Event #46: $500 No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout
Day 1 Started
Event #46: $500 No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout
Day 1 Started
With many of the lower buy-in events offered this year having already broken records, Event #46: $500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em is sure to attract another sizable field and prize pool, and potentially award another first-time bracelet winner. These events have also featured many of the biggest names in poker, including WSOP Main Event champions and many bracelet winners hunting for their next piece of hardware, so the competition will be fierce.
This is only the second time this event has been held as a World Series of Poker live event. The 2022 event was won by David Perry, who bested a field of 4,786 entrants, winning his first bracelet and the first-place price of $241,729 from a prize pool of $2,010,120.
A visibly emotional Perry said that win made him feel "Blessed, grateful. I've been in Vegas since 1985, came here with $612 and two suitcases; this is my community," he continued.
Place | Player | Country | Prize |
---|---|---|---|
1st | David Perry | United States | $241,729 |
2nd | Chris Moorman | England | $149,405 |
3rd | Daniel Eichhorn | United States | $111,341 |
4th | Joshua Prager | United States | $83,623 |
5th | Sebastien Guidez | France | $63,302 |
6th | Phong Nguyen | United States | $48,299 |
7th | Elven Espinar | United States | $37,148 |
8th | Henry Reyes | United States | $28,802 |
9th | Daniel Marcus | United States | $22,512 |
10th | Robert Pettit | United States | $17,741 |
A previous version of the event was also held as part of the 2020 WSOP slate of online events mandated by the COVID pandemic. Alan Goehring won that event, scoring $119,400 along with the bracelet. The prize pool for the 2020 online event was $665,550 and had 1,479 entrants.
Goehring was no stranger to navigating large fields across many levels of buy-in, having won the 2020 WSOP bracelet, a WSOP Circuit ring, two WPT titles, and notching a second-place finish to Noel Furlong in the 1999 WSOP Main Event.
Seeing the energy of the enormous fields these events have generated so far spread across Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas has been exhilarating and this event should be one to watch.
Players will begin Day 1 at 10:00 a.m. local time at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, starting with a stack of 25,000 chips and blinds of 100/100/100. Twenty-two 30-minute levels will be played with 20-minute breaks after Levels 4, 8, 11, and 19, and a 75-minute dinner break after Level 15 (approximately 6:30 p.m.). Late registration will run through the break after Level 11 (approximately 4:30 p.m. local time).
Day 2 will feature a 10:00 a.m. local time restart and play down to a winner, with 15-minute breaks every four levels, and a dinner break to be determined.
Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for full coverage of this event as we begin the road to the crowning of another champion at the 2023 World Series Of Poker.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 100
With a small delay, cards are in the air for Event #46: $500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em in Paris Ballroom with more than 3,330 players already registered.
With 3,565 entrants already early in Day 1, the event is on pace to shatter last year's field of 4,786. Many notable faces have punched the clock, including 2007 WSOP Main Event Champion Jerry Yang, Tiffany Michelle, both the US and UK Skullmen, Paul Grande, who finished 24th yesterday in the $800 Deep Stack event.
Jeffrey Camp, dressed as Santa Claus has already busted, so someone will be getting coal in their stocking.
Runner up of the $500 Employee Event, James Urbanic, was also seen in the field. As well as LoriAnn Persinger, who won over $100,000 from a free entry to the WPT Main that happened in December of last year, finishing in 30th place out of nearly 3,000 runners.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Gerald David |
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Jerry Yang |
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
||
Frank Harrington |
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Tiffany Michelle |
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Paul Grande |
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
James Urbanic |
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Anthony Serino |
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
LoriAnn Persinger
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Jeremy Herb | 25,000 | |
Jeffrey Camp | Busted |
EPT Senior Dealer Said Bats is off to a good start with 35,000 chips in front of him.
On a three-way pot on a board of 9♠J♥J♦2♦, Bats took the lead with a 1,100 bet in early position and only the cutoff called. On the river 4♦, Bats fired 1,200 and his opponent folded.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Said Bats
|
35,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
Roxanne Johnson |
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Andrew Knowles
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Jean-Pierre Besancon |
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
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Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
David Perry, the 2022 bracelet winner in this event, has already doubled up, knocking out a player with aces over kings.
In subsequent action Daniel Craig laid down pocket kings face up when Mark Unterreiner came over the top of his raise with an all in.
With 3,806 entrants already in the field, the action is heating up.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
David Perry |
52,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
|
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Mark Unterreiner
|
32,200
32,200
|
32,200 |
Daniel Craig |
11,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
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