WSOP 2014 Event #2 Mixed Max Day 2, Event #3 $1,000 PLO Starts

The field of WSOP 2014 Event #2 $25,000 Mixed Max NLHE reached on Day 2 the 16 ITM finishes, with top pros getting eliminated along the way. Meanwhile, Event #3 $1,000 PLO kicked off with a similarly strong pool.

60 players returned on Day 2 of WSOP 2014 Event #2 $25,000 Mixed Max NLHE, including the very best of the game around, like chipleader Vanessa Slebst or Brian Rast, Michael Mizrachi, Daniel ‘jungleman12’ Cates, Ravi Raghavan, John Juanda, Stephen Chidwick and Aaron Jones, just to list some of the Top 10. The field aimed at reaching the 16 ITM finishes, playing at 6-max tables. First out was PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu, whose jacks got cracked by Kevin Song’s A-Ks hand. The Canadian did not take it hard, commenting “First flip of the series, yo.”

Andrew Lichtenberger, Kevin Eyster, Jeff Gross, Jason Mercier, Kyle Julius, David Vamplew, Cates, Mizrachi, David Benefield, Sam Trickett, Galen Hall, Keven Stammen, Joseph Cheong, Chidwick, Ashton Griffin, Faraz Jaka, Phil Hellmuth, Rast, Raghavan and Olivier Busquet followed; by the time of the dinner break, only 20 players remained with SCOOP Player of the Series title winner Calvin ‘cal42688’ Anderson in the lead.

In 20th place, Justin Bonomo got eliminated, when Phil Ivey called his all-in with A J and improving to two pairs, cracking Bonomo’s K T. Ivey then railed Eugene Katchalov in 19th position, before getting kicked out himself: on the K Q J flop, JC Tran bet 37,000, Ivey raised to 120,000, Tran shoved and Ivey called all-in for about 500,000.

Tran: 8 7
Ivey: A T

Tran flopped a flush and Ivey was out.

Eventually, Juanda bubbled the money: on Level 18 (2,000/6,000/12,000), he shoved for 185,000 with Q 6 and Robert Tepper called with A Q – the latter hand held out on the board.

The remaining players return to 4-handed tables to reach the final four tomorrow.

The chip counts are as follows:

1st: Al Decarolis – 1,261,000
2nd: JC Tran – 1,251,000
3rd: Vanessa Selbst – 1,224,000
4th: Jason Mo – 1,214,000
5th: Calvin Anderson - 812,000
6th: Matt Giannetti – 676,000
7th: Ryan Fee – 656,000
8th: Barry Hutter – 524,000
9th: Darren Elias – 506,000
10th: Robert Tepper – 490,000
11th: Aaron Jones – 306,000
12th: Richard Lyndaker – 213,000
13th: Nick Schulman – 207,000
14th: Kevin Song – 198,000
15th: Noah Schwartz – 193,000
16th: Brian Green – 145,000

Payout structure:

1st: $871,148
2nd: $538,308
3-4th: $290,622
5-6th: $171,461
7-8th: $112,752
9-10th: $85,342
11-12th: $72,617
13-14th: $63,158
15-16th: $54th:945

WSOP Event #3 $1,000 PLO started on 28 May and the 1,128 players registering accumulated a prize pool of $1,015,200. This field also featured a range of seasoned pros; however, Ivey, Negreanu, Huck Seed, Dan Smith, Hellmuth, Erick Lindgren, Mizrachi, Christian Harder, Dan Kelly and Jason Mercier will not be returning on Day 2.

106 players survived the day, all of them already in the money. Chipleader is Loren Klein with a stack of 133,900 and a major lead over chip counts runner-up John O'Shea (89,000). Steve ‘MrSmokey1’ Billirakis (73,800), Phil Laak (65,700), Ashton ‘theASHMAN103’ Griffin (51,500), Doug ‘WCGRider’ Polk (39,500), 2012 WSOP Main Event champion Greg Merson (33,200), Chidwick (21,700) and Jason Somerville (16,400) are also in pursuit of the title.

On Day 2, the Final Table is to be reached.

The Top 10 is as follows:

1st: Loren Klein – 133,900
2nd: John O'Shea – 89,000
3rd: Allan Le – 88,200
4th: Iori Yogo – 79,900
5th: Steve Billirakis – 75,800
6th: John Gordon – 73,100
7th: Josef Monro – 65,900
8th: Phil Laak – 65,700
9th: Paul Phillips – 65,700
10th: James Brown – 59,200

More chip counts of interest:

16th: Ashton Griffin – 51,500
29th: Douglas Polk – 39,500
38th: Greg Merson – 33,200
41st: Maria Ho – 32,000
63rd: Stephen Chidwick – 21,700
82nd: Jason Somerville – 16,400
95th: Humberto Brenes – 9,900

Payout structure:

1st: $205th:634
2nd: $127th:245
3rd: $79th:611
4th: $57th:785
5th: $42th:658
6th: $31th:978
7th: $24th:324
8th: $18th:750
9th: $14th:649
10-12th: $11th:593
13-15th: $9th:299
16-18th: $7th:553
19-27th: $6th:213
28-36th: $5th:187
37-45th: $4th:385
46-54th: $3th:746
55-63rd: $3th:238
64-72nd: $2th:842
73-81st: $2th:527
82-90th: $2th:274
91-99th: $2th:091
100-117th: $1th:928