Event #53: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha
Day 1 Started
Event #53: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha
Day 1 Started
Today begins Event #53: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha (8-handed) at Bally's and Paris in Las Vegas. This prestigious event sees the best no-limit hold’em players and pot-limit omaha players alike come out to take their shot at WSOP glory and this year is expected to be bigger than last year.
In 2021, it was Finnish pro Eelis Parssinen who took down the bracelet at a stacked final table that included the likes of Niklas Astedt and David Prociak. A total of 579 players entered this tournament last year and Parssinen took home $545,616 for his victory, as well as his first bracelet.
Place | Player | Country | Prize |
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1 | Eelis Parssinen | Finland | $545,616 |
2 | Noah Bronstein | United States | $337,216 |
3 | Ezra Abu Gazal | United States | $239,321 |
4 | David Prociak | United States | $172,332 |
5 | Joni Jouhkimainen | Finland | $125,940 |
6 | Kyle Arora | United States | $93,425 |
7 | Niklas Astedt | Sweden | $70,367 |
8 | Vikranth Anga | India | $53,824 |
Parssinen will be looking to defend his title. Other players expected to throw their hats into the ring include defending WSOP POY Josh Arieh, Alex Livingston, Scott Seiver, and many other well known top poker pros.
Players begin with 50,000 in starting chips with blinds starting at 100/200 with a 200 big blind ante. Levels will last 30 minutes each with a 15-minute break after every four levels. Late registration will be open until the end of Level 12, which will be at about 9:45, and players will have the option to reenter twice. Twenty levels will be played today, after which the remaining players will bag up for the evening and return Sunday at 2 p.m. to play down to a winner.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for all updates regarding the World Series of Poker.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
The players have sat down in their seats and play has begun.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jan-Peter Jachtmann |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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Sylvain Naets |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Farid Jattin |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
LaDarren banks |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Uri Reichenstein |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Julien Sitbon |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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Nino Ullman |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Shaun Deeb | 50,000 | |
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Rob Wazwaz | 50,000 | |
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Dylan Weisman | 50,000 | |
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Joshua Stefansky | 50,000 | |
Shane Nardiello | 50,000 | |
Gaby Livshitz | 50,000 |
Hossein Ensan, winner of the 2019 Main Event at the World Series of Poker for $10,000,000 just took a seat in this event.
The Iranian-German player arrived in Las Vegas only days ago and his playing today his very first WSOP event of the series.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Hossein Ensan | 50,000 | |
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Very few in the poker world have the hustle during the World Series of Poker (WSOP) that Shaun Deeb has, which is why Deeb is the latest PokerNews WSOP Player of the Week.
At the halfway point in the series, Deeb has cashed 11 events for a total of $311,064 in earnings. Three of those cashes have been from deep runs in $10,000 buy-in championship events in just the past seven days.
Pot-Limit Omaha
Action was picked up on the turn in a pot between Jeremy Ausmus in the small blind, a player in the big blind, and one player in the hijack.
The board read and Ausmus bet 1,000 which folded out the player in the big blind and the player in the hijack called.
The river rolled off the and Ausmus sized up to 1,300 which his opponent called. "I have the nuts," stated Ausmus as he turned over for a turned nut straight and rivered nut flush. His opponent mucked and the four time bracelet winner took down an early pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jeremy Ausmus | 53,400 | |
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No-Limit Holdem
The player in the hijack raised to 700 and Andrew Barfield made a three-bet worth 2,200 in the cutoff. It folded back to the hijack who called.
The flop gave and it checked to Barfield who started to grab some chips for a bet but his opponent immediately sent his cards into the muck.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Andrew Barfield | 56,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300