WSOP 2014 Weekend Recap - Selbst and Shack-Harris are Champions

A whole range of WSOP 2014 events have been wrapped up during the weekend. Here are the highlights of the finales of Event #2 $25,000 Mixed Max and Event #3 $1,000 PLO.

Only the final heads-up remained for Day 4 of WSOP Event #2 $25,000 Mixed Max NLHE tournament with Vanessa Selbst and Jason Mo returning to the table. What made the clash even more interesting was a previous tweet from Mo, calling Selbst “so bad” after she eliminated Mo’s close friend Ryan Fee.

Jason Mo – 5,860,000
Vanessa Selbst – 3,960,000

At one point Mo was up 8,140,000 but Selbst managed to come back and took over the lead by taking a huge pot. She raised to 250,000 in a hand on Level 28 (15,000/60,000/120,000), Mo 3-bet to 750,000, Slebst called and the flop came T J 5.Mo checked, Slebst bet 580,000 and Mo called. They both checked the Q turn but then Mo bet 1,315,000 on the 2 river. Selbst called and showed Q Q against Mo’s A Q to boost her stack to 7,290,000.

While Mo doubled up once again, Selbst managed to increased her lead and Mo eventually pushed for 2,535,000 in the last hand on Level 29 (20,000/80,000/160,000). Selbst called.

Mo: 9 7
Selbst: K J

Board: T A 2 A J

Selbst won with two pairs.

In addition to the $871,148 in prize money, Selbst scooped in her third golden bracelet in her career.

End results:

1st: Vanessa Selbst  – $871,148
2nd: Jason Mo – $538,308
3rd: Al Decarolis – $290,622
4th: JC Tran – $290,622
5th: Matt Giannetti – $171,461
6th: Robert Tepper – $171,461
7th: Ryan Fee – $112,752
8th: Aaron Jones – $112,752

Only six players of the final nine returned to Day 3 of Event #3 $1,000 PLO; on Day 2, Nick Guagenti, Loren Klein and Patrick Arena had already got eliminated. The seat draw was as follows:

Seat 1: Robert Paddock – 305,000
Seat 3: Matt Ryan – 265,000
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

First out was Robert Paddock, losing to chipleader and favourite Steve ‘MrSomkey1’ Billirakis’ two pairs. Matt Ryan came next in 5th place before Billirakis started to lose chips to be eventually eliminated in 4th by Brandon Shack-Harris, the two of them going all-in on the A 5 9 flop.

Billirakis: 8 7 6 4
Shack-Harris: A A K T

Turn: 3
River: 3

Shack-Harris won with a full house and then moved on to dominate the game. Iori Yogo got railed in 3rd place but Morgan Popham did not stand a real chance heads-up, either.

Brandon Shack-Harris – 2,800,000
Morgan Popham – 590,000

Popham was unable to turn the game; in the last hand, he pot bet to 240,000 on Shack-Harris’ 80,000 raise, the latter re-pot bet for 720,000, Popham shoved for 935,000 and Shack-Harris called.

Popham: A A t 5
Shack-Harris: A K K 5

Board: 8 6 Q J T

Shack-Harris won with a straight.

Brandon Shack-Harris’ main field is mixed games, yet PLO is also one of his preferred game types. He has just won his first ever WSOP bracelet.

End results:

1st: Brandon Shack–Harris – $205,634
2nd: Morgan Popham – $127,245
3rd: Iori Yogo – $79,611
4th: Steve Billirakis – $57,785
5th: Matthew Ryan – $42,658
6th: Robert Paddock – $31,978
7th: Patrick Arena – $24,324
8th: Loren Klein – $18,750
9th: Nick Guagenti – $14,649