WSOP Monday Update

A lot can happen in a day. From Sunday mid-evening to Monday mid-evening, here it is…

WSOP Event 42: Mr. Drummond Dominated

The $5K PLO Six-Handed event started on Friday with 452 players and a $2,124,400 prize pool.

Day 2 took the number from 96 remaining players to 13, and Day 3 took them to the final table. It ultimately played out with Michael Drummond as one of the latest WSOP champions.

1^st place: Michael Drummond ($541,747)

2^nd place: Darius Studdard ($334,593)

3^rd place: Kory Kilpatrick ($217,113)

4^th place: Ryan Schmidt ($143,397)

5^th place: Brant Hale ($95,598)

6^th place: Phil Laak ($66,918)

WSOP Event 43: Second Gold for Kelly

The $1,500 LHE tournament had 657 players when it began and an $886,950 prize pool.

Day 2 took 118 remaining players into the money and just nine of them down to the final table. Day 3 started with Dan Kelly in the lead, he took a lead into heads-up, and he captured his second piece of WSOP gold.

1^st place: Dan Kelly ($195,167)

2^nd place: Yegor Tsurikov ($120,501)

3^rd place: Brandon Shack-Harris ($78,335)

4^th place: Sean Berrios ($57,536)

5^th place: Jesse Katz ($42,857)

6^th place: David Chiu ($32,338)

7^th place: Jeff Lisandro ($24,683)

8^th place: Bryce Landier ($19,051)

9^th place: Ron Burke ($14,856)

WSOP Event 44: Morgan Ahead

This particular $1,500 NLHE event started with 1,914 players and a $2,584,900 prize pool.

Day 2 had 212 players at the start, took 198 of them into the money, and whittled the field down to just 15 survivors with Brandon Ageloff in the lead.

Day 3 started with some fairly quick eliminations, including Roberto Romanello in 13^th and Vinny Pahuja in 12^th. Ageloff exited in tenth on the final table bubble, and play continued until Jordan Morgan took a hefty lead into heads-up play against Evan McNiff. That lead was still in place at the dinner break.

WSOP Event 45: Down to 30

This weekend’s $1K NLHE event attracted 1,841 players for a prize pool of $1,656,900.

Day 2 brought 144 players back, all of them in the money and guaranteed at least $2,037. As the evening hours brought Level 18, players like Hoyt Corkins and Allyn Jaffrey Shulman recently departed. Only 30 players remained at the dinner break with Dmitrii Shchepkin in the chip lead.

WSOP Event 46: Under Par

The Poker Players Championship required a $50K buy-in and offered players a five-day tournament with an impressive structure. Registration remained open until after the start of Day 2.

Day 1 brought in just 85 players, and five of them exited early. Vanessa Selbst, Dan Shak, Sergii Baranov, Michael Glick, and Phil Galfond hit the rail before play stopped.

Day 2 brought a few more players to the tables, and the final number was 102 entries, quite a bit lower than the 132 registration number from 2013. The 2014 prize pool was set at $4,896,000, out of which the top 14 finishers would be paid with $1,517,767 for the winner.

Some of the players to exit early on Day 2 included Phil Hellmuth, George Danzer, and Daniel Negreanu. At the start of Level 9, just 79 players remained and Jason Mercier had the chip lead.

WSOP Event 47: Just Getting Started

The only new event on Monday was the $1,500 Ante Only NLHE tournament, which drew 714 players for a $963,900 prize pool. That would be enough to pay the top 72 players and give more than $212K to the winner.