WPTDeepStacks Johannesbourg

Premier jour du WPTDeepStacks Johannesbourg Main Event has come to an end after eight levels of poker drew in a crowd of 327 entrées.

The WPTDeepStacks returned to one of its most popular stops as Casino du palais des empereurs played host and welcomed some familiar and new faces to the event, all with the hope of taking down the title over the three-day event.

Among those who will be returning for Day 2 is Adam Martinsson who turned his 30,000 pile de départ dans un très impressionnant 216,000. Defending champion Abdoul Essa has put himself right in contention of reclaiming his title after he progressed with 190,700. Regular tournament player and three-time WPT event champion George Levine also bagged big with 153,000.

Joe Abreau, who eliminated three players in a single hand when he hit a full house on the river with ace-queen, will return with 145,000 alongside professional player and presenter Maria Ho (122,000), former WPTDeepStacks Johannesburg Super High Roller champion Muaaz Gani (110,000) et Ahmed Karrim (64,100).

L'action reprendra à 12:30 local time on Saturday, October, 13 with levels reverting from 40-minutes to 60-minutes. The late registration period will remain open until one hour after the start of play.

Join us then back then as the field try their best to make a run for the final table!

Adam Martinsson, 216000
Joe Abreu, 145000
Muaaz Gani, 110000
Maria Ho, 122600
Malikeh Razavi Jamali, 79200
Ahmed Karrim, 64100
Andrew Diab, 91800
Serg Ziellberg, 111700
Georges Levine, 153000
Jonathan Kalil, 90700
Rainer Kempe, 15500

The play has concluded for the day, and the players have bagged their chips. A selection of the end-of-day chip counts will be posted shortly, followed by the full chip counts and a recap of the day's major action from the Emperors Palace Casino.

Cinq mains supplémentaires seront jouées lors du premier jour du Main Event. À ce moment-là, les joueurs empaqueteront et étiqueteront leurs jetons.

Les salles combles semblent être à l'ordre du jour au casino Emperors Palace après que Maria Ho vient de voir son bateau à main sur la rivière.

Two players had limped in for 600 before Ho made it 2,800 to go from the cutoff. The player in the big blind called before both initial callers folded.

Attention au flop and Ho saw her 2,300 continuation bet check-called by her opponent.

The turn was the ace of diamonds, and after the action was checked once more to Ho, she bet 20,000, enough to put her opponent all in if he called. After a minute of thought, Ho's opponent called and revealed pour un tirage couleur.

Ho était en avance avec les voyages en tenue , et la rivière était une carte intéressante. Le was revealed by the dealer, and Ho's opponent hit his flush, but it was no good for him as Ho improved to a full house.

Ho is now sitting with a stack worth 115,000 going into the final 20 minutes of play for the day.

Le niveau final du premier jour est en cours avec les blinds à 300-600-600 grosse blinde ante.

Maria Ho, 103000
Daniel Lamberti, 102000
Malikeh Razavi Jamali, 96000
Greg Tucker, 55000
Muaaz Gani, 55000
Abdool Essa, 48000
Ahmed Karrim, 33000
Chen Cong, 0

Il y avait une dynamique intéressante sur la table neuf qui mettait en vedette Warrick Wiegand et Mario Ho, entre autres.

Wiegand and another player at the table were chatting before the next hand was dealt and resulted in Wiegand moving all in blind for 19,000 under the gun. Imran Bhojani was playing from middle position and was trying to clear up if Wiegand had indeed moved all in blind, which the latter confirmed.

Bhojani then called, and Wiegand's conversation mate put the last of his chips into the middle blind as well. The rest of the table folded and waited to see the outcome of this interesting hand.

Warrick Wiegand : Imran Bhojani : Adversaire 2:

Bhojani était clairement favori pour remporter la main, et le board est tombé pour consolider sa victoire. Wiegand et le troisième joueur de la pot both departed from the table as Bhojani moved over the 100,000 marque.

The board is showing that the total entries number has grown to 303. This number is still set to rise with registration open until one hour after the start of player tomorrow.

Le tableau était en panne et Alex Stivastis a mis tout ce jeton au milieu et a été suivi par un adversaire.

Stivastis déposé for a full house and saw that he had cracked his opponent's pocket queens. Stivastis held on the river and doubled up to nearly 60,000.

Les joueurs sont partis en 15-minute break. When they return two more 40-minute levels will be played before the remaining players bag their chips for the day.

Joe Abreu vient de remporter un prix remarquable pot et j'ai éliminé trois joueurs au passage !

La décision revenait à Abreu lorsque nous sommes arrivés à la table, et il réfléchissait à ses options préflop.

Abreu had raised and seen the player on his left three-bet all in. The button then moved all in, and the player in the small blind flat called and left himself with 13,500 behind. Abreu also opted just to call, and the two players went heads-up for the side pot avec le flop qui tombe . L'action a été checkée pour Abreu et il a réfléchi avant de miser suffisamment pour mettre le petit joueur à tapis.

"I'm very behind," said Abreu's opponent before he decided to call and all four players revealed their hands.

Joe Abreu : Adversaire 1: Bouton: Petit aveugle:

Le tour a placé le joueur détenant les valets plus loin devant avec un full, mais la carte de la rivière s'est révélée être la , and Abreu enthusiastically banged the table after he took the lead to win a massive 180,000 pot et envoyer trois joueurs sur le rail dans le processus.

Les derniers ajouts au Main Event du WPTDeepStacks Johannesburg sont Rainer Kempe et Maria Ho.

Le couple de poker a profité des paysages et des sons de l'Afrique du Sud cette semaine tout en jouant au poker. Comme mentionné précédemment, Kempe a déjà goûté au succès cette semaine après avoir remporté un événement high roller.

Both players had deep runs in yesterday's second high-roller event but ultimately departed before the money.

Ils espèrent mieux lors du Main Event ce week-end !

Le flop était tombé , and Jody Van Wyk was playing from early position and up against an opponent playing from middle position. The pot had become bloated, and Van Wyk had moved all in. His opponent was in the tank and mulling over his decision.

After Van Wyk's opponent talked through his options, he ultimately made the call and tabled pocket tens.

Van Wyk avait besoin d'aide après avoir révélé pour un tirage quinte et couleur. Le tour n'était pas ce que Van Wyk voulait voir, mais le was his bingo card, and he hit the flush to win the pot and leave his opponent with just over 2,000.

Van Wyk is now sitting with a stack over 80,000.

The entrants total is up to 268 in level four. The registration period will remain open until approximately 1:30 pm tomorrow (Saturday, October, 12).

L'action a repris et le niveau quatre est en cours dans le Main Event.

Les joueurs sont maintenant partis sur une 60-minute dinner break and will dine at the Emperors Casino buffet courtesy of the house.

The action was opened from the player in the hijack after he raised to 500. Prishal Karthard was on the button and three-bet to 1,500 which Malikeh Razavi Jamali called in the big blind and left herself with 7,600 behind. After the initial raiser also called the flop fell .

The action was checked to Karthard who bet 6,000. Jamali moved all in and the final player to act folded. Karthard made up the extra 1,600 to call and was in a race.

Jamali révélé pour un tirage couleur, et Karthard était en avance avec pour les voyages. Mais l'as de carreau est arrivé au tournant pour donner à Jamali sa couleur, et le River a scellé un doublé vital pour elle.

Kathard was left with 26,000 and Jamali is now sat with 17,000.

Chen Cong has seen his starting 30,000 stack more than double in the early stages of day one and just won a nice pot after he checked to showdown on the river.

Le tableau était en panne et les deux joueurs checkent. Après que la rivière se soit révélée être la et les deux joueurs checkent une fois de plus, Cong dépose , et son adversaire a mucké.

Cong is now sitting on a stack worth 62,000.

Le tableau était en panne , and Warrick Wiegand checked from the small blind. Another playing in middle position also checked, and the player on the button bet 650. Wiegand called and the third player in the pot plié.

La rivière était la , et les deux joueurs checkent jusqu'à l'abattage. Wiegand révélé pour deux paires, et son adversaire mucka.

Wiegand a griffé le pot to continue his good start and moved up to 45,000.