After another nine levels of play, the $3,500 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian no-limit hold’em main event is down to its final 13 players and two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Steve Sung is leading the way.
Sung used a late surge to propel himself into the lead. The money bubble broke early in level 18, the final level of Day 2 with the final 18 players securing an in-the-money finish. Sung was aggressive on the bubble and eliminated the first three players who busted in the money to finish the day with 1.014 million in chips.
Leo Song-Carrillo was chip leader for most of the day and won a massive pot to burst the bubble when he picked up pocket aces against Patrick Uzan’s pocket kings. All the money went in preflop and Song-Carrillo moved over the million mark himself, but a rough finish to the day left him fourth in chips with 685,000.
George Wolff finished the day second in chips with 733,000, just ahead of WSOP bracelet winner Jack Duong, who finished third with 716,000. Hiroaki Harada rounds out the top five chip counts with 679,000. Other notables still in the hunt for the $136,080 first-place prize include Tanya Kirk (567,000), Dylan Wilkerson (442,000), Damjan Radanov (285,000), Mike Shin (203,000) and WPT Champion Ben Palmer (117,000), who comes into Monday as the short stack.
The day started with 52 players returning, but there was still four levels to play before registration closed. By the time level 14 started and registration was officially closed, the field had grown to 160 entries, generating a prize pool of $504,000 and paid the top 18 spots.
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Michael Rossitto started the day with the chip lead, but busted shortly after the money bubble. He finished in 17th place for $7,056. Gary Hansen, Samuel Spiwak and Kent Buckingham also busted before the day was over, but not without a cash. Hansen finished in 18th and Spiwak in 16th for the same payout as Hansen.
Steven Firestone busted in 15th place, earning $8,064, and Ravi Raghavan busted in 14th place on the last hand of the day when his pocket kings ran into Duong’s pocket aces.
The Day 2 field was loaded with talent, but lady luck wasn’t on everyone’s side, with many talented pros hitting the rail. World Poker Tour Champion Aaron Van Blarcum, poker’s all-time money leader Bryn Kenney, Ian O’Hara, WSOP bracelet winner Anuj Agarwal, Joe Cheong, Zachary Donovan, WPT Champion Tony Sinishtaj, Ben Yu, Tony Dunst, Alex Rocha, Farid Jattin and Sam Soverel were among the many pros who busted before the end of Sunday’s action.
The final 13 players will return on Monday at 1 p.m. to play down to a winner. Everybody is guaranteed a cash of at least $8,064.
Here is a look at the seat draw for the final day:
Table 28
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Seat 1: EMPTY
Seat 2: Jack Duong – 716,000
Seat 3: Steve Sung – 1,014,000
Seat 4: Damjan Radanov – 285,000
Seat 5: EMPTY
Seat 6: Tanya Kirk – 567,000
Seat 7: George Wolff – 733,000
Seat 8: Nitis Udornpim – 345,000
Seat 9: Mike Shin – 203,000
Table 27
Seat 1: EMPTY
Seat 2: Leo Song-Carrillo – 685,000
Seat 3: Dylan Wilkerson – 442,000
Seat 4: Hiroaki Harada – 679,000
Seat 5: EMPTY
Seat 6: Ekrem Bozkurt – 262,000
Seat 7: Ben Palmer – 117,000
Seat 8: EMPTY
Seat 9: Valentyn Shabelnyk – 354,000
For the first time ever, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) will award a gold bracelet for an online poker event. On Thursday, July 2, Event #64: $1,000 WSOP.com Online No-Limit Hold'em will be open to players throughout Nevada. When the 2015 WSOP schedule was first announced back in February, details surrounding the online bracelet event included bringing the final two players to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino to play to a champion. That may no longer be the case.
According to pokerfuse, the WSOP is currently seeking approval from the Nevada Gaming Control Board to bring back the final six players.
The WSOP's Seth Palansky told pokerfuse that the WSOP 'had concerns initially of getting the players to the Rio the next day to play out the event live,' but have since opted to make July 3 a travel day 'for any players not in proximity to Las Vegas.' Palansky also added that instead of the original plan for heads-up play to be in a live setting, the event should change to have the final six players finish in a live setting on July 4.
When reached by PokerNews, the WSOP declined comment until they receive regulatory approval, at which point they plan to release details.
The 46th Annual WSOP will kick off on Wednesday, May 27 and consist of a record 68 bracelet events. That includes no less than 11 new events such as Event #5: $565 Colossus No-Limit Hold'em (May 29-June 2) and Event #65: $777 Lucky 7s No-Limit Hold'em (July 3-5).
The cornerstone $10,000 Main Event will begin on Sunday, July 5, will feature three Day 1 flights. The tournament will follow a schedule similar to past years playing down to a final table of nine on Tuesday, July 14. Once again, the Main Event final table will play out as 'The November Nine' in November, and again is expected to air live on ESPN and ESPN2.
'My favorite part of the schedule is the online bracelet,' 2012 WSOP champ Greg Merson, who serves as an ambassador for WSOP.com, previously told PokerNews. 'Online has been a big boost for the game and rewarding the industry with a bracelet is amazing.'
On the flip side, 2013 WSOP bracelet winner Trevor Pope isn't feeling it.
'I think the WSOP online event is going to be quite overrated,' said Pope. 'I am guessing the structure is going to be pretty bad, and the thing that the WSOP probably doesn’t understand is that the majority of online poker players prefer to play multiple tables. Saying that, getting all these online pros to sit there and play one table is going to be quite funny to me. I think a lot of these players are just going to be gambling it up and trying to go for a stack fast, so my advice to any amateur deciding to play it — wait for the chips to be gifted to you.'
He went on to add: 'I personally won't be playing the online event because I will just get too bored playing one table myself and it will be a good day to take off. I don’t think a bracelet should be awarded for this event because the WSOP has history behind it, it's a poker series played at the casino where all you need is a 'chip and a chair' as they say, but this is putting a whole new spin on that because now you need a good computer, reliable Internet, a place to play, and probably some good tracking software. I am just not a fan of this being added to the schedule overall but who knows, maybe it will be a huge turnout and will push online poker in the right direction.'
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