The 22nd saw a large number of big name pros walking the halls of the Rio Casino, and saw a lot of them jump into the $5k 6-Max PLO event. We have the action from all the day’s events coming up for you.
Event #36
The final day of the $1,500 NLHE Shootout Event #36 has given us a winner in the form of Simeon Naydenov, for his first WSOP bracelet. He also pockets $326,440 for outlasting players such as Mike Watson and Nacho Barbero. We have a full report coming up soon, but until the, here are the final placings:
- Simeon Naydenov – $326,440
- Jake Schwartz – $202,035
- Andrew Kloc – $126,250
- Tobias Wenker – $91,749
- Nacho Barbero – $67,732
- Mike Watson – $50,774
- Jan Kropacek – $38,621
- Salman Behbehani – $29,771
- Noah Bronstein – $23,259
Event #37
The $5,000 Limit Hold’em Event #37 has played down to a winner, and Michael Moore was the one to survive, and pick up the bracelet in his first WSOP victory. Moore also adds $211,743 to his bankroll. A full report of the final table is over here. The payouts for the final table were:
- Michael Moore – $211,743
- Gabriel Nassif – $130,852
- Ronnie Bardah – $94,793
- Brain Aleksa – $69,968
- Todd Witteles – $52,582
- Dom Denotaristefani – $40,205
- Ben Yu – $31,264
- Greg Mueller – $24,721
- Justin Bonomo – $19,863
- Steve Landfish – $16,211
Event #38
The $2,500 4-Max NLHE Event #38 has played down to it’s final two tables, and with just eight players left, Day 3 is going to see some fast a furious action. Players not making it through day 2 include William Reynolds (56th for $4,712), Faraz Jaka (53rd for $4,712) and Maria Ho (26th for $7,004).
The stacks heading into the last day of action are:
- David Pham – 911,000
- Nick Schwarmann – 789,000
- Jared Jaffee – 617,000
- Daniel Park – 480,000
- John Juanda – 466,000
- Jonathan D’Souza – 446,000
- Juston Oliver – 300,000
- Mike DeGilio – 253,000
The final two tables will be back in action at 13:00pst, and will be playing down to a winner.
Event #39
155 players made it back to the Rio for Day 2 of the $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better Event #39, but only 17 of them made Day 3. 56 of those players made the money, with Mike Sexton getting the first paying position for $2,809. Other players making the money included Phil Hellmuth (42nd for $3,246), Jason Mercier (36th for $3,743) and Barry Greenstein (31st for $5,273).
The big chip stacks coming back for Day 3 are:
- Matt Vengrin – 504,500
- Tony Gill – 249,500
- Joseph Hertzog – 249,500
- Mike Leah – 220,000
- Daniel Idema – 218,500
- Linda Johnson – 161,500
- Raul Paez – 155,000
- Randy Sim – 151,000
- Artie Cobb – 138,000
- Young Phan – 115,000
The action will play down to a winner tomorrow from 2pm, and the winner will be walking away with $184,590.
Event #40
The first day of the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Event #40 saw 2,161 players join in the action. 287 of those players will be making it back for Day 2, after surviving the meat grinder that was day 1. Players who didn’t survive the grind included Phil Ivey, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, Greg Waxman and Antonio Esfandiari. However, Marvin Rettenmaier (4,000), David Vamplew (4,500), David Sklansky (13,000) and Kara Scott (36,800) all made it through. So did Frank Op de Woerd, one of the elite in Poker Journalism, who was taking some time off from writing about poker, to crush this event, and ended the day with 43,600 chips to head into the second day.
The big stacks coming into Day 2 are:
- Nicholas Fiero – 176,500
- Jonathan Driscoll – 142,000
- Jeremy Menard – 141,000
- Ryan Spittles – 139,300
- Jason Wheeler – 134,000
- Matt Berkley – 126,600
- David McMann – 97,800
- David Cascado – 91,300
- Zachary Quinn – 85,800
- Jake Balsiger – 85,600
The players will be back in their seats at 13:00pst to play down through the money bubble, and set up the final day.
Event #41
Day 1 saw 400 entries into the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha 6-Max Event #41, generating a prize pool of $1,880,000. This brought of the names as well as the dollars, and we saw Phil Ivey, Scotty Nguyen, Joe Hacham, Jason Mercier, Vanessa Selbst, Erik Seidel, and Ben Lamb all buy in, and then bust out. More successful were Matt Stout (7,600), Tom Marchese (22,000), Daniel Negreanu (52,300) and Sam Farha (87,500), who will all be returning for the second day. They will be up against the big stacks of:
- Sorel Mizzi – 146,400
- Chad Brown – 139,600
- Peter Charalambous – 126,200
- Juha Helppi – 106,600
- Davidi Kitai – 105,300
- Shain Deeb – 105,000
- Phil Galfond – 101,400
- Klaus slot Kristensen – 100,000
- Freddy Deeb – 90,000
- Alberto Fonseca – 88,000
The action on this ridiculously stacked field will be commencing at 14:00, and will play down through the bubble.
Player of the Year
The 2013 WSOP Player of the Year race hasn’t seen any changes updated after the action of the 22nd, so we’ll be covering all the updates in tomorrow’s report.
The 23rd is going to see the culmination of Events #38 and #39 as well as the continuation of Event #40 and #41. We’ll also see the start of the $1,000 NLHe Event #42 and the $10,000 2-7TD Event #43, which may seen the appearance of a certain Viktor Blom.
We’ll have all the action in tomorrow’s update, along with the usual final table reports.