Break Time
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Players are on their first 30-minute break of the day, play will resume with Level 3 on the other side.
2019 World Series of Poker
Event #32: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2019 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$5,324,400
Entries
5,916
Level
40
Blinds
600,000 / 1,200,000
Ante
1,200,000
Smith Had It All the Way
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
At the risk of giving the ending away with the title, Kevin Smith just won a pot of over 13,000 against Roger Bull and one other player. On a flop of 
, Smith checked, the third player bet 700 and Bull raised to 1,500. Back to big blind Smith, who made the call, then check-called the following 
turn bet - a further 2,000. On the 
river, Smith turned it round, leading out for 3,000.
"I have two pair," said Bull, as he called. "You rivered me?"
The answer was the definitive "no" as Smith turned over 
for the flopped flush.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
32,000 | 32,000 |
Enright Up to 30k
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Barbara Enright, from the hijack, called a middle position open.
The flop came 
, and the middle position player put out a 1,600 bet, which Enright called. The turn came the and Enright faced a check. The three-time WSOP bracelet winner took advantage and fired a bet for 3,000, forcing a fold from her opponent.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
Assorted Chip Counts
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
32,000 | 32,000 |
|
24,000 | 24,000 |
|
23,000 | 1,000 |
|
21,000 | 21,000 |
|
16,500 | -3,500 |
|
|
12,000 | -8,000 |
Last Year's Super Seniors Finalist Iwaniak Back in Action
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Linda Iwaniak’s road to this year’s Seniors event has had its rocky moments, and those of triumph. Iwaniak and her husband Richard had planned to come to play poker in Las Vegas several years ago, but he became ill and sadly passed away before the trip could happen.
Iwaniak, who has enjoyed prior tournament success both in her home country of England (where she is a popular stalwart on the APAT tournament circuit) and Stateside, made the trip herself more than once, however, finishing fourth last year in the Super Seniors to take home her biggest ever cash of $103,215 and cashing in the Seniors too for good measure.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
22,300 | 22,300 |
Singer Among the Best in the Field
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Players seated at David Singer's table are competing against a man with four decades of proven results.
Singer's first cash came at the 1978 WSOP, where he finished second in the $1,000 Seven-Card Razz event for $9,600. He started becoming a fixture at the WSOP in the early 2000s, making the final table of the 2003 WSOP Main Event and finishing 9th in the year that Chris Moneymaker won the championship.
Fast forward to the 2010s and Singer is still at it, and he comes into this event on the heels of a sixth-place finish in the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud event. His career is filled with money finish across multiple poker variants, with plenty of success in No-Limit Hold'em. His career earnings currently stand at $4,452,965, and perhaps he will add to that total in this year's $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
22,000 | 22,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Bracelets and Hall of Fame Entries Dot the Field
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
You never know what sort of line-up a start of day table draw will give you. Sometimes the Seniors event can seat a first-time WSOP player next to bracelet winners and formidable high stakes greats of the game.
Tom McEvoy is currently playing on a table full of gregarious characters in the corner of Brasilia. The author, player and member of the Poker Hall of Fame is certainly one of the tough spots. The winner of the WSOP Main Event in 1983, McEvoy has won a total of four bracelets to date and is looking for a fifth this week.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
20,000 | 20,000 |
|
20,000 | 20,000 |
|
20,000 | 20,000 |
|
20,000 | 20,000 |
|
20,000 | 20,000 |
|
20,000 | 20,000 |
|
20,000 | 20,000 |
|
|
20,000 | 20,000 |
The Big 50
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Thousands of grinders meeting the minimum age requirement of 50 years old have packed the Rio Convention Center for what could be the biggest WSOP seniors event of all time.
Registration is already over the 4,400 players mark, and late registration runs until the end of Level 8, so there's still about 10 hours left for the field to get even bigger. The cavernous Pavilion Room is entirely filled with players for this event, the Brasilia and Miranda rooms are at capacity, and most of the tables in the Amazon Room are currently dedicated to the seniors.
With all players eligible for one re-entry, the 2019 Seniors No-Limit event is on pace to break last year's all-time record of
5,919 entries. The 2018 champion, Matthew Davis, took home a $662,983 first-place prize, and that total could very well be even bigger when this year's champion is determined.
Players Didn't Arrive on Time to Just Watch the Action
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
This year's Seniors Event features an increased starting stack of 20,000 (the announcement of which today was met with a warm round of applause). A first round of the Brasilia room - a cavernous sea of seats taken up wholly by the seniors today - saw action in every corner.
Paul W. Lee was just one of the players putting their stack to use with the blinds just 100/100: He called an early position preflop raise to 300 in position, as did the big blind. On a flop of 
, the initial raiser followed up with a bet of 600, again called in both spots. When the 
arrived on the turn, the initial raiser check-folded to Lee's 1,600 bet, while the player in the big blind called. The big blind checked the 
river and Lee threw out a hefty 6,000 bet that was good to take the pot down.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
24,000 | 24,000 |