WSOP 2017: Frank Maggio, Chris Frank & Ben Yu Win Bracelets; Raghav Bansal & Paawan Bansal Make Day 2 in Event 37

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Nothing evokes a poker player’s challenging spirit the way the World Series of Poker (WSOP) does and this is being witnessed as the fiasco is about to hit midway with nearly 30 bracelet winners already crowned.

Team India was no less determined to make an impact as they charged ahead in the slew of events. Raghav Bansal made it to Day 2 in Event #37: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em bagging a stack of 61,100 and new arrival to the Mecca of poker Paawan Bansal too was seen in thick of action making it through with 18,300 in chips.

It was not the best day for Team PokerStars pro Aditya Agarwal who was looking prepped to run deep in Event #36: $5,000 No Limit Holdem 6-handed but got eliminated early on Day 2 and soon joined Event #37 but unfortunately made an early exit there too.

Agarwal tweeted about his day’s journey –

Soon to join the contingent will be Mumbai based pro Sumit Asrani who will be in attendance for the second time.

Nonetheless, the poker extravaganza continues unabated, revealing several more bracelet winners in Frank Maggio, Chris Frank and Ben Yu who all took the coveted gold bracelet.

 

Event #31: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship

The $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship attracted a record breaking field of 5,389 entries creating a ginormous prize pool of $4,850,100 making this the largest ever World Series of Poker Seniors Event.

After four and a half hours of grueling action on an all American final table, it was Frank Maggio who emerged on top to collect his bracelet along with $617,303 for first place purse.

Maggio sealed the win after only eight hands in the heads-up battle against runner-up finisher William Murray.

 

Final Table Recap

The first casualty of the final table was seen in the very first hand of the day in Dan Heimiller followed by Paul Spitzberg who joined him in the rails just nine hands later.

The pace of eliminations did not reduce as after just six more hands, Lewis Leclair finished in seventh place with Gina Bacon joining him shortly thereafter.

Anthony Licastro hit the rail in fifth place in one of the biggest pots of the final table and the next to fell was the short-stacked Mark Lillge.

Murray earned his fourth knockout of the final table when he got all in against Dieter Dechant to set the heads-up match between him and Maggio and it didn’t take long for the latter to finish it all.

Frank Maggio
Frank Maggio

Final Table Results

1. Frank Maggio – $617,303

2. William Murray – $381,233

3. Dieter Dechant – $281,691

4. Mark Lillge – $209,715

5. Anthony Licastro – $157,321

6. Gina Bacon – $118,923

7. Lewis LeClair – $90,594

8. Paul Spitzberg – $69,552

9. Dan Heimiller – $53,817

 

Event #33: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

The $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event drew a total of 1,698 runners creating a massive prize pool of $2,292,300 with the top 255 finishers sharing the moolah and topping the field was 22-year-old German player Chris Frank who walked away with a cool $384,833.

Frank came in with one of the bigger stacks at the start of the day, but it was Ryan Leng who seemed to dominate throughout the day and had nearly double the chips of second-place Pratyush Buddiga when the unofficial final table got rolling. A few more notable names in contention were Georgios Sotiropoulos, Noah Vaillancourt, Max Pescatori and Michael Gagliano.

 

Final Table Recap

Leng managed to take out the first four players from the final table in Gagliano (ninth place), Pescatori (eighth place), Vaillancourt (seventh place) and Sotiropoulos in sixth place grabbing almost half the chips in play.

Frank then went on a heater with his trademark move becoming the quickest of snap-callers, wherein he’d be facing an all-in bet and splash in chips while turning over his cards wasting no time.

First, it was against Grant Denison who took the fifth spot and then it was Pratyush Buddiga who soon joined the rail.

Arkadiy Tsinis was the victim of a similar snap-call when he jammed jack-eight of diamonds and ran into Frank’s ace-king of diamonds.

Frank started the heads-up battle with a 3:1 chip advantage and didn’t take long to seal the title grabbing all of Leng’s chips in about 20 hands.

Chris Frank
Chris Frank

Final Table Results

1. Chris Frank – $384,833

2. Ryan Leng – $237,776

3. Arkadiy Tsinis – $171,028

4. Pratyush Buddiga – $124,615

5. Grant Denison – $91,699

6. Georgios Sotiropoulos – $68,226

7. Noah Vaillancourt – $51,332

8. Max Pescatori – $39,060

9. Michael Gagliano – $30,063

 

Event #34: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship

The event saw a total of 80 runners creating a prize pool of $752,000 and topping them all was Ben Yu who defeated his heads-up rival Shaun Deeb to take down the bracelet along with$232,738 in prize money.

 

Final Table Recap

Mike Matusow had earlier mentioned that he was looking to “bring the pain” on the final table day but unfortunately was the first one to fall in sixth place, courtesy the eventual champion Yu.

Next to hit the rail was Canadian pro Shawn Buchanan who took the fifth place followed by his fellow countrymen Mike Watson.

Down to 3-handed, short stacked Nick Schulman managed to double up multiple times but eventually fell in third place setting the heads-up battle between Yu and Deeb.

On one hand was Yu who was looking to grab his second bracelet while on the other side was two-time bracelet winner Deeb, looking for his third bracelet in consecutive years. When the dust settled, it was Yu who triumphed!

Ben Yu
Ben Yu

Final Table Results

1. Ben Yu – $232,738

2. Shaun Deeb – $143,842

3. Nick Schulman – $98,337

4. Mike Watson – $68,601

5. Shawn Buchanan – $48,854

6. Mike Matusow – $35,532

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