Padilla	United States	117,500	59
Pavilion	188	7	Vlad Darie	Hungary	284,000	142
Pavilion	188	8	Hayden Aalvik	United States	76,500	38
Pavilion	188	9	Michael Tureniec	Sweden	209,000	105

Pavilion	194	1	Simon Burns	United States	171,000	86
Pavilion	194	2	Ian Steinman	United States	54,500	27
Pavilion	194	3	Robert Layne	United States	113,500	57
Pavilion	194	4	Basil Yaiche	France	152,500	76
Pavilion	194	5	Aleksejs Ponakovs	Latvia	109,500	55
Pavilion	194	6	Matthew Stone	United States	54,000	27
Pavilion	194	7	Alex Keating	United States	87,500	44
Pavilion	194	8	Nicholas Zautra	United States	26,500	13
Pavilion	194	9	Steve Yea	South Korea	78,000	39

Pavilion	195	1	Benjamin Underwood	Canada	113,000	57
Pavilion	195	2	Steven Guiberson	United States	54,500	27
Pavilion	195	3	Erkut Yilmaz	United States	42,500	21
Pavilion	195	4	Weiyi Mo	United States	82,500	41
Pavilion	195	5	Nick Maimone	United States	17,000	9
Pavilion	195	6	Kyung Lee	United States	63,500	32
Pavilion	195	8	Marc-Andre Ladouceur	Canada	123,500	62
Pavilion	195	9	Sonny Franco	France	30,000	15

Pavilion	196	1	Oleg Titov	Russia	104,500	52
Pavilion	196	2	Jeremy Stein	United States	44,000	22
Pavilion	196	3	Takao Shimizu	Japan	133,500	67
Pavilion	196	4	Samuel Bernstein	United States	34,000	17
Pavilion	196	5	Christoph Vogelsang	Germany	70,500	35
Pavilion	196	6	Dennis Brand	United States	216,500	108
Pavilion	196	7	Bobby Poe	United States	31,000	16
Pavilion	196	8	Diego Zeiter	Switzerland	65,000	33
Pavilion	196	9	A.J. Allee	United States	196,500	98

Pavilion	197	1	Jonas Mackoff	Canada	61,000	31
Pavilion	197	2	Paul Volpe	United States	46,500	23
Pavilion	197	4	Oliver Ruesing	Austria	80,500	40
Pavilion	197	5	Niall Murray	United Kingdom	119,500	60
Pavilion	197	6	Rodney Turvin	United States	107,000	54
Pavilion	197	7	Hideki Izutsu	Japan	92,500	46
Pavilion	197	8	Daniel Erlandsson	Sweden	40,000	20
Pavilion	197	9	Igor Dursel	United Kingdom	27,000	14

Pavilion	204	1	Emile Schiff	Jamaica	158,500	79
Pavilion	204	2	Hafiz Khan	United States	70,000	35
Pavilion	204	3	Huidong Gu	Macau	69,500	35
Pavilion	204	4	Mate Mecs	Hungary	149,000	75
Pavilion	204	5	Lawrence Greenberg	United States	80,000	40
Pavilion	204	6	Daniel Buzgon	United States	65,000	33
Pavilion	204	7	Michael Finstein	United States	36,500	18
Pavilion	204	8	David Dibernardi	United States	121,000	61
Pavilion	204	9	Edward Mcnamara	United States	34,000	17

Pavilion	205	1	Igor Kurganov	Russia	47,000	24
Pavilion	205	2	James Hundt	United States	146,000	73
Pavilion	205	3	Patrick Leonard	United Kingdom	103,500	52
Pavilion	205	4	Nicholas Stowell	United States	37,000	19
Pavilion	205	5	Renato Kaneoya	Brazil	129,000	65
Pavilion	205	7	Athanasios Polychronopoulos	United States	221,000	111
Pavilion	205	8	Thomas Larson	United States	149,500	75
Pavilion	205	9	Robert Spano	Australia	80,500	40

Pavilion	206	1	Andras Nemeth	Hungary	264,500	132
Pavilion	206	2	Christophe Pommier	France	62,500	31
Pavilion	206	3	Joey Weissman	United States	91,000	46
Pavilion	206	4	Johan Schumacher	Belgium	51,500	26
Pavilion	206	6	Shayna Bott	United States	55,500	28
Pavilion	206	7	Karen Sarkisyan	Russia	61,500	31
Pavilion	206	8	Meddi Ferrah	France	50,500	25
Pavilion	206	9	Paraskevas Tsokaridis	Greece	76,500	38

Pavilion	207	1	Ben Yu	United States	24,500	12
Pavilion	207	2	Chi Zhang	United Kingdom	82,000	41
Pavilion	207	3	Charles La Boissonniere	Canada	37,500	19
Pavilion	207	4	Dalton Brinker	United States	98,000	49
Pavilion	207	5	Raminder Singh	United States	120,500	60
Pavilion	207	6	Diogo Veiga	Portugal	65,000	33
Pavilion	207	7	Marc MacDonnell	Ireland	26,500	13
Pavilion	207	8	Roman Korenev	Russia	41,000	21
Pavilion	207	9	Ronald Paolucci	United States	210,500	105

07-10-2019 01:15 UTC-8

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Milko van Winden

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Vlad Darie	284,000 184,500	184,500

Andras Nemeth	264,500 179,500	179,500
David Margi	263,500 3,500	3,500
Guillaume Nolet	230,000
Peter Walsworth	222,000
Athanasios Polychronopoulos	221,000 161,000	161,000

Jay Sharon	218,000
Dennis Brand	216,500
Ronald Paolucci	210,500 210,500	210,500
Michael Tureniec	209,000

A.J. Allee	196,500
Kristen Bicknell	192,000 61,000	61,000

Liran Twito	191,400 -28,600	-28,600
Ivan Deyra	180,000 137,000	137,000

Farhad Jamasi	173,500
Simon Burns	171,000 41,000	41,000
Justin Bonomo	170,500 28,500	28,500

David Weinstein	167,000
Emile Schiff	158,500
David Gonzalez	152,500

Basil Yaiche	152,500 120,900	120,900
Andres Gonzalez	152,000 72,000	72,000
Benoit Lam	151,000
Thomas Larson	149,500 127,500	127,500
Mate Mecs	149,000

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07-10-2019 00:52 UTC-8

Three More Hands

LoriPersinger

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

The clock has been paused and it has been announced that the dealers will deal three more hands. After that the remaining players will then bag and tag for the day.

07-10-2019 00:51 UTC-8

Wisdom Bluffs the Turn and Binks the River

LoriPersinger

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Action picked up on the turn on a board reading in a headsup pot.

The big-blind player checked over to Andrew Wisdom and he put out a bet of 5,300, which was check-called by the big-blind player. After the big-blind player checked the river, Wisdom then slid out a bet of 7,200, which was again check-called by the player in the big blind.

He then mucked his hand after Wisdom tabled for the runner-runner nutflush.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Wisdom	80,000 80,000	80,000

Tags: Andrew Wisdom

07-10-2019 00:42 UTC-8

Kurganov Goes for Value

Milko van Winden

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

There was already about 40,000 in the middle of the table while the board read . Igor Kurganov bet 23,500 and it was on David Margi to decide what to do.

The bet was for most of Kurganov his stack and he was called. Kurganov showed for two pair and that was enough to win the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Margi	260,000
Igor Kurganov	80,000

Tags: David Margi Igor Kurganov

07-10-2019 00:34 UTC-8

You Win Some You Lose Some

LoriPersinger

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

The following action took place in back-to-back hands.

In the first hand David Peters raised to 3,200 from under-the-gun and got called by the small-blind player and Paraskevas Tsokaridis from his big blind.

After both players checked the flop Peter continued with a bet of 2,700. The small-blind player then check-raised to 7,000. Tsokaridis eyed both players' chipstacks and four-bet to 55,000, which was enough to get Peters and the big-blind player to fold.

In the very next hand, after action folded around to Tsokaridis in the small blind and he called, Peters checked his option in his big blind.

Tsokaridis led out with a bet of 1,700 on the flop and got called by Peters. After Tsokaridis checked the turn Peters bet 5,200, which got a check-fold from Tsokaridis.

Player	Chips	Progress
Paraskevas Tsokaridis	87,000 87,000	87,000
David Peters	25,000 -3,500	-3,500

Tags: David Peters Paraskevas Tsokaridis

07-10-2019 00:23 UTC-8

Le Goff's Sevens Hold to Bust One

LoriPersinger

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Damien Le Goff raised to 3,200 from early position and a player in late position three-bet shoved. With action back on Le Goff he asked for a count, and after the dealer confirmed 25,600 total he re-counted his chipstack and then made the call.

Damien Le Goff:
All-in Player:

The board ran out , which was of no help to the all-in player and he was eliminated in the last level of play on Day 1.

Player	Chips	Progress
Damien Le Goff	79,100 79,100	79,100

Tags: Damien Le Goff

07-10-2019 00:22 UTC-8

MacDonnell Gets a Shove Through

Milko van Winden

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Liran Twito raised from early position to 3,600 and it folded to big blind Marc MacDonnell. He only had 5,000 chips and there were five of them in front of him. He pushed them all to the middle and the action was back on Twito.

Twito ended up folding his hand and MacDonnell picked up some chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Liran Twito	220,000 -21,000	-21,000
Marc MacDonnell	30,000 6,500	6,500

Tags: Liran Twito Marc MacDonnell