Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud
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2012 World Series of Poker
Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$681,500
Entries
145
Level
26
Limits
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
7,000
Welcome to Event #10 $5,000 Seven Card Stud!
The first $5,000 buy-in event of the 2012 World Series of Poker, Event #6 $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mixed-Max, will come to an end today, which is the perfect time to kick off the latest big buy-in tournament, Event #10 $5,000 Seven Card Stud.
Last year, this event featured a $10,000 buy-in and attracted 126 players, creating a prize pool of $1,184,400. The field was comprised of poker’s best, which was evidenced by a final table that included Chris Tryba (8th-$38,812), Kevin Tang (7th-$47,032), Chad Brown (6th-$57,917), Alexander Kostritsyn (5th-$72,627), John Hennigan (4th-$92,928) and Maxwell Troy (3rd-$128,341). While all of those men put in impressive performances, it was Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier and Steve Landfish who duked it out in heads-up action.
It was a lengthy match that saw Grospellier complete one of the more impressive comebacks in recent memory. You see, the Frenchman was down to less than 200,000 at the 50,000/100,000 limit, facing a nearly 24:1 deficit; nonetheless, Grospellier kept his composure and battled through to capture his first WSOP bracelet, not to mention the $331,639 first-place prize.
Past Seven Card Stud Championship Results
| Year | Winner | Entrants | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier | 126 | $331,639 |
| 2010 | Men “The Master” Nguyen | 150 | $394,807 |
| 2009 | Freddie Ellis | 142 | $373,751 |
| 2008 | Eric Brooks | 158 | $415,856 |
| 2007 | Chris Reslock | 180 | $258,453 |
| 2006* | Benjamin Lin | 182 | $256,620 |
| 2005* | Jan Sorensen | 192 | $293,275 |
*Buy-in was $5,000
This year’s buy-in has once again been lowered to $5,000, so we expect the field to be bigger than last years. Two Stud events have already taken place here at the Rio, but when it comes to Stud events this is the one everybody wants to win.
Action is set to kick off at 5 p.m. PST, so join us then as we bring you the latest from the floor of Event #10 $5,000 Seven Card Stud.
Level: 1
Limits: 200/400
Ante: 50
We are Underway!
Level 1
: 200/400, 50 ante
The players have taken their seats, and the cards are in the air!
Need To Brush Up On Seven Card Stud? PokerNews Has You Covered
Level 1
: 200/400, 50 ante
While most of our readers are familiar with the big-bet games in poker like No-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha, today's Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud will be played in a limit format and one some people may not be acquainted with.
Seven Card Stud is the most popular version of stud poker and generally played anywhere between two and eight players at a time and the one that's featured in today's 5:00 PM event, an event won by Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier last year.
If a player stays in until the end of a hand, he or she will receive a total of seven cards. To start, each player is dealt two cards face down followed by a third card face up. Each player would then receive three more cards face up followed by the seventh and final card face down. There is a betting round after each street and often an ante before anyone receives any cards.
To become more familiar with the action, the betting rounds and all things Seven Card Stud, head over to the PokerNews Poker Rules: Seven Card Stud page and check things out. Once you're ready to test your skills on the felt, you can **play poker online by checking out one of our many PokerNews offers.
For some more information on Seven Card Stud, along with other mixed games, check out our Learning Mixed Games with Ville Wahlbeck article. There is also a Strategy with Kristy podcast featuring Chris George where he discusses mixed games with Kristy Arnett that includes some Seven Card Stud talk, so be sure to check that out as well.
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Tough Tables
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Level 1
: 200/400, 50 ante
There really aren't any easy tables in a $5,000 Stud event, but a few of them stick out as particularly tough.
Table 356 has David Singer, Barry Greenstein, and Chris Tryba right in a row. Greenstein just finished runner-up to Andy Bloch in Event 7 last night, and he's back here for some more seven-card stud. Tryba has already made deep runs in two stud events this Series.
One table over, the one tagged 357 boards another tough trio. There we find John Monnette, Matt Glantz, and David Chiu lined up in the first three seats.
Table 362 has four very familiar faces in the form of Owais Ahmed, Perry Friedman, Roland Isra, and 2010 WSOP Stud Triple Crown winner and Player of the Year Jeff Lisandro.
And we'll finish up with Table 366 which seats Brett Richey and Justin Bonomo. We're not sure if they know it yet or not, but the 2009 champion of this event is seated across the table from them. Freddie Ellis outlasted a tough final table a few years ago to take down the bracelet and a cash prize of nearly $400,000.
Ladies Ruling Table 363
Level 1
: 200/400, 50 ante
Over at table 363, we noticed two of the most prominent female pros in the game today. Jennifer Harmen has two World Series of Poker bracelets on her resume, one in 2000, and the other in 2002. Both of them came in $5,000 buy-in events, so maybe she can make it a trifecta here!
Annie Duke is taking the seven seat. Known more recently for her runner up finish in the Celebrity Apprentice, Duke has one bracelet to her name, along with 38 cashes here. She is known primarily as a mixed game player, so she will be a player to keep an eye on.
The two ladies have some tough competition at their table. Team PokerStars pro Chad Brown is in the one seat. Brown finished runner up to Ted Forrest in a 2004 $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Event. He got another runner up finish in a 2005 $2,000 stud hi-lo event.
Lastly, the three seat is Stephen Su, fresh off a third place finish in Event 7: $1,500 Seven Card Stud that wrapped up yesterday. He took home $50,332 for his efforts, and he will be looking to top that today!
We will be sure to keep tabs on this stacked table as the day goes on.
Almost a Hundo
Level 1
: 200/400, 50 ante
We have just shy of 100 players registered for this event so far. Last year's event drew 126 runners as a $10,000 event, so that's the number to beat today.
More Notables
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15,000 |
Back To Back Bloch?
In 2002, Layne Flack earned the name "back to back Flack" after winning two no limit holdem tournaments in a row. Well today, Andy Bloch will try to do the same feat. Yesterday, Bloch won the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud event, taking home $126,363. More importantly for him though, he finally took his name off the list of best players to never win a bracelet. He has just taken his seat at Table 355, and he surely has another final table on his mind. We'll be sure to keep tabs on his progress throughout the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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15,000 |