Event #14: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball
Day 1 Started
Event #14: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball
Day 1 Started
Welcome back to the 2010 World Series of Poker for Event #14: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball!
The corresponding event last year was a $2,500 buy-in and attracted a 147-player field with Phil Ivey beginning his magical run of six WSOP cashes, three final tables and two bracelets with a victory here for $96,367.
With the buy in being lowered to $1,500 and only one new event starting today, a larger field then last year is expected with many notable players expecting to take part such as Jeff Lisandro, Mike Matusow, Justin Smith, Daniel Negreanu and Annette Obrestad just to name a few.
Make sure to stay tuned to PokerNews as we provide live coverage of every number one, single draw and bust outs of Event #8 from 5:00pm PST.
Level: 1
Blinds: 25/25
Ante: 10
The button is in seat seven and the cards are now in the air!
Unlike the 2-7 that was played in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, today's event will play with a no limit structure and only be a single draw.
Each player begins with a 1,500-starting stack and will receive three additional add-ons each worth 1,000 in tournament chips.
At any time during the first four levels a player can take their add-on, but must have used them all by the beginning of the fifth level.
Also stated in the structure sheet is that the first player to enter the pot must open with a raise.
So far twenty-three tables are occupied at the moment and there are some interesting tables forming.
Over on table 303 we find Dario Alioto, Mike Wattel, Annette Obrestad and Lex Veldhuis while on table 286 we find Daniel Negreanu, Eric Baldwin and Mike Matusow battling it out.
Although the field is quite small, it is incredibly stacked with pros.
Mike Matusow, Lee Watkinson, Nam Le, Justin Bonomo, both Nick and Michael Binger, Huck Seed, Jean-Robert Bellande, Alexander Kostritsyn and Jeff Lisandro just the tip of the iceberg.
For a full list, head to our chip counts page here.
Team PokerStars is well represented in today's event.
WSOP Champion Greg Raymer, WSOP Player of the Year Daniel Negreanu, Team Pro USA member Gavin Griffin and Team Pro Netherlands member Lex Veldhuis are all in the field.
George 'Jorj95' Lind and Sebastien 'Seb86' Sabic are both representing Team PokerStars Online.
Michael Binger opened under the gun to 75 and Archie Karas made the call from the cutoff.
Binger drew one and fired out 225 and Karas drew one and made the call.
Binger tabled his and Karas folded his hand to give Binger a small step up the leaderboard.
With each player receiving three buttons that signify the three 1,000-chip add-ons, it appears only player has used them all.
Matt Glantz is the one and consequently he is up to 4,900 in chips.
A few players have used one button to top-up, but it appears so far that no one has been forced to use one through being felted.