Event #18: $10,000 Seven-Card Razz Championship
Day 1 Started
2014 World Series of Poker
Event #18: $10,000 Seven-Card Razz Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2014 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$1,052,800
Entries
112
Level
24
Limits
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Biggest Ever Razz Tournament is Here!
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Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino and the 2014 World Series of Poker for the Event #18: $10,000 Seven-Card Razz Championship!
Today marks a massive day for all the razz fans out there in the poker world. Today marks the first time since 2009 that there has been an increase in the buy-in for the razz tournament. It is also the first time that two razz events have been featured on the same World Series of Poker schedule since 1977. However, the biggest note to this tournament is that today's $10,000 buy-in is the biggest razz buy-in since the 2003 $5,000 Razz tournament won by Huck Seed for $71,500 over Phil Ivey (2nd), Ted Forrest (3rd) and John Juanda (4th) — and, yes, they only played four places that year.
The earlier Event #7: $1,500 Seven-Card Razz tournament was won by Ted Forrest for $121,196 after he defeated Phil Hellmuth heads-up to grab his sixth WSOP bracelet. A total of 352 players took to the felt to try their hand at the game in Event #7, but today will more likely resemble the big buy-in small-field type events of roughly 100 players that the WSOP has become accustomed to in these non-hold'em and Omaha tournaments. Here is a look at the big buy-in events from the series so far.
| No. | Event | Champion (Prize) | Entrants |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | $25,000 Mixed Max No-Limit Hold'em | Vanessa Selbst ($871,148) | 131 |
| #5 | $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball | Tuan Le ($355,324) | 120 |
| #10 | $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low | Brock Parker ($443,407) | 178 |
| #13 | $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball | Paul Volpe ($253,524) | 87 |
| #18 | $10,000 Seven-Card Razz | ??? | ??? |
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Level: 1
Limits: 400/800
Ante: 100
Play Underway
Level 1
: 400/800, 100 ante
Cards are now in the air for Event #18!
Currently we have nine active tables of play with a further two set up for late entrants.
Here's Who's Playing!
Level 1
: 400/800, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
Take a Seat Ladies and Gentlemen
Level 1
: 400/800, 100 ante
Most $10,000 buy-in mixed game tournaments are always going to result in a stacked field, and being of the Razz variant, it's even more so the case as not too many people specialize in this variant of poker.
Located down in the Orange section of Amazon, on table 365 we find Brock Parker, Robert Mizrachi, Christopher George and Bryan Campanello seated together while on 364 we find Steven Gee, David Bach, Rep Porter, Barry Greenstein, Tom Schneider and Brian Hastings all in a row.
On 367 we find Matthew Ashton, Sebastian Pauli, Ali Eslami, Jeff Lisandro and Yuval Bronshtein to make another stacked table.
A Few Late Arrivals
Level 1
: 400/800, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
Rodawig Out Front Early
Level 1
: 400/800, 100 ante
Robert Mizrachi brought in and found a caller behind him before Brock Parker completed. Eric Rodawig raised to 800 and both the limper and Parker called. Parker bet fourth street with both players calling as Rodawig took the lead on fifth with only Parker calling before the recently anointed three-time WSOP bracelet winner folded on sixth.
Rodawig: (X-X) / 
Parker: (X-X) / 
Opponent: (X-X) / 
(folded on fifth)
As Rodawig was pushed the pot, he moved to just over 43,000 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
43,500 | -2,500 |
More Trickle In
Level 1
: 400/800, 100 ante
A few more players have trickled in slowly filling the empty seats on the existing tables.
We are currently at 61 players and still just nine tables in operation.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
Ivey Arrives, Loses
Level 1
: 400/800, 100 ante
Yuval Bronshtein completed over a Jeff Lisandro bring-in and both Matthew Ashton and Phil Ivey called as Lisandro folded. Bronshtein fired fourth, fifth and sixth streets with only Ivey calling him down until both players checked the river.
Bronshtein: (X-X) / 
/ (X)
Ivey: (X-X) / 
/ (X)
Bronshtein tabled his 
for a seven-six and scooped the pot once Ivey folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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32,200 | 2,200 |
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28,000 | -2,000 |