WSOP 2014 Events Recap - Reparejo Wins, Selbst Heads-Up, MrSmokey1 Leads

On the 4th day of this year’s WSOP, Event #1 got concluded, Vanessa Selbst made it to the final heads-up in Event #2 and Steve ‘MrSmokey1’ Billirakis leads the Final Table in Event #3.

An unplanned Day 3 for WSOP 2014 Event #1 $500 Casino Employees NLHE had to be introduced after the heads-up could not be concluded within the 10 blind levels time frame per day established for the series. As such, Roland Reparejo and Corey Emery returned and resumed playing on Level 23 (5,000/20,000/40,000). In only six hands, the fate of the first bracelet of this year’s festival was decided: Reparejo limped from the Button, Emery shoved and Reparejo insta-called.

Emery: J 8
Reparejo: A Q

Board: 2 8 A T 2

Reparejo won with a pair of aces. His former best result had been a 134th finish in last year’s $1,000 NLHE Seniors Championship for $3,411; now, he scooped in $82,835.

The end results are as follows:

1st: Roland Reparejo – $82,835
2nd: Corey Emery – $51,037
3rd: Charles Nguyen – $33,073
4th: Olivier Doremus – $24,203
5th: John Taylor – $17,975
6th: Brian Wong – $13,528
7th: Marcin Sobczak – $10,308
8th: David Luttbeg – $7,947
9th: Kevin Chiem – $6,192

On Day 3 of Event #3 $25,000 Mixed Max NLHE, 16 players returned to the 4-max tables. Noah Schwartz was eliminated first, then came Barry Hutter, Calvin ‘cal42688’ Anderson, Nick Schulman, Kevin Song, Richard ‘nutsinho’ Lyndaker, Brian Green, Darren Elias, Aaron Jones and Ryan Fee. WPT and LAPT champion Fee called Selbst’s all-in with A-K but his hand got cracked by a flopped pair of nines for Selbst. The final four was then formed with the elimination of Robert Tepper and Matt Giannetti.

Two HU tables got set up with Al Decarolis vs Selbst and JC Tran vs Jason Mo. WSOP 2012 $10,000 NLHE Heads-Up Championship runner-up Mo was first in the final round, two hours before Selbst was able to crack Decarolis’ A K with 9 8:8 on the 4 9 7 J 5 board.

With Mo tweeting “lol Vanessa is so bad, poor fees” after Fee got railed, the heads-up finale is anticipated by many to be an intense game.

In WSOP Event #3 $1,000 PLO, 106 entrants qualified for Day 2 with Loren Klein in the lead and the likes of Steve ‘MrSmokey1’ Billirakis, Phil Laak, Ashton ‘theASHMAN103’ Griffin, Doug ‘WCGRider’ Polk, Greg Merson, Stephen Chidwick and Jason Somerville in the field, among others.

The nine-handed Final Table was bubbled by Chidwick on Level 19 (5,000/10,000):

Seat 1: Robert Paddock – 305,000     
Seat 2: Nick Guagenti – 64,000     
Seat 3: Matt Ryan – 265,000
Seat 4: Patrick Arena – 215,000
Seat 5: Morgan Popham – 180,000
Seat 6: Brandon Shack–Harris – 740,000     
Seat 7: Steve Billirakis – 770,000     
Seat 8: Iori Yogo – 500,000     
Seat 9: Loren Klein – 330,000

Shortstack Nick Guagenti was out soon, followed by Klein and Patrick Arena before the day was over. In the lead is Billirakis, returning on Day 3 with a stack of 961,000.

The chip counts are as follows:

Steve Billirakis – 961,000
Brandon Shack–Harris – 695,000
Matthew Ryan – 604,000
Iori Yogo – 575,000
Morgan Popham – 303,000
Robert Paddock – 250,000

Payout structure:

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