Its the second shootout event of WSOP, you remember, right? That 3 round single table sit'n'go. This time, 1000 registered players would make 100 tables of 10. The winner of each table would advance to more 10 tables of ten, and the winners of each table would make the final table.
Of course, as always in most of the WSOP events, many great players were registered, but today I'm not naming them. One nice thing is that Raszi managed to advance to the 2nd round of the tournament. Statistically speaking he was also close to the final table of the tournament, he finished 3rd in his 2nd round table. First lost TT vs AKo by the worst way possible: a runner-runner straight using only the ace; and then ran 86s vs KK, and that was the hand of his elimination.
Nice run tho Raszi, best of luck next time! That was surelly really unfortunate and I'm sure he is very disappointed because by that time Raszi was playing for more than 14h, as the tournament started around 12pm and he was eliminated by 02am of the other day.
Final table
After day one lasted for 19h, the players rested a bit and came back at 14h (2pm) of the very same day. So it means they had 7h to go 'home' and come back to the final table.
And the final table, for spectators at least, was a very thrilling experience. It came very close to being a Rocky-story actually. Jason Young faced Michael Schwartz in the heads-up and it was all about fun.
They were almost exactly even in chips (5,070,000 vs 4,930,000 or something) when Schwartz limped and Young raised the blinds to 400,000 more. Schartz made the call.
Flop:
Young: bets 750,000
Schwartz: calls
Turn:
Young: I'm all in
Schwartz: stands up and walks around the table thinking. "I think you have AT, I call".
Young:
Schwartz:
River:
By then, Young starts to jump and celebrate like crazy, hug people, kiss the dealer, and even go after the bracelet. Buuut one of the tournament organizers said: "wait. Schwartz had you covered, he still has 150,000 chips".
Hell, that was not even enough to pay for the small blinds. People were probably saying "relax" to Young, but what happened in the following hands was bizarre. Schwartz pretty much "millionplied" it up!
He won in succession (all of them all in):
JTo vs A3o on J 4 6 T A
93o vs AQo on 4 3 8 K J
ATo vs A7o on 8 Q 2 4 2
By then Schwartz had 1,200,000 chips against Young 8,800,000.
After some more hands, Young raised all-in from the button and Schwartz snap called.
Schartz:
Young: ("oh shit" were his words)
Board:
After this hand Schwartz was very alive with 3.4 million chips, and Young's victory didn't look so sure anymore. You bet everyone had "omg" in their minds.
After some few hands, finally the final hand of the tournament, that could have decided everything:
Schwartz raises to 700,000 from the button, and Young reraises all in. Schwartz calls. It's 44 vs AJ.
Board:
That board killed all of Schwartz hopes of making one of the most awesome comebacks of the history of poker. Had he won that hand he would completely turn the chips around and would have held the chiplead after being down to 150,000 chips when his opponent had 9,850,000.
Young said "If I were to come that close to getting it and then lose it, I don’t even know what I would have done. I probably would have been burying myself in a room with bottles of booze for the next three or four days, at least." after the tournament. We are all sure of that haha.
That was an awesome heads-up I'm sure. At least it was probably the most thrilling I have followed.
Congratulations to Jason Young, he wins $335,565 for the 1st place, while Michael Schwartz earns $209,527 for the 'almost' comeback of the year.
The $2000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (in short: Omaha-8 or Omaha Hi/Lo) is one those events that can be either very interesting, or very boring to the general public. With Omaha being the second best known game (after Hold'em of course) it still has quite a decent crowd, especially compared to yesterday's Seven Card Stud event, although it still is a limit game. The unknown Andrew Brown (who says he is "best online PLO player nobody knows", easy to say when nobody knows the competition, and this isnt even Pot Limit we're playing here) is the chipleader.
The big story of the day was that of the shortest stack starting the day: "Big" Jim Pechac started with 2 chips of 1000 each, while blinds were 3000 and 6000! That's supposed to be certain elimination before the final table, but as lucky as Jim was (with less than a SB you'll need a lot of luck), he actually managed to finish 3rd!
At the final table, we saw another few familiar faces. Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke couldn't be missed, you know, the kid that lost to Gus Hansen in the 2007 Aussie Millions basically saying "I was the best, I pwned the shit out of Hansen and Andy Black, but didnt get any cards and Hansen kept flopping top pair and all that, while I get dealt crap". This time he was the first to bust out at the final table, so this time around, we won't have to listen to those kind of interviews:
The heads-up play was between Andrew Brown, who started the day as chipleader, and Ted Forrest. Brown stated in an interview that he thinks Ted Forrest is one of the 3 best players in the world (the other 2 being Barry Greenstein and Phil Ivey). At first, it seemed as though Ted Forrest was about to prove it, he started with a small chiplead, but it wasn't long before Brown gained more and more chips, eventually taking the lead. It went up and down, from Forrest to Brown, who eventually killed "The Hitman" with a clean shot between the eyes. Brown gained a massive chiplead and put the lights out for Ted Forrest when they got all-in, with 2 pair for Brown vs 1 pair for Forrest.
This means Andrew Brown wins his first bracelet, $226,483 and loses his selfpronounced title of "best online PLO player nobody knows". Maybe now he can get a haircut, before Norman Chad finds a well-deserved nickname for the guy.
Final results:
1 $ 226,483 Andrew Brown
2 $ 143,420 Ted Forrest
3 $ 88,065 Jim Pechac
4 $ 71,961 Soheil Shamseddin
5 $ 58,877 Kia Hooshmand
6 $ 46,297 Ralph Perry
7 $ 36,232 Scott Clements
8 $ 28,684 Allan Enciso
9 $ 21,135 Jimmy Fricke
I don't know if you remember when in event #1 (PL World Championship) we had a sick sick final table, with like 5 out of 9 players winning a million dollars. Well, in the final table of the $2500 NLHE event, it wasn't exactly like that! Some of the guys had their first live cash ever in that table, or at least their first big cash. Still, there were some good players like Buchanan (see pic) and Levi (thx daut) and if they are there is because they deserved, it's so hard to overcome a field like that, of over a thousand people and awesome players afterall.
One of those who were close to the final table was Jason Mercier, winner of the EPT San Remo this year, but he fell a little short of that, finishing 13rd.
Let's see how the final table started
Seat 1: Brent Hanks 755,000
Seat 2: Steve Merrifield 1,109,000
Seat 3: Shawn Buchanan 1,133,000
Seat 4: Duncan Bell 1,966,000
Seat 5: Jason Sanders 1,099,000
Seat 6: Nathan Doudney 113,000
Seat 7: Brent Ditzik 384,000
Seat 8: Nicolas Levi 233,000
Seat 9: Ariel Soffer 191,000
Well, to our surprise, the SMALLEST stack of the table didn't get eliminated soon, he finished 3rd!: Nathan Doudney, managed to work out his way up from the mere number of 113,000 chips! Thats what I call climb it up.
Duncan Bell managed to hold his chiplead during a very fast final table. It all lasted less than 4h. In the 73th hand of the day, during the heads-up, both players went all in, but Bell had AA while Merrifield had TT. No need to say he was waaaay behind and didn't get any help from the board.
So with this hand, Duncan Bell wins the #13 event of WSOP, his first bracelet and also his first big prize, in his first ever live final table. His prize was $666,777, while Merrifields consolation prize was the impressive amount of $428,949! Congratulations to the Players!
And yet another not-so-interesting event was about to start. It’s called a World Championship (with 10k buy-in), but it still is Seven Card Stud, not the event I was looking forward to to be honest, and neither were the other players, with only 158 entrants. Although the final table isn’t bad, maybe Erik Seidel can ship his 9th bracelet, or maybe we’ll see David Oppenheim winning his first? Chipleader is Alexander Kostristsyn (say wut?), a 21yo Russian kid who beat the crap out of Erik Seidel in the Aussie Millions, maybe we’ll see some sweet revenge this time? Maybe it could get interesting after all? Ah, well, we’ll see. These are the ones starting the final table:
Seat 1: David Oppenheim (Las Vegas, Nevada) 508,000
Seat 2: Alexander Kostritsyn (Moscow, Russia) 495,000
Seat 3: Jim Paluszek (Bensalem, Pennslyvania) 413,000
Seat 4: Erik Seidel (Las Vegas, Nevada) 273,000
Seat 5: Vassilios Lazarou (Las Vegas, Nevada) 259,000
Seat 6: Minh Ly (Las Vegas, Nevada) 424,000
Seat 7: Fu Wong (Chandler, Arizona) 429,000
Seat 8: Eric Brooks (Bryn Mawr, Pennslyvania) 359,000
As you can see we started this event with 8 players because those were the rules for this event, unfortunately, otherwise we’d have seen Phil Ivey here as well, he got busted just before the final table at 9th place. Daniel Negreanu was close as well, finishing 11th, but hey, we’ll have to do with these 8.
Anyway, not much interesting stuff going on, a few double-ups and trippleups, a few bustouts, nothing special. Minh Ly gets quads in a 3way pot but doesn’t get any money in the pot because it’s checked down all the way, no bets from the opponents and because it’s a limit-game not much action does evolve. Kostritsyn seems to have the better of Erik Seidel once again, and play goes on in the same dull fashion as we’ve seen before, lots of times one player gets a decent hand, the rest just folds.
I guess I’m not the only one not that fond of Stud: there were about 15 to 20 people in total watching the heads-up! Not many were interested in a Fu Wong vs Eric Brooks fight (lol, that sounds like a scene from a bad Jean-Claude van Damme movie (the word “bad” could have been left out, did he ever make a good movie? )):
A limit heads-up stage isn’t that exciting to watch, and Stud isn’t the most popular game either, so that doesn’t help either. Eric Brooks was chipleader and there wasn’t much of a comeback in the script for Fu Wong, he got crippled and later knocked out, when he failed to catch a full house against the flush of Eric Brooks. This means Brooks wins his first bracelet (it’s actually his first cash at all), but he doesn’t get a penny from it. He has said he’ll donate all his winnings ($415,856 ) to the Decision Education Foundation (DEF), “whose mission it is to teach the science of decision making to youth in grades K through 12”! You won’t be seeing Brooks in a shiny new Porsche any time soon I guess. Nice gesture man!
This screenshot is taken from the DEF-website. DEF in action:
$415,856 coming their way thanks to Eric Brooks!
Final results:
1st... $415,856 - Eric Brooks
2nd... $259,910 - Fu Wong
3rd... $163,372 - Alexander Kostritsyn
4th... $118,816 - Minh Ly
5th... $92,825 - Erik Seidel
6th... $74,260 - Jim Paluszek
7th... $59,408 - David Oppenheim
8th... $48,269 - Vassilios Lazarou
Event 12, the $1500 Limit Hold’em event started this day with 18 players. While it was planned that we’d play the final 9 this day, it didn’t happen because play didn’t conclude fast enough to have reduced the field of 179 at day 2 to 9 on day 3. This means we have 2 final tables, with Vinny Vinh as chipleader, and Erick Lindgren as best known competitor of the event:
Table 14:
Seat 1: Teddy Monroe (Washington, DC) 40.000
Seat 2: Arash Beral (Los Angeles, California) 14.000
Seat 3: Brendan Taylor (Pasadena, California) 240.000
Seat 4: Zachary Henderson (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada) 98.000
Seat 5: Markus Golser (Austria) 135.000
Seat 6: Steve Foutty (Santa Rosa, California) 21.000
Seat 7: Ali Eslami (Los Angeles, California) 208.000
Seat 8: John O'Brien (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 163.000
Seat 9: Joseph Sanders (Lima, Peru) 173.000
After a very long and demanding day 2 players got back and when the first player went out in the first hand, it promised to be a short walk to the final 9. Players went out relatively quickly, most due to being shortstacked and being forced all-in, which isn’t much of a surprise in limit hold’em. Last one to go out before the final table was Erick Lindgren, when he was committed after posting the big blind he got all-in with , calling Markus Golser’s raise who held pocket kings. No help and Lindgren was out 9th. The following final table emerged:
1. Vinny Vinh
2. Teddy 'Iceman' Monroe
3. Markus Golser
4. Ali Eslami
5. Brendan Taylor
6. Jimmy Shultz
7. Chung Law
8. Christoph Niesert
9. Zac Fellows
Teddy “The Iceman” Monroe (you might have recognized him from his annoying tv-table appearance at the Main Event last year) started the day as the shortstack, but managed to hold on to his stack and expand it, until he got all-in against a made flush, finishing 5th. The chipleader starting the day, Vinny Vinh, did a little better, but when he pushed his last money on the table with nothing, he got called by Jimmy Schultz’s middle pair and was out 3rd.
As is accustomed with limit poker, the heads-up did take quite a long time, almost 2 hours before the final hand of the night was played. Zac Fellows got short on chips when he got his money in preflop against Jimmy Schultz: Fellows’ was ahead to Schultz’s . The gave Schultz hope: made him a lot of outs for his flush or higher pair, and the on the turn gave him even more outs because another queen could give him a higher 2 pair (a 7 would split the pot). One of the many outs hit when the was dealt on the table, and that meant Jimmy Schultz wins his first bracelet and $257.105 . 25% of this price will go to the Charlestown Fire Department! Zac Fellows has to settle with the 2nd place, and $165,165.
The $5000 NLHE Shootout event is one of those new events of the WSOP. It's basically a single table tournament. You beat your table and then move to another with the winners of other tables. This tournament started with 360 players. So it means they formed 36 tables of 10 players, and the winner of each would make 6 tables of 6 players, and the winners of those tables would be the ones seating at the final table. So, in short words, its a 3 rounds single table sng.
The prizepool for this tournament is $1,692,000, and the winner gets $477,990. The tournament paid for the last 36. So, every 1st round winner was in the money already. As you can imagine, LOTS of great players signed up. I'll start with two LPers, rainkhan and frinkx, and then the others Durrr, Nenad Medic, Antonius, Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth, Seidel, Matusow, and a lot more, believe me.
Frinkx, aka Evan McNiff, was the winner of his table, so it means he advanced to the 2nd round and guaranteed himself some cash. As you can read in his blog, he was in the same table as Steve Billirakis (MrSmokey1) and Andy Bloch. Khan, on the other hand, didn't have much luck and was eliminated still in the first round.
Most of the great pros I mentioned were out during day 1, some few like Seidel, and Isaac Haxton made it through tho.
On day 2, this was Evan's table:
1 Evan McNiff 2 John Murphy 3 Eugene Katchalov 4 Thomas Roupe 5 Joe Sebok 6 William Palmer
But well, he was the 2nd eliminated on his table. First he lost a lot of chips when he went all-in (but had Joe Sebok covered) with . Sebok had , and sadly for Frinkx, the flop gifted a straight to Sebok, with . And then, some hands later, he was eliminated with A4 vs AK . He believed that 6handed favoured him more than fullring, but things didn't work out his way. Anyway, he earned a little bit less than $17,000 for advancing to the 2nd round. Congratulations Evan!
On day 3, that was the final table. Everyone started with 1,000,000 chips.
Seat 1: Greg Mueller
Seat 2: Thomas Roupe
Seat 3: Phillip Tom
Seat 4: Leo Wolpert
Seat 5: Timothy West
Seat 6: Sirous Jamshidi
Phillip Tom was the winner of that table and won his first bracelet! That was also his 4th cash at the world series of poker. Two last year and two this year. Second place went to Greg Mueller, that with the prize ($298,000) managed to break the $1,000,000 mark in prizes. Nice accomplishment, eh?
It's impressive how some of the guys who are expected to do good at the WSOP are really living up to the expectation.
Durrr for example. He is considered by many one of the best poker players out there, and wsop.com even named him as the #1 young player to look out for. It's his first world series, and we barely started the series and Durrr has already a final table under his belt. He finished 7th at the event #8, the World Championship mixed event, earning $67,680 for that one. Given his usual results, we surely can expect a better result from him during the wsop this year. The man has 5 $60k+ cashes in the last 7 months, including 3 $150k+ cashes.
I can't forget the lper James Mackey, aka mig.com, who already got a bracelet last year, and came very close to winning his second bracelet this year. Mig played in the same event as Durrr, the World Championship Mixed Event, and got an outstanding result, as he finished 2nd for $297,792. The tournament was filled with awesome players. In the top20 you could see Eli Elezra, Jeff Madsen, Gus Hansen, Johnny Chan, Durrr and Mig. Mixed is, as the name suggests, a big mix of many games: NLHE, LHE, PLO, O8, Stud, Stud 8, Razz and 2-7 triple draw.
Besides those two guys, there is, of course, Jeff Williams, aka "YellowSub86". He won the EPT grand final back in 2006, when he was like 20. He had to wait until this year to finally be allowed a seat at the world series. Now he is here and he got a brilliant start. Jeff Williams came in 2nd at the Event 5, the NLHE with Rebuys, and got $406,330 in his first WSOP final table. Williams is one of those great guys we always expect to do great.
One of the big guys we are sadly not going to see this year is CardPlayer's online player of the year 2007 Isaac Baron. He makes 21 EXACTLY 1 week after the start of the Main Event. Baron, aka the guru11, is widely considered among the very very best of the game, and he proved that by finishing this year's EPT grandfinal in 4th place. Other player we are not seeing is Maxime Villamure, aka beepbeepimajeep on FTP. He also had a great start this year, when he finished 3rd at the EPT Monte Carlo, one position ahead of Baron.
We are definitely going to see more great results from these guys who are popping everywhere.
Now the coverage to the event 9 of this year's World Series of Poker. Take a look at the final table:
John Conkright 997,000
Michiel Brummelhuis 883,000
Rep Porter 732,000
Nathan Templeton 449,000
Devin Porter 357,000
Anthony Shilyuk 310,000
Leading to this final table, the most successful player was clearly Devin Porter, as he had already two WSOP final tables and two major cashes at tournaments like Mirage Poker Showdown and the Ultimatebet Poker classic.
The other good guy was Ralph "Rep" Porter, who has a little story with the WSOP, had three cashes in last year's WSOP, including a cash in the main event. All the others were not very known in the poker scene.
The final table, even with only 6 guys, took more than eight hours to finish. It was a long day for anyone who wanted that bracelet. The winner of the whole event was Rep Porter. He was running good since day 1, when he was one of the 10 chipleaders by the end of that day. On day two, he was the only one of those 10 Day 1 leaders who made it to the final table. So there is no one deserving that bracelet more than he did. 2nd place was Nathan Templeton, who played a really brief heads-up with him. It didn' last more than 5 hands. In the final hand, Porter had KQo, that managed to hold against Tepmleton's K9o.
Congrat's to Rep Porter, it was also his second in the money finish in this world series. He won his first bracelet and earned $372,843. There are lots of first time bracelet winners this year, we all hope they keep coming
One of the less interesting events for the general public: the $2500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better (Event 10) had his final table played yesterday. Chipleader starting the day was Farzad Rouhani. He has already been in this kind of spot before, finishing 2nd 2 years ago, and he’ll only be satisfied with the first place. The best known player and favourite for the title must have been Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi.
Seat 1- Yueqi Zhu - 87,000
Seat 2- Tom Chambers - 235,000
Seat 3- Greg Pappas - 304,000
Seat 4- Michael Mizrachi - 231,000
Seat 5- Daniel Mowczan - 122,000
Seat 6- John Racener - 180,000
Seat 7- John Cernuto - 285,000
Seat 8- Farzad Rouhani - 513,000
Zhu was the first player to double up, on the very first hand he managed to beat John Racener on Omaha-8, virtually swapping chipstacks because of it. Suprisingly Michael Mizrachi was the first to bust out, he didn’t manage to catch a low on the river during Stud-8, and he couldn’t beat Zhu’s pair of sixes either.
Farzad Rouhani was dominating the table with his aggressive play, increasing his chiplead and busting out players on the way. However, when he got heads-up with Tom Chambers he switched gears a bit and let him do the betting, while still keeping the chiplead and actually gaining more chips from it. On the last hand of the evening, Rouhani limps in preflop during Omaha-8, Chambers raises. Rouhani makes the call and the flop brings . Chambers bets and Rouhani raises and they get all-in on the flop. Chambers shows: , way behind Rouhani’s 3-of-a-kind: . With the turn bringing an it, the river doesn’t help Chambers: the makes quads for Farzad Rouhani, who wins the event, his first bracelet and $232,911 !
Final results:
1. Farzad Rouhani - $232,911
2. Tom Chambers - $142,784
3. John Cernuto - $86,117
4. Yueqi "Rich" Zhu - $63,807
5. Gregory Pappas - $48,190
6. John Racener - $37,481
7. Daniel Mowczan - $28,557
8. Michael Mizrachi - $24,095
As it happens in every No Limit Holdem tournament, many people signed up for this tournament. More than 1200 players, making it a huge and important tournament. All those players made created a nice prizepool of $1,687,040, with a first prize of $372,843. Nice to note that this is a six-players-table tournament, and aggressiveness plays a really important role here.
Day 1 could be named fast and furious, The 1236 players were reduced to the number of 71! Among those eliminated were Antonio "the magician" Esfandianri, one of the internet best Sorel Mizzi aka imper1um or zangbezang24, and bracelet winner Erick Lindgren.
Day 2 started with the following players on the chiplead:
Matt Matros 156,600
Rep Porter 137,200
Thomas Fuller 110,200
Peter Marr 104,700
Avery Cardoza 99,300
Zachary Clark 94,000
William Mikolay 87,000
Jonas Danielsson 83,900
Tom Braband 82,700
Dave Zand 82,300
In day 2 the plan was obviously to eliminate 65 players, so there would be only the 6 finalists. Just out of curiosity, from this chipleading top10 list after day 1, only the most successful player of them, Rep Porter, got to be in the final table. He has a handful of important results in his career, including a cash finish in the main event of last years WSOP.
Day 2 happened pretty fast. They had eliminated 59 players, so, 12 left, in just some hours, sooner than expected for the usual poker tournament. When there were 7 players alive, they decided to make it 7handed, so the 7 guys left played in a single table, instead of two with 4 and 3. The first to be eliminated would obviously be the final table bubble boy. And the one who burst the table was Kevin MacPhee. He lost his stack in two hands. First when his pocket eights lost against John Conkright queens, and right after when his J8 lost against kings. Yes, this time the favourites held well. MacPhee earned $36,442 for the 7th place.
After this elimination they ended the day, so check out the chipcount leading to the final table:
John Conkright 997,000
Michiel Brummelhuis 883,000
Rep Porter 732,000
Nathan Templeton 449,000
Devin Porter 357,000
Anthony Shilyuk 310,000
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("oh shit" were his words)
Congratulations to Jason Young, he wins $335,565 for the 1st place, while Michael Schwartz earns $209,527 for the 'almost' comeback of the year.
The $2000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (in short: Omaha-8 or Omaha Hi/Lo) is one those events that can be either very interesting, or very boring to the general public. With Omaha being the second best known game (after Hold'em of course) it still has quite a decent crowd, especially compared to yesterday's Seven Card Stud event, although it still is a limit game. The unknown Andrew Brown (who says he is "best online PLO player nobody knows", easy to say when nobody knows the competition, and this isnt even Pot Limit we're playing here) is the chipleader. 
I don't know if you remember when in event #1 (PL World Championship) we had a sick sick final table, with like 5 out of 9 players winning a million dollars. Well, in the final table of the $2500 NLHE event, it wasn't exactly like that! Some of the guys had their first live cash ever in that table, or at least their first big cash. Still, there were some good players like Buchanan (see pic) and Levi (thx daut) and if they are there is because they deserved, it's so hard to overcome a field like that, of over a thousand people and awesome players afterall.
And yet another not-so-interesting event was about to start. It’s called a World Championship (with 10k buy-in), but it still is Seven Card Stud, not the event I was looking forward to to be honest, and neither were the other players, with only 158 entrants. Although the final table isn’t bad, maybe Erik Seidel can ship his 9th bracelet, or maybe we’ll see David Oppenheim winning his first? Chipleader is Alexander Kostristsyn (say wut?), a 21yo Russian kid who beat the crap out of Erik Seidel in the Aussie Millions, maybe we’ll see some sweet revenge this time? Maybe it could get interesting after all? Ah, well, we’ll see. These are the ones starting the final table:
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Event 12, the $1500 Limit Hold’em event started this day with 18 players. While it was planned that we’d play the final 9 this day, it didn’t happen because play didn’t conclude fast enough to have reduced the field of 179 at day 2 to 9 on day 3. This means we have 2 final tables, with Vinny Vinh as chipleader, and Erick Lindgren as best known competitor of the event:
, calling Markus Golser’s raise who held pocket kings. No help and Lindgren was out 9th. The following final table emerged:
Teddy “The Iceman” Monroe (you might have recognized him from his annoying tv-table appearance at the Main Event last year) started the day as the shortstack, but managed to hold on to his stack and expand it, until he got all-in against a made flush, finishing 5th. The chipleader starting the day, Vinny Vinh, did a little better, but when he pushed his last money on the table with nothing, he got called by Jimmy Schultz’s middle pair and was out 3rd. 
was ahead to Schultz’s 
made him a lot of outs for his flush or higher pair, and the 
. Sebok had 
, and sadly for Frinkx, the flop gifted a straight to Sebok, with 
. He believed that 6handed favoured him more than fullring, but things didn't work out his way. Anyway, he earned a little bit less than $17,000 for advancing to the 2nd round. Congratulations Evan!
One of the less interesting events for the general public: the $2500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better (Event 10) had his final table played yesterday. Chipleader starting the day was Farzad Rouhani. He has already been in this kind of spot before, finishing 2nd 2 years ago, and he’ll only be satisfied with the first place. The best known player and favourite for the title must have been Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi.
, way behind Rouhani’s 3-of-a-kind: 
it, the river doesn’t help Chambers: the 
makes quads for Farzad Rouhani, who wins the event, his first bracelet and $232,911 !
In day 2 the plan was obviously to eliminate 65 players, so there would be only the 6 finalists. Just out of curiosity, from this chipleading top10 list after day 1, only the most successful player of them, Rep Porter, got to be in the final table. He has a handful of important results in his career, including a cash finish in the main event of last years WSOP.
