2014 World Series of Poker

Event #18: $10,000 Seven-Card Razz Championship
Day: 2
Event Info

2014 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
6254
Prize
$294,792
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$1,052,800
Entries
112
Level Info
Level
24
Limits
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Townsend Makes Wheel to Double

Level 8 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Wade Townsend (from Day 1)
Wade Townsend (from Day 1)

Wade Townsend had the bring-in, and the action folded round to Daniel Negreanu who completed to 2,000. Townsend raised and Negreanu put him all in for his last 5,700. Townsend called and each player's board ran out as follows:

Negreanu: {K-Clubs}{3-Clubs} / {A-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{5-Spades}{2-Clubs} / {2-Diamonds}
Townsend: {A-Diamonds}{4-Clubs} / {K-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}{5-Hearts}{2-Spades} / {3-Spades}

With Townsend making a wheel, he doubled through to roughly 13,000 as Negreanu slipped to 73,100 in chips.

Player Chips Progress
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Daniel Negreanu
73,100
-9,200
-9,200
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Wade Townsend
13,000
-59,200
-59,200

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Greenstein Falls to Corkins

Level 8 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Barry Greenstein
Barry Greenstein

Barry Greenstein completed all in for his last 1,500 and both Hoyt Corkins and Jason Matthews called. Corkins bet out on fourth, fifth and sixth street with Matthews eventually giving up on sixth.

Greenstein: (X-X) / {9-Hearts}{A-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{7-Spades}
Corkins: (X-X) / {2-Clubs}{K-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}
Matthews: (X-X) / {3-Hearts}{K-Spades}{J-Spades}{Q-Diamonds}

Greenstein tabled his {7-Diamonds}{6-Clubs} and drew the {A-Clubs} while Corkins tabled his {8-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{3-Spades} to scoop the pot and send Greenstein to the rail.

Player Chips Progress
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Hoyt Corkins
86,000
49,600
49,600
WSOP 2X Winner
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Barry Greenstein
Busted
WSOP 3X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer

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Kihara Takes Out Two

Level 7 : 1,500/3,000, 300 ante
Naoya Kihara
Naoya Kihara

Japanese bracelet winner Naoya Kihara just took out two players and he's now among the biggest stacks in the room.

The action started on Andrew Rennhack who was all in for his tournament life from the bring in. Former WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel completed the bet and Kihara called.

Kihara bet on fourth street, Duhamel called. On fifth street Kihara check-called and on sixth it was Duhamel who check-called with only 1,100 chips left behind.

Rennhack: (X-X) / {K-}{9-}{K-}{5-} / (X)
Duhamel: (X-X) / {2-}{2-}{7-}{7-} / (X)
Kihara: (X-X) / {7-}{4-}{J-}{Q-} / (X)

On seventh street Kihara bet in the dark and Duhamel sighed as he looked down at his cards. The French Canadian super star put in the call quickly however, but the news he received wasn't good.

Kihara turned over {3-}{6-}{10-} for a ten-seven low while Duhamel tabled {3-}{6-}{J-} for a jack-seven low. Rennhack sarcastically threw his {8-}{5-}{5-} on the table and yelled "full house," and two players hit the rail.

Player Chips Progress
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Naoya Kihara
112,000
12,000
12,000
WSOP 1X Winner
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Andrew Rennhack
Busted
WSOP 1X Winner
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Jonathan Duhamel
Busted
WSOP 3X Winner

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Mercier Loses "Brutal" Hand to Negreanu

Level 6 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Negreanu and Mercier from Day 1
Negreanu and Mercier from Day 1

Daniel Negreanu hadn't played a hand for the first 25 minutes of the day, but piped up with, "I've got good cards! Guys, I've got good cards!" before playing the following hand and taking a pot off of Jason Mercier.

Mercier: (X-X) / {2-}{Q-}{J-}{5-} / (X)
Negreanu: (X-X) / {5-}{K-}{3-}{Q-} / (X)

After announcing that he had good cards, Negreanu completed the bet on third street. Mercier was the only caller.

"Queen!" yelled out Negreanu, pointing out what he wanted to dealer to give Mercier. "Aha! I'm pretty good at that," he excitedly said when he saw Mercier pick up a queen. Negreanu landed a king, though, and both players checked.

On fifth street, Mercier checked, Negreanu bet, and Mercier called. Then on sixth, Mercier led with a bet, and Negreanu called. On seventh, Mercier checked, and Negreanu bet.

"Fifty-fifity on the end... so brutal," Mercier said before he called with a grimace on his face after a few moments.

"Nine," said Negreanu, showing {9-}{8-}{6-} for a nine-eight low.

"No good," responded Mercier, but he was joking and didn't show his hand.

After Mercier mucked his hand and Negreanu was pushed the pot, about half a minute passed by and then Mercier said, "I'm trying to figure out how I could've won that hand. I don't think I could've," while looking towards the sky as though he was searching for answers.

"Nope," responded Negreanu.

"I guess I could've gone all in on third street, then you might've folded," joked Mercier.

"Yeah, that would've worked," laughed Negreanu.

Player Chips Progress
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Daniel Negreanu
71,000
4,900
4,900
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Jason Mercier
51,000
3,700
3,700
WSOP 6X Winner

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"Hey PokerNews! Allen Kessler Tripled Up!"

Level 6 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Allen Kessler on Day 1
Allen Kessler on Day 1

Over the years we've quoted many players during PokerNews live updates, but there haven't been many that made us laugh this much.

After Allen Kessler just managed to triple up, which happened right in front of our desk, none other than Doyle Brunson turned to us and yelled, "Hey PokerNews! Allen Kessler tripled up!"

The entire table started laughing, and it's safe to say we had a bit of a chuckle over it as well.

Kessler started the day with just a few thousand chips, and on the second hand of play he ended up all in for his tournament. Both Brunson and Christopher Wallace had called Kessler's all in and the hand was checked down to sixth street.

"PokerNews, I'm all in!" Kessler yelled.

"EPSN!" Elezra yelled, as he looked around the room for someone to capture Kessler's big moment, but to no avail.

With every card the dealer turned over Kessler's smile grew as his the strength of his hand grew. On sixth Brunson bet and that was enough to get Wallace to fold.

Kessler: (X-X) / {9-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}{2-Clubs}{3-Hearts} / (X)
Brunson: (X-X) / {5-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{Q-Spades}{7-Spades} / (X)
Wallace: (X-X) / {7-Clubs}{J-Hearts}{10-Hearts}{K-Spades} / fold

Kessler turned over the {A-Diamonds}{4-Hearts} for his hole cards and he had a lock on this hand against Brunson's {6-Clubs}{9-Clubs}. Kessler raked in this very important pot, but he's not out of danger just yet.

Player Chips Progress
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Doyle Brunson
40,000
12,500
12,500
WSOP 10X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
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Christopher Wallace
17,000
-6,900
-6,900
WSOP 1X Winner
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Allen Kessler
12,000
8,100
8,100

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Butzhammer Leads Razz Championship Into Day 2

Thomas Butzhammer
Thomas Butzhammer

Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino and the 2014 World Series of Poker for Day 2 of Event #18: $10,000 Seven-Card Razz Championships!

Late Friday afternoon, 112 players took to the felt to partake in the biggest Razz buy-in tournament ever and also the second time since 1977 two Razz tournaments were run during the series.

Along the way Michael and Robert Mizrachi, Billy Baxter, Todd Brunson, Chris Tryba, Calvin Anderson, Josh Arieh, Shawn Buchanan, John Hennigan and Phil Ivey all were eliminated as just 74 players would reach the bag and tag phase.

Leading the field into today's battle is German Thomas Butzhammer who bagged an impressive 141,300 in chips to be just ahead of Todd Dakake (136,400) as the only two players in the six-figure club. Here is how the top ten chip stacks rank:

PlayerChip Count
Thomas Butzhammer141,300
Todd Dakake136,400
Brian Hastings92,700
Eric Rodawig81,700
Bill Chen81,200
Brent Keller77,600
Mike Gorodinsky77,100
Roland Israelashvili76,700
Dan Shak74,100
Brandon Cantu73,000

Bracelet winners Brandon Shack-Harris, Naoya Kihara, Daniel Negreanu, Jonathan Duhamel, Jason Mercier, David Bach, Scott Clements, Barry Greenstein and Jeff Lisandro are just a few of the big names still remaining in this highly stacked field.

The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be providing extensive live coverage from 2:00 p.m. (PDT) as we look to play down to firstly the money, and then hopefully the final table. Stay tuned right here to PokerNews.com for Day 2 of the Seven-Card Razz Championship live from the 2014 World Series of Poker!

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