Robert Mizrachi brought in and found a caller behind him before Brock Parker completed. Eric Rodawig raised to 800 and both the limper and Parker called. Parker bet fourth street with both players calling as Rodawig took the lead on fifth with only Parker calling before the recently anointed three-time WSOP bracelet winner folded on sixth.
Most $10,000 buy-in mixed game tournaments are always going to result in a stacked field, and being of the Razz variant, it's even more so the case as not too many people specialize in this variant of poker.
Located down in the Orange section of Amazon, on table 365 we find Brock Parker, Robert Mizrachi, Christopher George and Bryan Campanello seated together while on 364 we find Steven Gee, David Bach, Rep Porter, Barry Greenstein, Tom Schneider and Brian Hastings all in a row.
On 367 we find Matthew Ashton, Sebastian Pauli, Ali Eslami, Jeff Lisandro and Yuval Bronshtein to make another stacked table.
Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino and the 2014 World Series of Poker for the Event #18: $10,000 Seven-Card Razz Championship!
Today marks a massive day for all the razz fans out there in the poker world. Today marks the first time since 2009 that there has been an increase in the buy-in for the razz tournament. It is also the first time that two razz events have been featured on the same World Series of Poker schedule since 1977. However, the biggest note to this tournament is that today's $10,000 buy-in is the biggest razz buy-in since the 2003 $5,000 Razz tournament won by Huck Seed for $71,500 over Phil Ivey (2nd), Ted Forrest (3rd) and John Juanda (4th) — and, yes, they only played four places that year.
The earlier Event #7: $1,500 Seven-Card Razz tournament was won by Ted Forrest for $121,196 after he defeated Phil Hellmuth heads-up to grab his sixth WSOP bracelet. A total of 352 players took to the felt to try their hand at the game in Event #7, but today will more likely resemble the big buy-in small-field type events of roughly 100 players that the WSOP has become accustomed to in these non-hold'em and Omaha tournaments. Here is a look at the big buy-in events from the series so far.
No.
Event
Champion (Prize)
Entrants
#2
$25,000 Mixed Max No-Limit Hold'em
Vanessa Selbst ($871,148)
131
#5
$10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball
Tuan Le ($355,324)
120
#10
$10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low
Brock Parker ($443,407)
178
#13
$10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball
Paul Volpe ($253,524)
87
#18
$10,000 Seven-Card Razz
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The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand from 4:00 p.m. (PDT) providing continuous live updates of all the bring-ins, wheels, and outdraws live from the Amazon Room and the 2014 World Series of Poker!
(folded on fifth)
