Down to a few blinds, Yannick Autaa moved all-in from middle position. All the other players folded to Antoine Saout in the big blind, who looked at his cards almost showing them and called.
Yannick Autaa: J♠10♣
Antoine Saout: 8♣8♥
Autaa just had to wait for the flop to hit a pair of Tens on 3♣9♣10♦. The turn 5♦ and the river 6♣ secured his double up.
Since then, he doubled once again, and the Frenchman now has 300,000 chips.
Last seen with a below-average stack of around 30,000, Lyons now has 1,600,000. As he told PokerNews, that included a recent double up when he went all in for around 800,000 with king queen and defeated another player with pocket nines.
With only two blinds left, Mark Liedtke received a pair in his hands, so he moved all-in from middle position. Nesrin Can raised to 150,000 on the cutoff, and all the other players folded.
Mark Liedtke: 7♦7♠
Nesrin Can: Q♦Q♥
Liedtke hoped for a Seven until the very last card. But the board 10♥4♦A♦8♠2♥ didn't help him. He is out of the tournament, eliminated only a few minutes before the end of the day.
Chino Rheem has secured his third cash of the 2023 World Series of Poker at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas in this year’s World Series of Poker Event #42: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack, but with a stack of 2,450,000 he will be looking to make his deepest run of the year in the concluding action on Day 2, and perhaps secure that elusive first bracelet. Rheem has racked up those chips in his usual brash, fun-loving, aggressive style, while navigating a field of 3,778 that shattered last year’s field of 2,812.
That record-breaking field generated a prize pool of $2,659,712, of which first place will receive $339,033. All of the remaining 238 players will receive at least $1,977.
End of Day 1 Top 10 Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Chino Rheem
United States
2,450,000
82
2
Pat Lyons
United States
2,360,000
79
3
Paul Grande
United States
2,055,000
69
4
Li Yan
United States
1,815,000
61
5
Antoine Saout
France
1,620,000
54
6
Alphonsus Yoon
Canada
1,600,000
53
7
Ryan Goindoo
Trinidad & Tobago
1,600,000
53
8
Tsubasa Sasaki
Japan
1,595,000
53
9
Camille Brown
United States
1,535,000
51
10
David Bullinger
United States
1,520,000
51
Scattered across the wide field many notable names bought into the event, including WSOP Main Event Champions Ryan Reiss and Koray Aldemir (1,465,000;) and bracelet winners Martin Finger, Mike Leah, Anthony Marquez, Blair Hinkle, Leo Margets, Adrian Buckley, Eric Baldwin, Pat Lyons, and Tommy Nguyen.
Other notable players include Paul Grande (2,055,000), Antoine Saout (1,620,000), Sebastien Comel (1,260,000), Haoqi Xie (1,050,000), and Matthieu Rodriguez (1,000,000).
Play resumes on June 19 with a 10:00 a.m. local time restart at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, and play down to a winner. There will be 15-minute breaks every four levels and a dinner break that is to be decided.
The players come back to Level 23, which means blinds are 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 big blind ante.
Follow all the action right here on PokerNews to see who is crowned the next WSOP champion.