2018 World Series of Poker

Event #71: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em (30 minute levels)
Day: 2
Event Info

2018 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
33
Prize
$485,082
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$2,101,800
Entries
452
Level Info
Level
35
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
50,000

Hicks Gets There; Virani Eliminated

Level 21 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

Eric Hicks and Mohsin Virani got it preflop in the middle, with Hicks slightly covering Virani's stack.

Mohsin Virani: {Q-Hearts}{Q-Spades}
Eric Hicks: {A-Clubs}{K-Clubs}

The board ran out {2-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{5-Spades}{2-Spades}{A-Diamonds} and Hicks got there on the river. "I'm the devil!" he exclaimed as the fortunate river card landed his way.

Player Chips Progress
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Eric Hicks
540,000
240,000
240,000
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Mohsin Virani
Busted

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Yaroshevskyy Eliminates Colpoys

Level 21 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

Daniel Colpoys shoved from the under-the-gun position for 38,000 in total and so did Igor Yaroshevskyy who was next up to act. Action folded to Nitesh Rawtani in the big blind who tanked. He asked for a count and the dealer confirmed Yaroshevskyy had 219,000 in front of him. After a while, Rawtani folded.

Daniel Colpoys: {k-Clubs}{4-Clubs}
Igor Yaroshevskyy: {8-Diamonds}{8-Spades}

The board ran out {9-Clubs}{2-Spades}{a-Spades}{8-Hearts}{q-Hearts} to give Yaroshevskyy a set of eights on the turn to bust Colpoys from the tournament.

Player Chips Progress
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Igor Yaroshevskyy
287,000
71,000
71,000
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Daniel Colpoys
Busted

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Davidi Kitai Eliminated

Level 21 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

A very short-stacked Davidi Kitai was all in for 36,000 and called by Farid Jattin and Paul Fontan. The {A-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}{9-Spades}{J-Spades}{10-Hearts} board was checked down to the river. Jattin bet 25,000 and Fontan folded quickly.

Jattin showed {Q-Clubs}{4-Clubs} for a straight, Kitai showed {K-Hearts}{5-Diamonds} and headed for the rail in 36th.

Player Chips Progress
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Farid Jattin
370,000
93,000
93,000
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Paul Fontan
358,000
-39,000
-39,000
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Davidi Kitai
Busted
WSOP 3X Winner

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Czuczor Falls to Zhang

Level 21 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

Marton Czuczor became the second player who hit the rail today. On a {K-Spades}{K-Clubs}{A-Hearts}{Q-Hearts} board, Czuczor's stack went in against Chi Zhang, and the Hungarian was drawing dead on the spot.

Marton Czuczor: {J-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}
Chi Zhang: {Q-Spades}{Q-Clubs}

The meaningless river was the {5-Spades} and Czuczor went off to collect $9,747.

Player Chips Progress
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Chi Zhang
420,000
89,000
89,000
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Marton Czuczor
Busted

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Level: 21

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 2,000

Who Will Walk Away with $485,082 and the Gold WSOP Bracelet Tonight?

Chance Kornuth
Chance Kornuth

At noon local time, Event #71: $5,000 No-Limit Hold��em (30-minute levels) will welcome back the 39 remaining players to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. They are all guaranteed at least $9,747 but will all be eyeing that first-place prize of $485,082 and the much lusted after gold WSOP bracelet.

Jonathan Abdellatif took the overnight chip lead with 754,000 in chips. Abdellatif will be looking to improve on a fourth-place finish here this summer. Second in the chip counts is Markus Gonsalves with 722,000 who reached a final table in an online tournament and will want to do even better in a live environment. Closing out the top three is Chance Kornuth (622,000) who just won his second bracelet this summer and probably wouldn��t mind adding another one to his collection with one in this event.

Other notable players to keep an eye on include Paul Hoefer (579,000), Liv Boeree (534,000), Steven Wolansky (498,000), Matt Glantz (473,000), Phil Hellmuth (468,000), Antoine Saout (410,000), Chi Zhang (331,000), and Eric Hicks (316,000) have all bagged an above average stack.

Players like Jimmy Guerrero, Griffin Benger, Grayson Ramage, Mohsin Virani, Koray Aldemir, Petar Kalev, Igor Yaroshevskyy, Oliver Weis, Ajay Chabra, Jeremy Ausmus, Anthony Zinno, Darryll Fish, Aliaksei Boika, Daniel Colpoys, Davidi Kitai, and Gregory Kolo all have some work to do as they were left with a below average stack at the end of last night.

When the players return, they will play Level 21 which features a small blind of 6,000, big blind of 12,000 and a running ante of 2,000. The expectation is that the action will hot and heavy and the PokerNews live reporting team will be there to bring you all the updates, so make sure to stick around!

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