The 2013 WSOP ended two No-Limit Hold'em tournaments with low buy-ins and one, not the most popular discipline, with an average - Pot-Limit Hold'em. Event #17: No-Limit Hold'em, the buy-in for which was $1’500, collected 2’105 participants. The winner of the tournament was the player with a long surname - Athanasios Polychronopoulos, who won, incidentally, his second WSOP bracelet. In 2009 at the WSOP, he won a tournament with the same buy-in.
Let's note an interesting point regarding the player who finished 4th in this tournament and the winner of the main event WSOP 2009 rolled into one - Joe cada... In May, he makes the final table of HPT Michigan, where he is placed in 4th place, in the #4 event at the WSOP 2013, he makes the final table, where he again takes 4th place. And now he takes the 4th place for the third time - agree, the magic of numbers.Results $1'500 No-Limit Hold'em (Event #17):
1 place - Athanasios Polychronopoulos + $518’755
2nd place - Manuel mutke + $322’908
3rd place - Everett carlton + $224’455
4th place - Joe cada + $161’652
5th place - Samuel taylor + $118’145
6th place - Michael kurth + $87’398
7th place - Joseph ward + $65’502
8th place - David bakes baker + $49’716
Four Russian players at once got into the prize zone, which started from the 216th place:
68th place - Iakov Onuchin (+$6’123);
101st place - Yury gulyy (+$3’537);
166th - EPT San Remo 2011 winner, second time WSOP 2013 prize winner - Andrey Pateychuk (+$3’182);
189th place - Evgeny Taranyuk (+$2’898).
Into the event #18: $1'000 No-Limit Hold'em with the lowest buy-in possible at the WSOP - $1’000, registered 2’071 participants. The winner of the tournament was the best online tournament player 2010 - Taylor "ambiguosity" Paur... Online, Paur has won over $4 million, and live tournaments - only $1.2 million - but that's for now.
Results of $1'000 No-Limit Hold'em (Event #18):
1 place - Taylor paur + $340’260
2nd place - Roy weiss + $211’794
3rd place - Tai nguyen + $147’220
4th place - Alexander barlow + $106’027
5th place - DJ Mackinnon + $77’491
6th place - Phillip hui + $57’324
7th place - Daniel Idema + $42’962
8th place - Ryan austin + $32’608
Of the 216 players who got into the prize zone, there are ours: in 47th place - Konstantin Streletskiy (+ $5'628), and on the 91st - having performed well at the 2012 WSOP - Konstantin Puchkov (+$2’609).
Event #19: Pot-Limit Hold'em with buy-in in $5’000 gathered at their tables 195 players. The victory was celebrated by the winner of the #38 tournament: $2,000 Pot-Limit Holdem at the WSOP 2008, WPT Celebrity Invitational 2011, the winner of the EPT Berlin 2012 - Davidi Kitai... In fact, almost all of the final table participants are renowned professionals. Dimitar Danchev - 2nd place EPT San Remo 2011, winner of the 2013 PCA Main Event, three members of the professional team Pokerstars — Eugene Katchalov (winner of PCA $100K Super High Roller), Bertrand grospellier (winner of $25K High Rollers Event) and Dario minieri (winner of the WSOP bracelet in the 2008 series).
Results $5
'000 Pot-Limit Hold'em (Event #19):
1 place - Davidi Kitai + $224’560
2nd place - Cary katz + $138’794
3rd place - Vincent bartello + $103’628
4th place - Dimitar Danchev + $77’893
5th place - Eugene Katchalov + $58’912
6th place - Kristina holst + $44’844
7th place - Bertrand grospellier + $34’341
8th place - Dario minieri + $26’468
The prizes hit 27 players. On the 24th, the winner of two WSOP bracelets left the tournament, the first of which he won in 2008 - #27: $1,500 No-Limit Holdem, and the second - in 2009, when he won a special tournament with buy-in $40'000 (+ $1 '891'018) - Vitaly Lunkin... This is his first time in this streak and earned him $7'881.