WSOP Tuesday/Wednesday Update and News

Catch up with everything that happened on Tuesday and a few early Wednesday developments here:

WSOP Event 44: Morgan Wins

This $1,500 NLHE event started with 1,914 players and a $2,584,900 prize pool. It started as a three-day tournament, as usual, but it turned into a four-day event when Evan McNiff and Jordan Morgan took their final heads-up match late into the night on Day 3. After nearly 200 hands, they stopped and returned on Tuesday to play on. Another 50 hands finally saw Morgan take it down.

1^st place: Jordan Morgan ($478,102)

2^nd place: Evan McNiff ($295,727)

3^rd place: Jason Johnson ($204,464)

4^th place: Ray Foley ($147,463)

5^th place: Bryan Dillon ($107,800)

6^th place: Robert Chorlian ($79,842)

7^th place: Joseph Iarussi ($59,920)

8^th place: Ryan Spittles ($45,554)

9^th place: Michael Anselm ($35,063)

WSOP Event 45: Gold for Givens

Last weekend’s $1K NLHE event attracted 1,841 players for a prize pool of $1,656,900. Day 2 thinned the field from 144 players down to 11.

Day 3 was Tuesday and played on through the final table, which resulted in former chip leader Angela Prada-Moed up against new chip leader Will Givens. The former doubled up a few times, but Givens was determined and finally grabbed the gold.

1^st place: Will Givens ($306,634)

2^nd place: Angela Prada-Moed ($189,632)

3^rd place: Paul Sokoloff ($131,110)

4^th place: David Hass ($94,559)

5^th place: Patrick Curzio ($69,125)

6^th place: Duy Ho ($51,198)

7^th place: Dmitrii Shchepkin ($38,423)

8^th place: Ivan Saul ($29,211)

9^th place: Loren Klein ($22,484)

WSOP Event 46: Under Par

The $50K Poker Players Championship started on Sunday and set the official registration numbers on Monday. There were 102 entries, 30 short of last year’s field, and the 2014 prize pool was set at $4,896,000. The top 14 players would be paid with over $1.5 million for the winner.

Day 3 started with 55 players and whittled that number down to 22 with Abe Mosseri holding a substantial chip lead over the group. Brandon Shack-Harris and Matt Glantz were in second and third chip positions.

Day 4 headed toward the money bubble, though players like David Oppenheim, David Steicke, and Gary Benson didn’t make it that far.

WSOP Event 47: Final Table Underway

The only new event on Monday was the $1,500 Ante Only NLHE tournament, which drew 714 players for a $963,900 prize pool.

Day 2 took the field from 80 remaining players, into the money to pay the top 72, and all the way to the final table. Day 3 started with eliminations of Arthur Pro, the day’s original chip leader Jeremy Joseph, Herbert Yarbrough, and then Ryan D’Angelo. Rhys Jones led the final five as play continued.

WSOP Event 48: In the Money

This $1,500 PLO-8 tournament was the only new Tuesday event and attracted 991 players for a $1,337,850 prize pool.

Day 2 brought 152 players back to the tables and quickly headed toward the money bubble to pay the top 117 of them. Jeff Madsen eliminated the bubble player, and play moved forward quickly.

New Wednesday Events

There were two new tournaments on Wednesday. The first started at noon and offered a $5K NLHE option. The second was a $1,500 Eight-Game Mix tournament that was scheduled to begin at 4pm.

Monster Stack Change

As players began signing up Event 51 at the World Series of Poker, the $1,500 Monster Stack tournament grew faster than anticipated. Talk of an alternate list the day before the tournament even began prompted WSOP executives to declare two starting flights for the Thursday noon event.

There will now be two starting flights for Event 51. The noon flight should seat approximately 4,000 players, and overflow will be directed to the afternoon flight. No reentries will be allowed, but players registering tonight and tomorrow can choose their flights until A is sold out.

WSOP Circuit Announces 11^th Season

The WSOP Circuit will kick off after the close of the WSOP in Las Vegas. The 2014-2015 season will start at the Palm Beach Kennel Club in Florida, with the series of events running from July 31 to August 11 and the $1,675 Main Event from August 9-11.

The second stop will be at Foxwoods in Connecticut in August and then on to IP Biloxi in Mississippi in September. New stops later in the season include the Horseshoe Baltimore, Harrah’s Ak-Chin in Arizona, and Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.

Details of each stop have yet to be released, but the majority of the schedule is available on WSOP.com.