Event #21: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em (Six Handed) Day 1 | 2013 World Series of Poker

06-12-2013 01:24 UTC-7

Day One of Event #21: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’Em (Six-Handed) is Complete

[user253053]

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

Day one of Event #21: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’Em (Six-Handed) is in the books. The unofficial chip leader after 10 levels of play is Jesse Wilkie with 187,700 in chips. He leads the 129 players who remain from the starting field of 807.

Following Wilkie are Victor Ramdin (184,000), Ryan Olisar (154,500), Danny [Removed:376] (140,000), Scott Seiver (132,000), and Maurice Hawkins (100,500). Phil Ivey and Phil Hellmuth both survived late into the day, but both were knocked out and will have to wait until another day to add to their bracelet count.

Only 90 players will be paid, so 39 who return for day two will walk away empty-handed, but all players still in the tournament surely have their eyes firmly fixed on winning the $506,764 first prize and the coveted World Series of Poker gold bracelet.

Play resumes at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Rio. PokerNews.com will be here all day to bring you live updates as Event #21 continues.

06-12-2013 00:46 UTC-7

Ivey Out

MrCleverFox

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

In a span of just a few hands Phil Ivey has left us. On the first hand we saw Ivey call off most of his stack on a board of . For just about 80 percent of his chips, Ivey called, then mucked when his opponent showed .

It took a few hands for Ivey to get the rest of his chips in but when he did it was from under the gun. Ivey moved his last 2,000 chips in and a player reraised to 4,800 from the cutoff. He wasn't called and he pulled back the excess bet.

Ivey was holding and was looking to catch up against his opponents .

The board ran out and there wasn't any help for Ivey. He was eliminated and quickly left the Brasilia room.

Tags: Phil Ivey

06-12-2013 00:33 UTC-7

You Can Hit Me Once, But Not Twice!

MrCleverFox

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

Randy Dorfman is gone from the field and here's what happened and the aftermath:

William Reynolds opened from the hijack seat to 1,600. From the cutoff, Scott Seiver raised to 3,800. Dorfman moved all in from the small blind. The player in the big blind tanked for a while before folding. Reynolds folded. As the last player to act, Seiver made the call.

Seiver:
Dorfman:

"Please," Dorfman pleaded upon seeing the hands. "Let me suck out one time in 2013."

The flop came and Dorfman was very pleased to see the flop.

"Finally!" he said. "I got one suck out this year."

The turn was the keeping Dorfman in the lead, but the river was the , giving the lead back to Seiver.

Dorfman was very upset with this river. Seiver stood up and attempted to hug Dorfman as a consolation prize.

"You can hit me once," he told Dorfman. Dorfman obliged and hit Seiver, but then stood up and tried to hit him again. "But you can't hit me twice!" he shouted trying to get away.

"That didn't count," Dorfman said chasing after Seiver.

"That definitely didn't count kid," Antonio Esfandiari said from one table over.

After all was said and done, Dorfman may have hit Seiver, but Seiver has definitely been getting hit with the deck and has one of the biggest stacks in the room.

"How do you do it?" Dorfman asked Seiver.

"Do what?" Seiver asked. "I just sit here and wait for good cards."

Player	Chips	Progress
Scott Seiver	120,000	25,000
Randy Dorfman	Busted

06-11-2013 23:39 UTC-7

Gottesman Gets the Best of Hellmuth

MrCleverFox

Level 9 : 300/600, 75 ante

We didn't see the hand but Josh Gottesman was kind enough to relay to us how he eliminated Phil Hellmuth.

According to Gottesman he checked a flop of to Hellmuth who bet 2,200. Gottesman raised to 5,500 and Hellmuth shoved all in over the top for about 20,000 more.

Gottesman called with while Hellmuth was behind with . The turn was the and the river was the eliminating Hellmuth from the tournament.

Hellmuth was heard mumbling expletives about getting coolered every day as he left the building.

Player	Chips	Progress
Josh Gottesman	100,500

06-11-2013 22:49 UTC-7

Esfandiari Busts Polychronopoulos

[user253053]

Level 9 : 300/600, 75 ante

Athanasios Polychronopoulos, winner of Event #17 at this year's World Series of Poker, pushed all-in for his last 8,675 pre-flop, and action folded around to Antonio Esfandiari in the big blind. Esfandiari squeezed for dramatic effect, looking only at one card first, then holding his cards above the felt and slightly flashing a king on the bottom. He then looked at the other card, thought for a moment, and threw in chips for a call. Polychronopoulos turned over and was slightly ahead of Esfandiari's . The board rolled out , giving Esfandiari a king-high straight and eliminated Polychronopoulos from the tournament. After the hand, Esfandiari had 65,500 chips in front of him.

Player	Chips	Progress
Antonio Esfandiari	65,500	52,500
Athanasios Polychronopoulos	Busted

Tags: Antonio Esfandiari Athanasios Polychronopoulos

06-11-2013 20:45 UTC-7

An Orbit With Phil Ivey

MrCleverFox

Level 7 : 200/400, 50 ante

What's it like to be Phil Ivey? We shadowed Ivey at his table for a full orbit to see what it's like to be in his shoes. Here's what we saw:

Before any action had started, Jason Mercier walked over to Ivey's table and handed him a stack of $100 bills. Ivey looked confused for a bit, but then asked, "Who do you like for the next game?" which got both men laughing.

Chip count to begin orbit: 27,950

Hand #1: Action folded to Ivey in the cutoff. He raised to 800 and won the pot.

Hand #2: Action folded to Ivey in the hijack seat. He raised to 800. Nick Evans was on the button, he moved all in for 3,975. Action folded back to Ivey and he made the call. Evans showed . "Boom!" Ivey said turning over his . "I'm happy to see that," he said.

The flop fell . "Not now," he said immediately after see the flop.

The turn and river were both bricks for Ivey and he shipped over the chips.

Hand #3: From under the gun Ivey raised to 800. The player directly to his left raised to 2,000. Action folded back to Ivey who made the call.

The flop was and both players checked. The turn was the and Ivey checked again, only to see his opponent raise to 2,700. Ivey put in a check raise to 8,000 and his opponent folded without much thought.

Hand #4: Nick Evans raised to 800 from the hijack seat. Action folded around to Ivey in the big blind who also folded.

Hand #5: Action folded to Phil Ivey in the small blind who raised to 1,000. He found no resistance and won the pot.

Hand #6: Dan O'Brien raised to 800 after everyone folded. Ivey folded his button and both blinds folded awarding O'Brien the pot.

Hand #7: Back in the cutoff, Ivey raised to 800 when action was folded to him. Everyone else folded and Ivey scooped another pot.

Chip count to end the orbit: 31,325

06-11-2013 19:14 UTC-7

Controversy On Table 35 Leads Into the Break

donpeters

Level 6 : 150/300, 25 ante

A little bit of controversy has brewed up at Table 35 in the Silver Section of the Brasilia Room, the table that includes Jason Mercier, Lee Childs and William Reynolds. The incident involves the latter of these three and another unknown player.

Reynolds lost a pot right before the dinner break, and he wasn't too happy about it. Although we don't have the exact details of the hand, the board had four hearts on it, and Reynolds' opponent showed the for a heart flush. At first, he showed just the before waiting a few moments to show his second card. Reynolds couldn't beat it and mucked his hand, but made sure to chime in with his thoughts.

"Congratulations, you've won the award for being the worst player I've played with all day," said Reynolds sarcastically.

At first, his opponent didn't say anything, but Reynolds followed up with a few other things that were unable to be heard. His opponent eventually snapped back and said he wasn't happy with what Reynolds was saying and that he needed to stop. The two then jawed a bit more, before Reynolds' opponent said something to the tone of, "If you want, we can take this outside on the break," while motioning to the door. By all accounts, he seemed very serious.

Reynolds seemed to laugh at the player, and jawed back a bit more. For the next couple of minutes, a few more exchanges were made, but then things got a bit more heated right when the clock rolled over into the break.

While Reynolds was stacking his chips and packing up his things in his chair, his opponent came around the table (he was seated in the two seat and Reynolds in the six seat). He started talking with a bit more fire, somewhat hovering over Reynolds. It seemed the player was challenging Reynolds to go outside, and Reynolds began mimicking talking motions with both of his hands, saying, "Keep yapping! Keep yapping!"

Eventually after a bit more jawing, the player walked away from the table and out into the hallway for break, but not without the two yelling a bit more to each other as the distance grew larger between them. Reynolds stayed back a little bit, collected his things, and then went his own way. We'll keep you posted as to any upcoming developments on this incident.

Tags: Jason Mercier Lee Childs William Reynolds

06-11-2013 11:50 UTC-7

Event #21: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em / Six-Handed Set to Begin!

MrCleverFox

Welcome to Day 1 of Event #21: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed! Last year, this event attracted 924 participants, creating a prize pool of over $2.5 million. Simon Charette won the event, taking home a first-place prize of $567,624. We’ll have to wait a few hours until late registration

This is the third six-handed no-limit hold’em event at the 2013 World Series of Poker, and thus far it has the biggest buy-in. Later in the summer, however, players will contest the $25,000 six-handed event, a new addition to the WSOP schedule this year, and today’s $3,000 buy-in event will act as a prelude to that much anticipated tournament.

Event #21 will begin at 1 p.m. local time. Players will begin with 9,000 in chips and are scheduled to complete 10 levels of play. PokerNews.com be here all day bringing you live coverage straight from the Rio Las Vegas.