The 30th of may 2013 was the second day of the 44th WSOP in Las Vegas, and saw the first Bracelet awarded. We also saw action in Event #2 and Event #3.
Event #1
Today saw Poker Journalist Chard Holloway take the first bracelet of 2013 in the $500 Casino Employee event. He takes home $84,915, and you can read a run down on the final table over here.
The top ten looked like this:
- Chad Holoway – $84,915
- Allan Kwong – $52,318
- Bobby Rooney – $33,903
- Brian Pingel – $24,811
- Daniel Ellery – $18,426
- Sean Small – $13,868
- Tyrone Smith – $10,567
- Michael Trivett – $8,146
- Hieu Le – $6,348
Event #2
The $5,000 8-max NLHE Event #2 played down to 28 players from the 194 who started yesterday.
The bubble burst, with 56 players getting paid at least $8,432 for their efforts so far. The day started with Tom Marchese as chip leader, and he maintained his stack throughout the day, and bags up nearly half a million in chips. Players that didn’t make it to either the money let alone day three include Olympian Michael Phelps, Scotty Nguyen, Faraz Jaka and James Dempsey. Players who made the bubble but not much further include Jesse Sylvia (34th for $11,235), Antonio Esdandiari (43rd for $9,743) and overnight big stack Scott Baumstein (37th for $11,235).
The top ten stacks going into the penultimate day are:
- Rafal Michalowski – 632,000
- Markus Gonsalves – 502,000
- Trevor Pope – 465,00
- Ismael Bojang – 463,000
- David Vamplew – 452,000
- Tom Marchese – 446,000
- Joe Serock – 372,00
- Darryll Fish – 354,000
- Tony Gargano – 304,000
- Brian Rast – 270,000
The final 28 are back at 14:00 Vegas time today to play down to an eight handed final table which will hopefully (there have been some technical issues so far) be stream on WSOP.com. The players are all hoping to be the ones to pick up the bracelet and a cheque for $553,906
Event #3
The first of the lower open NLHE events started yesterday as well. The $1,000 buy in Event #3 had two opening streams, with players being able to re-enter Day 1b if they had busted from Day 1a.
We still haven’t got an exact count on the number of entries, but we know that we’re expecting to see these guys back at the table tomorrow: Carlos Mortensen (18,000), Michael Phelps (8,825) and Matt Glantz (18,800). We won’t be seeing Jason Mercier, Eugene Katchalov, Vanessa Selbst, or Greg Raymer, as they all busted out of the event.
The top 10 Chip Stacks are looking like this:
- Thiago Nishijima – 108,509
- Jerry Payne – 99,425
- Charles Sylvestre – 85,600
- Scott Seiver – 64,525
- Eric Hicks – 63,125
- Vladimir Geshkenbein – 60,000
- Caufman Talley – 56,525
- Thiagara Arumigam – 54,225
- Darren Shebell – 52,600
- Abraham Araya – 51,375
The players are back at 1pm PST (9pm UK) tomorrow, and is planned for a final table on Saturday.
We’ll be keeping you updated on all the big action from the 2013 WSOP here on FTR, and we’ll be back with a full update of today’s action in the morning.
