A couple of tables in the Amazon Room Purple section were playing heads-up seven-card stud for a few hands, as much of the field is just now starting to fill in the empty seats. Late registration runs through the first eight levels today, and this event should draw some of poker's most colorful characters as Day 1 marches on.
Level 1 has started, and we're off! This event will play through ten 60-minute levels today.
Level: 1
Limits: 100/200
Ante: 25
The first seven-card stud event on the 2019 WSOP schedule is here, as Event #20: $1,500 Seven Card Stud is set to start today! The cards will go in the air at 3 p.m., and the Day 1 field will play 60 minute levels through Level 10, with 15-minute breaks after every two levels.
Steven Albini won this event in 2018, outlasting a field of 310 entrants to take down the WSOP bracelet and first-place prize of $418,500. Albini topped a start-studded lineup of players that finished deep in the tournament, and came away with the win at a final table that included a pair of six-time bracelet winners in Jeff Lisandro and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, along with two-time bracelet winner Frankie O’Dell.
The heads-up battle for the bracelet came down to Albini and Lisandro, with Albini taking home his first gold bracelet after a two-hour match.
This $1,500 buy-in event is the first of several stud events on the WSOP schedule for 2019:
June 7 - Event #20: $1,500 Seven Card Stud
June 10 - Event #27: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better
June 17 - Event #41: $10,000 Seven Card Stud
June 23 - Event #54: 1,500 Razz
June 26 - Event #62: $10,000 Razz
June 30 - Event #67: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better
Stud is still alive and well at the WSOP, and in addition to these dedicated stud events, the game is also part of numerous mixed-game events on the 2019 schedule.
Event #20: $1,500 Seven Card Stud is sure to draw a field full of some of the games most popular players; past winners in WSOP stud events include Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Lisandro and Eli Elezra. Bertrand Grospelier and Ben Yu were among the players that finished in the money in this event last year, and the 2019 edition of this tournament will no doubt be s star-studded affair
Be sure to stay with the PokerNews live reporting team to follow along with all of the Day 1 action!
Event #20: $1,500 Seven Card Stud
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