Indeed the final number of entries for this year’s Razz event is 363 which is what it looked like and was mentioned by us a few posts below. This creates a total prizepool of $825,825 where the winner will walk away with $210,615, a little less than the $214,085 that Frank Kassela got last year.
In total, 40 players will get paid starting with at least $4,475. Stay tuned with us for the next few days as the players reach the money and then play down to a champion.
We just found Tom Dwan sprinting around the tables to his seat. Since he is on a 20 minute break in Day 2 of the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship, like many of smaller tournaments that he has multi-tabled so far, this Razz event could be a quick boom or bust exit for Dwan.
Needless to say, in his first hand, Dwan had the bring in. After he folded on fourth, his stack had already bled down to 5,700. Dwan also asked Daniel Alaei if he could set the alarm on his phone for him to 11:51 which will give Dwan enough time to play a few hands here before he gets back to his bigger tournament.
At last count, Tom "Durrrr" Dwan has worked his count up to a heathy 13,500. He's still in our room for now, but we don't expect to see him for too much longer as the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship is back in action in the Amazon Room.
We found Mike Matusow in a hand where he bet showing (X)(X) / and his opponent Charles Crouch, who can be found in this post, held (X)(X) / and folded. There was nothing too interesting about the actual hand whatsoever, in fact it was completely standard. However Crouch told us “Make sure you get my name down, random player one”. Matusow then said “Make sure you get my name down too, it’s idiot”. Sorry guys, you can't fool us since we actually know your names.
We caught up with the action on sixth where Tim Fiorvanti bet and his opponent contemplated his choices. The player eventually moved all in and Fiorvanti made the call. The players flipped their cards and Fiorvanti showed which was ahead of his opponent's . Fiorvanti hit an on the end to give him a seven-low. This had his opponent drawing dead and the player was eliminated while Fiorvanti moved up the leaderboard.
We just saw Kirk Morrison and Yuval Bronshtein both getting eliminated. Without a word, Bronshtein bolted out of the room with a slight scowl. It was quite a contrast to Morrison who hung around for several minutes to shake the hands of everyone at his table and wish them all good luck and happy drinking.