July 14 2014, by Jennifer Newell

WSOP Main Event Nears Final, Schemion Wins Aria SHR

WSOP Main Event Down to 37 by 9:30pm

Things were getting very exciting at the 2014 World Series of Poker over the weekend. As the $10K NLHE Main Event sunk deeper into the money, fewer players were in contention for the November Nine and ultimate $10 million first place prize.

When the tournament started there were 6,683 players and a $62,820,200 prize pool.

Day 3 brought all of the starting fields together with 1,864 players to start the day, and play moved along until only 746 remained.

Day 4 thinned the field into the money so the top 693 could be paid. Three players were eliminated on the money bubble with Zhen Cai winning the 2015 WSOP Main Event seat. The minimum payouts began at $18,406 and the night stopped at $33,734 payouts with just 291 players remaining.

Day 5 ended with players like Griffin Benger, Mikiyo Aoki, and Ali Eslami hitting the rail and just 79 players still in action. Mark Newhouse was the chip leader.

Sunday was Day 6 and kicked off with payouts at $85,212. Players like Maria Ho and Anh Van Nguyen cashed, and others like Kyle Bowker, Chanracy Khun, and Brian Hastings departed for $103,025 each. Stuart Rutter and Vitaly Lunkin exited with $124,447 each, and Isaac Baron and Ryan Fair each took home $152,025.

Later in the evening, the payouts were at the $186,388 level, and Matthew Waxman departed there in 45th place, David Tuthill in 43rd, and Adam Lamphere in 41st.

With 37 players remaining, these were the top five chip counts:

Martin Jacobson (12,750,000)

Kyle Keranen (12,050,000)

Craig McCorkell (11,250,000)

Dan Sindelar (9,600,000)

Luis Velador (8,690,000)

Ole Schemion Wins Aria Super High Roller

After the huge success that was the WPT500 at Aria in Las Vegas, the casino offered a bonus event. The Super High Roller tournament required a $100K buy-in with reentries allowed.

There were 30 entries in the tournament, more than a few of them reentries. Only the top four players were to be paid, and Philipp Gruissem ultimately bubbled the event. Dan Cates was the first player to cash, and the other three agreed to a deal, with the final payouts listed as follows:

1st place: Ole Schemion ($1,062,785)

2nd place: Isaac Haxton ($813,394)

3rd place: Daniel Colman ($796,821)

4th place: Daniel Cates ($297,000)

 

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About the author

Jennifer Newell fell in love with poker while working for the World Poker Tour in Los Angeles. She left the company to live as a freelance writer with a heavy concentration on the poker world. It is not often that she travels to poker tournaments and less often that she plays the game, but she can always be found reading and writing about poker. You can find her on her FreelanceWriterJen Facebook page or @WriterJen on Twitter.