WSOP Weekend Update

What a weekend! Let’s get caught up to mid-evening on Sunday night.

WSOP Event 39: Dempsey Does It

The $3K NLHE event was supposed to be a three-day tournament but ran into four days. It started with 992 players and a $2,708,160 prize pool.

Day 2 took the field from 205 players to 26, and Day 3 moved through much of the final table but still had three players in their seats when the clock stopped. They played it through on Friday with these results:

1^st place: Sean Dempsey ($548,460)

2^nd place: Ryan Jaconetti ($339,440)

3^rd place: Jacob Schindler ($212,373)

4^th place: Ryan Olisar ($154,148)

5^th place: Ryan Laplante ($113,796)

6^th place: Nam Le ($85,307)

7^th place: Layne Flack ($64,887)

8^th place: Takashi Yagura ($50,019)

9^th place: Andrew Becker ($39,078)

WSOP Event 40: Suriano for Italy

The $10K NLHE Heads-Up championship event had fewer players than the previous year, with only 136 players and a $1,198,400 prize pool.

Day 2 had only 16 players left, each of them in the money for at least $26,584. Day 3 brought back the final two: Sam Stein versus Davide Suriano. Less than 40 hands ended the match and gave the Italian the seventh gold bracelet ever won by Italy.

1^st place: Davide Suriano ($335,553)

2^nd place: Sam Stein ($207,347)

WSOP Event 41: One for the Mizrachi Family

The $1,500 Dealer’s Choice Six-Handed event turned into one of the player favorites of the year thus far. It had 419 participants and a $565,650 prize pool.

Day 2 thinned the number from 95 players down to 10, and Day 3 played it out with names like Jen Harman and Melissa Burr just missing the official final table. In the end, Robert Mizrachi took down his second piece of WSOP gold.

1^st place: Robert Mizrachi ($147,092)

2^nd place: Aaron Schaff ($90,854)

3^rd place: Shane Abbott ($58,414)

4^th place: Bill Chen ($38,735)

5^th place: Daniel Idema ($26,444)

6^th place: Frank Kassela ($18,575)

WSOP Event 42: Five for Dinner

The $5K PLO Six-Handed event was a popular one, drawing in 452 players and a $2,124,400 prize pool.

Day 2 brought back 96 players and whittled that number down to just 13 with Phil Laak as the chip leader.

Day 3 started with payouts at $21,031, which was grabbed by Michael Tabarelli for his 13^th place finish. David Baker followed for $27,192, and Sorel Mizzi took ninth for $35,902. Richard Ashby then bubbled the official final table, taking home $48,011 for seventh. Phil Laak was the first player to leave the final table, and Darius Studdard led the final five at the dinner break.

WSOP Event 43: Kelly Leads Heads-Up

Quite a few players wanted the limit action, resulting in 657 players in the $1,500 LHE event. The prize pool was $886,950.

Day 2 returned 118 players to the tables but thinned that number into the money at 72 and finally down to the final table of nine with Dan Kelly in the chip lead.

Action kicked off with Ron Burke and Bryce Landier exiting first, and play was slow going. Jeff Lisandro eventually exited in seventh, followed by David Chiu. The third place elimination of Brandon Shack-Harris left just two, and Dan Kelly led heads-up play by a wide margin over Yegor Tsurikov at the dinner break.

WSOP Event 44: Morgan Ahead

Another $1,500 NLHE tournament was the only starting event on Saturday and did rather well, bringing in 1,914 players for a $2,584,900 prize pool.

Day 2 started with 212 players in their seats and quickly moved into the money for the top 198 of them. By the dinner break, Jordan Morgan was in the chip lead and little more than 50 players remained in the field.

WSOP Event 45: Big Field

It was time for another $1K NLHE event on Sunday, and it brought in 1,841 players to create a prize pool of $1,656,900. The top 198 players will be paid with $306,634 at the top for the winner.

Fewer than 500 players remained midway through the evening.

WSOP Event 46: Small Field

One of the most anticipated events of the WSOP is the $50K buy-in Poker Players Championship. It began at 4pm, and registration remained open until Day 2. But at 10pm, the registration board showed only 73 players in action. Last year’s field had 132 players.