Event #4: Tournament of Champions Day 1 | 2023 World Series of Poker

05-31-2023 22:35 UTC-8

Pantaleo's Turn Bet Proves Too Much for his Opponent

Ollie Garland

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Giuseppe Pantaleo's raise of 2,600 from early position was met with resistance from an in position player who three-bet to 8,000. In response, Pantaleo four-bet to 21,600.

After a call, both players went to a flop of 3♦8♥K♥. Pantaleo maintained the pressure by betting 7,000 which didn't deter his opponent.

The 5♦ on the river saw Pantaleo fire 20,000 more chips into the middle finally prompting a fold and winning the hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Giuseppe Pantaleo	140,000 140,000	140,000

Tags: Giuseppe Pantaleo

05-31-2023 22:46 UTC-8

Schulman Busts in Final Day 1 Level

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Calum Grant

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Nick Schulman opened to 3,200 from under the gun and the middle position player called. Eric Baldwin then three-bet to 11,100 from the small blind. The big blind folded and Schulman jammed for 24,800 and only Baldwin called.

Nick Schulman: 10♠10♥
Eric Baldwin: A♦K♦

Schulman's pair remained ahead on the 7♠4♣2♦ flop, but Baldwin paired up to take the lead on the A♣ turn. Baldwin improved to two pair on the K♠ river, which confirmed Schulman's exit.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eric Baldwin	90,000 90,000	90,000

Nick Schulman	Busted

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05-31-2023 22:57 UTC-8

Yin Scores a Late Knock-Out in the Final Level of the Day

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Ollie Garland

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Yuzhou Yin in middle position raised to 3,200 finding one caller on the button. The short-stacked small blind shoved all in for the remainder of their stack prompting Yin to isolate the raise with a small four-bet. With the button out the way, the cards went on their backs.

Small Blind: K♣10♣
Yuzhou Yin: Qx10x

The board ran out 10♠Q♥6♣4♣6♠ providing the much-needed queen for Yin to score this knock-out.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yuzhou Yin	87,100 -5,500	-5,500

Tags: Yuzhou Yin

05-31-2023 23:03 UTC-8

Castillo Defends and Gets The Pure Double

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Jeremy Geist

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Late position opened to 3,200 at 800/1,600/1,600 blinds. The button called and Jose Castillo defended his big blind.

The flop comes 2♠3♠5♦ and the action checked to the button who puts out a wager of 6,000.

Castillo took a moment before cutting out raising chips and putting out 15,500.

The pre-flop raiser got out of the way and action was back on the button who didn't waste too much time before announcing "all in".

Castillo snap called and saw the good news as the button tabled 3♥3♣ while he rolled over his flopped straight with A♠4♥

The board ran out an 8♣ and the river 6♦ didn't pair the board giving Castillo a full double less than one hour before players bag for Day 2.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jose Castillo	82,000 82,000	82,000

05-31-2023 23:03 UTC-8

Franco Nearing 500K

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Calum Grant

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Roger Franco	473,000 473,000	473,000
Brandon Hamlet	310,000 130,000	130,000
Michael Scarborough	220,000 -80,000	-80,000
Ben Wiora	140,000 76,000	76,000
Philip Shing	70,000 13,000	13,000
Ori Hasson	70,000 -10,000	-10,000

Tiffany Michelle	Busted

05-31-2023 23:14 UTC-8

Final Six Hands

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Calum Grant

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

The 243 remaining players need survive six more hands to bag and tag a stack for Day 2.

05-31-2023 23:27 UTC-8

Sternberg Gets Last Minute Double

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Calum Grant

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

The middle position player opened the action before Alan Sternberg three-bet jammed for 33,900. Action folded back to the initial raiser, who called as the bigger stack.

Alan Sternberg: 9♥9♣
Middle Position: 8♣8♠

Sternberg's superior pair remained best as the board ran out with the 6♦2♣3♦A♥A♦.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alan Sternberg	70,000

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05-31-2023 23:38 UTC-8

Play Closes

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Calum Grant

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Day 1a has wrapped up and the players are now bagging and tagging their stacks.

Assorted chip counts and recap to follow.

06-01-2023 00:46 UTC-8

Official End of Day 1 Chip Counts (full)

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Matthew Pitt

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Boshuang Gao	445,000

Roger Franco	393,500 500	500
Brandon Hamlet	325,000
Richard Fowlkes	294,000
Dakota Britton	291,000
Richard Doyen	284,000
Jennifer Lin	272,500
Julien Perouse	268,500

Ryan Tillmann	256,000
Niall Costigan	245,500
Stuart Greenbaum	243,000
Ryan Dell	239,500 1,000	1,000
Michael Scarborough (OH)	226,000
Christopher Zenonos	225,500
Frank Marasco	219,000
Christian Loucas	216,000
Florian Da Costa	199,000
Patrick White	198,500
Adam Cotant	192,500
Ryan Dodd	185,500 33,500	33,500
Zachary Zaret	182,500
Anthony Chin	182,000
Matthew Volosevich	179,000
Karapet Galstyan	179,000
Guillermo De La Vega	179,000

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06-01-2023 00:47 UTC-8

Seat Draw For Day 2

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Matthew Pitt

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Casino	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
Horseshoe	653	2	Anthony Pitesa	United States	91,500	46
Horseshoe	653	3	Richard Doyen	United States	284,000	142
Horseshoe	653	4	Shane Melert	United States	18,500	9
Horseshoe	653	5	Lauren Shipman	United States	38,500	19
Horseshoe	653	6	Adam Demersseman	United States	106,000	53
Horseshoe	653	7	Xing He	Canada	86,000	43
Horseshoe	653	8	Michael Mercaldo	United States	172,500	86
Horseshoe	653	9	Joseph Shin	United States	123,000	62

Horseshoe	654	2	Davy Stevens	Netherlands	35,500	18
Horseshoe	654	3	David Nolan	United States	41,000	21
Horseshoe	654	4	Xulong Zhang	United States	75,000	38
Horseshoe	654	5	Jose Castillo	Spain	95,000	48
Horseshoe	654	6	Abel Griffiths	United States	24,000	12
Horseshoe	654	7	Pete Chen	Taiwan	151,500	76
Horseshoe	654	8	Zachary McDiarmid	United States	79,000	40
Horseshoe	654	9	Henry Wilcox	United States	73,000	37

Horseshoe	655	1	Joseph Desimone	United States	58,000	29
Horseshoe	655	2	Katelin Koper	United States	118,500	59
Horseshoe	655	3	Timothy Rutherford	United States	35,500	18
Horseshoe	655	4	Michael Cannon	United States	61,000	31
Horseshoe	655	5	Michael Perrone	United States	74,500	37
Horseshoe	655	6	Emily Xie	United States	51,000	26
Horseshoe	655	9	Brenton Gill	United States	74,500	37

Horseshoe	656	1	Scott Wilson	United States	39,000	20
Horseshoe	656	2	Michael Sabbia	United States	84,500	42
Horseshoe	656	3	Joseph Kuczewski	United States	117,500	59
Horseshoe	656	4	Jeffrey Stellwagon	United States	111,000	56
Horseshoe	656	5	Rosalie Petit	France	101,000	51
Horseshoe	656	6	Frank Marasco	United States	219,000	110
Horseshoe	656	8	John Topham	Canada	67,500	34
Horseshoe	656	9	Timothy Russ	United States	49,000	25

Horseshoe	657	1	Justin Hotte-Mckinnon	Canada	137,500	69
Horseshoe	657	2	Brent Gregory	United States	119,000	60
Horseshoe	657	4	Andrew Porter	United States	43,500	22
Horseshoe	657	5	Jeremiah Williams	United States	43,500	22
Horseshoe	657	7	Jared Strauss	United States	92,000	46
Horseshoe	657	8	Duy Lai	United States	58,500	29
Horseshoe	657	9	Christopher Bucceri	United States	73,500	37

Horseshoe	658	3	Pedro Ramirez	Colombia	41,500	21
Horseshoe	658	4	Yercy Fernandez	United States	111,500	56
Horseshoe	658	5	Michael Wolf	United States	97,500	49
Horseshoe	658	6	Kenny Huynh	United States	115,000	58
Horseshoe	658	7	Timothy Bishop	United States	42,000	21
Horseshoe	658	8	Sonny Franco	France	60,500	30
Horseshoe	658	9	Alex Rocha	United States	72,500	36

Horseshoe	659	2	Wissam Gahshan	United States	53,000	27
Horseshoe	659	3	Jayce Palmer	United States	49,000	25
Horseshoe	659	4	Alan Sternberg	United States	76,500	38
Horseshoe	659	5	Blagojce Jakovljevic	Canada	1	0
Horseshoe	659	6	David Cossio-Ruiz	United States	98,500	49
Horseshoe	659	7	Victor Guardino	United States	57,500	29
Horseshoe	659	9	Roger Franco	United States	393,500	197

Horseshoe	660	2	Kevin Mcleskey	United States	49,500	25
Horseshoe	660	3	Nathan Rosenkranz	United States	97,500	49
Horseshoe	660	4	Miki Murzi	United States	93,000	47
Horseshoe	660	6	John Beauprez	United States	60,000	30
Horseshoe	660	7	Ronnie Day	United States	88,000	44
Horseshoe	660	8	Dakota Britton	United States	291,000	146
Horseshoe	660	9	Christopher Zenonos	Australia	225,500	113

Horseshoe	661	1	Christopher Lawrence	United States	67,000	34
Horseshoe	661	2	Bradley Miller	United States	41,500	21
Horseshoe	661	4	Brian Gatliff	United States	94,000	47
Horseshoe	661	6	Marshall White	United States	128,000	64
Horseshoe	661	7	Jeff Madsen	United States	94,500	47
Horseshoe	661	8	Matthew Javitt	United States	57,500	29
Horseshoe	661	9	Jordyn Miller	United States	61,000	31

Horseshoe	662	1	Zachary Peay	United States	78,500	39
Horseshoe	662	2	Brian Heaton	United States	41,500	21
Horseshoe	662	3	Anthony Chin	United States	182,000	91
Horseshoe	662	4	Xavier Perez	Uruguay	113,500	57
Horseshoe	662	5	Ryan Dodd	United States	185,500	93
Horseshoe	662	6	Christina Steger	United States	1	0
Horseshoe	662	7	Karapet Galstyan	United States	179,000	90
Horseshoe	662	8	Charlie Dawson	United States	144,500	72
Horseshoe	662	9	Yotam Shmuelov	United States	33,500	17

Horseshoe	663	1	Sultan Khair	Jordan	158,500	79
Horseshoe	663	2	Shouyi Gao	United States	71,500	36
Horseshoe	663	3	Kwynn Richards	United States	67,000	34
Horseshoe	663	4	Jonathan Therme	France	133,000	67
Horseshoe	663	5	Peter Sharples	United Kingdom	77,500	39
Horseshoe	663	6	Dustin Wills	United States	153,000	77
Horseshoe	663	7	Michael Lavin	United States	108,000	54
Horseshoe	663	8	Andrew Lawton	Canada	36,500	18
Horseshoe	663	9	Krystian Hady	Canada	83,000	42

Horseshoe	664	1	Jay Hoebe	Netherlands	73,000	37
Horseshoe	664	2	Ryan Dell	United States	239,500	120
Horseshoe	664	3	Jared Griener	United States	46,000	23
Horseshoe	664	4	Gregory Soroka	United States	30,500	15
Horseshoe	664	5	Byung Eun Shin	South Korea	70,000	35
Horseshoe	664	6	Richard Peloquin	United States	177,000	89
Horseshoe	664	7	Peter Kelly	United States	48,000	24
Horseshoe	664	8	Dylan Lemery	United States	83,500	42
Horseshoe	664	9	Wadih Kaawar	United States	20,500	10

Horseshoe	665	1	Boshuang Gao	United States	445,000	223
Horseshoe	665	2	Collin Fantaskey	United States	146,000	73
Horseshoe	665	3	Stephen Bartlett	United States	143,000	72
Horseshoe	665	4	Anatoly Zharnitsky	United States	140,000	70
Horseshoe	665	5	Matthew Volosevich	United States	179,000	90
Horseshoe	665	6	Christian Loucas	United States	216,000	108
Horseshoe	665	7	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	28,500	14
Horseshoe	665	8	Tanner Bibat	United States	25,500	13
Horseshoe	665	9	Glen Hickman	United States	111,500	56

Horseshoe	666	1	Greg Jennings	United States	88,000	44
Horseshoe	666	2	Soheb Porbandarwala	United States	45,500	23
Horseshoe	666	3	John Duckworth	United States	41,500	21
Horseshoe	666	4	Jamin Stokes	United States	125,500	63
Horseshoe	666	5	Johnie Hilin	United States	70,500	35
Horseshoe	666	6	Frank Lagodich	United States	103,000	52
Horseshoe	666	7	Nathan Wasson	United States	28,000	14
Horseshoe	666	8	Anthony Leoncavallo	United States	63,000	32
Horseshoe	666	9	Rachel Cho	United States	17,000	9

Horseshoe	667	1	Garry Bliesner	United States	112,500	56
Horseshoe	667	2	Justin Ouimette	Canada	25,500	13
Horseshoe	667	3	Michael Marsh	United States	35,000	18
Horseshoe	667	4	Patrick Eskandar	United States	60,500	30
Horseshoe	667	5	Elias Aeb	Canada	36,000	18
Horseshoe	667	6	Richard Fowlkes	United States	294,000	147
Horseshoe	667	7	Filippos Stavrakis	United States	51,000	26
Horseshoe	667	8	Patrick White	United States	198,500	99
Horseshoe	667	9	Jason Mcdougall	United States	101,000	51

Horseshoe	668	1	Joseph Bakun	United States	39,500	20
Horseshoe	668	2	Barry Schultz	United States	131,000	66
Horseshoe	668	3	Matthew Wrightstone	United States	74,000	37
Horseshoe	668	4	Peter Hotaling	United States	135,000	68
Horseshoe	668	5	Jordan Spurlin	United States	50,000	25
Horseshoe	668	6	Christopher Rodriguez	United States	159,000	80
Horseshoe	668	7	Niall Costigan	United States	245,500	123
Horseshoe	668	8	Melinda Harris	United States	51,500	26
Horseshoe	668	9	Theo Arnoldi	Denmark	122,500	61

Horseshoe	669	1	Tsz Shing	United States	74,500	37
Horseshoe	669	2	Sean Banahan	United States	85,500	43
Horseshoe	669	3	Yuzhou Yin	China	84,000	42
Horseshoe	669	4	Guillermo De La Vega	Mexico	179,000	90
Horseshoe	669	5	Rania Nasreddine	United States	145,000	73
Horseshoe	669	6	Erik Koch	United States	121,000	61
Horseshoe	669	7	Richard Alati	United States	80,500	40
Horseshoe	669	8	William Nunley	United States	129,000	65
Horseshoe	669	9	Roger Henderson	United States	143,000	72

Horseshoe	670	1	Corey Bierria	United States	109,000	55
Horseshoe	670	2	Jesse Klinger	United States	19,000	10
Horseshoe	670	3	Jeremy Mcdonald	United States	35,500	18
Horseshoe	670	4	Kyle Ciccarello	United States	114,500	57
Horseshoe	670	5	Matt Stout	United States	77,500	39
Horseshoe	670	6	Florian Da Costa	France	199,000	100
Horseshoe	670	7	Christopher Staats	United States	86,000	43
Horseshoe	670	8	David Somers	United States	49,500	25
Horseshoe	670	9	Jordan Johnson	United States	49,000	25

Horseshoe	671	1	Christopher Childers	United States	59,000	30
Horseshoe	671	2	Andrew Kagan	United States	105,000	53
Horseshoe	671	3	Samuel Monks	Mexico	124,000	62
Horseshoe	671	4	Anthony Maio	United States	42,000	21
Horseshoe	671	5	Michael Hauptman	United States	59,000	30
Horseshoe	671	6	Dhimitri Lleshi	United States	131,000	66
Horseshoe	671	7	William Corvino	United States	83,500	42
Horseshoe	671	8	Joseph Altomonte	United States	50,500	25
Horseshoe	671	9	Jacob Long	United States	85,000	43

Horseshoe	672	1	Adam Kittle	United States	151,000	76
Horseshoe	672	2	Hunter Mcclelland	United States	42,000	21
Horseshoe	672	3	Daniel Couzens	United States	120,000	60
Horseshoe	672	4	Stuart Greenbaum	United States	243,000	122
Horseshoe	672	5	Keith Kordowski	United States	122,000	61
Horseshoe	672	6	Greg Koutelidakis	United States	140,000	70
Horseshoe	672	7	Nino Natale	United States	68,000	34
Horseshoe	672	8	Glen Marshall	United States	38,000	19
Horseshoe	672	9	Frankie O'Dell	United States	75,500	38

Horseshoe	673	1	Vincent Moscati	United States	72,000	36
Horseshoe	673	2	Sergio Benso	Italy	75,000	38
Horseshoe	673	3	Joshua Berardi	United States	35,500	18
Horseshoe	673	4	Jonathan Gilliam	United States	42,500	21
Horseshoe	673	5	Jesse Yaginuma	United States	81,500	41
Horseshoe	673	6	Grant Stoker	United States	37,500	19
Horseshoe	673	7	Brandon Zuidema	United States	60,000	30
Horseshoe	673	8	Patrick Mccullough	United States	121,000	61
Horseshoe	673	9	Michael Scarborough (OH)	United States	226,000	113

Horseshoe	674	1	Ilija Savevski	Austria	79,000	40
Horseshoe	674	2	Mark Podgurski	United States	124,000	62
Horseshoe	674	3	Brandon Hamlet	United States	325,000	163
Horseshoe	674	5	Caleb Piderit	United States	55,000	28
Horseshoe	674	6	Zachary Zaret	Canada	182,500	91
Horseshoe	674	7	Jason Algayer	United States	140,000	70
Horseshoe	674	8	Jose Moure	Uruguay	110,500	55
Horseshoe	674	9	Michael Duffy	United States	76,500	38

Horseshoe	675	1	Scott Griffiths	United States	29,500	15
Horseshoe	675	2	Nicholas Hobbs	United States	88,000	44
Horseshoe	675	3	Michael Holtz	United States	75,000	38
Horseshoe	675	4	Joseph Driscoll	United States	89,000	45
Horseshoe	675	5	Terry Harrell	United States	147,000	74
Horseshoe	675	7	Benjamin Wiora	United States	148,500	74
Horseshoe	675	8	Giuseppe Pantaleo	Germany	120,500	60
Horseshoe	675	9	Mark Roland	United States	104,500	52

Horseshoe	676	1	Matthew Porter	United States	59,000	30
Horseshoe	676	2	Alden Palmer	United States	53,500	27
Horseshoe	676	3	Matthew Vaughan	United States	95,500	48
Horseshoe	676	4	Noah Sharp	United States	142,000	71
Horseshoe	676	5	Julien Perouse	France	268,500	134
Horseshoe	676	7	Richard Smith	United States	91,500	46
Horseshoe	676	8	Pablo Vialaret	Argentina	77,500	39
Horseshoe	676	9	Joseph Brown	United States	25,000	13

Horseshoe	677	1	Jay Kwon	United States	36,000	18
Horseshoe	677	3	Thomas Ulch	United States	134,500	67
Horseshoe	677	4	Mark Liedtke	United States	76,000	38
Horseshoe	677	5	Dominick French	Canada	128,500	64
Horseshoe	677	6	Eric Munoz	France	53,500	27
Horseshoe	677	7	Dimitre Dimitrov	United States	108,000	54
Horseshoe	677	8	Zachary Gruneberg	United States	103,000	52
Horseshoe	677	9	Thomas Ross	United States	62,500	31

Horseshoe	678	1	James Rivers	United States	74,000	37
Horseshoe	678	2	Khieu Christopher	United States	28,500	14
Horseshoe	678	3	Dennis Mckelvey	United States	32,000	16
Horseshoe	678	4	George Coleman	United States	46,000	23
Horseshoe	678	5	Daniel Marx	United States	92,500	46
Horseshoe	678	6	Jonathan Dokler	United States	66,000	33
Horseshoe	678	7	Ori Hasson	Israel	65,500	33
Horseshoe	678	8	Ian Waldron	United States	35,500	18
Horseshoe	678	9	Adam Cotant	United States	192,500	96

Horseshoe	679	1	Matthew Stone	United States	35,000	18
Horseshoe	679	2	Lon McEachern	United States	133,000	67
Horseshoe	679	3	Jennifer Lin	United States	272,500	136
Horseshoe	679	4	Connor Stuewe	United States	106,000	53
Horseshoe	679	5	Robert Yost	United States	60,500	30
Horseshoe	679	6	Richard Ali	United States	75,000	38
Horseshoe	679	7	Ryan Tillmann	United States	256,000	128
Horseshoe	679	8	Chad Jenkins	Canada	37,000	19
Horseshoe	679	9	Kenneth Wills	United States	52,000	26