WSOP Day 15: Polk Wins, HORSE Featured

WSOP Event 21 Update – Four in Play at 9pm

The $1K NLHE started with 2,043 players and a $1,838,700 prize pool. Day 2 thinned the field from 168 players down to 21.

Day 3 started with the 21^st place elimination of Jason Senti, and players like Mickey Petersen and Dan Alspach followed. The final table saw Jeff Gross exit in sixth and Thayer Rasmussen leave in fifth. At the dinner break, only four remained:

1. Dave D’Alesandro (2,900,000)

2. Dominik Nitsche (1,950,000)

3. Bob Bounahra (1,440,000)

4. Zachary Gruneberg (540,000)

WSOP Event 22 Update – Six in HORSE at 9pm

The $10K HORSE Championship drew an even number of 200 players into action for a prize pool of $1,880,000. Day 2 started with 121 but reduced that number to 21.

Players were guaranteed at least $18,254 at that point, and Mark Gregorich and Daniel Negreanu were two who cashed early on Day 3. Bertrand Grospellier, Justin Bonomo, and David Benyamine all exited before the final table, and Bruno Fitoussi’s ninth place elimination set the official final table. Calvin Anderson and Bill Chen exited soon after, and Richard Sklar led the final six.

WSOP Event 23 Update – Turbo Done!

The $1K NLHE Turbo tournament drew 1,473 entries for a $1,325,700 prize pool. It moved so fast that the final table was set at the end of Day 1.

Doug Polk led the field at the start of Day 2, followed by Andy Philachack, and those two eventually made it to heads-up play with Polk prevailing in the end.

1^st place: Doug Polk ($251,969)

2^nd place: Andy Philachack ($155,756)

3^rd place: Jonathan Hanner ($102,503)

4^th place: Chad Cox ($73,894)

5^th place: Liam Alcock ($54,088)

6^th place: Anthony Gregg ($40,168)

7^th place: Gianluca Cedolia ($30,252)

8^th place: Dash Dudley ($23,093)

9^th place: Andrew Mackenzie ($17,857)

WSOP Event 24 Update – Big Field, Short-Handed

Event 24 was a $5K buy-in NLHE Six-Handed tournament, which drew a field of 541 players for an outstanding prize pool of $2,542,700.

By 9pm on Day 1, there were still about 288 players remaining and Jennifer Tilly had the chip lead of 89K, with Scott Seiver and Dani Stern also doing well.