Level 16
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 7,500 ante
The remaining 53 players have been sent on a 60-minute dinner break. They will return to blinds of 4,000/8,000 with a 12,000 ante.
2023 World Series of Poker
Event #60: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
2023 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$731,580
Entries
548
Level
31
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
300,000
Entries
159
Players Left
24
Level 16
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 7,500 ante
With its ever-growing backlog of deserving players and industry professionals waiting for their time to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, some players are calling for changes to the nomination and induction process.
One of those players is Daniel Negreanu, poker's biggest ambassador and himself a member of the Poker Hall of Fame who was inducted in 2014. Negreanu has long called for overhauls to the Poker Hall of Fame nomination process and renewed his calls this week on his daily vlog during the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP).
"How I would fix the Hall of Fame is this: every single year, two players get in — players, not contributors," Negreanu told his vlog viewers. "Every single year, two players get in. Every third year ... we add an additional third person who is a contributor to the game. That would be the Isai Scheinbergs and the Matt Savages of the world. Every three years, one of them would get in. That way, we don't have to constantly compare apples to oranges."
Level: 17
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 12,000
Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 12,000 ante
Taylor Paur raised 17,000 from early position and Matt Vengrin called from middle position.
Each player discarded one, then Vengrin bet 35,000, and Paur check-raised all in for 111,000.
Vengrin tanked for two minutes and asked again how much the all-in was for, while Paur's stare burned a hole in the baize. Vengrin turned his cards face up in his hand briefly, grunted, and then tossed them aside.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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215,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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118,000
3,000
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3,000 |
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Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 12,000 ante
Adam Friedman opened to 18,000 from early position, getting a call from Richard Mirin in the big blind.
Mirin took two to Friedman's one after which he checked to the initial raiser. Friedman responded by betting enough to force his opponent all in and Mirin quickly mucked to take a hit to his stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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410,000
18,000
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18,000 |
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90,000
130,000
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130,000 |
Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 12,000 ante
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Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 12,000 ante
Brad Ruben raised 20,000 from early position and Jon Turner called from the big blind. Each drew one and when Turner led out for 53,000 Ruben folded.
While the hand was taking place Phil Hellmuth told an amusing anecdote. He and Daniel Negreanu were on a cruise ship, and Hellmuth was playing no-limit hold'em, while Negreanu sweated him.
"Daniel piped up that he would play my discards," said Hellmuth, "And after playing the session that way, he had won more than I did."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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555,000
18,000
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18,000 |
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290,000
10,000
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10,000 |
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220,000
45,000
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45,000 |
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Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 12,000 ante
Jason Mercier, winner of the 2016 $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship, raised to 16,000 from the button, and received calls from Alexander Kell called in the small blind and Brandon Nicholson from the big.
Kell drew one, Nicholson two, and Mercier one.
Kell led out for 24,000, Nicholson folded, and Mercier separated 71,000 from his stack and tipped it onto the felt.
Kell spent some time looking back and forth between his hand and his chips before letting the hand go.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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525,000
461,000
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461,000 |
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255,000
148,500
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148,500 |
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115,000
38,000
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38,000 |
Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 12,000 ante
James Scott opened to 20,000 from middle position and then called after Joao Dorneles Neto three-bet to 70,000 on the button.
Both players declined to draw with Scott checking to Neto, who moved all in. Scott thought for some time before deciding to pick a better spot, sending his cards into the muck to keep Neto chipping up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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360,000
155,000
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155,000 |
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110,000
33,000
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33,000 |
Level 18
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 15,000 ante
After a 22,000 Brad Ruben raise from the button, big blind Richard Ashby slid in his calling chips.
Ashby and Ruben took one card each, then Ruben continued for 22,000. Ashby called but could not best Ruben's 10x7x6x4x2x.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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355,000
65,000
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65,000 |
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160,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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