Event #10: $10,000 Dealer's Choice 6-Handed Championship
Day 2 Started
Event #10: $10,000 Dealer's Choice 6-Handed Championship
Day 2 Started
The 2022 WSOP at Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas is gearing up for the conclusion of the most challenging mixed game competition and the registration for Event #10: $10,000 Dealer's Choice 6-Handed Championship will close when Day 2 gets underway at 2pm local time.
For the first time since 2018, the winner of this very event will not be Adam Friedman after the champion of the last three editions was eliminated on Day 1 and won't be able to claim the title for the fourth time in a row.
So far, the tournament has attracted 113 entries in this freezeout format and that makes it the third-biggest field thus far. However, a potential record would require only ten new entries prior to the start at 2pm local time and several high-profile mixed game players could still join the fray.
Leading the 51 Day 1 survivors into the penultimate tournament day is Portuguese mixed game specialist Joao Vieira with a stack of 425,000 and he is closely followed by Mike Gorodinsk with 401,500. Another trio of players is closely bunched together including Nacho Barbero (269,500), Richard Ashby (250,500) and Jean-Robert Bellande (249,000).
Position | Player | Country | Chip Count |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 425,000 |
2 | Mike Gorodinsky | United States | 401,500 |
3 | Nacho Barbero | Argentina | 269,500 |
4 | Richard Ashby | United Kingdom | 250,500 |
5 | Jean-Robert Bellande | United States | 249,000 |
6 | Matthew Schreiber | United States | 245,500 |
7 | Naoya Kihara | Japan | 223,500 |
8 | Ian O'Hara | United States | 188,000 |
9 | Maxx Coleman | United States | 187,500 |
10 | Jordan Siegel | United States | 182,000 |
The overnight top ten also includes the likes of Naoya Kihara and Ian O'Hara with Jeff Madsen and David Benyamine trailing only a few big bets behind. Multiple bracelet winners Shaun Deeb (162,500) and Phil Hellmuth (87,000) will also aim to add the title to their resume and finish one spot higher with Friedman now out of the equation. Unlike his last minute entry prior to the start of Day 2 in 2021, 16-time WSOP bracelet winner Hellmuth this time entered in the final levels on Day 1 and returns with a small profit.
All last minute additions to the field will enter Day 2 with a stack of 60,000 in the Paris Ballroom in which the action resumes at 2pm local time. The returning limits for flop, stud and draw games will be 4,000-8,000 while the no-limit and pot-limit games recommence at blinds of 1,000-2,000. In total, there are 20 different variants in the rotation and the player on the button gets to pick the game every orbit.
As of Day 2, the levels will last 90 minutes each and seven of them are scheduled for today with a 15-minute break after every level and a 60-minute break upon completion of level 14.
Stay tuned right here on PokerNews as the live reporting team will deliver all the mixed game action to your screens en route to crowning a new champion in Event #10: $10,000 Dealer's Choice 6-Handed Championship.
Level: 11
Limit Flop / Draw: 2,000/4,000, 4,000/8,000 limits
Stud Games: 1,000 ante, 1,000 bring-in, 4,000 completion, 4,000/8,000 limits
No-Limit & Pot-Limit: 2,000/3,000 ante, 1,000/2,000 blinds
Day 2 is underway with the tournament clock now showing 123 entries at the close of registration.
This total breaks the former record of 122 for the largest number of entries in the WSOP $10,000 Dealer's Choice event.
At least 11 new entries have emerged and they boosted the field to 123 entries. However, one more new player is expected to join the action shortly according to floor staff.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ben Yu
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Nick Schulman
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Paul Volpe
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Matt Glantz | 60,000 | 60,000 |
John Lytle | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Phil Galfond
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Bariscan Betil | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Nick Pupillo
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Mike Noori
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Brandon Shack-Harris
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Sean Perry | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Badacey
Yueqi "Rich" Zhu was just seen standing and leaving the tournament area following a hand with newcomer to the tournament Paul Volpe.
Zhu showed , while Volpe showed for a six-six to eliminate Zhu and get an early bump to his stack.
Meanwhile, at an adjacent table, Erik Sagstrom was also eliminated at the hands of Jake Schwartz.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jake Schwartz | 120,000 | 36,500 |
Paul Volpe
|
71,000 | 11,000 |
Yueqi Zhu
|
Busted | |
Erik Sagstrom | Busted |
Badeucey
Eli Elezra and Jesse Klein have been eliminated early on Day 2 and the latter fell to Shaun Deeb in a Badeucey hand. Klein was already out of his chair and studied his cards while Deeb tabled the / for a Six-Dugi and an eighty-six, which was good enough to scoop the entire pot. It appears that Klein had an eighty-seven but he only flashed the cards briefly before tossing them into the muck.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Shaun Deeb
|
220,000 | 57,500 |
Eli Elezra
|
Busted | |
Jesse Klein
|
Busted |
No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw
Christopher Claassen raised to 5,000 and then called the shove by Nathan Gamble for 37,000. Both discarded one card and already turned over their rest of the board.
Nathan Gamble:
Christopher Claassen:
Gamble spiked the to lock up the double while Claassen paired his to drop just behind Gamble on the leaderboard.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Nathan Gamble
|
80,000 | 29,000 |
Christopher Claassen | 75,000 | -27,000 |
Badacey
With multiple bets each in front of Phil Hellmuth, Maxx Coleman, and Kristijonas Andrulis, three huge hands were revealed, with Andrulis coming away with the best of it.
Kristijonas Andrulis:
Maxx Coleman:
Phil Hellmuth:
Andrulis nabbed half the pot with an ace-to-five wheel, while Coleman and Hellmuth would have to settle for a quarter each with their matching five-four-two-one Badugis.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Maxx Coleman
|
147,000 | -40,500 |
Phil Hellmuth
|
102,000 | 15,000 |
Kristijonas Andrulis | 94,000 | 13,500 |
John Lytle was eliminated by Christopher Claassen in a Stud variant and the last hand then brought more chips to Nathan Gamble. His final board showed as the cards were already meshed to showcase the hand strength and it beat a pair of kings by Jesse McGinty.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Christopher Claassen | 120,000 | 45,000 |
Nathan Gamble
|
115,500 | 35,500 |
Jesse McGinty | 60,000 | -12,000 |
John Lytle | Busted |