WSOP Event #20 $1.5K NLHE Day 2
This event played down from 274 to 35 on Day 2. 198 of the original 1,844 entrants will be paid, with $460.6K going to first. Jacob Dahl (24th in chips) of Oregon and Kevin MacPhee (25th) of Idaho are the last two PNW players left in the field; though they’re both just under the median stack a the end of Day 2, they have about a fifth of the chips of leader Garret Beckman (of non-Northwest Kansas).
I offer my apologies to Yevgeniy Timoshenko of Seattle, Washington, Matt Affleck of Mill Creek, Washington, and Dimitrii Valouev of Wilsonville, Oregon for missing them on yesterday’s round-up of PNW players for this event. Timoshenko placed 43rd in the event for $9K, Affleck was 83rd for $4.2K, and Valouev came in 112th, winning $3.4K.
Also making the money were Daniel Idema (76th), Eric Vallee (81st), Ken Lynn (99th), Greg Mueller (102nd), Randy Cooper (109th), Christopher Paasch (111th), Parminder Kumar (115th), Tolga Ural (124th), Thomas Taylor (131st), David Price (174th), and Dustin Leary (190th). Of the 13 PNW players who made Day 2, all but two of them made the money.
This event was the third 2015 WSOP cash for the always-busy Dmitrii Valouev, who also cashed in Event #3 $1,500 Omaha 8/B and Event #6 Hyper NLHE. Greg Mueller has also made the money three times already this summer, in the Colossus (Event #5), Event #7 $10K Limit 2-7 Triple Draw, and this event.
WSOP Event #21 $10K Omaha 8/B Day 2
18 of the 101 players that started Day 2 move on to today, with the money bubble broken as the game hit two tables. Scott Clements of Mount Vernon, Washington and Tai Nguyen of Olympia, Washington sit 4th and 9th in chips. This will be Nguyen’s third cash of the summer so far.
WSOP Event #22 $1K NLHE
1,951 players began this single-entry-day contest and 207 will return for Day 2. This is the first of the standard-format $1K events to be played with the new 5K chip stacks and modified blind levels, and the big change is that while all of these events in previous years made the money by the end of the first day (of three), nine players coming back today will be out of the money.
That’s probably not an issue for Kyle White of Surrey, British Columbia, who holds the chip lead.
| In the Money Finish Position | Rank End of Day 2 | Rank End of Day 1 | Player | State | Chips End of Day 1 | Chips End of Day 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 15 | 9 | Cole Jackson | WA | 112,900 | 335,000 |
| 11 | 10 | 90 | Angel Farrington | OR | 42,100 | 427,000 |
| 23 | 15 | Jonas Mackoff | BC | 100,900 | ||
| 39 | 1 | Kyle White | BC | 184,900 | ||
| 74 | 66 | Mikey Nguyen | WA | 50,300 | ||
| 91 | 152 | Chi Chan | BC | 23,300 | ||
| 94 | 137 | Scott Davies | BC | 27,300 | ||
| 106 | 141 | Seth Davies | OR | 26,700 | ||
| 124 | 84 | Alejandro Verduczo | WA | 44,000 | ||
| 193 | 159 | Binh Nguyen | OR | 20,900 | ||
| 194 | 179 | Kyle Ho | BC | 17,100 | ||
| 185 | Alan Snow | WA | 14,200 | |||
| 196 | Joe Baldwin | WA | 10,500 | |||
| 202 | Chris Back | BC | 8,100 |
Grand Poker Series #20 $350 NLHE $100K Guarantee
If you guarantee it, they will come. At least, that’s what the folks at the Golden Nugget were hoping. And unlike a lot of other series operators, they’ve been willing to meet the guarantees they’ve set, despite a couple of large events falling significantly short. Event #20 didn’t have the 40% shortfall of Event #19, but it was still down by 20%. Hopefully, more people will show up for what I’ve heard are decently-structured tournaments so that they’ll be able to keep these going; there are six more on the schedule, two each weekend until the end of June.
269 players entered, and 27 places paid. From the results, it would appear that a deal was made at the final table. Oman Martin of Gig Harbor, Washington and Danny Kent of Cowichan Bay, British Columbia were both there.
Upcoming Las Vegas Series Events
- Event #24 ($1.5K HORSE, 3 days) and Event #25 ($5K NLHE 8-Max, 4 days) kick off at the WSOP today.
- This is the last of three entry days for Event #28 NLHE at the Venetian, a $1.6K buy-in with a $1M guarantee that ends on Friday.
- At Planet Hollywood, the morning kicks off with Event #15 NLHE, a $500 $25K guarantee, no-re-entry tournament and in the afternoon there’s Event #16 $130 $5K guarantee NLHE Turbo.
- The Aria is running NLHE with $235 buy-in and a $150 buy-in, both one-day tournaments, but no high roller today that you can wander into.
- Wynn Summer Classic #5 NLHE with a $25K guarantee is a $300 buy-in, one-day event.
- The Grand Poker Series at the Golden Nugget features Event #25 $560 PLO and Event #26 $125 NLHE.
- On the schedule today for Binion’s Poker Classic is a $220 Omaha 8/B tournament at 2pm.
Big events in the next couple of days are, of course, the Monster Stack at the WSOP this weekend and the $1K PLO there tomorrow. Planet Hollywood has a $200K guarantee NLHE Thursday and Friday, with the $500K Goliath running again on Sunday. Aria has a $450 2-7 Triple Draw you can dip your toes into. The Wynn runs three starting days of a $100K beginning tomorrow. Golden Nugget is scheduled to hold two more low buy-in $100K tournaments on the weekend, with a NLHE 6-Max tomorrow, Seven Card Stud 8/B and a Black Chip Bounty on Friday. Binions has PLO8 and HORSE Friday and Saturday, respectively.
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