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2013 WSOP – Event #21 Kicks Off
Posted by: Jo Martin - Wed, 2013-06-12 07:32
Besides the two events which played down to their respective winners today, the
2013 WSOP served up an event which just kicked off: the $3k NL Holdem event, #21 of the Series. A total of 10 levels of action went into the day, at the end of which, Jesse Wilkie emerged with the chip lead. 807 players bought into the event and took part in the first day’s green felt hostilities. Of them, only 129 were left standing at the end of the day. The money bubble is set for 90th place, so day 2 is sure to start with slow and cautious action as the field works its way down towards the bubble.
Wilkie built up a stack of 187.7k chips, clinching the lead just ahead of Victor Ramdin, who finished with 184k chips to his name. Given the $3k buy-in, there were indeed quite a high number of “name” pros in the starting field. Quite a few of these guys managed to make it past the day 1 hurdle too, and some of them finished at the top of the chip-count. Ryan Olisar for instance finished 3rd, with a stack of 154.5k chips.
Scott Seiver made his way into the top ranks as well: he finished 5th with 132k chips. Matt Stout was another “name” competitor who finished in the top 10: he accumulated 92.3k chips. He was followed by Yevgeniy Timoshenko with 92.1k, Dan Kelly with 83.7k, Erik Seidel with 81.3k and Antonio Esfandiari with 80.6k. The Magician has thus far not managed to get anything going at the 2013 WSOP, but there are still quite a few events left in which he may yet shine.
Allen Cunningham and Andrew Lichtenberger finished the day with healthy stacks as well.
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