Day 1 of Event #53: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Set to Begin

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.