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WSOP Daily Recap, June 5th: Nguyen Wins Seventh Bracelet

Men Nguyen masters another stud event for his seventh bracelet at the World Series of Poker, plus action from the other five tournaments going on Saturday and early Sunday at the WSOP.

Event No. 9: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em
James “Flushy” Dempsey got about as close to a wire-to-wire victory as you can get in the WSOP. He led after day one, he was second in chips after day two. And the Brit took down the bracelet on day three.

J.J. Liu, the first woman to make a final table at this WSOP, finished in third place.

Here were the final table payouts:
James Dempsey, $197,470
Steve Chanthabouasy, $121,963
JJ Liu, $86,512
Mark Babekov, $62,232
Scott Haraden, $45,393
Armen Kara, $33,573
Joseph Williams, $25,166
Edward Brogdon, $19,120

Event No. 10: $10,000 Seven Card Stud World Championship
Men “The Master” Nguyen put a stop to the Mizrachi-Schmelev show, taking down the first $10K championship of this WSOP for his seventh career bracelet.

Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi and Vladimir Schmelev, who finished 1-2 in the $50K Players Championship, were not able to reprise their heads-up match from a few days earlier. Mizrachi finished sixth, and Schmelev finished seventh.

Nguyen joined elite status with the bracelet — he’s just one of eight players to have won seven or more bracelets in their careers. None of his seven bracelets have come in no-limit hold’em events, and this was his fourth in stud.

Full Tilt “red pro” Brandon Adams just missed his first bracelet, finishing second.

Here were the final table payouts:
Men Nguyen, $394,807
Brandon Adams, $243,958
Steve Billirakis, $152,787
Nikolay Evdakov, $110,628
Joe Cassidy, $86,461
Michael Mizrachi, $68,949
Vladimir Schmelev, $55,991
Sirious Jamshidi, $46,205

Event No. 11: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
With just 21 players left, Tom “durrrr” Dwan leads the field heading into the final day of this tournament. He has more than a million in chips, the only player with seven figures. He cracked a pair of kings with a pair of 10s during the day to help him amass his huge stack. Jason Young, who won a bracelet in 2008 in a $1,500 no-limit event, is also still alive.

Here are the top five in chips:
Tom Dwan, 1,068,000
Marvin Rettenmaier, 953,000
Scott Hamilton, 947,000
Christopher Giddings, 850,000
Harsukhpaul Sangha, 837,000

Notable busts from day two included Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier (91st), Erick Lindgren (191st) and Jerry Yang (195th).

Event No. 12: $1,500 Limit Hold’em
From the nearly 300 players who started on day two of the event, just 13 remain to play for a bracelet today.

Terrence Chan is perhaps the top player as far as live play goes — he has $450K in cashes at the WSOP, including a pair of final tables before this tournament. Painter will be trying to make his second final table of this WSOP.

Here are the chip counts:
Jameson Painter – 307,000
Terrence Chan – 288,000
Ahmad Abghari – 302,000
Jason Potter – 371,000
Ben Lamb – 31,000
Mark Burford – 53,000

Kirk Banks – 264,000
Adrian Dresel-Velasquez – 240,000
Roberto Truijers – 141,000
Georgios Kapalas – 306,000
Dean Tran – 82,000
Frank Kassela -162,000
Matthew Matros – 272,000

Notable busts from day two included Phil Ivey (53rd in the money) and Barry Greenstein.

Event No. 13: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
The second $1K event of the WSOP began on Sunday, and, barring a huge turnout for day 1B, this one will likely be smaller than the 4,000+ the first one attracked.

There were 1,922 entries for day 1a, and the total field will be determined when registration closes today.

Phil Gordon, Vitaly Lunkin, Shaun Deeb and Victor Ramdin have all compiled above average stacks.

Event No. 14: 2-7 Draw Lowball (No-Limit)
It was another strong turnout out for one of the less popular poker variants, draw lowball. In all, 250 players registered for the event.

And it was another chance for big names to collect a bracelet. Among the players with an above average chip stack were David ‘Chino’ Rheem, Josh Arieh, Dario Minieri and Chad Brown, among others.

Just 67 players return for day two, today, and the players will be playing more for prestige than cash, as first place will take home a modest $92K.

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