John Hennigan at the final table of an earlier event
Bryn Kenney raised to 700 on the button, John Hennigan three-bet to 2,150 out of the small blind, and Kenney moved all in for effectively 8,375. Hennigan called, putting himself at risk.
Kenney:
Hennigan:
Hennigan flopped a flush draw when the dealer fanned , and completed said flush on the turn (). A meaningless completed the board, and Hennigan doubled through.
Will Failla raised to 650 in the cutoff, and called a three-bet of 1,800 from an opponent in the big blind. The flop fell , Failla's opponent check-called a bet of 1,500, and the turn was the . The players checked, Failla fired another 3,000, and the player called.
The river was the , both players checked, and Failla mucked when the player turned over for a full house.
There are already 521 players registered for Event #24: $5,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em - registration is open until the start of Level 7 - making this event larger than last year's tournament.
Erick Lindgren was the winner, raking in $606,317 from the $2,425,200 prize pool, and each member of the six-handed official final table walked away with at least $74,768.
In 2009, this event attracted 928 players(!), and Matthew Hawrilenko earned just over $1 million for first place.
Byron Kaverman checked to his opponent on a completed board of , and the player moved all in for around 17,000 effective. This was a little more than a pot-sized shove, and Kaverman went into the tank.
The Season XII WPT World Championship runner-up eventually folded, and his opponent showed for a pair of fives and a bricked flush draw.
"Was it good," Brian Hastings asked Kaverman, grinning.
According to PokerNews' latest WSOP Player of the Year update, Justin Bonomo is out to an early lead in the 2014 World Series of Poker Player of the Year standings. Bonomo reached his eighth career final WSOP final table last week and finally claimed his first WSOP bracelet, removing his name from the list of the best players without poker's most prestigious piece of hardware.
Bonomo is followed closely in the standings by Brandon Shack-Harris, a cash game player who virtually came out of nowhere to win a bracelet of his own. Shack-Harris won the largest pot-limit Omaha event in Event #3, and followed that up with a runner-up finish in the $10,000 Razz Championship event.
Sitting third in the POY standings through 20 events is George Danzer, who defeated Shack-Harris heads-up in the Razz Championship on Sunday. It was also the first bracelet for Danzer, wideley considered one of the top mixed-games minds in the game.
Rounding out the top five through the first two weeks of the series are Brock Parker and Jonathan Dimmig. Parker picked up his third career bracelet in Event #10, and Dimmig collected the first seven-figure score of the 2014 WSOP with his victory in the Millionaire Maker.
WSOP PLAYER OF THE YEAR TOP 10 (through 20 events)
Place
Player
Points
1
Justin Bonomo
399.00
2
Brandon Shack-Harris
389.00
3
George Danzer
372.60
4
John Brock Parker
349.50
5
Jonathan Dimmig
300.00
5
Vanessa Selbst
300.00
7
Paul Volpe
272.25
8
Tuan Le
270.00
9
Kyle Cartwright
251.50
10
Jeffrey Smith
230.00
With more than 40 events still to come at the WSOP in Las Vegas, plus several events taking place later this year in Australia, the Player of the Year race is still wide open.
Eugene Todd raised to 725 on the button, Jeff Rossiter three-bet to 2,200 from the big blind and Todd called. The flop fell , Rossiter continued for 3,100 and Rossiter moved all in for 15,000 or so. Rossiter snap-called.
Todd:
Rossiter:
Todd was drawing to a straight, but failed to connect with the turn () and river () and was eliminated.
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, and completed said flush on the turn (
). A meaningless 
completed the board, and Hennigan doubled through.
. The players checked, Failla fired another 3,000, and the player called.
, both players checked, and Failla mucked when the player turned over 
for a full house.
, and the player moved all in for around 17,000 effective. This was a little more than a pot-sized shove, and Kaverman went into the tank.
for a pair of fives and a bricked flush draw.
, and Fish doubled through. Tran dropped down to 23,200 chips.
) and river (
) and was eliminated.
