$600 Double Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 34: 100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante Players Remaining: 18 of 2,433
While Filipp Khavin was doubling up on Table 9, Stuart Taylor was eliminated from Table 10 to leave only 18 players around for the title.
Tournament staff paused the clock to redraw seats at the last two tables. Everyone is now guaranteed to cash for at least $10,205.
Seat 1: Juan Restrepo Seat 2: Jack Sumner Seat 3: Byron Johnson Seat 4: Carlos Loving Seat 5: Marsha Wolak Seat 6: Susan MacPherson Seat 7: Fabian Foster Seat 8: John Song Seat 9: Andrew Binkley
Table 10 Seat 1: Massimo DiRenzo Seat 2: Corey Zedo Seat 3: Filipp Khavin Seat 4: Charles Johnston Seat 5: Nariman Ahmadi Seat 6: David Moses Seat 7: John Racener Seat 8: Stephen Ekin Seat 9: Michael Spada
$600 Double Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 34: 100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante Players Remaining: 19 of 2,433
Edward Johnston opened the action from the hijack and Filipp Khavin three-bet shoved for 6,250,000 from the small blind. Fabian Foster folded the big and Johnston called.
Khavin: Johnston:
Khavin was in a lot of trouble and needed help to stay in the game. It came on the flop with his paired king. The turn came and the river made Broadway for Johnston but Khavin improved to a heart flush to double up.
$600 Double Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 33: 75,000/150,000 with a 150,000 ante Players Remaining: 21 of 2,433
There are still 21 players remaining, deep stacks and slow structures will do that. We have two women standing in the big field and both have past success.
Marsha Wolak was the WSOP Ladies Event champion in 2011 and recently returned to the Sunshine State. Susan MacPherson has a handful of Ladies Event final tables, including here in 2015 during the Winter Poker Open, and won her first title at the Aria this summer in Las Vegas.
$600 Double Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 33: 75,000/150,000 with a 150,000 ante Players Remaining: 21 of 2,433
The dinner break came to an end and 21 players remain as we head into the evening. Fabian Foster, 2019 WPTDeepStacks Tampa runner-up, is sitting with 11,40,000 and 2020 Winter Poker Open Champion David Moses isn’t too bad with 9,800,000.
With the slow down, we will gather the updated results and let you know who made what.
$600 Double Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 27: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante Players Remaining: 80 of 2,433
The blinds are up in Event 1 with nine tables remaining. They are playing 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 big blind ante and the average stacks is 1,520,000 (24 bb).
We will resume live updates after the 40-minute dinner break.
$600 Double Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 26: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante Players Remaining: 98 of 2,433
There are less than 100 players remaining in Event 1 and that means it’s been a busy time at the payout desk. We caught up with some of the results including Kevin Lengle in 132nd place. He came to Tampa on business from his home country of France, won his seat in the satellite Saturday morning, bagged yesterday, and made his first career WSOP Circuit cash today.
128th: Robert Kincaid – $1,484 129th: Kennth Dickherber – $1,484 130th: Monica Payraudeau – $1,484 131st: Ion Godoroja – $1,484 132nd: Kevin Lengle – $1,484 133rd: Michael Wang – $1,484 134th: Sara Hall – $1,484 135th: Craig Johnston – $1,484 136th: Melisa Singh – $1,484 137th: Curtis Hitt – $1,484 138th: Soe Lee – $1,484 139th: Matthew Butler – $1,484 140th: Daniel Goonin – $1,484 141st: Michael Monaco – $1,484 142nd: Kyle Johnson – $1,484 143rd: Doyle Elliott – $1,484 144th: Jeffrey Champman – $1,484 146th: Gregory Goater – $1,484 147th: Tarunpreet Singh – $1,484 148th: Bradley Smith – $1,484 149th: John O’Neal – $1,484 150th: Christopher Perry – $1,484 152nd: Richard Ogle – $1,484 153rd: Bradford Albrinck – $1,484 154th: David Sweeley – $1,400 155th: Patrick Cindrich – $1,400 156th: Matthew Graham – $1,400 157th: Richard Milroy – $1,400 159th: John Ryan III – $1,400 160th: John McNulty – $1,400 161st: Nilesh Choudhary – $1,400 162nd: Marvin Karlins – $1,400 163rd: Sean Conklin – $1,400 164th: Alan Hamza – $1,400 165th: Rafael Reis – $1,400 166th: Huicun Qiao – $1,400 167th: Mok Bsaiso – $1,400 168th: Daniel Brown – $1,400 169th: Daniel Couzens – $1,400 170th: Zuhdi Mansour – $1,400 171st: David Bennett – $1,400 172nd: Jason Block – $1,400 173rd: Bradley Kane – $1,400 174th: Michael Palumbo – $1,400 175th: Willie Wiggins – $1,400 176th: Michael Latuf – $1,400 177th: Elizabeth Provan – $1,400 178th: Illia Shtondenko – $1,400 179th: Douglas Marro – $1,400 180th: Andrew Pendell – $1,400 181st: Keith Boreham – $1,333 182nd: Brandon Figueroa – $1,333 183rd: Tyler Gray – $1,333 184th: Stephen Sandoval – $1,333 185th: Richard Kane – $1,333 186th: Keith Oakley – $1,333 187th: Adam Barclay – $1,333 189th: Craig Kardon – $1,333 190th: Jeffrey Cunningham – $1,333 191st: Robert Bell – $1,333 192nd: Steven Blay – $1,333 193rd: Kyle Caplis – $1,333 194th: Austin Srur – $1,333 195th: Daniel Duda – $1,333 196th: Aaron Thivyanathan – $1,333
$600 Double Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante Players Remaining: 125 of 2,433
The first break is complete and chip leader Edward Johnston moved further ahead after the last count. He is now up to 3,600,000 and it looks like Jose Galvez is next in line with 2,265,000 while Daniel Perkins is moving up as well with 1,775,000.
$600 Double Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante Players Remaining: 125 of 2,433
Level 24 came to an end and tournament staff sent players on a 15-minute break as the 1K chips come out of play. There are 125 players left and blind levels will now increase to 45 minutes.
$600 Double Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 24: 10,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante Players Remaining: 162 of 2,433
Edward Johnston came into the day with the chip lead and it looks like he’s extending it. He is up to 2,510,000 after a few levels and looks like the biggest stack right now with Samuel Sternfield also rising up to 1,750,000.