A look back at Day 4 of the 2011 WSOP

With even more action than yesterday taking place at the Rio let’s get down to business shall we.

Event #2: $25k Heads-Up Championship, Day 4

Jake Cody managed to steal Gus Hansen’s thunder when he knocked the Dane out in the semi-finals, and then Cody would go on to become the first big story of the 2011 WSOP as he bested Yevgeniy Timoshenko in the finals to become the third player in poker history to win the Triple Crown -WSOP, WPT, and EPT victories.

• 1st: Jake Cody - $851,192
• 2nd: Yevgeniy Timoshenko - $525,980
• 3rd: Gus Hansen - $283,966
• 3rd: Eric Froehlich - $283,966

Event #3: $1,500 Omaha 8 or better, Day 3

The second bracelet of the day went to a semi-pro poker player from Chicago, Francesco “Cheech” Brabaro as he took on some stiff competition in the form of Humberto Brenes, Vladimir Shchemelev, and his heads-up opponent Matthew Waxman.

1.       Francesco “Cheech” Barbaro - $262,283

2.       Kostas Kalathakis - $161,675

3.       Matt Waxman - $104,770

4.       Bradley Helm - $76,673

5.       Michael Deveronica - $56,943

6.       Humberto Brenes - $42,857

7.       Cameron McKinley - $32,654

8.       Vladimir Shchemelev - $25,174

9.       Travis Pearson - $19,617

Event #4: $5,000 No Limit Holdem, Day 2

The $5k NLHE tournament is now down to just 43 players and there is still quite a bit of star-power remaining in the field. Perhaps the best known player remaining is 2001 WSOP Main Event champ, and three-time WPT Champ, Carlos Mortensen who finds himself in the middle of the pack entering what is supposed to be the final day of the tournament -the new Hard-Stop rule at the WSOP may cause this tournament to require a fourth day to finish.

1.       Brian Lemke - 960,000

2.       Allen Bari - 686,000

3.       Ricky Fohrenbach - 642,00

4.       Sergey Rybachenko - 614,000

5.       Markus Gonsalves - 567,000

6.       Peter Gilmore - 525,000

7.       Michael Hahn - 493,000

8.       Steven Levy - 466,000

9.       Simon Charette - 464,000

10.   Richard Lyndaker - 417,000

Event #5: $1,500 Seven-Card-Stud, Day 2

With just 12 players remaining it’s likely the $1,500 Stud tournament will finish as scheduled on Saturday. Friday saw Alessio Isaia move to the top of the leader-board as the Italian continues his dominant run in 2011, but lurking in the #3 spot on the leader-board is another red hot player in Eugene Katchalov.

1.       Alessio Isaia - 232,500

2.       Eric Buchman - 220,500

3.       Eugene Katchalov - 212,500

4.       Kai Landry - 200,000

5.       Jonathan Spinks - 133,000

6.       Dennis Parker - 123,500

7.       Vasili Lazarou - 102,500

8.       Andrew Blumen - 98,000

9.       Ali Eslami - 77,000

10.   Arash Ghaneian - 77,000

11.   Ylon Schwartz - 70,000

12.   Jeremy Ausmus - 69,500

Event #6: $1,500 Limit Holdem

One of the two tournaments that began on Friday, the $1,500 Limit Holdem event attracted 675 entrants, but by the end of the day only 130 remained in the hunt. Amongst the remaining players are Jonathan Aguiar, Chino Rheem, JJ Liu, Barry Shulman, Tom Schneider, Jennifer Harman, and Matt Matros.

Event #7: $10,000 Pot Limit Holdem Championship

The second tournament that kicked-off on Friday was the first $10k Championship of the 2011 WSOP, and the field size for the Pot Limit Holdem Championship was on par with last year’s attendance number, 249 compared 268.

Amongst the 129 players who will return to the tables on Saturday are Nicholas Levi, Brandon Adams, Josh Arieh, Sam Stein, Matt Marifioti, Justin Bonomo, Dani Stern, Eric Baldwin, Ike Haxton, James Akenhead, Tom Dwan, Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu, and Sorel Mizzi: All of whom have 75k+ in chips -basically the entire field is well known pros.

Results courtesy of www.wsop.com