With registration now closed, the WSOP tournament staff have just released prize pool information for this event.
The 1,587 entries created a prize pool of $2,142,450. That means 162 players will get paid with a min-cash worth $2,678 and top spot earning the coveted gold bracelet and $449,980.
As reported, film director and keen amateur poker player, Frank Coraci, is playing today and told us that he had a tough table with two or three pros. We witnessed him face off in a hand against David "Bakes" Baker.
Coraci opened for 650 and Baker made the call. That made it heads up to a flop of 
.
Baker checked and a continuation bet of 1,300 from Coraci got a fold from Baker who said he really thought he was going to get him with that hand, asking him to show a king. Coraci obliged and showed him the 
.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
|
60,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
|
35,000
1,100
|
1,100 |
Jonathan Duhamel defended his blind for a min-raise to 600.
Both players checked the flop of 
. On the turn card 
, Duhamel put out 600. His opponent picked up the calling chips, clearly not believing Duhamel had it. Then his opponent put them back in his stack, deciding not to tangle after all.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
6,000
-800
|
-800 |
|
||
Nível: 8
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Randal Flowers entered late and hit the exits early after a raising war with Robert Edelsen that saw Flowers call a four bet shove with 
.
Edelstein had the dreaded 
and collected Flowers' last 17k after the board ran out 
.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
|
48,500
48,500
|
48,500 |
|
Eliminado |
Ben Grise got his stack of 3,250 in before the flop and Dan Healey made the call.
Grise needed help with his 
as Grise had the 
.
The cards ran out 
. Flopped quads for Grise, but both agreed that the case would have been a sick river.
“Never easy. Flop quads and it’s still a sweat,” Grise said.
“OK, no more whining,” Healey joked.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
9,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
6,500
6,500
|
6,500 |
A quick look around the tournament floor revealed a few big stacks emerging, including:
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
60,500 | |
|
59,000 | |
|
||
|
49,700
27,600
|
27,600 |
|
49,600 | |
|
||
|
39,000 | |
|
|
||
Vanessa Selbst, winner of Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em and her third World Series of Poker gold bracelet, joins the show to talk about her heads-up matches, the Twitter beef with Jason Mo and her two beloved dogs. Rich, Donnie and Jason then take a look at all of the recent bracelet winners and dissect the idea of a $20 million guarantee tournament.
You can subscribe to the entire iBus Media Network on iTunes here, or you can access the RSS feed here. The PokerNews family of podcasts is now available on Stitcher.
Earlier today we recorded Gavin Smith's chip count as 850. In fact, Birdguts managed to get even lower, dropping down to 175 chips.
But that was before he found himself on a massive heater, tripling up once with 
against 
and 
by making a straight and finding a couple more key double ups.
Smith is now sitting on 13k and back in the game.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
13,000
12,150
|
12,150 |
There was an open for 800 from seat three and seat four made the call. Itay Bavly squeezed from the button for 1,800. The small blind folded and Jason Mercier decided to super squeeze all in for 10,675. It quickly folded back round to Bavly who took his time to make a decision before making the call.
Bavly tabled 
and Mercier had the pair 
.
The cards ran out 
. Mercier dodged the lot and his eights held to give him a double up.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
|
30,000
-10,100
|
-10,100 |
|
21,300
-4,200
|
-4,200 |
|
||
