$2,200 High Roller Day 1 | 2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Hammond

$2,200 High Roller

Day 1 Completed

10-21-2019 02:56 UTC-5

Ryan Jones Bags Chiplead at End of Day 1

Tyler Foran

Level 12 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Day 1 of the $2,200 Horseshoe Hammond High Roller accumulated a total of 121 entries thus far with registration open until Day 2 starts at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, October 21.

The day was action-packed from the get-go with only 40 players finding a bag at the end of the night. The top three stacks when the clocked stopped were Ryan Jones bagging 206,500 followed by Michael Moncek with a total of 195,000 and Greg Himmelbrand with 179,000.

Ryan Jones slowly built his chip stack throughout the day, having a few setbacks but getting a decent sized pot early when his flush-draw went back door straight and he got paid on the river.

Another big stack includes Alex Ziskin bagging 178,500, who battled his way throughout the day, getting almost back to back double-ups against Brian Altman.

Some other notables to survive to Day 1 were Aram Zobian with 156,000, Farid Jattin with 126,000, Todd Ivens with 102,500, Nick Pupillo with 88,000 and Irene Carey who bagged 48,000

The majority of players did not find a bag at the end of the night though, being eliminated throughout. Those of who include Lily Kiletto, Alan Cutler, Brian Senie, Steve Karp and Ryan Phan.

The registration will remain open until the start of Day 2 Monday, October 22 at 2:00 p.m, with the blind levels at 1,000/2,000/2,000 and a 30,000 starting stack.

PokerNews will provide all the live updates until a winner is crowned.

Tags: Alan Cutler Alex Ziskin Aram Zobian Brian Altman Brian Senie Farid Jattin Greg Himmelbrand Irene Carey Lily Kiletto Michael Moncek Nick Pupillo Phan Ryan Jones Ryan Phan Steve Karp Todd Ivens

10-21-2019 02:20 UTC-5

End of the Night Chip Counts (full)

Tyler Foran

Level 12 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Jones	206,500 71,500	71,500
Michael Moncek	195,000 195,000	195,000

Greg Himmelbrand	179,000 8,000	8,000
Alex Ziskin	178,500 3,100	3,100

Aram Zobian	156,000 156,000	156,000

Jeremy Joseph	148,500 4,800	4,800
Landon Lucas	133,000 79,000	79,000
Chris Dow	132,000 1,800	1,800
Rafay Asrar	127,000 127,000	127,000
Farid Jattin	126,000 126,000	126,000
William Webb	125,500
Ding Liu	122,000 122,000	122,000
Bradford Albrinck	112,500 112,500	112,500
Ben Gaise	111,500 111,500	111,500
Taylor Black	109,000

Todd Ivens	102,500 102,500	102,500
Artem Zverkhovskyy	98,500 98,500	98,500
Rodney Clark	93,500 93,500	93,500
Nick Pupillo	88,000 86,000	86,000

Jeff Halcomb	86,500 86,500	86,500
Nadya Magnus	78,000 59,100	59,100
Srinivasa Vadlamudi	74,500 74,500	74,500
Josias Santos	70,500 70,500	70,500
Adam Hendrix	69,500 69,500	69,500

Samuel Cosby	66,500 17,400	17,400

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10-21-2019 01:42 UTC-5

Last Six Hands of the Night

Tyler Foran

Level 12 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

The tournament director has just announced there will be six more hands until they 47 remaining players bag for restart at 2:00 p.m. tomorrow.

10-21-2019 01:29 UTC-5

More End of Night Photos

Tyler Foran

10-21-2019 01:16 UTC-5

Vitantonio Makes Trips on the River

Tyler Foran

Level 12 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Peter Vitantonio raised in middle position and the player in the cutoff three-bet to 6,200 and the rest of the table folded before Vitantonio made the call.

Both players checked through to the river on a board to see the and Vitantonio led for 6,500 and after pondering it over his opponent called. Vitantonio tabled for trip eights and the opponent mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Peter Vitantonio	41,800 -23,900	-23,900

Tags: Peter Vitantonio

Level: 12

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 1,600

10-21-2019 00:53 UTC-5

Ziskin Doubles Through Altman for the Second Time

Tyler Foran

Level 11 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

After doubling through Brian Altman only a few hands earlier when he picked off his bluff, Alex Ziskin check-raised all-in on the turn with the board reading . Ziskin was at risk for 78,300 after Altman made the call.