Event 6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max
Day 1 Started
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$5,000
Entries
409
Level
24
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
2,000
Welcome to Day 1 of Event #6 $5,000 The Mixed Max No-Limit Hold'em
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Good morning and welcome to Event #6, the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max tourament. This is the first mixed-max event to be held in the WSOP in Las Vegas, but the event did make it's debut in the WSOPE in Cannes last year. Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi defeated Shawn Buchanan heads up to take down the split-format bracelet. In fact, despite being on French soil, there were no fewer than seven players from this side of the water in the top ten, including Noah Schwartz, Dan Fleyshman, Brian Powell, Brian Hastings and Jason Mercier.
For those of you not familiar with the mixed-max format let's bring you up to speed. This is a 4-day event and each day will consist of a different variation of no-limit Hold'em. Day 1, which begins in around sixty-minutes time, will consist of regular nine-handed tournament play. We are expected to play ten or 11 one-hour levels with a ninety-minute dinner break after Level 6. Then on Day 2 the format switches to Six-Max No-Limit Hold'em before Day 3 introduces Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em action.
The action starts at 12:00 in the Brasilia room or alternatively you can catch all of the days stories right here at Pokernews.
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Jack Effel has just cut the music, explained the rules to a lot of players who are not listening and announced shuffle up and deal!
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/75
Ante: 0
World Series of Poker Aims to Please
Level 1
: 50/75, 0 ante
We are about eight minutes in to Event 6 and players are still arriving to take their seats. One player who arrived on time was Shaun Deeb. Deeb, who just got off a monster run during the PokerStars SCOOP, was using this early tournament time to talk with tournament director Jack Effel. The two were discussing format issues in future tournaments. Deeb felt strongly that the structure could be changed in a way that could be more beneficial for players.
After a few minutes of discussion Effel informed Deeb, that if he were to send him an email with a logical argument explaining his position and how it can improve the overall play, Effel would consider the change.
If you ever glimpse at Jack Effel's twitter account you are normally bombarded with Effel responding to player's questions. It's nice to see that the WSOP and Effel are trying to make this the best experience possible for the players.
The Brasilia Room Set-Up - Gold Section Notables
All of our action will come from the Brasilia room today. For those of you have never been here let us just quickly explain the set up. The room is divided into four quarters: Gold, Silver, Bronze and Red. At the moment the players are confined into the Gold and Silver section of the room.
Two of Europe's top players Martin Jacobson and Adrien Allain are sharing table space. Jacobson has $2.8 million in live tournament earnings including 6 WSOP cashes with 2 final tables under his belt. Allain has a WPT title on his resume and a 3 WSOP cashes with 1 final table under his belt.
Two of the greatest live tournament players in the world are seated on Table #5. Chris Moorman and Jason Mercier are bound to end up in a heap of action today. Mercier fresh of an evening of frivolity celebrating his good friend Brent Hanks WSOP victory in Event #2 last night.
Hiren 'Sunny' Patel and Noah Schwartz are seated together. Schwartz very kindly offering to stake us to play in the tournament instead of reporting on it - thanks Noah.
So that is it for the early birds in the Gold section, but the doors are open and the players keep flooding in.
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Horrible Hand From Mann? You Decide
Level 1
: 50/75, 0 ante
Jason Mann has just told us NOT to report how horribly he played the following hand. We are a team of integrity and are true to our word, so we will just report the facts and let you make your own mind up.
We joined the action on a flop of 
and there were three players involved in the hand. Mann made the check from first position before there was a 550 bet, one seat to his left. Steve O'Dwyer was seated on the button and he raised it to 1,650. Mann made the call and the first bettor folded.
Onto the turn and we saw the 
where Mann check-called a 2,350 O'Dwyer bet. The final card was the 
and Mann checked once more. O'Dwyer studied his opponent before he decided to bet. He made it 4,300 and Mann made the call.
"I have a flush," said O'Dwyer who showed and then very quickly mucked when he saw Mann's hand.
| Mann |   |
| O'Dwyer |   |
Jason Mann, 23,600
Steve O'Dwyer, 6,600
The Brasilia Room Set-Up - Silver Section Notables
The silver quadrant of this event has many names of its own to boast. With players allowed to enter till the fourth level we expect more and more people to be joining in on the fun.
The ever lively Jean Robert Bellande just recently took his seat to the delightful horror of the table and a table away the young professional Lauren Kling took a seat. David Chiu along with Lars Bonding will be sharing a table for the beginning of the day. Some other notable table mates are David Benyamine and Faraz Jaka over at table #30.
With plenty of day left we expect a handful more pros to be joining us, and pokernews.com will be on top of it giving the latest updates.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Interesting Tables
Marvin Rettenmaier has just joined David Williams and Yevgeniy Timoshenko has just joined Mercier and Moorman.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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15,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0