The sixth day of the 2013 World Series of Poker from Las Vegas didn’t see any final tables, but only because Event #6 has had an extra day added due to a higher than expected turn out.
Event #6
The 6300 entry $1,500 “Millionaire Maker” has broken all the records, and we’re down to the final ten players, all vying for the $1,199,104 first prize.
Players not returning include John Eames (99th for $8,563) Jonathan Aguiar (55th for $17,725) and Bart Hanson (16th for $51,292)
The players left going for the big prize have chips that stack up like this:
- Benny Chen – 5,865,000
- Dan Kelly – 4,130,000
- Justin Liberto – 3,800,000
- Chris Hunichen – 3,430,000
- Robert McVeigh – 3,175,000
- Michael Bennington – 2,995,000
- Jonathan Gray – 2,745,000
- Joe Kuether – 1,365,000
- Theron Eichenberger – 595,000
- Upeshka Desilva – 550,000
The blinds will be at 40k/80k with a 10k ante when the players return at 13:00 Vegas time.
Event #7
Day 2 of the $1,000 NLHE Event #7 also saw it play down to a final ten from the 148 starting the day. Matt Waxman was lucky to get to the final table with as many chips as he did after a harsh floor ruling in a hand for Angel Pagan. Pagen had shoved over Koon’s opening raise, and as he was moving his chips over the line, the dealer mistakenly mucked his cards even as several of the players tried to stop him. The floor was called, and ruled the hand dead, which while harsh for Pagen, is consistent with previous rulings at WSOP Events. Pagen had to pay Koon’s opening bet, and the action continued with Waxman making the call from the small blind. The flop came 4
5
6
. Waxman check/called Koon’s c-bet, and they both checked the 5 turn and the 8 river. Koon showed 43 for a flopped pair of fours, and Waxman mucked. Pagen was asked what he had,and if he would have won. Pagen replied “Yeah, I had Queens.” Waxman admitted “I got lucky, I was going to shove behind and I’d have lost.”
The final ten go into the final day with these stacks:
- Amit Makhija – 1,101,000
- Jess Dioquino – 921,000
- Matt Waxman – 892,000
- Jason Koon – 692,000
- Brent Hanks – 533,000
- Tuu Ho – 419,000
- Eric Baldwin – 348,000
- Robert Dreyfuss – 297,000
- Jacob Jung – 240,000
- Scott Yelton – 167,000
Action starts again at 1pm in the Amazon Room of the Rio, and they will play down to a winner.
Event #8
The $2,500 Eight game Mix Event #8 enters it’s final day with 19 players left to fight it out for the bracelet. The field is missing a lot of the more recognisable names, as Phil Ivey, Vanessa Selbst, David Williams. Greg Raymer and Andy Bloch (34th for $4,784) aren’t going to be back for Day 3.
The tops stacks making their way back to the tables for the final action are:
- Marco Johnson – 354,300
- Steven Wolansky – 321,400
- Chris Tryba – 287,800
- Dario Alioto – 261,400
- Greg Mueller – 258,200
- Michael hurey – 213,300
- Robert Mizrachi – 157,000
- Michael Malm – 135,100
- Benjamin Pollak – 133,000
- Randy Ohel – 120,600
The cards are back in the air at 14:00 PST and the action will continue until just one is left standing.
Event #9
Shootouts are always a slightly strange big Event structure, and it can be argued that the winner of a shootout is either the luckiest guy in the room, or the most skilled. I tend to go with the latter. Event #9 is the $3,000 Event for this year’s WSOP, and we have 60 coming back to play down to the final table tomorrow. They’ll be playing 6-Max to bring up a final table of ten. Players to keep your eye on include Victor Ramdin, Brandon Cantu and Nick Binger.
There was some controversy earlier in the day when Kevin MacPhee turned up at his seat, only to find someone had been playing his chips, burning half through his stack! It was an honest mistake it seems, and MacPhee appears to have been happy with the resolution.
Not upset about the situation at all… just think it was an interesting spot.Ty for the explanation @wsoptd & you made the correct ruling
— Kevin MacPhee (@KevinMacPhee) June 3, 2013
The shootouts commence at 13:00 Vegas time.
Event #10
The $1,500 Limit Hold’Em Event #10 seems to have proved that the limit game isn’t dead yet. With players in the field including Jason Mercier, Scott Seiver, Randy “Nanonoko” Lew, Justin Bonomo, Phil Hellmuth and Barry Greenstein. Unfortunately none of these players made it through the first day, but others including Daniel Negreanu, Todd Brunson, Bryan Devonshire and Terrence Chan are all coming back for a second day of min-bet poker.
The big stacks going into Day 2 are:
- Miguel Proulx – 45,100
- Chiduziem obi – 40,800
- William James – 40,400
- Steve Gee – 29,800
- Kyle Zartman – 35,000
- Nick Schulman – 31,800
- Kevin Macphee – 28,700
- Eric Froelich – 28,400
- Larry Wright – 27,600
- John Monnette – 27,300
The action from the penultimate day commences at 2pm from Las Vegas.
Player of the Year
The player of the Year race is starting to hot up, and after five results have been confirmed we can start to bring you the table of the top runners so far. Daniel Negreanu is leading after his performance in the WSOP APAC but I’d expect that to be challenged as we get further into the series.
- Daniel Negreanu – 427.15
- Charles Sylvestre – 260.00
- Daniel Marton – 252.00
- Trevor Pope – 240.00
- Bryan Piccioli – 211.50
- John Beauprez – 190.00
- Mike Gorodinsky – 187.50
- Seth Berger – 182.00
- Winfred Yu – 180.00
- David Vamplew – 168.00
We’ll be back with more coverage from the Amazon Room of the Rio Casino tomorrow with final table reports from Evebt #6, Event #7 and Event #8, as well as a round up of all the action from the other events from the day’s play.
Keep an eye on the @FTR_Poker_News twitter account for breaking news, and we’ll keep you up to date with all the need to know action from the WSOP.
