Event #13: $5,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better Day 1 | 2013 World Series of Poker

06-06-2013 12:16 UTC-7

Woodward Leads as 130 Advance to Day 2

Chad Holloway

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

The first $5,000 buy-in non-hold’em event of the 2013 World Series of Poker, Event #13: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better, kicked off today as 210 players (down two from 2012) packed the Orange Section of the Amazon to play eight one-hour levels. By the end of the night, 130 players remained with Matt Woodward and his stack of 59,700 leading the way.

Others still in contention with decent stacks include Yuval Bronshtein (57,200), Ilya Gorodetskiy (56,300), Gavin Smith (51,900), Matt Lefkowitz (50,300), David Bach (49,700), Toby Hausen (49,300), Sanjay Pandya (49,000), Kevin Vo (48,500), Mike Leah (46,900), Michael Chow (45,900) and Maria Ho (44,000).

The day began with a number of notables in the field including legendary Stud champion and four-time WSOP bracelet winner Artie Cobb; bracelet winner Cheech Barbaro; 2012 WSOP Event #4 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better champ Cory Zeidman; and noted poker theorist David Sklansky. Of those only Barbaro failed to advance.

Speaking of players to go, George Danzer was the first elimination of the day, though he wouldn't be the last. Among those to hit the rail on Day 1 were Frank Kassela, John Monnette, Chris Tryba, Greg Raymer, Mike Gorodinsky, Alexander Kostritsyn, Calvin Anderson, Scott Seiver, Chino Rheem, Layne Flack, Vanessa Selbst and Phil Ivey just to name a few.

Day 2 action will kick off at 2:00 p.m. PST on Thursday, so join us then as we bring you all the action and eliminations from the premiere Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better event of the summer.

Tags: Matt Woodward

06-06-2013 00:19 UTC-7

"Even in Israel You'd be Bad"

Chad Holloway

Level 7 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Gavin Smith: / /
Yuval Bronshtein: / /

We arrived at Table 376 just in time to see Yuval Bronshtein, who appears to be our chip leader, put a bet out on seventh. Gavin Smith made the call only to muck when Bronshtein tabled the for a straight.

"I though you were a Hi-Low specialist?" Smith joked with Yuval.

"I caught good," Bronshtein responded. "I was going high that hand."

"I think even in Israel you'd be bad at this game," Smith ribbed.

"How would you know? You've never been to Israel, have you?" Bronshtein shot back.

"Twice," Smith replied without missing a beat.

Meanwhile, Steve Landfish's seat was empty at the table, which logic dictates that he has been eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yuval Bronshtein	54,000	6,000
Gavin Smith	30,000	-3,000
Steve Landfish	Busted

Tags: Gavin Smith Steve Landfish Yuval Bronshtein

06-05-2013 21:18 UTC-7

A Seven Card Stud: David Sklansky

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Level 4 : 300/600, 75 ante

Before the days of online poker training sites, books like The Theory of Poker and Tournament Poker For Advanced Players were the resources for any serious poker player. One of the first players to merge academics and poker, Sklansky's theories are still regarded as the basis of all advanced poker strategy. Go ahead and ask any world-class player--David Sklansky taught the world how to play professional poker.

His books and instructional videos elevated the game to a higher level, accurately detailing strategic concepts that only the top professionals knew at the time, most of them learning through thousands of hands of experience. Sklansky gave the recreational player a poker "tool-box," explaining concepts like pot odds, implied odds and gap theory in terms that they could easily understand. After reading his books, the more studious player could instantly apply his concepts at the table and begin to show a profit.

Sklansky, who plays mostly non-holdem events these days, is a contender in today's field and is going after the 4th bracelet of his career.

Tags: David Sklansky

06-05-2013 20:45 UTC-7

Is a Three-Decade Old Rematch in the Cards?

Chad Holloway

Level 4 : 300/600, 75 ante

A rematch from the 1983 WSOP Event #3 Limit Seven Card Stud Hi-Low.

Three decades ago Artie Cobb, who we told you a bit about earlier, took down the first of his four bracelets in the 1983 World Series of Poker Event #3 Limit Seven Card Stud Hi-Low. That event attracted 104 entries, which created a prize pool of $104,000.

Cobb defeated a young David Singer, who many remember as the 2003 WSOP Main Event ninth-place finisher, to capture that bracelet and the $52,000 first-place prize.

Both men are in today’s field, though they’re not seated together. We’re kind of hoping they might find themselves at the same table later in the tournament for an old-fashioned rematch. Only time will tell if that happens, but we’ll definitely be looking for it.

Here’s a look at that final table from 1983:

Place	Player	Winnings
1st	Artie Cobb	$52,000
2nd	David Singer	$20,800
3rd	Bill McCullogh	$10,400
4th	Gil Quantz	$6,240
5th	Johnny Moss	$4,160
6th	Pete Spotti	$4,160
7th	Arley Gann	$3,120
8th	Bob Schroder	$2,080

Tags: Artie Cobb David Singer

06-05-2013 19:43 UTC-7

A Seven Card Stud: Cory Zeidman

Chad Holloway

Level 3 : 300/600, 75 ante

Cory Zeidman has been around the poker world for a long time. His first cash came back in the 1997 World Series of Poker Event #4 $1,500 Limit Seven Card Stud when he finished eighth for $8,481. Since then, Zeidman has amassed nine WSOP cashes—seven of which have come in Stud event—for $335,451. Last year, Zeidman finally broke through when he took down Event #4 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better for $201,559 and his first gold bracelet.

Zeidman did so by defeating WSOP legend Chris Bjorin in heads-up play, which came at the end of a tough final table that included Brandon Shack-Harris (3rd - $84,415), Michael Mizrachi (5th - $41,447), Xuan Liu (6th - $29,985) and Todd Brunson (7th - $22,142). Interestingly, both Shack-Harris and Brunson are in today’s field (Brunson actually finished runner-up in this event last year).

There’s no doubt Zeidman is a formidable stud player, and after winning a bracelet in the game he’ll no doubt be remembered as one of the best. It should also help him shake the stigma as the guy who slow rolled Jennifer Harman with a straight flush in the 2005 WSOP. Remember this gem:

Tags: Cory Zeidman

06-05-2013 17:15 UTC-7

A Seven Card Stud: the Legendary Artie Cobb

Chad Holloway

Level 1 : 200/400, 50 ante

In this day and age of poker, it's easy to become infatuated with the "young guns" in the game. However, it's important to recognize those who helped pave the way to poker's popularity in the modern age. Case in point... four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Artie Cobb.

Born in 1942, Cobb is a living legend of the game. His first WSOP cash, of which he has 34 totaling $859,540, came all the way back in 1976 when he finished runner-up to Doc Greene in Event #5 $1,000 Limit Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo. Seven years later, Cobb won his first gold bracelet in the 1983 WSOP Event #3 $1,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo for $52,000 by defeating a final table that included Johnny Moss and David Singer.

Cobb's second bracelet came four years later in the 1987 WSOP Event #4 $5,000 Limit Seven Card Stud, good for $142,000. Toss in bracelet wins in the 1991 WSOP Event #13 $1,500 Limit Seven Card Stud for $148,400 and 1998 WSOP Event #10 $2,500 Limit Seven Card Stud for $152,000, and you have one of the most successful Seven Card Stud players that has ever lived (24 of his 34 cashes are in variations of Stud).

Cobb certainly has a storied career, and it's far from being over. In 2007 Cobb showed that he could still hang with the best by placing 21st in this very event. Today, Cobb is back in action and looking for his first gold bracelet in 15 years!

Tags: Artie Cobb

06-05-2013 16:02 UTC-7

Welcome to Event #13: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

Chad Holloway

The $5,000 buy-in events at the World Series of Poker are considered championship events of sorts, especially when they're held in a variation other than Texas hold'em. Today, the first non-hold'em $5,000 buy-in event kicks off with Event #13: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better, and we expect to see poker's best players turn out in force to compete for this prestigious title.

Last year, this event attracted a field of 212 players and created a prize pool of $996,400. The field was comprised of professionals from all over the world, but in the end the title went to Adam Friedman, who ironically had been featured in a Where Are They Now? piece on PokerNews just a few weeks prior to his win. Friedman let the world know exactly where he was and in dramatic fashion too as he defeated a final table that included Bryn Kenney (8th), Phil Ivey (7th), Nikolai Yakovenko (4th), John Monnette (3rd) and Todd Brunson (2nd).

Friedman will be back to defend his title, and we've already confirmed that Daniel Negreanu, David Bach (who has never cashed in a Stud 8 tournament), Tom Koral and even famed ESPN commentator Norman Chad will be playing today.

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I’ll play against the world’s best today at the WSOP $5,000 stud/8 event. My secret weapon: Odorless cologne, and a roll of Lifesavers.June 05 2013

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Of course there will be dozens more recognizable names by the time registration comes to a close. Action will kick off at 5:00 p.m. PST, and the plan is to play eight one-hour levels. Throw in an hour's worth of breaks, and that means we'll be playing to 2 a.m. PST. It's going to be a long night full of top-notch poker action, so be sure to join us in about in hour as we cover the premiere Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better event of the summer.

Tags: Adam Friedman