Event #5: THE COLOSSUS III - $565 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1c Started
2017 World Series of Poker
Event #5: THE COLOSSUS III - $565 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1c
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$565
Prize Pool
$9,027,000
Entries
18,054
Level
40
Blinds
500,000 / 1,000,000
Ante
150,000
The doors are open bright and early for a second straight day at the Rio Convention Centre for Event 5C: $565 Colossus III No-Limit Hold'Em of the 2017 WSOP. There were a total of 4,738 entries for the opening two flights of the tournament yesterday with 157 of them bagging chips to head into Day 2.
Play will commence at 10 a.m. and continue for 18 levels. Players will be given a 5,000 chip stack to begin the day and the blinds will start at 25/50, increasing in 30-minute intervals with a 20-minute break after every four levels. One rebuy per flight will be permitted and late registration will be open until the end of Level 6.
The money bubble will burst at some point throughout the day and players that bust afterward will collect their cash prize. The ones that are lucky enough to find a bag at the end of the day will return for Day 2 on June 5. They will all be in search of a piece of the $8,000,000 guaranteed prize pool and, more importantly, the $1,000,000 first-place prize.
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The tournament director went over a few important rules and then announced to all dealers to "shuffle up and deal!". Play is underway here on Day 1c of the Colossus III.
Level: 1
Blinds: 25/50
Ante: 0
Level 1
: 25/50, 0 ante
Some notables to take their seats early on this morning in the Amazon Room include Joey Weissman, Hugo Perez, Kathy Liebert, and Thomas Taylor. The Miranda Room and the Pavillion Room are also in play this morning.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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5,000
-58,000
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-58,000 |
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5,000
-21,800
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-21,800 |
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5,000 | |
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5,000
5,000
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5,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
The Amazon Room has completely filled up with over 2650 entries now. Some other notables to make their way into the flight today include Kyle Hartree, 2015 WSOP bracelet winner Michael Wang, Kenny Hallaert, and Joseph Cheong. Cheong finished third place in the 2010 WSOP Main Event and has over $11 million in live tournament earnings.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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5,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
5,000 | |
|
||
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5,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
5,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
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|
5,000
275
|
275 |
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Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 25
Level 3
: 75/150, 25 ante
"All in! I'm all in!" we heard someone say with a loud voice over on table 36 in the Amazon Room.
We rushed over to see what was going on. The flop was out, it read something like 
, and the button was making sure the entire table and dealer knew he was all in.
But... the player on the button didn't have any cards. In fact, no one at the table had cards. The dealer had skipped the preflop action and had just gotten busy burning and dealing a flop. These 10 a.m. starts are early for everyone.
Verbal was, in this case, not binding. The dealer removed the flop, started a new shuffle, and this time dealt the players their cards.
Level 3
: 75/150, 25 ante
Dennis Phillips and John Racener are seated at the same table in Amazon, sharing Table 180. Phillips finished third in the 2008 WSOP Main Event for $4,517,773, the year Estgate won. John Racener finished runner-up to Jonathan Duhamel in the Main Event in 2010 for $5,545,955.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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5,000 | |
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5,000 | |
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