Welcome To Event #66: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Welcome and get settled in for Event #66: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. This is the fifth and final installment of the $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournaments on this year's World Series of Poker schedule, and it gets going at 11 a.m. as the series races towards its conclusion.
When play commences today, players will play ten 60-minute levels and get a 20-minute break every two levels. Dinner break will take place after Level 6, around 5:40 p.m., and will be 90 minutes long. Players will be given 7,500 in chips to use at their discretion while battling their way towards the coveted WSOP gold bracelet.
This year, four events of this type have already taken place. David "The Dragon" Pham won Event #12, besting a field of 1,739 players to take home his third WSOP bracelet and $391,960. Then, in Event #33, Chris Frank was able to grind his way through, topping a field of 1,698 players to take home $384,833 for his efforts.
Event #52 was conquered by Mohsin Charania to give him the triple crown of poker. He bested a field of 1,580 players to take home $364,438. And most recently, Event #58 was the time for Artur Rudziankov to have his bracelet coming out party after he bested a field of 1,763 players to take home $395,918.
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