Blinds 100-200
Arkadiy "Kamsky" Tsinis raised to 400 and Mikhail Semin then three-bet to 1,400 in the cutoff. "Tabb25" four-bet to 4,600 on the button and Semin stuck his 22,055 in, which only "Tabb25" called.
Mikhail Semin: 
"Tabb25": 
The suited big slick got there on the 
board to eliminate Semin on the first bullet.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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48,158 | |
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28,645 | |
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Busted | |
Blinds 100-200
The field has grown to 2,241 entries of which 2,198 entries remain and China's "dabai55" has been the first contender to knck out two opponents. Notables with a double stack include Shyngis Satubayev, Ami Barer and Luigi "GiugliaGG" D'Alterio.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
95,848 | |
|
51,670 | |
|
|
51,090 | |
|
50,720 | |
|
50,250 |
Blinds 100-200
Felipe Ramos three-bet to 1,940 out of the big blind and was called by Renmei "Adamwia" Liu and "Ian Parsley". As they headed to the 
flop, Ramos continued for 2,033 and was called by Liu only.
On the 
turn, Ramos bet 7,670 and Liu raised to 15,340. Ramos tanked and then jammed, which Liu called.
Felipe Ramos: 
Renmei "Adamwia" Liu: 
The appeared on the river and just like that, Ramos was gone on the first bullet.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
52,190
52,190
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52,190 |
|
Busted | |
|
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Blinds 100-200
Jonathan "JA-S-N-G-T" Fhima three-bet to 2,605 out of the big blind and was called only by "GauchoR" to see a flop of 
, on which Fhima bet 1,964 and earned a call. Fhima then bet the 
turn for 7,409 and earned a call to jam the 
river for 12,992. "GauchoR" called with the 
and that was second-best as Fhima tabled 
for a straight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,680
50,680
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50,680 |
|
|
Busted |
More than 1,800 players are already registered and that number is certain to climb in the hours to come. Below are some notables in contention, and more will follow.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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25,000
25,000
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25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
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25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
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25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
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25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
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25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
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25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
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25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
The blinds are now 100-200 with a running ante of 30 and the cards are officially in the air.
At 6 p.m. GMT, the ninth event of the GGPoker WSOP Winter Online Circuit starts with WSOPC #9: $315 BOUNTY GIANT No-Limit Hold'em to offer players another shot at winning a pretty prize and the coveted WSOP Circuit Ring. The tournament comes with a pretty $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool with a progressive bounty format on the schedule today.
Players like Aleksey "ImLuckPads" Savenkov, Joaquin Melogno, Christian Jeppsson, Sihao "Mr_3rdBullet" Zhang, Pulkit Goyal, "CallMeBatya", "Wtfisthis", and Seungmook "7high" Jung have all already claimed their Circuit Rings in this festival and another 6 are to be awarded this year.
As this is a progressive bounty tournament, a bounty of at least $75 will be awarded for each player that gets eliminated while the other 50% of the bounty will be added onto the bounty of the player who wins the all-in. Players can reenter up to three times during the late registration period which will last until 9:20 p.m. GMT.
Players will get 25,000 chips in their starting stack with equals 125 big blinds during the first level of the day. Level duration will be at 15 minutes for the first 12 levels and then decrease to 10 minutes each. Players who have registered before the start of the day will benefit from the early bird feature which gives players bubble protection. This means that if they get eliminated during the bubble, their buy-in will be compensated.
GGPoker has introduced some new features which includes several estimations of timelines. For this tournament for example, the estimation is that it will take just over 4 hours before the bubble has burst, 8 hours and 40 minutes before the final table has been reached, and 2 hours for the final table to play out. This means that GGPoker estimates that the tournament will last 10 hours and 40 minutes in total.
GGPoker now also has a Final Table Blind Rollback feature where the blind level will be rolled back at the start of the final table to give players an average of 40~100 big blinds. Also noticeable in the tournament lobby is the fact that deal making is possible which wasn't an option in some of the other tournaments during the WSOPC.
PokerNews will be here from the first knockout until the final bounty has been awarded so make sure to keep reading along with all the live updates.
WSOPC #9: $315 BOUNTY GIANT No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Started
