Event 23: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed
Day 1 Started
Event 23: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed
Day 1 Started
Good morning and welcome to the coverage of the $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Six Handed, World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet event. It is Event #23 of 61 and you are in for a treat, because if six-handed action is anything it is fast and furious.
Yesterday was an amazing day for the WSOP with Phil Hellmuth and Phil Ivey both going heads-up for WSOP gold in their respective events. Phil Ivey came up short losing in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event to Andy Frankenberger but Phil Hellmuth made it bracelet number 12 when he won the $2,500 Seven Card Razz event. Will both poker phenom's be back on the horse for todays event? We sure hope so because the boys are on fire.
Last year this event was a $2,500 buy-in event and it attracted 1,378 players for a total prizepool of $3,134,950. The eventual winner was Ukranian Oleksii Kovalchuk and we are sure he will be back to defend his title when the festivities kick-off at 12:00 PM. Also on the final table last year and sure to be playing again this year are Chris Moorman (3rd), Dan O'Brien (4th) and Will Failla (7th).
So get your behinds into the Brasilia Room at 12:00 PM or watch all of our coverage at PokerNews.
Just incase you have been living under a rock for the past few weeks here is the format for Event #23 $3,000 No-LImit Hold'em Six-Handed.
Event #23 is a three-day event and each player will start with 9,000 chips. The plan for Day 1 will be to play ten-levels of sixty-minutes. If the field exceeds 1,500 players then this will be extended to eleven-levels. There is a twenty minute break every two-levels and a ninety-minute dinner break after level six.
Time | Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
---|---|---|---|---|
12:00 - 13:00 | 1 | 25 | 50 | - |
13:00 - 14:00 | 2 | 50 | 100 | - |
14:00 - 14:20 | Break | |||
14:20 - 15:20 | 3 | 75 | 150 | - |
15:20 - 16:20 | 4 | 100 | 200 | - |
16:20 - 16:40 | Break | |||
16:40 - 17:40 | 5 | 100 | 200 | 25 |
17:40 - 18:40 | 6 | 150 | 300 | 25 |
18:40 - 20:10 | Dinner | |||
20:10 - 21:10 | 7 | 200 | 400 | 50 |
21:10 - 22:10 | 8 | 250 | 500 | 50 |
22:10 - 22:30 | Break | |||
22:30 - 23:30 | 9 | 300 | 600 | 75 |
23:30 - 00:30 | 10 | 400 | 800 | 100 |
Special guest announcer Bruce Buffer has just announced Shuffle Up & Deal like no man can. Let's get this six-max party started.
Level: 1
Blinds: 25/50
Ante: 0
Just incase you are not aware let us give you a brief description of the mammoth Brasilia Room. It is divided into four quarters called Gold, Silver, Bronze and Red with each quarter containing around twenty tables. Here are some of the notable names who have turned up on time.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Arnaud Mattern | 9,000 | |
Andrea Dato | 9,000 | |
Tom Marchese
|
9,000 | |
Tony Dunst
|
9,000 | |
Frank Kassella
|
9,000 | |
Cliff Josephy
|
9,000 | |
Byron Kaverman
|
9,000 | |
Kyle Bowker
|
9,000 | |
Andrew Lichtenberger
|
9,000 | |
Eugene Katchalov | 9,000 | |
Max Silver
|
9,000 | |
Samuel Grafton | 9,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bertrand Grospellier
|
9,000 | |
Mickey Petersen | 9,000 | |
Thibaud Guenegou | 9,000 | |
Ryan Julius | 9,000 | |
David Benyamine
|
9,000 | |
Lex Veldhuis | 9,000 | |
Scott Seiver
|
9,000 | |
John Eames | 9,000 | |
Max Martinez | 9,000 | |
Matt Stout | 9,000 | |
Mike McDonald | 9,000 | |
Manuel Bevand | 9,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Eric Froehlich
|
9,000 | |
Patrtick Cronin
|
9,000 | |
Phil Collins | 9,000 | |
Paul Kobel
|
9,000 | |
Andre Akkari | 9,000 | |
Chris Moorman
|
9,000 | |
Jack Ellwood | 9,000 | |
Samuel Chartier | 9,000 | |
Gabriel Nassif | 9,000 | |
Joseph Cheong
|
9,000 | |
Erick LIndgren
|
9,000 | |
Dermot Blain | 9,000 | |
Lauren Kling | 9,000 | |
Zachary Korik | 9,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Shannon Shorr
|
9,000 | |
Isaac Haxton
|
9,000 | |
Jeff Madsen
|
9,000 | |
McLean Karr | 9,000 | |
Jason Mercier | 9,000 | |
Daniel Negreanu | 9,000 | |
Davidi Kitai
|
9,000 | |
Nick Binger
|
9,000 | |
Pierre Neuville | 9,000 | |
Olivier Busquet | 9,000 | |
Guillaume Darcourt | 9,000 | |
Mike Leah
|
9,000 | |
Steve O'Dwyer | 9,000 | |
Cary Katz | 9,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0