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2011 WSOP – Day 23 Wrap-Up
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sat, 2011-06-25 11:44
Jason Mercier’s bracelet wasn’t the only story on Day 23 of the
2011 WSOP. The $10k HORSE championship and the $2.5k NL Holdem Event have both reached their respective money bubbles. Two events got going: the $1.5k NL Holdem event, which managed to attract yet another record-breaking starting field, and the $2.5k PLO/Holdem event.
Day 3 of Event #36, the $2.5k NL Holdem Event, saw 291 players return to action. The money bubble was about 120 eliminations away at the beginning of the day but it was reached within 2 levels nonetheless. The bubble burst in a rather spectacular manner: two players bit the dust simultaneously to send the remaining field into the money. One of the unfortunate bubble-boys was Jack Jacouvou, who got his last chips into the middle on an A,4. Benjamin Jenkins’ J,10 was enough to send him packing. The other bubble-boy was David Hedley, who picked up Ac, 10c and shoved on it only to be called by the pocket Qs of Bradley Augsburger, which held without problems.
39 players remained at the end of the day, with Thomas Miller holding the largest stack going into the final stretch of the action.
173 players returned to battle it out in Event #37, the $10k HORSE World Championship event. The bubble was barely reached in this one. Felipe Ramos and Eugene Katchalov were the players whose elimination signaled the bursting of the money bubble. Daniel Alaei was eliminated too shortly after, becoming the first player to walk away with money in the event. His was the final elimination of the day. 23 players remained in action.
The $1,500 NL Holdem Event (event #38), saw 2,192 players belly up to the tables, generating a prize-pool of more than $540k.
John Spinks finished the day with the largest stack as the field worked its way down to 320 players.
The $2.5k PLO/Holdem event (Event #39), drew a starting field of 606 players. The field was quite star-studded indeed.
PokerStar’s Daniel Negreanu was there, together with Full Tilt Poker’s Erik Seidel, Phil Hellmuth, Layne Flack and JC Tran. David Williams was the one who finished with the largest stack. 130 players survived the first day of action.
