Event #65: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em (30 minute levels) Day 1 | 2017 World Series of Poker

Event #65: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em (30 minute levels)

Day 1 Completed

07-04-2017 23:29 UTC-8

Dylan Linde Leads Final 27 in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo

Will Shillibier

Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

It was a case of blink and you’ll miss them as players turned out for Day 1 of Event #65: No-Limit Hold’em (30 minute levels). After 20 levels of play, only 27 of the starting 1,413 remain in contention for the title.

Dylan Linde leads the way with over 100 starting stacks in this turbo format, and he is joined by Anton Bertilsson (432,000), Toro Istvan (413,000) and Aaron Hirst (459,000), amongst others who bagged above average stacks.

Some of the early players in their seats were Kenny Hallaert, Barry Greenstein, Jonathan Little, Jared Hamby, Cate Hall, Ismael Bojang, Rocco Palumbo, Fabrice Soulier, 2004 Main Event winner Greg Raymer, 2017 bracelet-winner Mohsin Charania and many more.

The event is scheduled for two days, and the money bubble burst shortly before players went on their dinner break. Some of the players to narrowly miss out on a $1,503 min-cash included Josh Beckley, Tony Cousineau, Ari Engel, Chris Ferguson and Bernard Lee.

The money bubble burst when two players, including Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, bust on separate tables. Grospellier’s bust was the uglier of the two; getting Kings in against Aces. There was a king on the flop, but also an Ace, and Grospellier had to settle with a min-cash, albeit half of one.

Players who cashed for the minimum $1,503 included Andrew Barber (200th), Scott Davies (199th), Natasha Mercier (198th) and Antoine Saout (186th).

The jump to $1,573 saw the likes of Jean Montury (165th), 888poker Ambassador Bruno Politano (163rd), William Kassouf (161st) and Mike Leah (158th) exit the tournament.

As the day drew on there was no let up in the bust outs, with Maxim Lykov (86th) and Tobias Peters (87th) busting, and Nacho Barbero exiting in 72nd ($2,821).

By the end of the night, players were redrawing around three tables and will return with just 27 players remaining.

Play resumes on Wednesday, 5th July at 12 p.m. local time. Keep it right here on PokerNews for live updates from the field.

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
17	1	Bryan Berryman	United States	101,000	8
17	2	Nicholas Rampone	United States	334,000	28
17	3	Thomas Taylor	Canada	169,000	14
17	4	Anton Bertilsson	Sweden	432,000	36
17	5	John Brown	United States	253,000	21
17	6	Asi Moshe	Israel	195,000	16
17	7	Andrew Teng	United Kingdom	105,000	9
17	8	Devin Robinson	Canada	104,000	9
17	9	William Foxen	United States	402,000	34

18	1	Toro Istvan	Hungary	413,000	34
18	2	David Valcourt	Canada	149,000	12
18	3	Shai Zurr	Israel	207,000	17
18	4	Chris Atkinson	United States	340,000	28
18	5	Gerean Sowa	Austria	118,000	10
18	6	Ian Modder	Canada	273,000	23
18	7	Mark Bansemer	United States	235,000	20
18	8	Dylan Linde	United States	562,000	47
18	9	Jonathan McCann	United Kingdom	165,000	14

19	1	Yiannis Liperis	Cyprus	329,000	27
19	2	Joseph Liberta	United States	363,000	30
19	3	Cristiano Guerra	Italy	144,000	12
19	4	Joao Simao	Brazil	111,000	9
19	5	Ognien Sekularac	Serbia	395,000	33
19	6	Aaron Hirst	United States	459,000	38
19	7	Erick But	United States	275,000	23
19	8	Phong Nguyen	United States	222,000	19
19	9	Lawrence Whyte	United States	178,000	15

Tags: Aaron Hirst Antoine Saout Ari Engel Barry Greenstein David Valcourt Dylan Linde Fabrice Soulier Ismael Bojang Jared Hamby Jean Montury Joao Simao Jonathan Little Jose Ignacio Barbero Josh Beckley Tobias Peters Tony Cousineau William Kassouf

07-04-2017 23:24 UTC-8

End of Day Chip Counts (full)

Will Shillibier

Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Dylan Linde	562,000 442,000	442,000

Aaron Hirst	459,000 308,000	308,000
Anton Bertilsson	432,000 -23,000	-23,000
Toro Istvan	413,000
William Foxen	402,000
Ognien Sekularac	395,000
Joseph Liberta	363,000 143,000	143,000
Chris Atkinson	340,000
Nicholas Rampone	334,000
Yiannis Liperis	329,000 29,000	29,000
Eric But	275,000
Ian Modder	273,000
John Brown	253,000
Mark Bansemer	235,000 75,000	75,000
Phong Nguyen	222,000 77,000	77,000
Shai Zurr	207,000

Asi Moshe	195,000 -40,000	-40,000

Lawrence Whyte	178,000
Thomas Taylor	169,000 44,000	44,000
Jonathan McCann	165,000
David Valcourt	149,000 58,000	58,000
Cristiano Guerra	144,000
Gerean Sowa	118,000
Joao Simao	111,000 -59,000	-59,000

Devin Robinson	104,000 15,000	15,000

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07-04-2017 22:52 UTC-8

Mark Bansemer Doubles Through Phong Nguyen

Will Shillibier

Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Mark Bansemer moved all in from the hijack for 78,000.

Phong Nguyen called in the small blind and Alex Foxen folded his big blind.

Bansemer:
Nguyen:

"Oh no, Jacks?" said Bansemer, "Good luck."

The flop came giving Nguyen a set. The turn was the and Bansemer was just about to get to his feet when the caused him to sit back down in his chair. His rivered straight doubled up to over 150,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mark Bansemer	160,000
Phong Nguyen	145,000 -55,000	-55,000

07-04-2017 22:50 UTC-8

Nick Rampone Eliminates Neil Willerson

Shirley Ang

Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Neil Willerson shoved all in from the cutoff and only Nick Rampone, on the button, called.

Neil Willerson:
Nick Rampone:

The board ran out - no help for Willerson and he was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Rampone	212,000 -13,000	-13,000
Neil Willerson	Busted

Tags: Neil Willerson Nick Rampone

07-04-2017 22:47 UTC-8

Aaron Hirst Doubles Up

Shirley Ang

Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

The player in the hijack raised to 17,000, Aaron Hirst, in the cutoff, shoved all in. Neil Willerson, on the button, also shoved all in. The big blind took some time to think but decided to fold in the end. Action was back to the player in the hijack. He decided to fold too.

Neil Willerson:
Aaron Hirst:

The player in the hijack claimed he had folded jacks. The player in the big blind said he folded sixes.

The board ran out - not enough help for Willerson and he was left with 29,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aaron Hirst	151,000
Neil Willerson	29,000

Tags: Neil Willerson Aaron Hirst

Level: 20

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000

07-04-2017 22:41 UTC-8

Istvan Toro Doubles into Chip Lead

Will Shillibier

Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Istvan Toro limped from the small blind and the player in the big blind raised. Toro then three-bet all in for 249,000 and after some tanking his opponent called.

Toro:
Opponent:

The board ran out giving Toro three of a kind and doubling to over 500,000.