Level: 16
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
2017 World Series of Poker
Event #19: THE GIANT - $365 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$365
Prize Pool
$3,004,500
Entries
10,015
Level
39
Blinds
1,500,000 / 3,000,000
Ante
500,000
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Level 16
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
William Vo seems to have an unusual but effective playing style in this tournament.
He has continually befuddled his opponents and has been consistently chipping up and is now one of the biggest stacks in the room
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
260,000
200,200
|
200,200 |
|
100,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
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|
90,000
52,800
|
52,800 |
|
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Level 16
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Hang to your hats and your chips. There are 20 bust outs to go before the bubble.
Level 16
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
We have 248 players remaining in the event and are currently playing hand-for-hand as we approach the money.
The money hits at 245 players with everyone guaranteed $557.
Level: 17
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
Level 17
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
While playing hand-for-hand we had four all ins at once holding the deal. As we were waiting to start at one table, Bernard Lee called me to another table to tell me how aces were about to be cracked.
The button Matthias Eibinger, had been shoving every hand on the bubble; he blindly bet 250,000 and the big blind woke up with aces. The player in the big blind called for his last 115,500 and the players showed the table their hands.
Eibinger: 
Opponent: 
Everyone was laughing saying the aces would get cracked on the bubble. Well as the saying goes its all fun and games until someone loses an eye, or their chips.
The board ran out 
and the table let out a huge roar. Eibinger cracked the aces and eliminated the player, bursting the bubble and stacking more chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
560,000 |
Level 17
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Erle Mankin had been abusing the bubble, by turn grabbing some chips and doubling up some short stacks who were willing to risk it.
On the bubble Mankin moved all in from the button when it folded to him and Dave Plaskett wss the man in the big blind who called with his last 60,000 chips.
They had to wait before turning their cards over as the action was resolved at other tables but finally it was their turn and the cards were on their backs.
Erle Mankn: 
Dave Plaskett: 
The board ran our 
.
The river gave Mankin the better pair to eliminate Plaskett.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
360,000 | |
|
Busted |
Level: 18
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
Level 18
: 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante
With the remaining players guaranteed a minimum of $557 for their buy-in of $365, provided they didn’t fire more than one bullet, the tension has flooded out of the Amazon room and with it the tide that bears a raft of players heading for the exit who have got the last of their chips in clinging to the hope of a double up but are now bust.
From a bubble number of 245 there are now kust 184 players with 15 minutes of the day to play.
Level 18
: 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante
The clock has been stopped and the floor has announced that there will be seven more hands to play before they bag and tag.