WSOP Thursday Update, Poker Night For America

WSOP Event 35: Yoon Takes Second Gold

The $5K NLHE Eight-Handed event started with 550 players and a $2,585,000 prize pool. The final results on June 18 were as follows:

1^st place: Brian Yoon ($633,341)

2^nd place: Josh Arieh ($391,575)

3^rd place: Josh Bergman ($246,169)

4^th place: Ardit Kurshumi ($176,684)

5^th place: Mustapha Kanit ($128,862)

6^th place: Dan Smith ($95,515)

7^th place: Timo Pfutzenreuter ($71,940)

8^th place: Tony Cousineau ($55,034)

WSOP Event 37: Pastor Profits

The $1,500 PLO was in its final day after starting on Tuesday with 967 players and a $1,305,450 prize pool.

Day 3 started on Thursday with 11 players and made its way to the end before 10pm with these final table results:

1^st place: Brandon Paster ($264,400)

2^nd place: Marcel Vonk ($163,625)

3^rd place: Gabriel Nassif ($102,373)

4^th place: Matthew Humphrey ($74,306)

5^th place: Matthew Dames ($54,855)

6^th place: Millard Hale ($41,121)

7^th place: Dmitrii Valouev ($31,278)

8^th place: Kevin Saul ($24,111)

9^th place: Galen Hall ($18,837)

WSOP Event 38: Danzer Looks for Double

The $10K Seven Card Stud Hi-Low championship tournament began with 134 players and a $1,259,600 prize pool.

Day 3 still had 13 players when it kicked off, but players like Todd Brunson, Ted Forrest, and Norman Chad exited first. Richard Sklar then took off in ninth place with $34,550 to set the final table. Play then continued.

WSOP Event 39: Big New Field

The $3K NLHE was the only tournament that started on Wednesday and attracted 992 players to create a prize pool of $2,708,160.

Day 2 brought 205 players back to the tables and got 117 of them into the money midway through the day. There were still 72 players left at the dinner break.

WSOP Event 40: Small Field

The $10K NLHE Heads-Up championship saw a smaller field than the previous year, as only 136 players signed up to create a $1,198,400 prize pool. The final 16 will be paid with $335,553 going to the winner.

WSOP Event 41: Dealer’s Choice

The late-starting tournament on Thursday was a $1,500 buy-in Dealer’s Choice that offered the opportunity to choose from 16 different games. It was somewhat chaotic at first, and a different kind of chaos erupted later when Brandon Cantu tried to punch Jesse Martin for calling him an angle shooter.

The final numbers for the tournament had not yet been announced as of 10pm.

Poker Night in America Set to Premiere

Poker Night in America is a new poker television show that has been filmed at various locations over the past year, and the announcement came today that it was picked up by CBS Sports Network in the United States. The first show will air on June 29 and subsequent episodes will run every Sunday night for 26 weeks.

The four cash game events thus far were taped at Turning Stone in New York, Peppermill Reno in Nevada, Rivers Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, and Maryland Live! in Maryland.