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Welcome back to the 2017 World Series of Poker (WSOP), live from the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. As the 2017 Seniors Championship wraps up today, the third running of the 65+ Super Seniors will get underway.
Event #35: $1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold’em kicks off at 10 a.m. local time with a sizeable field expected. In 2016, James Moore got the best of a 1,476-player field to capture his first WSOP gold bracelet and a first-place prize of $230,626.
Jon Andlovec won the first-ever Super Seniors event back in 2015, topping a field of 1,533 runners to claim a $262,220 top prize. Some other notables possibly making an appearance this year include Barry Shulman, Perry Green, Ron Giles, and TJ Cloutier.
2016 Final Table Results:
Finish
Player
Country
Prize
1
James Moore
United States
$230,626
2
Charles Barker
United States
$142,461
3
Steven Krupnick
United States
$102,052
4
Charles Rinn
Canada
$73,943
5
Eugene Spinner
United States
$54,197
6
Fred Berger
United States
$40,191
7
Arthur Loring
United States
$30,159
8
James Parrott
United States
$22,902
9
Vern Soeldner
United States
$17,604
In 2016, the prize pool capped off at $1,328,400, slightly below 2015’s mark of $1,379,700. Registration for this year’s event will remain open until the end of the 90-minute dinner break, approximately 6:10 p.m. local time. One reentry is permitted for each player.
Day 1 will consist of 10 hour-long levels with a 20-minute break every two levels. Players will start with 5,000 chips and blinds will begin at 25/50.
PokerNews will be on the floor today and every day until a new champion is crowned. Stay tuned for full details and live coverage.
We missed the action but one of Don Olguin's tablemates caught our attention as we passed by the table.
He told us that Olguin and another player had both flopped huge on a flop and that the money went all in. Olguin had pocket queens versus his opponent's trip kings.
The fourth queen hit on the turn, giving Olguin quads and he scored the early double-up.
As we approached the table, Anthony Gianfermi and his heads-up opponent were tabling their hands.
Gianfermi's opponent had moved all-in and Gianfermi called. The board had a queen on the flop and a king on the turn. Gianfermi had pocket queens and his opponent, pocket queens.
Gianfermi scooped the pot and now sits with more than three times the starting stack.
Steve Hohn and another opponent called an all-in raise from a third player in the hand. The flop came with two diamonds, and Hohn bet, getting a fold from his opponent.
Hohn and the all-in player's hands were tabled. Hohn had , and his opponent had . Hohn made his flush on the river to eliminate his opponent and scoop a sizeable pot.
The first day of the Super Seniors tournament is in the books. This tournament, where only players older than 64 can participate, drew a record 1,720 entries. That was an increase of more than 200 runners from the previous two years. The tournament created a prize pool of $1,548,000.
Johnny Landreth ended the day with the most chips. He built his 5,000-chip starting stack into a whopping 227,200 — almost 80,000 more than his nearest rival — by the end of the day. Landreth is no stranger to the WSOP, with 16 cashes to his name and just under $300,000 in career earnings. He’s also won a World Poker Open title as well as three WSOP Circuit rings.
Some other players with big stacks are Alan Wheeler (144,200), Jean Luc Adam (135,100), Paul Foster (117,400), and Steve Hohn (155,200). There are also some other familiar names back for Day 2, including James Woods (73,600), Ken Aldridge (54,500), TJ Cloutier (52,700), and Tom McCormick (40,000).
The clock showed 258 players left at the end of the day. John Cernuto, Billy Baxter, David Sklansky, Lyle Berman and Perry Green are just some of the many who did not survive the first day.
The story of the day was both reigning champions from the first two years of this event still being in contention. Jon Andlovec (42,600) and James Moore (20,500) both successfully maneuvered their way through the Day 1 field to bag chips and give themselves a shot at becoming a two-time champion in this event.
The remaining players will start again tomorrow morning at 11 a.m. PDT, all guaranteed a payday of at least $1,502.