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Event 13 - $2500 NLHE - 1390 Entrants
1 $ 666,777 Duncan Bell
2 $ 428,948 Steven Merrifield
3 $ 260,261 Nathan Doudney

Event - 14 $10,000 7-Card Stud - 158 entrants
1 $ 415,856 Eric Brooks
2 $ 259,910 Fu Wong
3 $ 163,372 Alexander Kostritsyn

Event - 15 $1000 Ladies NLHE - 1190 entrants
1 $ 244,702 Svetlana Gromenkova
2 $ 144,567 Anh Le
3 $ 87,715 Patty Till

Event 16 - $2000 Omaha Hi-Lo - 553 entrants
1 $ 226,483 Andrew Brown
2 $ 143,420 Ted Forrest
3 $ 88,065 Jim Pechac

Event 17 - $1500 NLHE Shootout - 1000 entrants
1 $ 335,565 Jason Young
2 $ 209,527 Mike Schwartz
3 $ 129,675 John Strzemp III

Event 18 - $5000 NL 2-7 Trip Draw w/rebuys - 85 entrants
1 $ 537,862 Mike Matusow (Full Tilt Poker pro)
2 $ 347,004 Jeff Lisandro
3 $ 225,552 Barry Greenstein

Event 19 - $1500 PLO - 759 entrants
1 $ 227,965 Vanessa Selbst
2 $ 145,459 Jamie Pickering
3 $ 88,062 Stanley Statkiewicz Jr

Event 20 - $2000 Limit Holdem - 480 entrants
1 $ 204,874 Daniel Negreanu (PokerStars Pro)
2 $ 126,671 Ugur Marangoz
3 $ 78,624 David Baker

Event 21 - $5000 NLHE - 731 entrants
1 $ 755,891 Scott Seiver (PokerStars online player gunning4you)
2 $ 482,372 Dave Seidman
3 $ 292,034 Ben Sprengers

Event 22 - $3000 HORSE - 414 entrants
1 $ 298,253 Jens Veortmann
2 $ 182,822 Doug Ganger
3 $ 110,264 Marcel Luske

Event 23 - $2000 NLHE - 1344 entrants
1 $ 507,563 Blair Hinkle (brother of Event 2 winner Grant Hinkle)
2 $ 326,552 Mark Brockington
3 $ 198,132 Daniel O’Brien

Event 24 - $2500 PL Holdem/Omaha - 457 entrants
1 $ 246,471 Max Pescatori
2 $ 152,410 Kyle Kloeckner
3 $ 94,599 Greg Hurst

Event 25 - $10,000 NLHE Heads-up - 256 entrants
1 $ 539,056 Kenny Tran
2 $ 336,896 Alec Torelli
3 $ 108,288 Vanessa Selbst

Event 26 - $1500 Razz - 453 Entrants
1 $ 157,619 Barry Greenstein (PokerStars Pro)
2 $ 97,389 Chris Klodnicki
3 $ 58,743 Chris Viox

Event 5 - $1000 rebuy NLHE - 776 entrants
1 $ 636,736 Michael Banducci
2 $ 406,330 Jeff Williams
3 $ 245,997 Peter Gould

Event 6 - $1500 LO8 - 833 entrants
1 $ 243,356 Thang Luu
2 $ 156,343 Spencer Lawrence
3 $ 93,806 George Guzman

Event 7 $2000 NLHE - 1592 Entrants
1 $ 550,601 Matt Keikoan
2 $ 349,141 Shannon Shorr
3 $ 228,897 Carter Gill

Event 8 $10,000 Mixed Event - 192 Entrants
1 $ 483,688 Anthony Rivera
2 $ 297,792 James Mackey
3 $ 184,992 Matt Glantz

Event 9 $1500 NLHE Six-handed - 1236 entrants
1 $ 372,929 Rep Porter
2 $ 231,981 Nathan Templeton
3 $ 151,842 Devin Porter

Event 10 $2500 Omaha/7-Card Stud Hi-Lo - 388 entrants
1 $ 232,911 Farzad Rouhani
2 $ 142,784 Tom Chambers
3 $ 86,117 John Cernuto

Event 11 - $5000 NLHE Shootout - 360 entrants
1 $ 477,990 Phil Tom
2 $ 298,638 Greg Mueller
3 $ 187,812 Leo Wolpert

Event 12 - $1500 Limit Holdem - 880 entrants
1 $ 257,105 Jimmy Shultz
2 $ 165,165 Zac Fellows
3 $ 99,099 Vinny Vinh

Are WSOP Events Speed Tourneys?

WSOP Tourney

If we take a standard $1500 NLHE Event as a comparison.

Starting Chips = 3000, Blind Levels = 60 mins

1 $0 Ante $25-$50 Blinds
2 $0 Ante $50-$100 Blinds
3 $0 Ante $100-$200 Blinds
4 $25 Ante $100-$200 Blinds
5 $25 Ante $150-$300 Blinds
6 $50 Ante $200-$400 Blinds
7 $75 Ante $300-$600 Blinds
8 $100 Ante $400-$800 Blinds

Standard Online Tourney Structure

3000 Chips, 15 min levels (eg $11 NLHE $20K Guaranteed at 19:00 ET on PokerStars)

1. $0 Ante 10/20 Blinds
2. $0 Ante 15/30 Blinds
3. $0 Ante 25/50 Blinds
4. $0 Ante 50/100 Blinds
5. $0 Ante 75/150 Blinds
6. $0 Ante 100/200 Blinds
7. $25 Ante 125/250 Blinds
8. $25 Ante 150/300 Blinds

A reasonable translation between live and online events is to multiply by 3 to translate online into the equivalent live blind speed (due to standard things like shuffling time, physical chip counting, manual split pots, longer time banks for thinking, etc etc)

So, on this basis, the WSOP is running at equivalent of 20 mins “online blinds”

Both are 3000 starting stack, so we just need to look at the cost of a rotation as the tournament progresses. So if we look at a point 2 “online hours” deep we will be at Level 8 online, and Level 6 in the WSOP. This leads us to:

Online Cost of Rotation = 9×25 + 150 + 300 = 675 chips
Live Cost of Rotation = 9×50 + 200 + 400 = 1050 chips

Which means that the WSOP is a faster structure than a standard online tourney. Welcome to the World Series of (Speed) Poker!

A bit of a catch up with the WSOP latest from Las Legas

WSOP Event 1 Result

1 $ 794,112 Nenad Medic
2 $ 488,048 Andy Bloch
3 $ 306,064 Kathy Liebert

Chip Leaders WSOP Event 2

Aaron Coulthard 1327000
Theo Tran 1199000
James Akenhead 1039000
Matthew Kearney 1024000
Josh Engerdahl 930000
Eric Hicks 703000
Melvin Jones 660000

Chip Leaders WSOP Event 3

Robert Workman 146800
Philip Yeh 143000
David Singer 123600
Bobby Law 85500
Scott Seiver 71200
Jacobo Fernandez 69100
Ryan Fair 67700
Al Barbieri 63500

ChipLeaders WSOP Event 4

Jon Turner 100200
Ariel Schneller 99500
Ron Kevin Haeri 92300
Adam Westell 82800
Justin Bonomo 73900
Jay Rosenkrantz 72500
Jason Dewitt 70100
David Williams 67000
Gavin Griffin 65800

Some of the top young talent there, with Jon “PearlJammer” Turner, Justin Bononmo, and Gavin Griffin all amongst the leaders