$10,000 Tag Team Championship: Team Polk Bags Lead
Day 1 of the first-ever World Series of Poker $10,000 Tag Team Championship is in the books, and it was Team Polk who ended the day with the chip lead. Team Polk is comprised of Doug Polk, Ryan Fee, Jason Mo and Michael Finstein.
Team Polk entered the event just before late registration ended but still managed to finish the day with the biggest stack at 240,600. Finstein was playing for the team during the last hour and went on a run to give his team the chip lead. On one of the bigger hands he won toward the end of the night he turned a straight against Samantha Abernathy to double up.
Polk and Fee won the $1,000 Tag Team Event as a duo last year, so they're looking for Tag Team titles in back-to-back years.
A total of 102 teams joined Wednesday's event and exactly half bagged chips at the end of play. Several high profile players and teams were in the field and some of them were unable to find a bag. Team Deeb (Shaun Deeb, Scott Seiver, Daniel Weinman, and Mike Gorodinsky) was one of the stacked teams that didn't make it through. Another stacked team, Team Rast, also busted. Brian Rast joined Jeff Gross, Antonio Esfandiari and Michael Phelps in an effort to win Gross and Phelps their first WSOP gold bracelets.
Team Staats (Christopher Staats, Orlando Romero, and Roland Israelashvili) bagged the second-biggest stack at 216,400. They were followed by Team Tran (J.C. Tran, Nam Le, and Antonio Gutierrez) with 207,000. The only other team over 200,000 is Team Chidwick (Stephen Chidwick and Dan Smith). They also registered late and were able to build up a big stack quickly.
Play resumes at 2 p.m. on Thursday and the final 51 teams will try and move one step closer to being the first-ever World Series of Poker $10,000 Tag Team Champions.
| Tournament Room | Tables | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brasilia | 700 | 1 | Delmiro Toledo | United States | 22,800 | 11 |
| Brasilia | 700 | 2 | Anthony Ajlouny | United States | 83,400 | 42 |
| Brasilia | 700 | 3 | Dan O'Brien | United States | 103,800 | 52 |
| Brasilia | 700 | 4 | Rainer Kempe | Germany | 88,500 | 44 |
| Brasilia | 700 | 6 | Chris Edwards | United States | 28,600 | 14 |
| Brasilia | 700 | 7 | Paul Snead | United States | 157,000 | 79 |
| Brasilia | 700 | 8 | Timothy Nuter | United States | 71,600 | 36 |
| Brasilia | 700 | 9 | Andy Bloch | United States | 24,300 | 12 |
| Brasilia | 704 | 1 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | 204,500 | 102 |
| Brasilia | 704 | 2 | Christopher Staats | United States | 216,400 | 108 |
| Brasilia | 704 | 3 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 78,000 | 39 |
| Brasilia | 704 | 4 | Martin Jacobson | Sweden | 48,300 | 24 |
| Brasilia | 704 | 5 | Michael Gathy | Belgium | 183,000 | 91 |
| Brasilia | 704 | 6 | Jack Salter | United Kingdom | 192,300 | 96 |
| Brasilia | 704 | 7 | Connor Drinan | United States | 127,600 | 64 |
| Brasilia | 704 | 8 | Jeffery Kester | United States | 152,000 | 76 |
| Brasilia | 704 | 9 | Sergio Aido | Spain | 83,800 | 42 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 1 | Dan Shak | United States | 45,000 | 23 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 2 | Lauren Roberts | United States | 39,600 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 3 | Dylan Wilkerson | United States | 120,900 | 60 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 4 | Liv Boeree | United Kingdom | 122,100 | 61 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 5 | Ben Yu | United States | 78,400 | 39 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 6 | Thomas Lutz | United States | 16,200 | 8 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 7 | Taylor von Kriegenbergh | United States | 87,700 | 44 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 8 | Sergi Reixach | Spain | 143,700 | 72 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 9 | Manig Loeser | Germany | 27,700 | 14 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 1 | Doug Polk | United States | 240,600 | 120 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 2 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 117,200 | 59 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 3 | Senovio Ramirez | United States | 133,600 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 4 | James Petzing | United States | 111,100 | 56 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 5 | Jack Duong | United States | 13,700 | 7 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 6 | Ankush Mandavia | United States | 122,600 | 61 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 7 | Jared Dagley | United States | 70,500 | 35 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 8 | Jesse Martin | United States | 13,500 | 7 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 9 | Javier Gomez | United States | 191,100 | 96 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 1 | Dietrich Fast | Germany | 187,100 | 94 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 2 | David Eldridge | United States | 116,200 | 58 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 4 | David "ODB" Baker | United States | 79,000 | 40 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 5 | Scott Eskenazi | United States | 63,000 | 32 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 6 | Greg Mueller | Canada | 38,200 | 19 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 7 | Steven Lauson | United States | 25,800 | 13 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 8 | Chamaria Shuchi | United States | 178,400 | 89 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 9 | Ismael Bojang | Germany | 84,900 | 42 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 2 | Loni Harwood | United States | 148,700 | 74 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 3 | Allen Kessler | United States | 95,200 | 48 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 4 | Bryn Kenney | United States | 114,000 | 57 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 5 | Erik Seidel | United States | 36,000 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 6 | JC Tran | United States | 207,000 | 104 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 7 | Michael Addamo | Australia | 26,400 | 13 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 8 | Chance Kornuth | United States | 93,200 | 47 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 9 | Daniel Charbonneau | United States | 55,400 | 28 |