Day Five with the poker circus at the Rio, and we have another 2 WSOP champions, and a massive “Millionaire Maker” messing with the schedule.
Event #4
The $1,500 6-Max NLHE Event #4 came to a close with John Beauprez winning the title and $324,764 to go with the bracelet. We’ll have a full report on the final table later in the day.
The final Table ended up looking like this:
- John Beauprez – $324,764
- Manig Loeser – $200,698
- Eric Blair – $127,300
- Joe Cada – $83,558
- Mike Mustafa – $56,499
- Keven Stammen – $39,325
Event #5
The $2,500 Omaha/Seven Stud Hi/Lo 8 or better Event #5 was won by Mike Gorodinsky for $216,958. We have a full write up for this first mixed game Event of the series.
The final nine ended up as follows:
- Mike Gorodinsky – $216,958
- Kristopher Tong – $134,017
- Matthew Ashton – $86,437
- Owais Ahmed – $62,631
- George Fotiadis – $46,048
- George Danzer – $34,348
- Mack Lee – $25,993
- Julie Schneider – $19,952
- Dustin Leary – $15,536
Event #6
The second day of the $1,500 “Millionaire Maker” Event #6 saw 1,481 from the original 6,343 entries come back to the Amazon Room of the Rio Casino in Las Vegas. The bubble burst at 648 player made a return on their investment of time and money. These included Jake Cody (633rd for $2,740), Matt Stout (316th for $4,624), Rupert Elder (228th for $5,309) and Bryn Kenney (148th for $7,278). We’ve not been able too get any reliable chip counts yet, but we do know the event has been changed to run four days instead of the originally planned 3, due to the massive field size. Play begins again at 1pm in the Amazon Room of the Rio.
Event #7
Day 2 of the $1,000 NLHE Event #7 is going to be lead by Eric Baldwin, who is leading the 148 players left in the field. Players who aren’t going to be joining in the second day of action include Antonio Esfandiari, David Williams, Matt Glantz and Brian Rast. The 198 players who survived through the bubble earned at least $1,868 for their efforts.
The Top Ten stacks going into day 2 are:
- Eric baldwin – 121,000
- Adam Geyer – 118,200
- Annete Obrestad – 98,000
- Nick Abou Risk – 87,000
- Jeff Fielder – 77,000
- Daniel Makowsky – 74,000
- Kevin Ho – 72,500
- Michael Shelton – 72,000
- José Manuel Nadal – 67,500
- Paul Wasicka – 65,400
The players are returning at 13:00 PST to start playing towards the $305,952 first prize.
Event #8
Eight Game Mix is a game that doesn’t tend to see many beginners sitting down, so the 388 players who bought in for the $2,500 Event #8 are more than likely to know what they’re doing. These include Greg Raymer (2,275) Layne Flack (8,000), Vanessa Selbst (9,675) and Robert Mizrachi (22,175). 192 players are coming back for day 2, and the top ten stack look like this:
- Eric Crain – 69,925
- Micael Malm – 61,800
- Neal Friets – 50,425
- Marco Johnson – 46,825
- Kai Chang – 44,150
- Ziman Ziyard – 42,475
- Chris Tryba – 37,000
- Any Bloch – 36,525
- Kyle Bowker – 36,000
- Scott Seiver – 35,275
We’re expecting the bubble to burst on day 2, and 40 players will earn some folding cash. 40th place will take home $4,784. Play resumes at 14:00 Vegas time.
Today sees the start to the $3,000 NLHE Shootout Event #9 and Event #10, the $1,500 NLHE. We’ll have reports from these for you, as well as round up from every final table.
