The cards are in the air in the Brasilia, Amazon and Pavilion rooms. So far the tournament has 1,929 entrants, and will surely break the 2,000 mark. Stay with PokerNews throughout the day for updates on all the action.
Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, for Event #53 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em. This will be the second last $,1500 event of the series, with eight already completed, and one other coming to an exciting close.
The hugely popular event has already seen massive playing fields, and big first place prizes awarded, with the average number of players reaching 2,000, and first taking home around half a million in prize money.
The tournament will start at 12:00pm, in just under an hour’s time. Players will start out with 4,500 in chips and the first level will be 25/25. Ten one-hour levels will see out the day, so make sure you stayed tuned here, as PokerNews brings you all the live updates, here at Event #53 of the 2013 WSOP.
2013 World Series of Poker No-Limit Hold'em Champions
Event
Winner
Entries
First Prize
4
NLHE
6-max
John Beauprez
1,096
$324,764
6
NLHE
Millionaire Maker
Benny Chen
6,343
$1,198,780
14
NLHE
Jonathan Taylor
1,819
$454,424
17
NLHE
Athanasios Polychronopoulos
2,105
$518,755
24
NLHE
Corey Harrison
1,731
$432,411
28
NLHE
Jason Duval
2,115
$521,202
40
NLHE
Jared Hamby
2,161
$525,272
45
NLHE
Ante-Only
Ben Volpe
678
$201,399
For now, be sure to check out Sarah Grant’s June 29th recap below.
