Event #20: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Day 1 | 2019 World Series of Poker

06-08-2019 02:21 UTC-7

Negreanu Amongst the Day 1 Chip Leaders in $1,500 Seven Card Stud

Matthew Pitt

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Day 1 of Event #20: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud is complete! It was quite an array of characters who came to the Amazon Room to play in the first stud event on the 2019 WSOP schedule. By night’s end, it was David Singer (69,000), Pawel Andrzejewski (57,500), Daniel Negreanu (56,900) and Julien Martini (56,400) whose names were atop the leaderboard going into Day 2.

Other notable players making it through to Day 2 included Jeff Lisandro (36,800), who finished second in this event last year, Dan Heimiller (44,000), and James Brundige (39,700), who had the chip lead for much of the day.
A total of 285 players registered for the event, and players coming back for Day 2 will return to the Rio for the restart at 2 p.m. Saturday. The remaining field of 103 will narrow down as players battle it out for the WSOP bracelet and first-place prize of $93,766.

Late registration lasted through Level 8 on Day 1, and Negreanu, Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi, and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson were among the players that arrived late. Negreanu and Ferguson made it through, but it was a short night for Mizrachi, who busted out just a couple of hours after showing up.

Other big names that didn’t make it through Day 1 include WSOP bracelet winners Benny Glaser, Rod Pardey Sr., and David Bach.

The field was filled with WSOP bracelet winners on Day 1, and making through the remainder of this tournament will be no easy task. Ten more 60-minute levels are planned on Saturday for Day 2, with the top 43 players finishing in the money. The event is scheduled to play down to six players Sunday on Day 3. The final table will commence on Monday, June 10, and the $1,500 Seven Card Stud champion will be crowned!

Stay with the PokerNews live reporting team throughout this event and follow your favorite players as they battle for the bracelet.

06-08-2019 00:28 UTC-7

Friedman Firing Up

GeoffFisk

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Perry Friedman has been short stacked through much of the latter levels of Day 1, but he's up to 28000 after calling down on the final two streets and taking down a pot.

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Friedman told his opponent he was "playing defense" with those final calls, and whatever Friedman was up it worked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Perry Friedman	28,000	7,900

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06-07-2019 23:40 UTC-7

Elezra Hits the Straight to Scoop

GeoffFisk

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

A rowdy table that included Eli Elezra, Dan Heimiller and Mike "The Grinder" Mizrachi has just been broken up, but Elezra chipped up on the table's very last hand.

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Dan Heimiller: //
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Heimiller led out on fourth street, getting raised by the third player. Elezra called the raise, as did Heimiller. The action checked through on fifth street.

Heimiller led out again on sixth street, with both players calling. Heimiller folded on seventh street, however, and Elezra called the third player's final bet and showed the eight-to-queen straight to take down a massive pot.

The players racked up before their chip counts could be calculated.

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06-07-2019 23:15 UTC-7

Negreanu, Mizrachi Enter the Fray

GeoffFisk

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Late registration will last another 30 minutes, until the end of Level 8. Some of poker's finest have arrived in the late stages of Day 1, including Daniel Negreanu, Mike "The Grinder " Mizrachi, and Mike Sexton.

06-07-2019 22:20 UTC-7

Lisandro Sends Opponent Steaming to the Rail

GeoffFisk

Level 7 : 400/800, 100 ante

Jeff Lisandro and an all-in opponent turned over their cards on fifth street.

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It turned out to be quite a race. Lisandro's rolled-up were ahead of the opponent's on fifth street, but the at-risk player pulled ahead when another appeared on sixth street. Lisandro won the war, however, with running jacks coming in on his final two cards to give him the full house .

The eliminated opponent was not happy about this, but he now has a story about being eliminated by one of the best seven-card stud players of all time.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeff Lisandro	24,000	6,000

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06-07-2019 20:54 UTC-7

Old School Stud with Rod Pardey Sr.

GeoffFisk

Level 6 : 300/600, 100 ante

Rod Pardey Sr. has been a stud specialist for more than four decades, and he's still going strong, currently sitting around the starting stack of 10,000 in the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event.

Pardey's stud prowess goes all the way back to the 1981 Amarillo Slim Super Bowl of Poker, where Pardey finished third in the $5,000 Seven Card Stud event. He has a pair of WSOP bracelets to his name, which came in 1991 and 1994, both in the $2,500 Seven Card Stud event.

Stud is a game that attracts some of the legendary characters of poker, and Pardey is about as old school as it gets. He has amassed more than $700,000 in live tournament earnings, the vast majority of those winnings coming in stud events.

His biggest cash, however, came just four years ago, at the 2015 WSOP in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Super Seniors Event, where he finished second and bagged $162,100.

His son, Rod Pardey Jr., is also playing in this year's $1,500 Seven Card Stud event,

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06-07-2019 20:10 UTC-7

Glaser Takes a Hit

GeoffFisk

Level 5 : 250/500, 50 ante

Three-time bracelet winner Benny Glaser is still above the starting stack, but his numbers just took a hit.

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Glaser bet on fourth street, and fired another bet on fifth street, which his opponent raised. The opponent took the betting lead on the final two streets, getting called down by Glaser. Glaser mucked when he saw the turned over by his opponent.

Player	Chips	Progress
Benny Glaser	13,200	-5,800

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06-07-2019 17:31 UTC-7

Legendary Lisandro is in the Building

GeoffFisk

Level 3 : 200/400, 50 ante

Players at Amazon Purple #455 know they're sitting with one of poker's finest with Jeff Lisandro at the table.

Lisandro's enjoyed success across all forms of poker in his storied career, and he's always a threat in stud. The six-time bracelet winner was the runner-up in last year's $1,500 Seven Card Stud event, and a look at his career results reveals consistent success in this venerable poker variant.

Four of the Australian's six WSOP bracelets have come in stud events, including three at the 2009 WSOP. Lisandro won WSOP Player of the Year in 2009, on the back of bracelet wins in $1,500 Seven Card Stud (this very event), $2,500 Razz and $10,000 Seven Card Stud 8-or-Better. He also won a bracelet at the 2007 WSOP in the $2,000 Seven Card Stud event.

Lisandro's career tournament earnings sit at $5,626,956, and he's always a threat to add to that total when he sits in on a stud event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeff Lisandro	10,000	500

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06-07-2019 15:49 UTC-7

Kessler Gives a Free Lesson

GeoffFisk

Level 1 : 100/200, 25 ante

A player who is new to stud is seated to Allen Kessler's right, and the veteran poker player is graciously answering the player's questions about the betting rules of the game.

Kessler is a great player to learn from, as he's enjoyed success in stud tournaments at the WSOP and elsewhere for years. Kessler's best career finish came in the $10,000 Stud Hi-Lo 8 Championships at the 2010 WSOP, where he finished second for $276,485.

The man known as "Chainsaw" is a fixture at the WSOP in general, consistently competing in stud, hold'em, omaha, mixed-game events and just about every other poker variant. Kessler finished eighth in the 2014 $50,000 Players Championship for $134,101, and finished ninth in the $10,000 Razz Championship at the 2018 WSOP for $25,564.

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