Event #23: $2,500 Seven-Card Stud Day 1 | 2013 World Series of Poker

Event #23: $2,500 Seven-Card Stud

Day 1 Started

06-12-2013 15:26 UTC-7

Who Wants To Be a Stud?

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Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino and the 2013 World Series of Poker for Day 1 of the Event 23: $2,500 Seven-Card Stud. Last year’s World Series didn’t feature this buy-in for seven-card stud, but did have a $1,500 and $5,000 version which saw Andy Bloch better Barry Greenstein for $126,363 in the former, and John Monnette captured $190,826 for beating Huu Vinh in the latter. Vinh also also managed a fifth place in the one Bloch won.

The likes of David Williams, Stephen Su, Timothy Finne, Perry Friedman, Jeffrey Lisandro and Bryn Kenney each made the final of one of those events, and these players — as well as many other notable pros and amateurs — are expected to take to the felt later today.

With a total of four events running today, the three that already have cards in the air will more than likely feature a plethora of players that will be planning on playing Event 23. You can expect a continuous influx of competitors until registration closes at 9:40 p.m. as we are down to the final day of Event 20: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low 8-or-Better, the penultimate day of the Event 21: $3,000 Six-Handed and the start of Event 22: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha.

Event 23 is set to kick off at 5:00 p.m. local time with the PokerNews Live Reporting Team providing continuous live updates throughout the day of every split pair, rolled up aces and lucky seventh street, so stay tuned!

Level: 1

Limits: 25/75

Ante: 25

06-12-2013 17:14 UTC-7

Kobe Honors Buss with "Shuffle Up and Deal"

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Level 1 : 25/75, 25 ante

Before the cards hit the air, WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel made an announcement regarding the late Jerry Buss.

For Buss, Seven Card Stud was one of his favorite games to play whether it be here at the WSOP or in his loyal cash games in Los Angeles. After Effel uttered a few kind words, he handed the microphone to Chad Brown who shared a story about Buss when they were playing $400-800 Stud back in the early nineties and how they both helped each other through their health battles.

Effel then directed everyone's attention to the screen where Kobe Bryant had recorded a video message.

"Tonight lets honor the late, great Dr Jerry Buss. Player's shuffle up and deal!"

And with that the cards were in the air!

Tags: Jerry Buss Chad Brown Jack Effel Kobe Bryant

06-12-2013 17:16 UTC-7

Plan for the Night

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Level 1 : 25/75, 25 ante

The plan for tonight's tournament is that the players will endure 8 levels lasting 60-minutes each before they bag and tag for the night.

Each player is starting with 7,500 in chips and so far there are 25 tables in use with another few set up for the long list of late registrations that we are expecting.

06-12-2013 17:19 UTC-7

A Few of the Players

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Level 1 : 25/75, 25 ante

With the tournament located snuggly in the back corner of the Amazon room, here is the first round of players that have been spotted.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mel Judah	7,500	7,500
Scott Fischman	7,500	7,500
Chip Jett	7,500	7,500
Owais Ahmed	7,500	7,500
Cory Zeidman	7,500	7,500
Freddie Ellis	7,500	7,500
George Danzer	7,500	7,500
Jeffrey Lisandro	7,500	7,500
Mike Leah	7,500	7,500
Gary Benson	7,500	7,500
Daniel Negreanu	7,500	7,500
Ted Forrest	7,500	7,500

06-12-2013 17:24 UTC-7

More Arrivals

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Level 1 : 25/75, 25 ante

And the notables continue to be spotted throughout the orange section here in the Amazon room.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dutch Boyd	7,500
Barry Greenstein	7,500
Cyndy Violette	7,500
Dario Minieri	7,500
Martin Staszko	7,500
Al Barbieri	7,500
Yuval Bronshtein	7,500
John Hennigan	7,500
John Cernuto	7,500
David Bach	7,500
Perry Friedman	7,500
Phil Ivey	7,500
Aaron Steury	7,500
Nacho Barbero	7,500
Chad Brown	7,500
Allen Kessler	7,500
Abe Mosseri	7,500

06-12-2013 17:31 UTC-7

"We playing Stud Hi-Lo?"

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Level 1 : 25/75, 25 ante

Cory Zeidman completed with the and found one caller.

Zeidman caught a low card and bet again before cheekily uttering, "we're playing stud hi-lo right?"

His table mate Cyndy Violette laughed as Zeidman was obviously referencing to his bracelet win in Event 4: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo last year for $201,559.

Tags: Cory Zeidman Cyndy Violette

06-12-2013 17:38 UTC-7

They Keep Rolling In

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Level 1 : 25/75, 25 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Scott Seiver	7,500
Frank Kassela	7,500
Konstantin Puchkov	7,500
Mori Eskandani	7,500
Rex Clinkscales	7,500
Chris Tryba	7,500
Andre Akkari	7,500
Sam Grizzle	7,500
Eugene Katchalov	7,500
Bryan Micon	7,500
David Levi	7,500
David Singer	7,500
Adam Friedman	7,500

06-12-2013 17:53 UTC-7

Lazy Quads for Negreanu

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Level 1 : 25/75, 25 ante

Daniel Negreanu completed before a new arrival at the table on his immediate left bumped it up. Negreanu just called, before calling a bet on fourth before he bet out on fifth. His opponent raised, Negreanu made it 450 and was called before his lone bet on sixth was called as both player's boards read as follows.

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