George Danzer and Gregor Derkowski are waiting for their table to open and have registered for the event. Thomas Butzhammer got in about half an hour ago. He was drawing to the nut low and wheel on a turn, but the river destroyed that plan and he folded to two bets. The other two players involved in the hand chopped the pot with versus .
Mike Gorodinsky had to top a field of 374 last year to win the $216,988 first-place prize and gold bracelet. Whoever wins this year will have to overcome an even bigger field.
Only three levels in and last year's number has been surpassed, as the tournament clock says the field currently stands at 403 players. Late registration is still open, so that number is sure to get bigger.
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It was the final hand of stud on the table and Lupe Soto completed with the showing. She called down all bets until seventh street and then mucked her cards. Soto's opponent showed a straight.
According to PokerNews' latest WSOP Player of the Year update, Justin Bonomo is out to an early lead in the 2014 World Series of Poker Player of the Year standings. Bonomo reached his eighth career final WSOP final table last week and finally claimed his first WSOP bracelet, removing his name from the list of the best players without poker's most prestigious piece of hardware.
Bonomo is followed closely in the standings by Brandon Shack-Harris, a cash game player who virtually came out of nowhere to win a bracelet of his own. Shack-Harris won the largest pot-limit Omaha event in Event #3, and followed that up with a runner-up finish in the $10,000 Razz Championship event.
Sitting third in the POY standings through 20 events is George Danzer, who defeated Shack-Harris heads-up in the Razz Championship on Sunday. It was also the first bracelet for Danzer, wideley considered one of the top mixed-games minds in the game.
Rounding out the top five through the first two weeks of the series are Brock Parker and Jonathan Dimmig. Parker picked up his third career bracelet in Event #10, and Dimmig collected the first seven-figure score of the 2014 WSOP with his victory in the Millionaire Maker.
WSOP PLAYER OF THE YEAR TOP 10 (through 20 events)
Place
Player
Points
1
Justin Bonomo
399.00
2
Brandon Shack-Harris
389.00
3
George Danzer
372.60
4
John Brock Parker
349.50
5
Jonathan Dimmig
300.00
5
Vanessa Selbst
300.00
7
Paul Volpe
272.25
8
Tuan Le
270.00
9
Kyle Cartwright
251.50
10
Jeffrey Smith
230.00
With more than 40 events still to come at the WSOP in Las Vegas, plus several events taking place later this year in Australia, the Player of the Year race is still wide open.
Mike "The Mouth" Matusow talked to PokerNews' Chad Holloway on the first break of Event #25: $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low. He talks about why it's his favorite event, his good start, and why he thinks Daniel Negreanu may have a little too much say when it comes to WSOP structures.
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showing. She called down all bets until seventh street and then mucked her cards. Soto's opponent showed a straight.
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