Here we go, the start of the second week of the 2013 WSOP, and we have 17 new bracelets in circulation, as well as a lot of prize money. The 10th of June saw only one final table, but we have action in another three events to bring you.
Event #17
Event #17 came to a close with the longest name of a bracelet winner this year. Athanasios Polychronopoulos now has a second bracelet to go with his Bracelet from 2011 in the same $1,500 NLHE event. He takes home $518,755 to add to his jewellery collection.
The final table ended up like this:
- Athanasios Polychronopoulos – $518,755
- Manuel Mutke – $322,908
- EverettCarlton – $224,455
- Joe Cada – $161,652
- Samuel Taylor – $118,145
- Michael Kurth – $87,398
- Joseph Ward – $65,502
- David “Bakes” Baker – $49,716
- Thomas Nicotera – $38,178
We have a full report coming later today on the final table, covering the action that lead to Polychronopoulos’ win.
Event #18
Day two of the $1,000 NLHE Event #18 saw 163 players cut down to just 14, to head into the final day. Players who didn’t make it through the day included David Plastik (129th for $2,320), David Williams (120th for $2,320), Matt Affleck (66th for $4,016), and Dominik Nitsche (16th for $12,413). the big name heading into Day 3 is Phil Ivey, who is going for his first NLHE bracelet, and is sitting in 9th in the chip counts.
The top ten stacks going into the final day are:
- Taylor Paur- 1,318,000
- Alexander Barlow – 792,000
- Adam Sander – 605,000
- Douglas Mackinnon – 557,000
- Phillip Hui – 419,000
- Daniel Idema – 400,000
- robert Deppe – 371,000
- Tai Nguyen – 359,000
- Phil Ivey – 285,000
- Kyle Cartwright – 267,000
The players will be back in their seats with the blinds at 5k/10-1k at 1pm Vegas time.
Event #19
16 players are coming back to battle for the $224,560 first place prize for the $5,000 Pot Limit Hold’em event, unfortunately for them, Jason Mercier (22nd for $7,881) and Paul Volpe (25th for $7,881) will not be returning as the busted just after the bubble. Notable names still in include bro-mance Elky (77,600) and Eugene Katchalov (121,500) as well as Dario Minieri (265,000) Dan Kelly (283,500) and Davidi Kitai (318,000).
The top ten stacks going into Day 3 are:
- Jesse Martin – 402,000
- Davidi Kitai – 318,000
- Kristina Holst – 285,000
- Dan Kelly – 283,500
- Dario Minieri – 265,000
- Dimitar Danchev – 237,500
- Mark Herm – 236,000
- Steven Kelly – 163,000
- John Hennigan – 135,500
- Kevin Vandermissen – 132,000
Day 3 will kick off at 14:00 local time, and the final table will be streamed on WSOP.com.
Event #20
1,014 players entered Day 1 of the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo split 8 or Better Event #20, but only 219 are going into Day 2. Making the journey back to the Amazon Room include Max Pescatori (13,200) Todd Brunson (14,200), Mike “The Mouth” Matusow (23,700) and FTR’s own Max Steinberg (36,300). Players who won’t be starting Day 2 include Phil Hellmuth, Greg Raymer, and Matt Savage.
The big stacks going into the second day are:
- John Larson – 73,700
- Thomas Besnier – 66,600
- Eric Sclavos – 53,600
- Pierlugi Giglio – 53,300
- Wong Goag – 53,100
- Brian hastings – 47,900
- Calen McNeil – 47,800
- Robert Turner – 47,700
- Ken Tran – 47,700
- Denis Ethier – 46,800
The players will be aiming to get towards a final table, starting at 1pm.
Player of the Year
There hasn’t been much movement in the Player of the year standings over night, with just the climg of Athanasios Polychronopoulos into the top ten after his win the Event #17. This bumps Levi Berger out of the top ten, but nothing else has changed in these standings. We’ll be keeping a close eye on this to see is Daniel Negreanu’s lead is overtaken soon.
- Daniel Negreanu – 427.15
- Benny Chen – 300.00
- Mark Radoja – 292.50
- Charles Syvestre – 260.00
- Daniel Marton – 252.00
- Daniel Kelly – 250.20
- Mathew Waxman – 242.00
- Athanasios Polychronopoulos – 241.00
- Matthew Ashton – 240.75
- Trevor Pope – 240.00
- Levi Berger – 237.50
We’ll be covering all the action here at FTR, so keep your eyes on the twitter account and the new section for more action from Las Vegas.
