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WSOP Daily Update 31st May, 2013

by | Jun 1, 2013 | Poker News, WSOP

The 31st of May 2013 saw the third day of action in the 2013 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, but we didn’t see any bracelets awarded. The next titles are going to be won later today, and will be in tomorrow’s update.

Event #2

The $5,000 8-Max Event #2 has played down to the final table from the 481 players who started Day 3.

Day 1 chip leader, Tom Marchese was eliminated in 10th after his AK couldn’t get there against Armstrong’s pair of eights. The big story of the day was the size of Trevor Pope’s stack at the end of play. With more than half of the chips in play Pope’s lead look un assailable, but the quality of the final eight is going to be a barrier to him getting his hands on the jewellery.

The final eight includes a Former EPT London Winner in David Vamplew, who is going to be anything but a push over sitting join second in chips.

The Final eight look like this going into the last day of action, with the blinds at 12k/24k-4k:

  1. Trevor Pope – 3,420,000
  • =2. David Vamplew – 629,000
  • =2. Jared Humby – 629,000
    1. Dan Kelly – 625,000
    2. Brandon Meyers – 595,000
    3. Jaime Armstrong – 451,000
    4. David peters – 435,000
    5. Darryll Fish – 432,000

    Every player has locked up at least $48,130, but top prize is $553,906, and they all have to be looking towards that. The players are back in their seats at 2pm Vegas time, and will play down to the winner. The table should be streamed on WSOP.com.

    Event #3

    Day 2 of the $1,000 NLHE Event #3 saw 581 players return to the Rio to play down towards, and through the bubble. With 324 paid, it didn’t take long to get people in the money, but overnight chip leader, Thiago Nishijima wasn’t amongst them. those who did make the cash include the winner of the re-entry event last year Ashkan Razavi ($2,619), Erick Lindgren ($2,335) and Kenny Nguyen ($9,283).

    The 38 players coming back tomorrow are hopefully playing down to a winner, and the top ten stacks in the room are:

    1. Seth Berger – 994,000
    2. Ryan Olisar – 815,000
    3. Charles Sylvestre – 787,000
    4. Ping Liu – 475,000
    5. Vladimir Geshkenbein – 400,000
    6. James Matteucci – 383,000
    7. Nam Le – 361,000
    8. Travis Wiedower – 354,000
    9. Jia Liu – 351,000
    10. Garrick Lau – 346,000

    The players are back looking for the $491,360 1st prize at 13:00 local time tomorrow, and the final table will most likely make one of the live streams.

    Event #4

    Day 1 of the $1,500 6-Max Event #4 saw past Main Event winners stick their head above the parapet, and manage to not get them shot off. 2009 Main Event Champion, Joe Cada, is sitting second in chips overnight with 127,000, while 2010 Main Event Champ Jonathan Duhamel is sitting with 45,200.

    Names who started, but could finish the day include Daniel Negreanu, Marvin Rettenmaier, Jason Mercier, and Jake Cody. The top ten stacks still in play are as follows:

    1. Greg hobson – 160,500
    2. Joe Cada – 127,000
    3. Keven Stammen – 112,800
    4. Lee Gaines – 103,000
    5. Stewart Newman – 101,500
    6. Evan Michelson – 100,700
    7. Sean Stevens – 99,100
    8. Jesse Yaginuma – 96,100
    9. Gnatenki Oleksander – 91,000
    10. Matthew Silva – 90,700

    Play is starting again at 1PM local time, and the field will play through the bubble, with the plan to play the final table on Sunday. First place will take $324,764 and the bracelet home as a keep sake.

    Event #5

    Being the first non Hold’em event of the year, the $2,500 Omaha/Seven Stud Hi/Lo 8 or better is a bit of a mouthful. 350 people entered the event, and 178 made it into Day 2. Some of the notable fallen included Jason Mercier, Vanessa Selbst, Phil Ivey and Scotty Nguyen. However, Mike Matusow (29,200), Todd Brunson (20,900, showing the Brunson flag after Doyle decided not to play the WSOP this year) and Eli Elezra (38,700) all made it into the second day.

    The Top Ten big stacks  are:

    1. Matthew Aston – 57,800
    2. Mike Gorodinsky – 47,100
    3. Andrew Kelsall – 39,900
    4. Eli Elezra – 38,700
    5. Zimnan Ziyard – 37,100
    6. Lawrence Fujii – 36,300
    7. Men Nguyen – 35,200
    8. Andrew Brown – 34,100
    9. Artem Litvinov – 33,700
    10. Farzad Bonyadi – 33,300

    The players are due to play down to a final table during Day 2, and play that out on Sunday. The action kicks off at 2pm Vegas time.

    From here on in, the action really hots up in Las Vegas, and the bracelets will be handed out thick and fast. FTR will be bringing you all the big action, so come back to check it out.