Event #81: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2022 World Series of Poker

Event #81: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em

Day 1 Completed

07-14-2022 01:31 UTC-8

Mark Davis Bags Day 1 Chip Lead in Event #81: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em

Matthew Pitt

Level 14 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

After 15 levels of play, the Day 1 action of Event #81: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em concluded with only 153 players out of 756 total entries managing to find a bag to tag.

All those entries created a total prize pool of $3,487,050, guaranteeing the winner will walk away with $665,459 for first place and the coveted gold WSOP bracelet, while 114 players total will be in the money on Day 2 for at least $8,021.

Mark Davis takes the overnight chip lead with a huge bag of 1,127,000 chips. The Alabama native counts $1,521,508 in total live earnings and will continue to battle for the first gold bracelet of his career. Trailing in second place is Yuki Kashihara with 829,000, who has $61,950 in live earnings but will be looking to top that with a deep run in this event. Closing the podium for today is Tony Bracy with 704,000 who is looking for his first cash of the series.

Event #81: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em Top 10 Chips

Place	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Mark Davies	United States	1,127,000	141
2	Yuki Kashihara	United States	829,000	104
3	Tony Bracy	United States	704,000	88
4	Johannes Straver	United States	670,000	84
5	Francois Pirault	France	614,000	77
6	Kitty Kuo	Taiwan	580,000	73
7	Terence Etim	United Kingdom	524,000	66
8	Tzu Yen	United States	510,000	64
9	James Romero	United States	500,000	63
10	Javier Carcirreynaldos	Spain	491,000	61

Several other big names also advancing to Day 2 include Kitty Kuo (580,000), three-time bracelet winner Cliff Josephy (419,000), Galen Hall (319,000), Landon Tice (244,000), Andrew Lichtenberger (173,000), and Adam Hendrix (172,000). They are just a few of the many well-known players in the poker world that have made it through.

Some of those unfortunate to bust out here on Day 1 include Main Event champions Ryan Riess and Phil Hellmuth, as well as bracelet winners Kristen Foxen and husband Alex Foxen. Other notables to bust before end of Day 1 include Darren Elias, Ethan Yau, and Matt Berkey, to name a few.

Day 2 will start at 2 p.m local time, July 14th, and the battle will continue until the final five players are reached. Play will resume at Level 16 with blinds at 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 big blind ante. There will be a 15-minute break every two levels and players will also enjoy a 60-minute dinner break after Level 21, six levels into the action.

With many top players still in the field and two more days of play ahead, it will be an exciting road to victory for the champion of this event. Stay tuned to PokerNews for updates on all of the action in this tournament and what remains of the 2022 WSOP at Bally's and Paris Las Vegas.

07-14-2022 01:12 UTC-8

Seat Draw For Day 2

Matthew Pitt

Level 14 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Casino	Table	Seat	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
Bally's	646	1	Benjamin Grise	United States	73,000
Bally's	646	2	DID NOT REPORT 1	United States	200,000
Bally's	646	3	Diogo Veiga	Portugal	169,000
Bally's	646	4	Aram Zobian	United States	140,000
Bally's	646	6	Daniel Lee	South Korea	110,000
Bally's	646	7	Vito Branciforte	Italy	271,000
Bally's	646	8	Mark Davis	United States	1,127,000

Bally's	647	1	Robert Damelian	Australia	150,000
Bally's	647	2	Leon Sturm	Germany	57,000
Bally's	647	3	Roman Hrabec	Mexico	180,000
Bally's	647	4	Terence Etim	United Kingdom	524,000
Bally's	647	5	Abhinav Iyer	India	89,000
Bally's	647	6	David Mzareulov	Azerbaijan	120,000
Bally's	647	7	Yuri Siniak	Canada	182,000
Bally's	647	8	Kelvin Kerber	Brazil	464,000

Bally's	648	1	Stephen Bartlett	United States	114,000
Bally's	648	2	Michael Katz	United States	407,000
Bally's	648	3	Yohwan Lim	South Korea	85,000
Bally's	648	4	William Zgorski	United States	175,000
Bally's	648	5	Rui Bouquet	Portugal	349,000
Bally's	648	6	JeWook Oh	United States	286,000
Bally's	648	7	Ryan Jones (NC)	United States	460,000
Bally's	648	8	Jeffrey Williams	United States	98,000

Bally's	649	1	Joseph Marchal	United States	109,000
Bally's	649	2	Michael Sanfilippo	United States	92,000
Bally's	649	3	Landon Tice	United States	244,000
Bally's	649	4	Petar Kalev	United States	135,000
Bally's	649	5	Michael Mizrachi	United States	170,000
Bally's	649	6	Shijia Liu	United States	193,000
Bally's	649	7	Onur Unsal	Cyprus	275,000
Bally's	649	8	Jose Ignacio Barbero	Argentina	432,000

Bally's	650	1	Yen Han Chen	Taiwan	152,000
Bally's	650	2	Brien Lee	United States	86,000
Bally's	650	3	Charles Gill	United States	289,000
Bally's	650	4	Brekstyn Schutten	United States	210,000
Bally's	650	5	David Dowdy	United States	226,000
Bally's	650	6	Adrian State	United Kingdom	275,000
Bally's	650	7	Mikiya Kudo	Japan	394,000
Bally's	650	8	Atanas Kodinov	United States	155,000

Bally's	651	1	Shankar Pillai	United States	208,000
Bally's	651	2	Ronan Sweeney	Ireland	128,000
Bally's	651	3	Bin Liu	United States	248,000
Bally's	651	4	Champie Douglas	United States	90,000
Bally's	651	5	Taylor Paur	United States	175,000
Bally's	651	6	Cary Katz	United States	258,000
Bally's	651	7	Thomas Muehloecker	Austria	167,000
Bally's	651	8	Tzu Yen	United States	510,000

Bally's	652	1	Harsukhpaul Sangha	Canada	264,000
Bally's	652	2	Bernhard Gulzow	Germany	221,000
Bally's	652	3	Fabrice Bigot	France	244,000
Bally's	652	5	Marius Kudzmanas	Lithuania	478,000
Bally's	652	6	Andrew Lichtenberger	United States	173,000
Bally's	652	7	Cornel Roman	United States	63,000

Bally's	654	1	Kane Kalas	United States	133,000
Bally's	654	2	Nick Palma	United States	138,000
Bally's	654	3	Bokuto Kagami	Japan	336,000
Bally's	654	4	Timo Kamphues	Germany	1
Bally's	654	5	Michael Gathy	Belgium	41,000
Bally's	654	6	DID NOT REPORT 4	United States	431,000
Bally's	654	7	Mike Watson	Canada	272,000
Bally's	654	8	Karapet Galstyan	United States	112,000

Bally's	655	1	Ahmed Karrim	South Africa	324,000
Bally's	655	2	Peter Turmezey	Hungary	113,000
Bally's	655	3	Renan Bruschi	Brazil	289,000
Bally's	655	4	Don Mathews	United States	145,000
Bally's	655	5	Anthony Spinella	United States	412,000
Bally's	655	6	Hyungyu Park	South Korea	193,000
Bally's	655	7	Joe Kuether	United States	363,000
Bally's	655	8	Aaron Massey	United States	224,000

Bally's	656	1	Cliff Josephy	United States	419,000
Bally's	656	2	Jeffrey Tanouye	United States	209,000
Bally's	656	3	Benjamin Palmer	United States	299,000
Bally's	656	4	Francois Pirault	France	614,000
Bally's	656	5	Andre Cohen Santos	Portugal	120,000
Bally's	656	6	Alexandre Raymond	Canada	245,000
Bally's	656	7	Ivan Deyra	France	104,000
Bally's	656	8	Viktor Kovachev	United States	245,000

Bally's	657	1	Juan Endara	United States	325,000
Bally's	657	2	Sultan Khair	Jordan	471,000
Bally's	657	3	Paul Newey	United Kingdom	381,000
Bally's	657	4	Vlad Darie	Romania	117,000
Bally's	657	5	Lars Kamphues	Austria	1
Bally's	657	6	Kitty Kuo	Taiwan	580,000
Bally's	657	7	Gediminas Uselis	Lithuania	429,000
Bally's	657	8	Michael Cannon	United States	148,000

Bally's	658	1	DID NOT REPORT 5	United States	443,000
Bally's	658	2	Kazuhiro Shirasawa	Japan	159,000
Bally's	658	3	Edwin Lam	United States	174,000
Bally's	658	4	Gustavo Morales	Argentina	192,000
Bally's	658	5	Will Molson	Canada	102,000
Bally's	658	6	Daniel Smyth	Ireland	212,000
Bally's	658	8	Orson Young	United States	349,000

Bally's	659	1	Javier Garcirreynaldos	Spain	491,000
Bally's	659	2	Galen Hall	United States	319,000
Bally's	659	3	Clayton Hardt	United States	178,000
Bally's	659	4	Tom McCormick	United States	99,000
Bally's	659	5	DID NOT REPORT 3	United States	202,000
Bally's	659	6	Julien Sitbon	France	167,000
Bally's	659	7	Michael Jozoff	United States	448,000
Bally's	659	8	Niko Koop	Germany	87,000

Bally's	662	1	Marius Gierse	Germany	103,000
Bally's	662	2	Nikita Kalinin	Russia	82,000
Bally's	662	3	DID NOT REPORT 2	United States	1
Bally's	662	4	Mitchell Halverson	United States	265,000
Bally's	662	5	Ari Shin	United States	102,000
Bally's	662	6	Brian Schaniel	United States	292,000
Bally's	662	7	Jeffrey Gencarelli	United States	76,000
Bally's	662	8	Martin Stoyanov	Bulgaria	187,000

Bally's	663	1	Valentin Oberhauser	United States	272,000
Bally's	663	2	Ren Lin	United States	223,000
Bally's	663	3	Takuma Bergeron	Canada	211,000
Bally's	663	5	Andrew Song	United States	121,000
Bally's	663	6	Vojtech Ruzicka	Czech Republic	191,000
Bally's	663	7	Johannes Straver	United States	670,000
Bally's	663	8	Jennifer Shahade	United States	177,000

Bally's	664	1	Bernard Larabi	Hungary	361,000
Bally's	664	2	Joe McGowan	United States	182,000
Bally's	664	3	Gabi Livshitz	Israel	215,000
Bally's	664	4	Toru Ida	Japan	237,000
Bally's	664	5	Adam Hendrix	United States	172,000
Bally's	664	6	Neel Joshi	India	274,000
Bally's	664	7	Patrik Ciklamini	Slovakia	349,000
Bally's	664	8	Pushpa Agarwal	United States	287,000

Bally's	665	1	Yuki Kashihara	United States	829,000
Bally's	665	2	Yannick Cardot	France	252,000
Bally's	665	3	Stoyan Madanzhiev	Bulgaria	95,000
Bally's	665	4	Tony Bracy	United States	704,000
Bally's	665	5	Matthew Sabia	United States	37,000
Bally's	665	6	Jonathan Therme	France	79,000
Bally's	665	7	Daniel Smiljkovic	Germany	252,000
Bally's	665	8	Kuenwai Lo	China	302,000

Bally's	666	1	Koen Breed	Netherlands	99,000
Bally's	666	2	Anthony Denove	United States	325,000
Bally's	666	3	Lander Lijo	Spain	136,000
Bally's	666	4	Toby Lewis	United Kingdom	188,000
Bally's	666	5	Benny Glaser	United Kingdom	231,000
Bally's	666	6	Jae Lee	United States	148,000
Bally's	666	7	Christopher Oneil	United States	261,000
Bally's	666	8	Mario Navarro	United Kingdom	188,000

Bally's	667	1	Sergio Coutinho	Portugal	191,000
Bally's	667	2	Benjamin Jones	United Kingdom	242,000
Bally's	667	3	Avi Cohen	Israel	452,000
Bally's	667	4	Selahaddin Bedir	Turkey	159,000
Bally's	667	5	Francisco Benitez	Uruguay	190,000
Bally's	667	6	Lewis Spencer	United Kingdom	162,000
Bally's	667	7	Matthew Wantman	United States	286,000
Bally's	667	8	James Romero	United States	500,000

Bally's	668	1	Thomas Eychenne	France	249,000
Bally's	668	2	An Nguyen	United States	455,000
Bally's	668	4	Timothy Telliard	United States	88,000
Bally's	668	5	Yoo Chan Oh	United States	113,000
Bally's	668	6	Peng Zheng	United States	92,000
Bally's	668	8	Francis Anderson	United States	230,000

07-14-2022 01:05 UTC-8

Official End of Day Chip Counts (full)

Jeff McMillan

Level 14 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Mark Davis	1,127,000 347,000	347,000

Yuki Kashihara	829,000 829,000	829,000
Tony Bracy	704,000 704,000	704,000
Johannes Straver	670,000 670,000	670,000

Francois Pirault	614,000 184,000	184,000
Kitty Kuo	580,000 60,000	60,000

Terence Etim	524,000 524,000	524,000
Tzu Yen	510,000 510,000	510,000
James Romero	500,000 85,000	85,000
Javier Garcirreynaldos	491,000 491,000	491,000
Marius Kudzmanas	478,000 478,000	478,000

Sultan Khair	471,000 471,000	471,000
Kelvin Kerber	464,000 69,000	69,000
Ryan Jones (NC)	460,000 55,000	55,000
An Nguyen	455,000 455,000	455,000
Avi Cohen	452,000 452,000	452,000
Michael Jozoff	448,000 243,000	243,000
Sean Ragozzini	443,000 298,000	298,000
Jose Ignacio Barbero	432,000 432,000	432,000

Caio Almeida	431,000 431,000	431,000
Gediminas Uselis	429,000 429,000	429,000
Cliff Josephy	419,000 59,000	59,000

Anthony Spinella	412,000 147,000	147,000

Michael Katz	407,000 407,000	407,000
Mikiya Kudo	394,000 394,000	394,000

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07-14-2022 00:57 UTC-8

Adrian Attenborough Just Made Two of the Gutsiest Plays of the 2022 WSOP

Yori Epskamp

Level 14 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Suffice to say Adrian Attenborough is going to make an appearance, or ten, in the next PokerNews Hands of the Week column, especially after a couple of world-class plays he made late on Day 7 of the 2022 World Series of Poker Main Event.

In one hand, he made a difficult call on the river with top pair, and in the other, he risked his entire tournament life with six-high. Both hands took place in the most prestigious tournament in the world with massive pay jumps on the horizon.

Read the Full Story Here

07-14-2022 00:30 UTC-8

Josephy Takes a Pot

Andrew Knowles

Level 14 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Cliff Josephy opened the action to 14,000 from the hijack and only the big blind made the call.

The flop came and both players checked their option. On the turn once again both checked.

The river came the and the big blind checked. Josephy cut out a bet of 27,000 and the big blind quickly let it go, awarding the two-time bracelet winner the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Cliff Josephy	360,000 240,000	240,000

07-14-2022 00:06 UTC-8

Late Night Chip Stacks; Davis Steamrolling, Kuo Up Big

Jeff McMillan

Level 14 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Mark Davis	780,000 650,000	650,000

Kitty Kuo	520,000 374,000	374,000

James Romero	415,000 235,000	235,000
Ryan Jones (NC)	405,000 15,000	15,000
Kelvin Kerber	395,000 125,000	125,000
Brek Schutten	390,000 390,000	390,000

Ben Diebold	380,000 380,000	380,000

Galen Hall	340,000 20,000	20,000

Landon Tice	310,000 250,000	250,000
Aaron Massey	310,000 254,000	254,000
Ren Lin	280,000 37,000	37,000

Daniel Hinh	270,000 185,000	185,000
Anthony Spinella	265,000 180,000	180,000

Matthew Wantman	245,000 35,000	35,000
Jae Lee	220,000 82,000	82,000
Michael Jozoff	205,000 95,000	95,000
Gabi Livshits	180,000 180,000	180,000
Benny Glaser	135,000 135,000	135,000

Cary Katz	130,000 130,000	130,000

Ugur Secilmis	110,000 -35,000	-35,000
Adam Hendrix	105,000 105,000	105,000
Phil Hellmuth	27,000 27,000	27,000

07-13-2022 23:56 UTC-8

LuckyChewy Moving Up The Leaderboard

Andrew Knowles

Level 14 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

In a pot of just over 50,000 on a board of , the big blind bet out 20,000. Andrew "LuckyChewy" Lichtenberger took a moment before sliding out a raise to 120,000.

The big blind went into the tank, thinking for roughly a minute, before letting their hand go and another pot was shipped to Lichtenberger who has become one of the biggest stacks remaining.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Lichtenberger	380,000 301,000	301,000

Level: 14

Blinds: 3,000/5,000

Ante: 5,000

07-13-2022 23:35 UTC-8

Prizepool Information Announced

Jeff McMillan

Level 13 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Registration is now over with 756 entries to build a prizepool of $3,487,050. The top 114 spots will be paid and the grand prize will be a whopping $665,459.