Event #72: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship
Dia 1 Começado
Event #72: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship
Dia 1 Começado
The early stages of battle will be waged on the felt this afternoon when Day 1 of Event #72: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship kicks off as the 2017 World Series of Poker winds down.
In 2016, Robert Mizrachi claimed his fourth WSOP gold bracelet, taming a field of 87 to collect the top prize of $242,622. Mizrachi defeated Matt Grapenthien heads up for the title and, as expected, navigated a final table of a who's-who of poker legends including George Danzer, Ted Forrest, Steve Weiss, David Benyamine, Bill Chen, and Calvin Anderson.
Past winners of the event include Brian Hastings and Grapenthien in 2014.
Year | Name | Entries | Prize |
---|---|---|---|
2016 | Robert Mizrachi | 87 | $242,662 |
2015 | Brian Hastings | 91 | $239,518 |
2014 | Matt Grapenthien | 102 | $268,473 |
With the WSOP Player of the Year race closing up soon, players near the top should be expected in attendance today. Ryan Hughes leads by a healthy margin after picking up his 14th cash of the 2017 series on Thursday in the $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller. Both of Hughes’ two bracelets have come in stud games, though both were in stud hi-lo variants.
John Racener sits in second, while John Monnette, Chris Ferguson, Ben Yu, and Raymond Henson remain in striking distance.
The action gets underway at 3 p.m. this afternoon in the gold section of the Amazon room. Play is scheduled for 10 hour-long levels with a 15-minute break every two levels. Being a Championship event, players also get to start with an increased stack size of 50,000 chips.
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Nível: 1
Bring In 200 - Completion 500
So far, 16 players have taken their seats. Here's a look at some of the populace so far.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Adam Friedman
|
50,000 | |
Chris Tryba
|
50,000 | |
Chris Vitch | 50,000 | |
Eric Kurtzman | 50,000 | |
David Bach
|
50,000 | |
Ralph Perry
|
50,000 | |
Jyri Merivirta | 50,000 | |
Jeff Lisandro
|
50,000 | |
Juha Helppi
|
50,000 | |
Scott Bohlman
|
50,000 | |
Alex Luneau | 50,000 | |
Cory Zeidman
|
50,000 | |
Chris George | 50,000 |
Helppi: //
Opponent: //
Juha Helppi picked up a pair of eights on fourth street and bet each street until seventh. His opponent called each street and they both checked down on seventh.
Helppi's opponent table for two pair and Helppi mucked.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Juha Helppi
|
42,000 | -8,000 |
Though the population in the $10,000 Stud Championship includes multiple bracelet winners with storied careers like Jeff Lisandro and young guns who have been killing the mixed games like Chris Vitch, one of the most feared players in the field is one without a bracelet or any other major tournament win.
French professional Alex Luneau has been playing and winning in some of the biggest cash games online, where he's piled up more than $4.5 million in winnings.
Turning his attention to the live tournament scene, Luneau has been quite active on the World Series of Poker grind in 2017, but he has yet to be rewarded with gold despite a number of deep runs. In the $1,500 Dealer's Choice, Luneau had a big stack on the final day but busted 15th for $4,771.
That prompted Justin Bonomo to announce how fortunate everyone else left was.
"The best player left probably just went out," he announced.
Luneau then narrowly missed the final table in the $1,500 8-Game, finishing ninth for $10,144. He made the final table of the $10,000 Stud Hi-Lo Championship but was first to go in eighth for $33,265. He then just missed another final table with a ninth-place finish in $2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo/Stud Hi-Lo Mix.
Luneau's been knocking on the door, and it wouldn't be a surprise if he broke through here for his first bracelet in the $10,000 Stud Championship.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Shirley Rosario | 50,000 | |
Yueqi Zhu
|
50,000 | |
David Benyamine
|
50,000 | |
Jameson Painter | 50,000 | |
Matt Kelly | 50,000 | |
Mark Gregorich | 50,000 | |
Tom Koral
|
50,000 |
Bach: /
Kurtzman: /
On fourth street, David Bach raised and called a four-bet by Eric Kurtzman.
Kurtzman check-called a bet on fifth and check-folded when Bach fired again on sixth street.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
David Bach
|
59,000 | 9,000 |
Eric Kurtzman | 32,000 | -18,000 |
David Benyamine picked up open kings on fourth and fired in a double bet, but David Bach didn't go anywhere with a couple of clubs. He picked up another club right away and Benyamine ceded the betting lead, calling fifth and sixth.
Bach: //
Benyamine: //
Benyamine check-folded on the river. Bach showed the with a smile, and Benyamine said he had kings up and a flush draw going to seventh.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
David Bach
|
65,700 | 6,700 |
David Benyamine
|
52,000 | 2,000 |
Kurtzman: //
Benyamine: //
Opponent: / - fold
David Benyamine bet sixth street and was called by an opponent to his left. Eric Kurtzman raised and just Benyamine called.
Kurtzman bet again on seventh and Benyamine called. Kurtzman tabled for a flush and Benyamine mucked.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
David Benyamine
|
46,000 | -6,000 |
Eric Kurtzman | 41,000 | 9,000 |