Event #26: $10,000 Razz Championship Dia 1 | 2017 World Series of Poker

Event #26: $10,000 Razz Championship

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2017-06-13 12:53 UTC-7

Welcome to Day 1 of Event #26: $10,000 Razz Championship

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The great game of making the worst hand in stud, colloquially referred to as razz, has a long and storied history at the World Series of Poker, and it's time to write the next chapter in the $10,000 Razz Championship starting today.

At 3 p.m., cards will be in the air for the first of three days of the Event #26: $10,000 Razz Championship, which will begin play in the Brasilia Room.

Last year in this event, noted mixed game player Ray Dehkharghani topped a field of 100 entrants for a first-place prize of $273,338. In the process, he denied Jason Mercier what would have been a second bracelet for the summer and, if events still unfolded afterward in the same fashion, would have made for three overall and a handsome windfall from his prop bets.

This year, there isn't likely to be quite that much excitement, but it's still a prestigious event along with all of the rest of the $10,000 Championships, and a stacked field is expected. Players will play out 10 one-hour levels, each starting with a stack of 50,000 with limits at 500/1,000 and progressing to 4,000/8,000 by day's end. There will be 15-minute breaks every two levels and no dinner break, so it'll be a long grind of wheel chasing.

Registration will end around midnight, after Level 8.

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Nível: 1

Limites: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

2017-06-13 15:12 UTC-7

Early Notables

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Nível 1 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Chris George	50,000
Erik Seidel	50,000

Randy Ohel	50,000

Jared Bleznick	50,000
David Benyamine	50,000

Frank Kassela	50,000

Marco Johnson	50,000

Harley Thrower	50,000
Georgii Belianin	50,000
Phil Hui	50,000
Allen Kessler	50,000
Brandon Shack-Harris	50,000

Yuebin Guo	50,000
Adam Owen	50,000
Jeff Lisandro	50,000

Daniel Weinman	50,000

Shaun Deeb	50,000

Andrew Kelsall	50,000

Roland Israelashvili	50,000
Eric Rodawig	50,000

Daniel Negreanu	50,000

Donnacha O'Dea	50,000

Bart Hanson	50,000

2017-06-13 15:24 UTC-7

Defending Champ Arrives

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Nível 1 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Ray Dehkharghani, who won this event last year, is among the early entries.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Ray Dehkharghani	50,000 50,000	50,000

Chris Wallace	50,000 50,000	50,000

David Bach	50,000 50,000	50,000

Mike Wattel	50,000 50,000	50,000

Jerry Wong	50,000 50,000	50,000

2017-06-13 15:28 UTC-7

Early Action... Away from the Felt

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Nível 1 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Early levels in these Championship events tend to be on the slower side, and this razz tournament has been no exception thus far.

However, away from the felt, players are throwing down plenty of coin. Allen Kessler has organized a $1,000 last longer, and plenty of players have walked over to hand him either a chunk of money or a yellow $1,000 chip. He said there's around 20 entries so far.

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