According to the bible, Sunday is meant to be a day of rest, but as poker players, it’s generally considered our busiest day of the week. This Sunday saw 5 WSOP Events going on, with two planned final tables, so was crammed full of action.
Event #26
The $1,000 Seniors Event #26 has ended with no fatalities, but a clear winner in Ken Lind. The amateur player is the latest to have his name engraved on the “Golden Eagle” Trophy, and gets to take home the gold bracelet and $634,809 in cash. We’ll have a full final table report coming up later today, but until then you’ll have to make do with the final table payouts:
- Kenneth Lind – $634,809
- Dana Ott – $390,601
- John Holley – $283,312
- Barry Bashist –$209,856
- RandolphSpain – $156,629
- Michel Boukila – $117,799
- James Miller – $89,281
- Jack Ernest Ward – $68,281
- Fernando Halac – $52,474
Event #27
The $3,000 Mix-Max Event #27 is down to two, and one of those is FTR’s own Max Steinberg. He is going to be going up against Isaac Hagerling. in a change to the schedule, they’ll be playing at 15:00 Vegas time on Monday, with the event being streamed on WSOP.com. We will of course have a report from this action as soon as we can after it’s happened. The results all ready in for this event are:
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- Jeremy Ausmus – $132,748
- Jason Koon – $132,748
- Yevgeniy Timochenko – $51,561
- Dan Healey – $51,561
- Chris Johnson – $51,561
- Brandon Cantu – $51,561
In a blatant case of partiality, FTR send all the good vibes and luck we can to Max, and we hope he comes away with his second bracelet.
Event #28
How do you get 223 into 16? Well, Event #28 did it by running a Day 2, and in the process stacks that belonged to Julian Thew (207th for $2,912), Erica Lindgren, Olivier Busquet (26th for $15,389) and Eoghan O’Dea (23rd for $15,389) now have new owners.
The big name left in is 76 year old TJ Cloutier, who is sitting in 13th place with 335,000 chips for his assault on the title. In a world where tournament grinds are as long as they are, it’s always nice to see one of the older generation still able to match the young upstarts. Gives me an insight to what I might be doing in 40 years.
The top ten going into the last day look like this:
- Masayuki Magata – 1,742,000
- Dan Martin – 1,050,000
- Terik Brown – 755,000
- William Cogan – 750,000
- Tommy Townsend – 670,000
- Stephen Bartlett – 576,000
- James Lee – 573,000
- Joseph Cappuccio – 571,000
- Majid Yahyaei – 538,000
- Timothy Stickradt – 522,000
The action will start again at 1pm on Monday, and will play down to a single survivor.
Event #29
In one of the most stacked fields of the year so far the $5,000 H.O.R.S.E. Event #29 is not somewhere I’d suggest a WSOP first timer starts out. 151 players came back for Day 2, and only 28 will be making the final day. The bubble did burst at 32, and the four players who cashed for $8,525 were Henan Salazar (32nd), Max Pescatori (31st), Eli Elezra (30th). and Peter Brwonstein (29th). Notable players who didn’t make the money included Layne Flack, Jonathan Duhamel, Mike Matusow, Shaun Deeb and Daniel Negreanu.
The top ten stacks going into the final day are:
- Greg Mueller – 430,500
- David Benyamine – 373,500
- Viatcheslav Ortynsiky – 310,000
- Tom Schneider – 292,000
- Alex Dovxhenko – 194,500
- David Bach – 179,000
- Marcel Luske – 175,000
- Chris Hlodnicki – 165,500
- Benjamin Scholl – 165,000
- Todd Brunson – 163,500
The action from Day 3 will kick off in the Amazon Room of the Rio at 2pm local time.
Event #30
Sunday saw the start of the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em Event #30, and 2,108 players stumped up the cash to enter, all looking to add a bracelet to their trophy case. Some will need to build a trophy case to put it in, but the prestige of a WSOP Bracelet is well worth the expense. Everyone returning for Day 2 can be confident that they aren’t going to be losing money as play on Day 1 continued until the bubble had burst. Players included in the 218 left in the event are Jonathan Duhamel (5,500), Kevin MacPhee (37,900) and Randy “Nanonoko” Lew (51,800). The big stacks with the blinds at 500/1000-100 are:
- Antoine Saout – 131,700
- Alex Volotin – 103,800
- Dimitar Yosifov – 96,900
- Chris Dombrowki – 93,400
- Tomas Pleticha – 92,300
- Burke Delange – 81,300
- Tommy Miller – 79,000
- Jessie Bryant – 65,000
- Tony Gargano – 61,000
- Thomas Muehloecker – 56,600
The players will be back in their seats at 13:00pst, and will be trying to get as near to a final table as possible.
Player of the Year
The 2013 Player of the Year is still led by Daniel Negreanu, who has topped the list ever since his win in the WSOP APAC Main Event. The top ten only had two big moves, Matthew Waxman jumped to 5th with his cash in Event #27, and Corey Harrison’s win of Event #24 has hit the rankings, and he jumps into 8th. Sneaking onto the bottom of the top ten is Taylor Paur, due to his win of Event #18 and his cash in Event #27.
- Daniel Negreanu – 446.53
- Daniel Kelly – 334.20
- Benny Chen – 300.00
- Mark Radoja – 292.50
- Matthew Waxman – 289.75
- Matthew Ashton – 289.75
- Charles Syvestre – 260.00
- Corey Harrison – 254.50
- Daniel Marton – 252.00
- Taylor Paur – 251.25
The 17th is going to see an extra final table than planned with Event #27 having it’s final match postponed. Event #31, the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo Split Pot 8 or Better event kicks off as well, and we’ll bring you all the action here on FTR. Please also take a little time to tweet some support for @MaxJSteinberg as every little helps!