WSOP & WPT Tournament Blog

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First, let’s get up to speed on what has gone down during the 2010 WSOP over the past few days.

Event #3 was a $1,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em event which attracted a total of 4,345 entrants. The winner was Aadam Daya of Mississauga, Canada who beat Deepak Bhatti heads-up. Daya collected a total of $625,872 for his first place finish as well as winning his first WSOP gold bracelet. The runner up finisher received $385,106.

Event #5 was a $1,500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament which had a total of 2,092 players entered. The winner is Praz Bansi of London, United Kingdom who beat Vincent Jacques heads-up. Bansi received $515,501 for his first place finish and won his second WSOP gold bracelet. Other noteable in the money finishers include Dwyte Pilgrim who finished 21st, Chris Gregorian who finished 37th and Chad Brown who finished in 60th place.

Event #6 was a $5,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Shootout tournament which attracted a total of 358 players. The winner is Joshua Tieman of Lake Zurich, IL beat Neil Channing to win $441,692 for first place and a coveted WSOP gold bracelet. This event was full of top notch pros including Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Chris Ferguson, Barry Greenstein, Dario Minieri, Tom Dwan, and Chino Rheem.

Event #7 was a $2,500 buy-in 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball tournament which had a total of 291 players. The winner is Peter Gelencser from Hungary who won $180,730 for first place and won his first WSOP Gold bracelet. Gelencser beat Raphael Zimmerman heads-up to take down the title.

Event #8 is currently still in play and is at Level 24 with blinds at 15,000/30,000 and 4,000 ante. There are currently 10 players left at the dinner break. Here is a list of up to date chip counts:

Pascal LeFrancois – 4,000,000
Kevin Howe – 1,780,000
David Aue – 1,300,000
Max Steinberg – 900,000
Saar Wilf – 855,000
James Andersen – 665,000
Kurt Disessa – 651,000
Jose Gatmaitan – 640,000
Joshua Brikis – 375,000
Daniel Wjuniski – 350,000

Play for Event #8 will resume in approximately 30 minutes.

Event #9 is a $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em tournament which had 650 players entered. First place will pay $197,470. This tournament is currently into Day 2 at Level 15 and blinds are at 2,000/4,000. Twenty-four players remain. Here is a list of current chip counts:

James Dempsey 320,000
JJ Liu 295,000 140,000
Brandon Holmes 275,000
Joe Gotlieb 190,000
Joseph Williams 190,000
Julie Farkas 140,000
Joe Serock 140,000
James Lewis 115,000
Kenneth Krouner 112,000
Scott Haraden 103,000
Mark Babekov 100,000
Steve Chanthabouasy 100,000
Melissa Hayden 95,000
Clark Hamagami 75,000
Christian Harder 70,000
Armen Kara 70,000
John Kranyak 67,000
Chan Pelton 62,000
Stephen Simm 60,000
Stephen O’Dwyer 56,000
Edward Brogdon 55,000
Jason Alvarez 52,000
Daniel Burke 34,000
Gregg Wilkerson 31,000
Steve O’Dwyer 22,000
Bob Oxenberg 17,000

Event #10 is the $10,000 buy-in Seven Card Stud World Championship tournament. There was a total of 150 players entered and first place will pay $394,800. There are currently 48 players remaining on Day 2. Here is a list of current chip counts:

Ray Dehkharghani 275,000
Vladimir Schmelev 230,000
Eric Buchman 220,000
Max Pescatori 220,000
Yuval Bronshtein 175,000
John DAgostino 171,000
Michael Mizrachi 165,000
Edouard Mignot Bonnefous 160,000
Men Nguyen 155,000
Todd Barlow 130,000
Brandon Adams 120,000
Dario Alioto 115,000
Doyle Brunson 110,000
Nikolay Evdakov 105,000
Farshad Ben Cohen 105,000
Pat Pezzin 97,000
Joe Cassidy 95,000
Scott Seiver 93,000
Matt Glantz 90,000
Greg Mueller 90,000
Alexander Kostritsyn 90,000
Jean Gaspard 90,000
Andrew Black 72,000
Oleg Shamardin 71,000
Sirious Jamshidi 70,400
Robert Mizrachi 60,000
Brian Goddard 56,000
Dan Heimiller 55,800
Craig Neilan 51,000
Alfred Decarolis 50,000
Shane Douglas 45,100
Alan Dvorkis 44,000
Keith Sexton 42,000
Joseph Bunevith 41,100
Karen Mengden 40,600
John Racener 40,000
Steve Landfish 37,000
David Grey 37,000
Freddie Ellis 35,000
Hasan Habib 34,400
Marco Liesy 34,000
Aurangzeb Sheikh 33,000
Kevin Tang 30,100
Brett Richey 30,000
Joel Fischbein 29,100
John Monnette 29,000
Steve Billirakis 28,000
Pawel Andrzejwski 24,000
Refugio Quintero 21,800
Cory Zeidman 20,700
Daniel Negreanu 18,000
Kirill Gerasimov 18,000
Dan Kelly 12,000
Alessio Isaia 9,000
Dan Robison 8,300

Event #12 is a $1,500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament with a total of 625 entries. This event is currently at Day 1 and the blinds are at 75/150. There are 560 players remaining. Here is a list of the top ten in chips:

1 Vanessa Rousso 10,800
2 Chad Brown 10,100
3 Jimmy Fricke 8,500
4 Marco Traniello 8,000
5 Bill Chen 7,300
6 Maria Ho 7,300
7 Victor Ramdin 7,100
8 Rob Hollink 7,000
9 Justin Bonomo 6,800
10 Jeff Madsen 6,250

This event will pay $189,870 for first place.

Event #11 is a $1,500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament. There are 2,563 players entered and 808 players remain. This event is currently into Level 7 with blinds at 200/400 and a 50 ante. Here is a list of the top ten chip leaders:

1 Tom Dwan 56,000
2 Blair Hinkle 43,000
3 Brett Jungblut 38,000
4 Shaun Deeb 36,000
5 Nicholas Phillips 31,600
6 Jason Hammerman 31,000
7 Darryll Fish 30,000
8 Annette Obrestad 25,000
9 Joe Sebok 24,000
10 Michael Watson 23,400