Event #32: $10,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Dia 1 Começado
Event #32: $10,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Dia 1 Começado
Short-handed poker is all the rave these days, especially the six-handed form. Doyle Brunson once called no-limit Texas hold'em the "Cadillac of Poker" because of the game's ability to emphasize the highest level of strategy and skill. If that's the case, then the six-handed variant is a CTS-V coupe — aggressive and shifty with a wide-open throttle.
Event #32: $10,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship is special. Not only does it feature an adrenaline-pumping form of big-bet poker, but it also garners a pricy $10,000 buy-in, and that combination will no doubt get everyone's blood pumping.
With the $10,000 championship events returning to the 2014 WSOP schedule, this event is back after a one-year hiatus in which a $5,000 and $25,000 six-handed hold'em event were held. In 2011 and 2012, there was a $10,000 six-handed hold'em event and the first-place prize topped $1.1 million each time. In 2011, Joe Ebanks won the event, and in 2012, Greg Merson was victorious before going straight through to win the Main Event.
Let's take a look at all of the big buy-in ($5,000+) six-handed hold'em events held at the WSOP since 2005:
Year | Buy-in | Entrants | Winner | First-Place Prize |
---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | $25,000 | 175 | Steve Sung | $1,205,324 |
$5,000 | 516 | Erick Lindgren | $606,317 | |
2012 | $10,000 | 474 | Greg Merson | $1,136,197 |
2011 | $10,000 | 474 | Joe Ebanks | $1,158,481 |
$5,000 | 732 | Matt Jarvis | $808,538 | |
2010 | $25,000 | 191 | Dan Kelly | $1,315,518 |
$5,000 | 568 | Jeff Papola | $667, 443 | |
2009 | $5,000 | 928 | Matt Hawrilenko | $1,003,163 |
2008 | $5,000 | 805 | Joe Commisso | $911,855 |
2007 | $5,000 | 728 | Bill Edler | $904,672 |
2006 | $5,000 | 183 | Jeff Madsen | $643,381 |
2005 | $5,000 | 301 | Doyle Brunson | $367,800 |
As you can see, that list of winners is full of big-time players, including none other than Mr. Brunson himself. With the way the WSOP schedule is set up this year, not much will get in the way of all of the big names coming out for this one. Some of the top no-limit hold'em players may still be deep in Event #29: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em, but other than that, the field should be jam packed full of elite players and notable faces.
As for numbers, one could expect somewhere in the range of 400-500 entrants for this event, although a field as small as 300 or as large as 600 wouldn't come as a complete surprise. That should create a nice, juicy prize pool for the event, and our thoughts are that the field size will lean towards the larger side rather than the smaller one.
Play is scheduled to kick off promptly at 4 p.m. PT, so buckle up and get ready for some high-intensity poker action. The big buy-in six-handed hold'em events have never failed to impress in the past, and this one surely won't, either.
For now, while you wait, check out the second episode of Ivey Stories where Richard Sklar gives us some insight to Ivey's golf game and the large sums of money often bet on the course:
Nível: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
The cards are now in the air for Event #32.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Naoya Kihara |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Ryan Riess |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Max Silver |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Martin Finger |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Brian Hastings |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Sylvain Loosli |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Tim West |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Todd Terry |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Greg Merson |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Manuel Bevand |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Darren Elias |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
David Peters |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Nam Le |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Sergio Aido |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Hans Winzeler |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
George Danzer |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Andrew Lichtenberger |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Bob Bright |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Philipp Gruissem |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Andrea Dato |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
David Paredes |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Curt Kohlberg |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Bill Klein |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Steven Levy |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Marc-Andre Ladouceur |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Naoya Kihara, the first Japanese player to ever win a WSOP gold bracelet, led out for 800 on a flop of . Curt Kohlberg - the "Psycho Ninja" - called, and both players checked on the turn ().
The river was the , both players checked again, and Kihara showed for a pair of tens. Kohlberg revealed for a pair of queens, and was awarded the pot.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Curt Kohlberg |
31,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
Naoya Kihara |
29,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
|
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Harrison Gimbel |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Andy Philachack |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Stewart Newman |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Jennifer Tilly |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Scott Baumstein |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Craig Bergeron | 30,000 | |
Shaun Suller |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Thomas Muehloecker |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Dan Smith |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
John Andress |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Sorel Mizzi came strolling into the Orange Section of the Amazon Room, ready to take his seat in Event #32: $10,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship, but there was a problem - his seat was occupied.
Mizzi double-checked his ticket to make sure he was in the right place - Table 382 Seat 3 - then asked the current occupant, Ryan Fee, to check his own.
Fee's read Table 383 Seat 2.
"Floor!" Fee called. "I sat at the wrong table!"
Not only was he at the wrong table, he was supposed to be at the neighboring Table 383, Fee was in the wrong seat entirely. He was supposed to be in Seat 2, not Seat 3.
The floor came over and ruled that Fee would simply be moved to the correct seat, and Mizzi would take his place. The two made the switch, and all is as it should be.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Sorel Mizzi | 30,000 | |
Ryan Fee | 30,000 |
From the button, Brian Hastings raised to 250. Stephen Chidwick made the call from the big blind, and the flop came down . Chidwick checked, and Hastings bet 300. Chidwick check-raised to 1,000, and Hastings called to see the turn.
The was added to the board on fourth street, and Chidwick led with a bet of 3,300 — an over-bet to the 2,550 pot. Hastings folded, and Chidwick won the pot.
A few minutes ago, the following tweet from the reigning WSOP Main Event champion popped up on our feed:
We played 150/300 blinds for the first 20 minutes instead of 50/100. George Danzer loses half of his stack during those 20 minutes #brutalFollow @RyanRiess1
We promptly went to investigate the situation, and when we arrived, Ryan Riess was involved in a pot with Martin Finger and Bill Klein. Riess had let out for 6,400 on a board of , Klein called, and Finger was in the tank. He eventually folded, and Riess revealed for a full house.
Klein flashed the for trip jacks, then mucked.
"That's my second flopped set in a row," Riess told us, grinning.
He then filled us in on the details of his tweet, saying that the tournament clock situated right in front of the table said "Small Blind: 150 Big Blind 300" instead of the current level (50/100) for "twenty minutes."
"Poor George [Danzer] was coolered in four hands," the defending champ said. "I would've gone busto."
Danzer, who won a bracelet in Event #18, offered a simple, wry smile.
Riess is up to 47,000 chips, while Danzer and Klein are both floating around 15,000.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Ryan Riess |
47,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
||
George Danzer |
15,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
|
||
Bill Klein |
15,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |