Event #67: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event World Championship Day 1e | 2021 World Series of Poker

Event #67: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event World Championship

Day 1e Completed

11-09-2021 00:03 UTC-8

Joe Hachem Back in Form on Day 1e of Event #67: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event Championship

Matt Hansen

Level 5 : 300/600, 600 ante

Day 1e of Event #67: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event Championship at the 2021 World Series of Poker is in the books with the fifth of six opening flights to the WSOP’s flagship event attracting 797 players to Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino to take their shot with 592 moving on to Day 2cef.

Former champions Scott Blumstein and Joe Hachem qualified for Day 2 after spending the evening on the featured tables that were live-streamed on .

Hachem, the 2005 Main Event champion, was joined by mixed game specialists Nathan Gamble and Dylan Linde at a lively featured table with some of the most knowledgeable players in the game. Gamble has three cashes at the 2021 WSOP and has won two career WSOP titles. Linde is looking for his second bracelet after breaking through in this year’s Mixed Omaha event. All three players will continue on to Day 2 and Hachem is near the top part of the leaderboard with 186,100 chips.

Day 1e Top 10 Chip Counts

RANK	PLAYER	Country	CHIP COUNT	Big Blinds
1	David Gerassi	United States	316,100	395
2	Kenn Pluard	United States	307,600	385
3	Conrad De Armas	United States	302,800	379
4	James Mendoza	United States	255,900	320
5	Greg Pohler	United States	248,500	311
6	Victor Ramdin	United States	228,300	285
7	Yiming Cao	United States	228,000	285
8	Ryan Delgros	United States	223,400	279
9	Craig Chait	United States	222,400	278
10	Jordan Jayne	United States	219,200	274

Blumstein, the 2017 champion, finished with 95,000 after sharing a table with Jacob Thibodeau and Las Vegas-based pro Matt Stout. Thibodeau already has five cashes at the 2021 WSOP and Stout is looking for his first WSOP gold bracelet. All three players moved on to Day 2.

David Gerassi bagged the Day 1e chip lead with 316,100 with Kenn Pluard (307,600) not too far behind. Gerassi came on strong after the dinner break while Pluard is coming off his career-best WSOP finish in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-handed Event, where he took 48th place.

Meanwhile, Conrad De Armas (302,800) bagged the third biggest stack of Day 1e with the help of chipping up at the very end when his queens full of threes delivered a big hit to Chris Hunichen. He bagged 302,800 and will be among the leaders on Day 2cef.

2021 WSOP Main Event So Far in Numbers

Flight	Entries	Survivors	Advanced to Day 2
Day 1a	523	348	66.54%
Day 1b	845	611	72.31%
Day 1c	600	433	72.17%
Day 1d	2,550	1,933	75.80%
Day 1e	797	592	74.28%
Day 1f	TBD	TBD	TBD
Total	5,315	3,917	73.70%

In the group of those who will not move onto Day 2 include Daniel Negreanu, Ryan Leng, and Dan Smith. Negreanu suffered an early exit in Level 2 when his kings ran into Ayman Mahfoud’s aces. Leng also fell in Level 2 when he got it in with two-pair but lost to Hunichen's flush. Smith hit the rail after his ace-king didn’t improve against the queens of Matthew Jewett.

Players advancing from Day 1e will return for Day 2cef on Wednesday, November 10. Day 2cef will play another five-two hour levels beginning at 11 a.m. on Wednesday.

Main Event action continues on Tuesday, November 9 with Day 2abd kicking off at 11 a.m. and Day 1f getting underway at noon local time. Both will play five two-hour levels and players advancing from Day 2abd will combine with the survivors from Wednesday's Day 2cef for Day 3 on Thursday, November 11.

Be sure to keep it here throughout the entire 2021 World Series of Poker for updates on the action as it happens from the PokerNews live reporting team.

Tags: Ayman Mahfoud Chris Hunichen Conrad De Armas Dan Smith Daniel Negreanu David Gerassi Dylan Linde Jacob Thibodeau Joe Hachem Matt Stout Matthew Jewett Nathan Gamble Ryan Leng Scott Blumstein

11-08-2021 23:43 UTC-8

End of Day 1e Chip Counts (full)

Jaxon

Level 5 : 300/600, 600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
David Gerassi	316,100

Kenn Pluard	307,600
Conrad De Armas	302,800

James Mendoza	255,900
Greg Pohler	248,500 58,500	58,500
Victor Ramdin	228,300
Yiming Cao	228,000 8,000	8,000
Ryan Delgros	223,400
Craig Chait	222,400
Jordan Jayne	219,200 219,200	219,200
Edgardo Rosario	212,300 46,300	46,300
Lucio Procopio	209,700
Brian Kim	209,000 -14,900	-14,900

Michael Kenny	202,500 -24,000	-24,000
Kristy Duong	200,000 41,500	41,500
Simas Karaliunas	198,600 -11,400	-11,400
Keyu Qu	198,500 198,500	198,500
Brandon Hall	192,500 192,500	192,500
David Mccaw	188,600 188,600	188,600
David Butkus	188,000 188,000	188,000
Atanas Pavlov	186,800
Joe Hachem	186,100

Dustin Leary	185,000 185,000	185,000
Jamey Kramer	181,700 66,700	66,700
Kyle Arora	177,500

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11-08-2021 23:37 UTC-8

Day 1e Complete

Matt Hansen

Level 5 : 300/600, 600 ante

Day 1e has come to an end.

Stay tuned for a full recap from the PokerNews live reporting team.

11-08-2021 23:25 UTC-8

Four Last Hands Announced

Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 300/600, 600 ante

The clock has been stopped with 10 minutes remaining and the players will be completing another four hands until bagging and tagging.

11-08-2021 23:21 UTC-8

Adams Takes Another Hit

David Salituro

Level 5 : 300/600, 600 ante

Brandon Adams and Mark Bansemer got their chips in the middle pre-flop, with Bansemer holding the shorter stack with 34,800.

Mark Bansemer:
Brandon Adams:

Adams was in good position to secure another knockout at the end of the night as the flop came . But the turn brought the , improving Bansemer to a set. The river came the and Bansemer doubled up.

Adams, who took the chip lead with more than 250,000 earlier in the day, dropped down to below 100,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brandon Adams	90,000 -28,300	-28,300

Mark Bansemer	75,000 75,000	75,000

Tags: Brandon Adams Mark Bansemer

11-08-2021 23:18 UTC-8

Huge Pot Goes To De Armas at the Expense of Hunichen

NicholasBaltz

Level 5 : 300/600, 600 ante

The was on the board with about 18,000 in the pot when Chris Hunichen check-called a bet of 12,000 from Conrad De Armas.

The river peeled the and Hunichen checked again. De Armas quickly fired 75,000.

Hunichen went deep into the tank.

"Damn that was a big bet," said Hunichen. "I have a really good hand man."

Hunichen eventually tossed in a call and he saw the bad news as De Armas tabled for a full house.

"You had a flush huh," asked tablemate Kyle Arora to Hunichen?

"Yea," said Hunichen.

With that pot, De Armas surges towards the top of the leaderboard as the night comes to a close.

Player	Chips	Progress
Conrad De Armas	285,000 95,300	95,300

Chris Hunichen	100,000 -88,000	-88,000

Tags: Chris Hunichen Conrad De Armas

11-08-2021 23:17 UTC-8

Lee Eliminated From Game

Jeff McMillan

Level 5 : 300/600, 600 ante

Daniel Lee was on the button and had four-bet to 19,500. Daniel Blum was in the big blind and jammed all in. Lee had about 35,000 behind and had a big decision on his hands.

He stewed it over for quite a while before he called.

Daniel Lee:
Daniel Blum:

Lee saw the bad news and was in trouble. The flop came to leave him drawing even thinner. The turn was the and the river came the and unlike Squid Game's Player 456 (as he was dressed up as at the table), Lee was not able to survive the game of poker.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Blum	132,000 62,000	62,000
Daniel Lee	Busted

Tags: Daniel Blum Daniel Lee

11-08-2021 23:16 UTC-8

Karaliunas Kicks It Up With a Raise

tucsonmonster

Level 5 : 300/600, 600 ante

Simas Karaliunas was facing a bet from the cutoff and he popped it up to 4,800. The action folded back around to the original raiser who made the call.

Karaliunas continued for 5,500 after the came on the flop and was quickly called.