Event #79: Poker Hall of Fame Bounty Day 1 | 2021 World Series of Poker

Event #79: Poker Hall of Fame Bounty

Day 1 Completed

11-18-2021 02:49 UTC-8

Jerry Wong Bags Big In Event #79: $1,979 Poker Hall Of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold’em

Liam Gannon

Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

After 17 levels of play, Event #79: $1,979 Poker Hall Of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold’em gathered 469 entrants to build a prize pool of $801,931 and a first place of $172,499 with only 63 making it through Day 2.

One of the big stacks finishing out the day was Marc Rivera, who bagged up 721,000. Rivera had a chip lead from the early parts of the day and only extended his lead during the bubble where he played several aggressive hands that added over 350,000 to his overall chip count. Rivera is number one on the Philippines all-time money list but has yet to collect a bracelet. Rivera will be searching for his first piece of WSOP jewelry on Thursday.

Day 1 Top 10 Chip Counts

RANK	PLAYER	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Marc Rivera	Philippines	721,000	72
2	Jerry Wong	United States	700,000	70
3	Payam Karami	United States	630,000	63
4	Eder Murata	Brazil	560,000	56
5	Laurent Polito	France	486,000	49
6	Phil Scaletta	United States	462,000	46
7	Abhinav Iyer	India	442,000	44
8	Sonia Shashikhina	Russia	425,000	43
9	Michael Acevedo	Costa Rica	419,000	42
10	Christian Pham	Vietnam	402,000	40

Another player who bagged a big stack at the end of the day was Jerry Wong, who ended the day with 700,000. Coming right off of a 10th place finish in Event #72: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha and a runner-up finish in Event #74 $2,500 Big Bet Mix as well as eight other cashes during this series, Wong will be setting up for another deep run to collect his first WSOP bracelet.

Many players came out to play, with the added bonus of collecting bounties of Hall of Famers being ever so alluring. Some of those who bagged included; Sonia Shashikhina (425,000), Maria Lampropulos (383,000), Ole Schemion (333,000), Dylan Wilkerson (240,000), Kevin Rabichow (132,000), and bracelet winner Joao Vieira (75,000).

There were eleven hall of famer bounties that were in play that included the likes of Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Eli Elezra, Barry Greenstein, Scotty Nguyen, Barbara Enright, Linda Johnson, Tom McEvoy, Jack McClelland, Phil Hellmuth, and Lyle Berman as well as one additional bounty for actor Vince Vaughn who took his seat in the tournament as well. All of them were eliminated and unable to bag Day 2.

Other players who found themselves unable to find a bag included Martin Jacobson, Damian Salas, Ryan Leng, Shaun Deeb, Jake Schwartz and Harry Lodge to name a few.

The players will return Thursday at 12 p.m. at The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, with blinds at 5,000/10,000 and a 10,000 big blind ante. Play will continue until there are five players remaining. Stay tuned to PokerNews to stay updated on the progression and conclusion of this tournament and many others.

Tags: Barbara Enright Barry Greenstein Damian Salas Daniel Negreanu Doyle Brunson Dylan Wilkerson Eli Elezra Harry Lodge Jack McClelland Jake Schwartz Jerry Wong Joao Vieira Kevin Rabichow Linda Johnson Lyle Berman Marc Rivera Maria Lampropulos Martin Jacobson Ole Schemion Phil Hellmuth Ryan Leng Scotty Nguyen Shaun Deeb Tom McEvoy Vince Vaughn

11-18-2021 02:45 UTC-8

Day 2 Seat Draw

Jaxon

Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

ROOM	TABLE	SEAT	PLAYER	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
Amazon	456	1	Heather Alcorn	United States	64,000	6
Amazon	456	2	Girish Apte	United States	132,000	13
Amazon	456	3	Sriharsha Doddapaneni	India	226,000	23
Amazon	456	6	Victor Peixoto Moreira	Brazil	75,000	8
Amazon	456	7	Jerry Wong	United States	700,000	70
Amazon	456	8	Radoslav Stoyanov	Bulgaria	341,000	34
Amazon	456	9	Jonathan Therme	France	79,000	8

Amazon	457	1	Marvin Karlins	United States	220,000	22
Amazon	457	2	Maria Lampropulos	Argentina	383,000	38
Amazon	457	3	Phil Scaletta	United States	462,000	46
Amazon	457	4	Wilbern Hoffman	United States	129,000	13
Amazon	457	6	Gwilym Enstone	United States	302,000	30
Amazon	457	7	Steve Karp	United States	130,000	13
Amazon	457	8	Arthur Conan	France	305,000	31
Amazon	457	9	Tyler Norris	United States	48,000	5

Amazon	458	1	Luigi Shehadeh	Italy	183,000	18
Amazon	458	3	Eder Murata	Brazil	560,000	56
Amazon	458	4	Marc Rivera	Philippines	721,000	72
Amazon	458	6	Scott Davies	Canada	96,000	10
Amazon	458	7	Kevin Rabichow	United States	132,000	13
Amazon	458	8	Michael Panos	Germany	10,000	1
Amazon	458	9	Giovani Torre	Portugal	329,000	33

Amazon	459	1	John Dolan	United States	312,000	31
Amazon	459	2	[Removed:321] Haghdoust	United States	116,000	12
Amazon	459	3	Aiman Abdelkarim	United States	120,000	12
Amazon	459	4	Lawrence Whyte	United States	248,000	25
Amazon	459	5	Artem Sloitsev	Russia	49,000	5
Amazon	459	6	Payam Karami	United States	630,000	63
Amazon	459	7	Igor Dursel	United Kingdom	40,000	4
Amazon	459	8	Andrew Martin	United Kingdom	170,000	17
Amazon	459	9	Stephen Seffense	United States	225,000	23

Amazon	463	1	Ronald Sullivan	United States	339,000	34
Amazon	463	2	Emmanuel Rapinier	France	144,000	14
Amazon	463	3	Eugene Castro	United States	234,000	23
Amazon	463	5	Peter Johnson	United States	163,000	16
Amazon	463	6	Michael Acevedo	Costa Rica	419,000	42
Amazon	463	7	David Lappin	Ireland	3,000	0
Amazon	463	8	David Somers	United States	55,000	6
Amazon	463	9	Michael Gathy	Belgium	202,000	20

Amazon	464	1	Christin Maschmann	Germany	37,000	4
Amazon	464	2	Christopher Cullen	United States	150,000	15
Amazon	464	3	Joao Vieira	Portugal	75,000	8
Amazon	464	5	Yueqi Zhu	United States	74,000	7
Amazon	464	6	Sonia Shashikhina	Russia	425,000	43
Amazon	464	7	Dylan Wilkerson	United States	240,000	24
Amazon	464	8	Michael Gloess	Germany	137,000	14
Amazon	464	9	Borja Gross	United Kingdom	120,000	12

Amazon	465	1	Gerald Tejada	United States	97,000	10
Amazon	465	2	Ole Schemion	Austria	333,000	33
Amazon	465	3	Bryce Mcvay	United States	204,000	20
Amazon	465	5	Matthew Bingel	United States	136,000	14
Amazon	465	6	Christian Pham	Vietnam	402,000	40
Amazon	465	7	Bin Liu	United States	348,000	35
Amazon	465	8	Laurent Polito	France	486,000	49
Amazon	465	9	James Alexander	United States	1	0

Amazon	466	1	Benjamin Underwood	Canada	362,000	36
Amazon	466	2	Timothy Flank	United States	319,000	32
Amazon	466	3	Jacob Powers	United States	208,000	21
Amazon	466	5	Thomas Zanot	United States	127,000	13
Amazon	466	6	Sebastien Comel	France	38,000	4
Amazon	466	7	Thomas Boivin	Belgium	157,000	16
Amazon	466	8	Abhinav Iyer	India	442,000	44
Amazon	466	9	Romain Nussmann	France	56,000	6

11-18-2021 02:44 UTC-8

End-of-Day 1 Chip Counts (full)

Jaxon

Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Marc Rivera	721,000 201,000	201,000

Jerry Wong	700,000 120,000	120,000

Payam Karami	630,000
Eder Murata	560,000 130,000	130,000
Laurent Polito	486,000 166,000	166,000
Phil Scaletta	462,000 462,000	462,000
Abhinav Iyer	442,000 172,000	172,000

Sonia Shashikhina	425,000 425,000	425,000
Michael Acevedo	419,000
Christian Pham	402,000 402,000	402,000

Maria Lampropulos	383,000 110,000	110,000
Benjamin Underwood	362,000 362,000	362,000
Bin Liu	348,000 348,000	348,000
Radoslav Stoyanov	341,000 -24,000	-24,000
Ronald Sullivan	339,000 339,000	339,000
Ole Schemion	333,000 -27,000	-27,000

Giovani Torre	329,000 329,000	329,000
Timothy Flank	319,000 319,000	319,000
John Dolan	312,000 312,000	312,000
Arthur Conan	305,000 -255,000	-255,000
Gwilym Enstone	302,000 302,000	302,000
Lawrence Whyte	248,000 248,000	248,000
Dylan Wilkerson	240,000 187,000	187,000
Eugene Castro	234,000 118,000	118,000
Sriharsha Doddapaneni	226,000 -24,000	-24,000

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11-18-2021 02:36 UTC-8

Poker Home Game Player Wins $4,000,000 in Main Event

Jaxon

Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

11-18-2021 02:05 UTC-8

Tournament Play Has Ended For The Night

benlysne

Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Tournament play has ended for the night. End of night chip counts and full recap to follow.

11-18-2021 01:52 UTC-8

Three More Hands

Liam Gannon

Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

The floor has announced that there will only be three more hands dealt at this tournament.

11-18-2021 01:51 UTC-8

Yoshimichi Falls Short of The Money

benlysne

Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Makoto Yoshimichi shoved all-in preflop for about 100,000 from middle position and Payam Karami called on the button, covering him.

Makoto Yoshimichi:
Payam Karami:

The board ran out and Karami eliminated Yoshimichi on the stone bubble with a pair of jacks.

Player	Chips	Progress
Payam Karami	630,000 90,000	90,000
Makoto Yoshimichi	Busted

Tags: Payam Karami Makoto Yoshimichi

11-18-2021 01:38 UTC-8

Konnikova Eliminated Short of the Money

Liam Gannon

Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Maria Konnikova was all-in on the big blind and three additional callers saw a flop, including Laurent Polito in the small blind.

The flop came out and Polito bet 10,000 which the other two players called.

The turn came an and Polito sized up to 37,000 which elicited two folds and the cards were turned up.

Maria Konnikova:
Laurent Polito:

Polito had flopped trip-fours which was good against Konnikova's pair of threes. She was drawing dead before the river completed the board and the total number of remaining was moved down to 72 players.

Player	Chips	Progress
Laurent Polito	320,000
Maria Konnikova	Busted

Tags: Maria Konnikova Polito Laurent

11-18-2021 01:29 UTC-8

Doddapaneni Makes The Call

benlysne

Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Marc Rivera bet 100,000 on a board reading putting Doddapaneni to the test for his tournament life. Doddapaneni went deep into the tank before finally flicking in the call.