This year’s WSOP is seeing more final tables being delayed because of action taking longer than expected, and this Tuesday saw yet another one come to a close in Event #29. We have all the action from the Rio in Las Vegas, including the action from the two final tables that came to a conclusion.
Event #29
In another WSOP Event that has run over it’s scheduled duration the $5,000 H.O.R.S.E. Event #29 has finally come to an end. The victor was Tom Schneider, who beat out Benjamin Scholl in the heads up battle for the bracelet and $318,955. We have a full report of the action from the final table over here. The final table payouts looks like this:
Tom Schneider (c)Joe Giron/WSOP
- Tom Schneider – $318,955
- Benjamin Scholl – $197,228
- Greg Mueller – $129,600
- Viatcheslav Ortynskiy – $94,664
- Chris Klodnicki – $70,093
- Adam Friedman – $52,613
- David Benyamine – $40,039
- Konstantin Puchkov – $30,876
Event #30
In an event that actually ran to schedule, seemingly a rarity in recent days, the final day of the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em Event #30 ended with Chris Dombrowski taking the title and $346,332. We’ll have a full report from the final table up later, but until then you will have to make do with the payouts from the final table:
- Chris Dombrowski – $346,332
- Matthew Moore – $215,578
- Jesse McEuen – $149,580
- Dimitar Yosifov – $107,922
- Carter Myers – $78,876
- Chris Bolek – $58,348
- Matt Seer – $43,730
- Mike Pickett – $33,191
- John Thompson – $25,488
Event #31
Day 2 of the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi/low Split 8 or Better Event #31 saw 129 players cut down to just two 7 seat tables as the final 14 head into day 3. Part of this player cull were Eoghan O’Dea (93rd for $2,603), Allen Cunningham (44th for $5,458) and Mike Matusow (40th for $5,458). Day 3 will hopefully play down to a winner, and the top stacks going into the action are:
- Perry Greem – 491,000
- Marco Johnson – 475,000
- Loni Harwood – 444,000
- Noomis Jones – 439,000
- David Brooker – 423,000
- Grzegorz Derkowski – 293,000
- Barry Greenstein – 287,000
- Gabriel Blumenthal – 258,000
- Stepehn Johnson – 222,000
- Mel Randolph – 221,000
With Barry being the only marquee name still in this event, and the stacks being pretty well balanced, the final day looks like being a lot of fun. The action commences at 13:00PST in the Amazon Room of the Rio.
Event #32
Event #32 has seen some pretty big names playing the $5,000 6-Max NLHE event, and one of the biggest is sitting pretty near the top of the chip counts. Jason Mercier, Vanessa Selbst and Phil Hellmuth may have all started this event, but the big name to make waves is Daniel Negreanu, who with 168,600 is sitting second in the chip counts going into Day 2. Also making it into Day 2 with chips are Chris Moorman (93,000), Scott Seiver (101,600) and Steve O’Dwyer (108,300)
The big stacks of chips belong to:
- Jonathan Little – 179,700
- Daniel Negreanu – 168,600
- Brian Rast – 151,200
- Justine Smith – 149,800
- Rogen Chhabra – 141,500
- Ryan D’Angelo – 135,100
- Brock Parker – 132,000
- Randy “Nanonoko” Lew – 125,400
- “Mad” Marvin Rettenmaier – 114,000
- Dan O’Brien – 112,000
The players will be back in their seats for the second day of action at 1pm local time.
Event #33
Seven Card Razz has a bit of a bad reputation as being boring. As someone who occasionally plays the game, I think it’s anything but. It seems 301 players agree with me, as they all paid out $2,500 for the Seven Card Razz Event #33. Just over half of them will be returning for Day 2, and returning champion Phil Hellmuth is amongst them. Names that didn’t make it through include Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Abe Mosseri and Antonio Esfandiari.
Of the 152 players left in, only 32 are going to see anything back from their buy in, and we expect to see the bubble burst during Day 2. The big stacks starting Day 2 will be:
- David Bach – 51,300
- Nicholas Verkaik – 46,100
- Mike Wattel – 38,300
- Archie Karas – 34,500
- Damian Radanov – 32,200
- Rick Fuller – 32,200
- Marco Traniello – 32,000
- John Cernuto – 31,400
- Jameson Painter – 31,000
- Huck Seed – 28,300
2pm should see the players back in the reportedly freezing Amazon Room of the Rio, to play down through the bubble and beyond.
Player of the Year
Daniel Negreanu has finally got some competition in the 2013 WSOP Player of the Year race, as Tom Schneider’s win in Event #29 has propelled him into second place, less than just 20 points behind Kid Poker. Mike Matusow is also up in the top ten after his 40th place in Event #31.
Mike Matusow (c)Joe Giron/WSOP
- Daniel Negreanu – 446.53
- Tom Schneider – 427.88
- Daniel Kelly – 334.70
- Benny Chen – 300.00
- Mark Radoja – 292.50
- Matthew Ashton – 289.75
- Matthew Waxman – 274.50
- Mike Matusow – 274.75
- Charles Syvestre – 260.00
- Jason Duval – 256.25
Wednesday is going to see the final table for Event #31, as well as continuing action from Events #32 and #33. The tournament staff will also be getting ready to start off Events #34 and #35 to give a full day of poker ahead.
We’ll be keeping our eyes on the action, and will bring you all the important stuff in our daily update, and final table reports.