The WSOP 2013

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Event #23: Seven Card Stud

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $559,650
Entries: 246
Remaining: 106

Day 1 of Event #23: $2,500 Seven-Card Stud has come to a close. A small, but stout field of 246 competitors took to the felt today, and it was Adam Friedman who proved to be the player soaring the highest at day's end. Friedman, who won the $5,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo event last year, bagged up a field-leading 48,300 in chips.

Following not too far behind on Friedman's heels are Freddie Ellis, winner of the $10,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud in 2009, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, winner of the $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Championship in 2011, Rex Clinkscales and Mike Leah. Outside of that group of players, Gary Benson, David Chiu, Greg Raymer, Daniel Negreanu, David Bach, Bill Chen, Andrey Zaichenko and Cyndy Violette.

On the flip side of the coin, Jason Mercier, Phil Ivey, Sam Grizzle, Joe Cassidy, David "Bakes" Baker and Barry Greenstein were all eliminated.

While some great poker was played today, much of the news came from just before play. The World Series of Poker honored the late and great Dr. Jerry Buss with a few special words from WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel and poker pro Chad Brown. Then, an extremely special "shuffle up and deal" announcement was given via video by none other than Kobe Bryant to kick things off. A special framed photo of Buss was placed behind an honorary stack next to Ivey's seat to begin the day, and there were a lot of warm feelings in the room as the players exchanged stories throughout the day about Buss and his love for the game of poker.

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Event #21: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed

    Buy-in: $3,000
    Prizepool: $2,205,840
    Entries: 807

Matt Stout and Martin Finger are currently Heads Up

David Pham finished 4th, Erik Seidel 8th,Dan Kelly 10th

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Event #22: Pot-Limit Omaha

    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $1,378,350
    Entries: 1,022

At the final table led by Noah Schwartz

Chris Brammer finished 29th, Richard Ashby 52nd

Other UK cashers were Alex Lindop and Ross Boatman

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Event #23: Seven Card Stud


    Buy-in: $2,500
    Prizepool: $559,650
    Entries: 246
    Remaining: 11

Liverpool's Matthew Ashton is on course for is third final table of this WSOP, and is 5/11 currently with the likes of Scott Seiver and Michael Mizrachi still in

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Event #24: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $2,336,850
    Entries: 1,731
    Remaining: 200

Difficult to say for sure but it looks like the following UK players are still in

Roberto Romanello
Rupert Elder

Those in the top 30 or so include

Paul Wasicka   
Eric Baldwin
Jeff Madsen   
Sorel Mizzi   
Dominik Nitsche   
Sam Stein
Jonathan Aguiar   
Kevin MacPhee      
Ludovic Lacay   
Timothy Adams   
Antonio Esfandiari   
Erick Lindgren

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Event #25: Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

    Buy-in: $5,000
    Prizepool: $1,132,700
    Entries: 241
    Remaining: 162

Flushy is reported 43/162 and Stuart Rutter 73/162 in one of the most star studded fields of the series so far

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Is Lindgren going back to being a great poker player or is it just demonstrating variance?

Either way, it seems he's not having a bad couple of months

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The festivities at the 2013 World Series of Poker extend far beyond the gold bracelet events inside the Rio. This year, the WSOP brought back the Carnivale of Poker. Originally taking place from 1998-2000, the Carnivale of Poker was at one time the second largest poker event in the world.

The series has been running alongside the 2013 WSOP and offers plenty of options on its schedule including events in hold'em, Omaha, H.O.R.S.E. and Chinese poker. To further juice up the events, a special point system is in place that allows players to earn points as they go for seeding on an overall leader board. That overall leader board will see the top players net their share of an exclusive $100,000 prize pool.

The first five events of the Carnivale of Poker have been completed, and there is one UK reported  final tablecash in those events

Event #4: No-Limit Hold'em
Buy-in   Entrants   Prize Pool
$365   270   $81,000
Place   Player   Prize
1   Drew Scott   $19,857
2   Mark Smith   $12,266
3   Thibaud Guenegou   $9,158
4   Neil Channing   $6,884
5   Adam Lewandowski   $5,206
6   Kazuhito Oshima   $3,963
7   Kyle Schertz   $3,035
8   Pim Overbeeke   $2,339
9   Ross Bybee   $1,813

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Event #22: Pot-Limit Omaha

    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $1,378,350
    Entries: 1,022

At the final table led by Noah Schwartz

Chris Brammer finished 29th, Richard Ashby 52nd

Other UK cashers were Alex Lindop and Ross Boatman

Broadway regular PLO player James Park is on this final table.

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Event #22: Pot-Limit Omaha

    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $1,378,350
    Entries: 1,022

At the final table led by Noah Schwartz

Chris Brammer finished 29th, Richard Ashby 52nd

Other UK cashers were Alex Lindop and Ross Boatman

Broadway regular PLO player James Park is on this final table.

Awesome! Be good to get a second bracelet holder playing there!

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Event #22: Pot-Limit Omaha

    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $1,378,350
    Entries: 1,022

At the final table led by Noah Schwartz

Chris Brammer finished 29th, Richard Ashby 52nd

Other UK cashers were Alex Lindop and Ross Boatman

Broadway regular PLO player James Park is on this final table.

Awesome! Be good to get a second bracelet holder playing there!

Yeah, I think he's had a phenomenal year playing both live and online. He's definitely got the talent to take it down.

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After Event 20

Updated 2013 WSOP POY Leader Board (6-13-13)
 
Current 2013 WSOP Player of the Year Standings

Place   Player   Points
1   Daniel Negreanu   427.15
2   Benny Chen   300.00
3   Mark Radoja   292.50
4   Daniel Kelly   269.70
5   Charles Sylvestre   260.00
6   Matt Waxman   253.25
7   Daniel Marton   252.00
8   Athanasios Polychronopoulos   241.00
9   Matthew Ashton   240.75
10   Davidi Kitai   240.72

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Calen McNeil Wins Event #20 $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low 8-or-better ($277,274)
 

2013 WSOP Event 20 Gold Bracelet Winner Calen McNeil

It took an extra day than scheduled, but at the end of four days of split pots, scooped pots, and wheels, Calen McNeil has emerged as the victor, taking home his first gold bracelet, and $277,274 for first place. McNeil and the runner up, Can Kim Hua, ended play heads-up last night, and returned today to battle it out for the bracelet.

Hua started the day with just five and a half big bets, but he quickly won a handful of pots to take a 2:1 chip lead over McNeil. From there, the two exchanged the lead multiple times for the near three hours of Day 4 play, until McNeil was finally able to pull away from Hua

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Congratulations to Martin Finger, Winner of Event #21: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em (Six Handed) ($506,764)!
 

2013 WSOP Event 21 Gold Braclet Winner Martin Finger

Another day, another tournament in the books here at the 2013 World Series of Poker. Three days ago, an astounding 806 entrants put up the $3,000 entrance fee to participate in one of the few short-handed no-limit hold'em events offered at the WSOP. After thirty 60-minute levels of poker, it was German professional Martin Finger to grab hold of the title, the bracelet, and the $506,764 in first-place prize money.

Final Table Results
Place   Player   Prize
1   Martin Finger   $506,764
2   Matt Stout   $313,370
3   Matt Berkey   $199,733
4   David "The Dragon" Pham   $131,679
5   Nikolai Sears   $89,402
6   Andrew Dean   $62,458

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Congratulations to Josh Pollock, Winner of Event #22: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha ($279,431)

After three relatively quick days of play, the 2013 World Series of Poker Event #22, $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha has crowned a champion—Josh Pollock. The 29 year old from Silver Spring, Maryland topped a field of 1,021 players to win his first WSOP gold bracelet and $279,431 top prize.


James Park from the Broadway, we are told above, finished 3rd for over $108,000. Great stuff

Place   Player   Prize
1st   Josh Pollock   $279,431
2nd   Noah Schwartz   $172,931
3rd   James Parks   $108,196
4th   KT Parks   $78,532
5th   Shawn Silber   $57,974
6th   Eric Shanks   $43,460
7th   Eddie Blumenthal   $33,057
8th   David Greene   $25,483
9th   Brandon Crawford   $19,909