A look back at Day 25 of the 2011 WSOP: 3 bracelets handed out

It was a busy day at the Rio on Friday, with three WSOP bracelets handed out to surprise, surprise… first time winners! Not to mention that four other tournaments were in action, making Friday, June 24, 2011 one of the busiest days thus far the 2011 WSOP - so forgive me if some of these wrap-ups are on the short side, some as simple headlines!

Event #36: $2,500 No Limit Holdem, Day 4

Lakhitov wins Russia’s second bracelet at the 2011 WSOP after overcoming Thomas Middleton’s huge chip lead.

1.       Mikhail Lakhitov - $749,610

2.       Hassan Babajane - $463,480

3.       Thomas Middleton - $305,015

4.       Thomas Miller - $219,885

5.       Eddy Sabat - $160,949

6.       Matthew Berkey - $119,528

7.       James St. Hilaire - $90,021

8.       Conrad Monica - $68,719

9.       Kent Padgett - $53,137

10.   John Zentner - $41,775

Event #37: $10,000 HORSE Championship, Day 4

Soulier defeats Buchanan for first WSOP bracelet.

1.       Fabrice Soulier - $609,130

2.       Shawn Buchanan - $376,458

3.       Andrey Zaichenko - $247,799

4.       Daniel Ospina - $180,750

5.       Tom Dwan - $134,480

6.       Matthew Ashton - $101,813

7.       Michael Binger - $78,328

8.       Jacobo Fernandez - $61,160

Event #38: $1,500 No Limit Holdem, Day 3

Event #38 almost became the fourth tournament to award a bracelet on Friday, but play was halted with just two players remaining:

• Arkadiy Tsinis –7,110,000
• Michael Blanovsky — 2,765,000

Event #39: $2,500 Pot Limit Holdem/Omaha Mix, Day 3

Mitch Schock wins first WSOP bracelet and vaults into the top 5 on the WSOP POY leader-board.

1.       Mitch Schock - $310,225

2.       Rodney Brown - $191,618

3.       Jan Collado - $135,921

4.       Carter Gill - $97,773

5.       Tyler Patterson - $71,317

6.       James Vanneman - $52,747

7.       David Lestock - $39,539

8.       Jonas Mackoff - $30,040

9.       Rami Boukai - $23,119

Event #40: $5,000 No Limit Holdem 6-Handed, Day 2

With just 20 players remaining in the tournament there are a few big names lurking on the leader-board, including Daniel Negreanu who finds himself as one of the short-stacks. Negreanu is looking to turn around what has been a miserable WSOP up to this point.

1.       Justin Filtz - 2,017,000

2.       Massimiliano Martinez - 1,022,000

3.       Matt Jarvis - 995,000

4.       Kevin Iacofano - 866,000

5.       Jude Ainsworth - 650,000

6.       Daniel Hirleman - 650,000

7.       Matthew Vengrin - 632,000

8.       Grayson Ramage - 611,000

9.       Robert Merulla - 505,000

10.   Hafiz Khan - 446,000

Event #41: $1,500 Limit H9oldem Shootout, Day 1

In the Limit Holdem Shootout -considered one of the softest events for Limit Holdem specialists-538 players played down to just 60 on Day 1, with notable limit Holdem players like Todd “Dan Druff” Witteles and Brock Parker joining Hoyt Corkins, Eugene Katchalov, JJ Liu, and Victor Ramdin as round 1 winners.

Event #42: $10,000 PLO Championship, Day 1

A solid turnout of 361 players created another prize-pool that will award over $800k to the winner -the fourth time at the 2011 WSOP thus far. At the end of the day 170 players remained in the hunt, but only 36 of those players will make the money.

1.       Manny Jo - 226,700

2.       Sami Kelopuro - 208,000

3.       Greg Fund - 173,000

4.       Ben Lamb - 166,300

5.       Tom Dwan - 159,000

6.       Max Pescatori - 148,000

7.       Vanessa Selbst - 145,800

8.       Peter Jetten - 132,000

9.       Tom Marchese - 130,000

10.   Matt Glantz - 125,000

All results courtesy of www.wsop.com