WSOP Friday Update

WSOP Event 38: Danzer Did It

When the $10K Seven Card Stud Hi-Low championship tournament began, there were 134 players and a $1,259,600 prize pool. Only 13 players returned on Day 3, and Norman Chad and Richard Sklar bubbled the final table. George Danzer took the lead from Day 1 all the way through to the winner’s circle. It is his second WSOP gold bracelet, both of them won this year and in $10K buy-in events.

1^st place: George Danzer ($352,696)

2^nd place: John Racener ($217,935)

3^rd place: Calvin Anderson ($136,490)

4^th place: Brian Hastings ($98,828)

5^th place: Jeff Lisandro ($77,238)

6^th place: Chris George ($61,594)

7^th place: David Singer ($50,018)

8^th place: John Monnette ($41,277)

WSOP Event 39: Laplante Leads

This $3K NLHE tournament originally had 992 players to create a $2,708,160 prize pool. Day 2 thinned the field from 205 players to just 26.

Friday brought Day 3 of the event and ousted players like Erik Cajelais, Bart Hanson, Matt Affleck, and Matthew Lapossie. The 10^th place elimination of Clyde Walters for $30,927 set the final table with Ryan Laplante in the chip lead.

WSOP Event 40: Down to Two plus Two

The championship event on the Thursday schedule was a $10K NLHE Heads-Up tournament. Attendance was down from last year, with only 136 players and a $1,198,400 prize pool.

Day 2 started with the final 16 players, each guaranteed at least $26,584 for making it that far. Players like Jason Koon, Erik Seidel, Max Silver, and Daniel Negreanu exited as matches ended. At 7pm, only four players remained, and the matches began as follows:

Sam Stein vs. Scott Davies

Daniel Colman vs. Davide Suriano

WSOP Event 41: So Many Choices

The $1,500 Dealer’s Choice was a new one to the WSOP, as it offered the player on the dealer button his or her choice of 16 poker variations. All in all, there were 419 players in the tournament and a $565,650 prize pool.

Day 2 brought only 95 players back to the tables, and it took most of the afternoon to work into the money bubble. Jimmy Fricke was the first player to cash for $2,799 in 42^nd place, and players like Brian Rast, Jesse Martin, Thayer Rasmussen, and Calvin Anderson followed.

As Level 16 played on, just 30 players remained with Arthur Morris in the chip lead, just slightly ahead of Jennifer Harman and Brandon Cantu.

WSOP Event 42: New Action

The first event of the day on Friday was a $5,000 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha Six-Handed tournament. By the dinner break, no official numbers had been released.

At 4pm in the afternoon, the $1,500 Limit Hold’em event got underway. Registration remained open into the evening hours.