After a long 10 levels of play the 2013 World Series of Poker Event #11 $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em (Six Handed) has come to a close. Today there were 924 runners in the field. All the players are hoping they can make it to the final table and capture the first-place prize of $473,019. Also with capturing the money is the fame and glory of winning a prestigious event such as the Six handed event and a masterfully crafted gold bracelet. When the 10 levels finished our chip leader was Tammy Tibbles . She had 233,300. Steven Kelly was not to far behind with 224,000 in chips.
This event should be called the Fast and Furious 6-Max because the action was fast and the bustouts were furious. 802 were eliminated from contention today. The notables that did not make the cut were Scott Seiver, Andy Frankenberger, Daniel Negreanu, Faraz Jaka, Phil Hellmuth, Daryll Fish, and Phil Ivey. Many others were eliminated as well.
Not everyone was unlucky however. Some top notch players coasted to Day 2 such as Tuan Le (149,000), Chino Rheem (136,400), Scott Clements (122,000), Vanessa Rousso (73,500), and Chris Moorman (71,000)
Our chip leader had chips the whole day and won a chunk of them when she played a hand against John Racener. Both players saw a flop of, Tibbles check called bet of 3,200 from Racener. The hit the turn, and Tibbles check called again, this time for 6,200.
The river was the , and Tibbles tanked. Eventually, she bet 15,000. Racener then tanked and put his last 30,000 in. Tibbles snap called, and tabled for the nuts. Racener let out a chuckle, showed for a nine high flush, and headed to the exits.
Action will continue tomorrow as the remaining 122 players will be back at 1:00 pm local time. 108 players will make the money so be sure to check into PokerNews to see who makes the money and who hits the rail on the bubble. From the Rio we say goodnight and we will see you tomorrow!
We've just had an interesting and funny twist of fate shortly after returning from the break. Chino Rheem's table was broken seconds after we returned, and on his way to his new table, he said hello to some of the players at the table in front of us, including Erick Lindgren. These two know plenty about each other, as they just went heads up in the WPT Championship just two weeks ago. But that isn't the twist.
As he left, Rheem told Lindgren "I get to play with your lovely wife." Sure enough, he happened to take the seat directly to the left of Erica Schoenberg, who happens to be the better half of Lindgren. Upon hearing this, Lindgren shouted to his wife "Avenge me honey!" At the moment, that will be tough to do, as Schoenberg is grinding a medium stack of 13,000, while Rheem is one of our chip leaders with 42,000, but things can change in a heartbeat at the poker table!
Over the weekend, John Beauprez took down the first short-handed tournament of the 2013 WSOP, winning the $1,500 Six-Max for $324,764. Well today, we kick off the second installment of six-handed play with Event #11 $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em (Six Handed).
There was not a $2,500 buy-in six-max last year, but Simon Charette won a $3,000 buy-in version for $567,624 and his first gold bracelet. Charette had to beat out a stacked final 18 that returned for Day 3 of that event that included Eugene Katchalov (17th), Ryan Fair (15th), Taylor Paur (13th), Freddy Deeb (10th), Andrew Lichtenberger (8th), Scott Montgomery (7th), Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier (6th), and Foster Hays (5th).
The action is ready to get started at noon, and this should be one of the most action packed events of the whole series. The simple increase of $1,000 in the buy-in from last week’s event will mean a huge increase in the talent level of the field, as many of the big name pros, especially the online guys, love to play this tournament. We will have the updates all day here at Pokernews.com, so don’t go anywhere!
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, Tibbles check called bet of 3,200 from Racener. The 
hit the turn, and Tibbles check called again, this time for 6,200.
, and Tibbles tanked. Eventually, she bet 15,000. Racener then tanked and put his last 30,000 in. Tibbles snap called, and tabled 
for the nuts. Racener let out a chuckle, showed 
for a nine high flush, and headed to the exits.
