The 11th of June 2013 saw 2 bracelets being awarded, and lot more action besides. The Amazon Room in the Rio Casino is full of the excitement that only comes from the WSOP, and players are clambering to get their hands on some gaudy golden wrist adornments.
Event #18
Taylor Paur has taken down the $1,000 NLHE Event #18 for his first WSOP bracelet. He takes home $340,260 for his win. Phil Ivey was circling his first WSOP final table of the year, but ended up busting in 14th for $15,544. We have a full final table write up over here, but here’s how the money was split:
- Taylor Paur- $340,260
- Roy Weiss – $211,794
- Tai Nguyen – $147,220
- Alexander Barlow – $106,027
- DJ MacKinnon – $77,491
- Phillip Hui – $47,324
- Daniel Idema – $42,962
- Ryan Austin – $32,608
- Kyle Cartwright – $25,041
The players will be back in their seats with the blinds at 5k/10-1k at 1pm Vegas time.
Event #19
Triple Crown winner Davidi Kitai has added another bracelet to his collection of titles, this one is for the $5,000 pot Limit Hold’em Event #19. The Belgian adds $224,560 to his growing pile of top notch tournament wins. We have a full write over here, but this is how the final table paid out.
- Davidi Kitai – $224,560
- Cary Katz – $138,794
- Vincent Bartello – $103,628
- Dimitar Danchev – $77893
- Eugene Katchalov – $58,912
- Kristina Holst – $44,844
- Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier – $34,341
- Dario Minieri – $26,468
- Christopher Johnson – $20,520
Event #20
219 players started Day2 of the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo Split 8 or better Event #20, and they were whittled down to just 22 by the end of the day. The bubble burst during the day, and players to make a return on their money include Barry Greenstein (90th for $3,066), Brian Hastings (37th for $5,913) and FTR’s own Max Steinberg (27th for $8,377). the big stacks going into Day 3 look like this:
- Dale Beaudoin – 465,000
- Jason Rivkin – 418,000
- Can Kim Hua – 327,000
- Todd Brunson – 315,000
- Won Goag – 311,000
- Sumanth Reddy – 293,000
- Matthw kelly – 281,000
- Tony Ma – 249,000
- Joe Ford – 238,000
- Kevin Zhang – 221,000
The players will be playing down to a finish from 1pm, with the winner taking home $227,274 and a new piece of gold jewellery.
Event #21
Day 1 of the $3,000 6-Max NLHE Event #21 saw 807 players test their mettle and join in the action. By the end of the day, only 129 had been found worthy of making Day 2, not included in this number were Phil Hellmuth and Phil Ivey, both of whom were busted in the late stages of Day 1. Player to keep your eye on still in the event include Allen Cunningham (18,600) William Reynolds (22,000) and Antonio Esfandiari (80,600).
The big stacks starting day two are:
- Jesse Wilkie – 187,700
- Victor Ramdin – 184,000
- Ryab Olisar – 154,500
- Danny Doucet – 140,000
- Jonathan Roy – 132,700
- Scott Seiver – 132,000
- Maurice Hawkins – 100,500
- Josh Gottesman – 100,500
- Matt Berkley – 97,300
The players will be back in the Amazon Room of the Rio casino at 13:00pst.
Player of the Year
Daniel Negreanu is still sitting pretty on top of the Player of the year rankings, even without getting much going so far in the Las Vegas portion of the race. the only addition to the top ten is Davidi Kitai, who’s win in Event #19 catapulted him up the rankings. The only other movement was Dan Kelly jumping up a few spots to fourth.
- Daniel Negreanu – 427.15
- Benny Chen – 300.00
- Mark Radoja – 292.50
- Daniel Kelly – 269.70
- Charles Syvestre – 260.00
- Daniel Marton – 252.00
- Mathew Waxman – 242.00
- Athanasios Polychronopoulos – 241.00
- Matthew Ashton – 240.75
- Davidi Kitai – 240.72
