WSOP 2017: Yudhishter Jaswal, Sumit Asrani, Aditya Agarwal, Paawan Bansal, Samay Parikh & Jagdeep Singh Make It Past Main Event Day 2C; Akash Malik Makes Day 2 in The Little One Drop

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  • PG News July 13, 2017
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The 2017 World Series of Poker (WSOP), now inching towards its thrilling climax has its final two events that are currently playing out including the most prestigious poker tournament in the world i.e. $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT – World Championship.

The Day 2`s are also behind us with approx. 2,600 runners from the starting 7,221 entries still in the race to become the next World Champion.

It was not a very pleasant day for the Indian contingent with many of our challengers falling short of the finish line today. However among the few who made it through were Yudhishter Jaswal (191,900), Sumit Asrani (153,900), Aditya Agarwal (129,000), Paawan Bansal (100,200), Samay Parikh (69,900) and Jagdeep Singh (54,600).

Running alongside the Main Event is the $1,000 + $111 Little One for One Drop event that attracted 1,220 hopefuls on its second entry flight. Akash Malik was the only Indian player to make it past Day 1B and bagged 81,300 chips.

 

Event #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT – World Championship

Day 2C was the last time the first three starting flights were separated and all survivors will now converge into one massive field for Day 3 that starts in a few hours.

A field of 3,300 players resumed play at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino with hopes of winning the most prestigious title in poker and once again played out five 2-hour long levels.

British player Artan Dedusha who is attending his very first Main Event bagged a massive 680,000 stack making his the overall chip leader going into Day 3.

A few other big stacks include Marcin Chmielewski (564,000), Michael Krasienko (561,300), Sonny Franco (546,700), and Player of the Year contender and two-time bracelet winner Ryan Hughes (510,100).

Team India was well represented today with a total of 19 runners from the contingent returning back for Day 2C action. However only Yudhishter Jaswal (191,900), Sumit Asrani (153,900), Aditya Agarwal (129,000), Paawan Bansal (100,200), Samay Parikh (69,900) and Jagdeep Singh (54,600) made it through to Day 3 with the rest 13 players hitting the rails.

 

Team India Update:

Rahul Byrraju`s aggressive play has fared him well so far in the Main Event, with the Hyderabad-based player finishing off the first two days among the top 10% of the field. Byrraju will be returning for Day 3 with a healthy 467,900 in chips, making him the 21st biggest stack in the field.

Rahul Byrraju
Rahul Byrraju

Aditya Agarwal has been in phenomenal form this summer and will be eager to add another deep run in the Main Event. Agarwal came back with 150,900 chips on Day 2C and was the second biggest stack on his table. His starting table was nothing near soft with two reputed high stakes pros i.e. Super High Roller crusher from Germany Steffen Sontheimer and high stakes cash games player Minh Ly. We spoke to Agarwal briefly before the start of the event and if there is one secret we could extract from India`s top pro it’s that preparation can go a long way in winning. Agarwal had made copious notes on his tablemates and when he took his seat on the table, he meant business.

Incidentally, Agarwal is among the very few players who are chasing a fifth consecutive Main Event cash. PokerStars has even dedicated a blog on his progress in the event. Well we have been following his updates closely and here is a brief recap of his run today.

After a slow first two levels, it was a little before the dinner break that Agarwal bounced to around 150,000 in chips after winning a few meaty pots.

The biggest pot he played saw Minh Ly opening to 3,000 and a player on the button called, Agarwal joined in with 6-4 off-suit. The flop A-4-4 was exactly what Agarwal wanted to see and action checked around to the turn ten. Agarwal bet 5,000 and only Ly called. The river was a queen and Agarwal bet 18,000. Ly called and then mucked when the Indian pro tabled trips. Agarwal played a lot of small pots in the last few levels, picking up most of them and by the penultimate level; he had climbed up to 220,000.

In perhaps the worst level for Agarwal so far in the Main Event, the Indian pro’s stack dwindled down to just 129,000 by the end of the last level of play.

Aditya Agarwal
Aditya Agarwal

Agarwal kept updating his rail on his progress with constant tweets:

Sumit Asrani started the day with a stack of 89,900 and managed to consolidate to 153,900 for Day 3. He was another active tweeter today:

Jagdeep Singh began the day with 101,600 and his stack touched 141,000 at its peak, but by the end of play he had a modest 54,600 in chips.

Jagdeep Singh
Jagdeep Singh

Amit Jain was one of the strong contenders in the field and started off with a very playable 62,300 stack. Unfortunately, the Adda52 pro was unable to make it through to Day 3. He kept us busy with constant updates on Twitter:

Musician and PokerMet Team pro Dhaval Mudgal was another who failed to make it through to Day 3. Mudgal is a prolific tweeter and kept updating his stack.

Nipun Java is hands down the Indian hero at the series this year. His two bracelets this summer have been an inspiration to many poker players back home. We were lucky to squeeze in a short interview with him Java before the Main Event but unfortunately his tweeter feed confirmed that his day didn’t go exactly as planned.

Shashank Jain started the day with 135,000 but failed to make the cut.“I 5-bet jammed his 65k stack holding ace-king against an opponent’s 4 bet squeeze who had pocket kings,” said Jain of his elimination hand.

Sumit Sapra busted with pocket tens against a turned straight.

Jasven Saigal started the day with 56,200 chips but still fell short. The Mumbai based pro lost back-to-back flips first ace-king to pocket queens for 40 big blinds followed by pocket eights against ace-jack.

Romit Advani also exited after losing a flip with against pocket queens.

Among the many others who will have to wait another year to take a shot at the World Championship are Maria Ho, Bertrand Grospellier, Anthony Zinno, Gus Hansen, William Kassouf, former Main Event champions Ryan Riess, Joe McKeehen & Phil Hellmuth, 2000 Main Event Champion and 2017 POY contender Chris Ferguson, multiple bracelet-winners Men Nguyen, Paul Volpe, JC Tran & Antonio Esfandiari, November Niner’s Griffin Benger, Federico Butteroni and Max Steinberg.

Former Main Event champions Scotty Nguyen, Johnny Chan, Joe Cada and Carlos Mortensen are still in contention. Others still alive and kicking in the Main Event include 888poker Ambassador Dominik Nitsche, Jake Cody, Felipe Ramos, Cate Hall & 2016 November Niner Fernando Pons.

Natasha Mercier had bagged 218,000 at the end of Day 1C, and ended Day 2C with 470,000. Meanwhile, her husband Jason Mercier started a lot shorter with only 28,000 but bagged a comfortable 101,000 in chips.

Daniel Negreanu started the day as one of the shorter stacks with 26,000 and managed to get an early double up and later doubled up again to take his stack up to 64,000. He eventually lost a healthy chunk of his chips to Jeremy Meacham and fell down to 18,000 and was finally eliminated by John Allan Hinds.

 

Event #74: The Little One for One Drop – $1,000 +111 No-Limit Hold’em

The second entry flight of the Little One for One Drop saw a massive 1,220 entry field and leading the 211 survivors at the end of Day 1B was Neng Lee who bagged 214,700. Following him closely is Chunlei Yuan who has 201,400 and is the only other player over the 200,000 mark.

Other notables to make the next day include David Bach (78,700), Upeshka De Silva (91,400), Ben Yu (83,800), Paul Volpe (138,200), Dan Heimiller (127,300), Daniel Strelitz (77,200) and Jeff Gross (18,200).

WSOP 2017 is officially over for Maurice Hawkins, Martin Jacobson, James Calderaro, William Kassouf, John Racener, Calvin Anderson, Chris Klodnicki and Kelly Minkin all of whom busted the last bracelet event today.

The only Indian challenger to make it through today was Akash Malik. As we reported earlier, Malik was recently hospitalized but his determination to fight his way to the bracelet has been hard to contain for any hospital room. He registered after busting the Main Event and will be joining fellow countryman Sharad Rao on Day 2 with 81,400 in chips.

Kunal Patni entered the second entry flight but couldn’t survive the day.

Keep following the latest updates from WSOP 2017 right here on PokerGuru!

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