It really is a wonder that there is room enough at the Rio to house all these tournaments of the 2014 World Series of Poker. Five bracelets were awarded this weekend and in addition to those events, four more tournaments began and have yet to finish going into Monday. Let’s take a look at the action in store for us today:
Event #31 – $1,500 No- Limit Hold’em – Day Two
Just fifteen players remain in yet another $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event, all vying for the $418,435 first prize. Matt “All In At 420” Stout, one of the world’s top online tournament players, is gunning for his first WSOP bracelet, having come very close on a couple occasions (second and third place finishes in previous Series). He rose to the chip lead on literally the last hand of the night, when after a flop of 2-4-5, he had Alessandro Bardaro all-in. Stout was in command, holding 5-5 against Bardaro’s J-J. Bardaro couldn’t get lucky and Stout raked in a pot worth close to a million chips while Barardo hit the rail in 16th place.
1. Matt Stout – 1,130,000
2. Aleksandr Gofman – 951,000
3. Brett Shaffer – 812,000
4. Eric Spitzer – 674,000
5. Peter Gould – 639,000
6. Ronald Sullivan – 537,000
7. Steven Mcnally – 463,000
8. Robert Schmidt – 442,000
9. Jason Vanstrom – 422,000
10. Rajaee Wazwaz – 359,000
11. Jim Jakobsen – 350,000
12. Kyle Weir – 181,000
13. Michael Souza – 167,000
14. Bryan Reisner – 133,000
15. Jonathan Kedj – 83,000
Event #32 – $10,000 Six-Handed No- Limit Hold’em – Day Two
The final day of the $10,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em event may be the most interesting, as the remaining field of 13 is chock-full of strong players. Max Silver leads the way with 1,270,000 chips, followed by Hiren Patel, who has already made a final table in the 2014 WSOP, with 1,056,000. Also stil alive are 2009 WSOP Main Event Champion Joe Cada, one-time bracelet winner and 2012 November Niner Jeremy Ausmus, the prolific JC Tran, two-time bracelet winner and WPT champ Scott Clements, 2014 WSOP bracelet winner George Danzer, and names that hearken back to the golden age of televised poker, Layne Flack and Erick Lindgren.
1. Max Silver – 1,270,000
2. Hiren Patel – 1,056,000
3. Joe Cada – 794,000
4. Kyle White – 732,000
5. Jeremy Ausmus – 612,000
6. Dario Sammartino – 551,000
7. JC Tran – 527,000
8. Scott Clements – 477,000
9. George Danzer – 329,000
10. Layne Flack – 325,000
11. Martin Jacobson – 297,000
12. Erick Lindgren – 253,000
13. Lee Markholt – 209,000
Event #33 – $1,000 No- Limit Hold’em – Day One
Another edition of a $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em event kicked off Sunday with 1,688 players sitting down at the tables, creating a $1,519,200 prize pool and a payout of $288,744 to the winner. With 171 spots being paid, the money was already reached on Day One, as just 115 players remain going into Monday’s action. Gualter Salles leads the field with 170,000 chips.
1. Gualter Salles – 170,000
2. Sebastien Comel – 151,300
3. Brad Libson – 127,400
4. Vinny Pahuja – 121,200
5. Shelby Standley – 117,700
6. Goran Mandic – 110,000
7. Sean Jazayeri – 101,300
8. Will Givens – 97,700
9. Dutch Boyd – 93,600
10. Jonas Wexler – 88,000
Event #34 – $1,500 Seven Card Stud – Day One
The other tournament to begin yesterday was $1,500 Seven Card Stud, which garnered just 345 entrants. That’s not all that unexpected, though, considering the large gap in popularity between stud and No-Limit Hold’em. This is the only Seven Card Stud tournament this year that is of the “high only” variety. Steve Sung, who has won two WSOP bracelets in his career to go along with a number of other final table finishes, is the chip leader with 69,000 chips. As seems to be the case a lot this summer, the chip leader got there very late, hitting a full house to win a very large three-way pot as the night was coming to a close. He needed it, too, as two players – Will Thompson and Bryan Campanello – also have over 60,000 chips.
1. Steve Sung – 69,000
2. Will Thompson – 67,500
3. Bryan Campanello – 63,300
4. Brian Hastings – 58,500
5. John D’Agostino – 55,100
6. Carolyn Gardner – 53,800
7. Bryn Kenney – 45,000
8. Steve Albini – 43,800
9. Scott Bohlman – 42,500
10. Marcel Luske – 38,500
Two more tournaments – $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold’em and $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball – will begin Monday.
