Event #83: $1,500 Short Deck
Day 1 Started
2023 World Series of Poker
Event #83: $1,500 Short Deck
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
2023 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$484,605
Entries
363
Level
19
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
12,000
Entries
363
Players Left
9
Today, the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas play host to Event #83: $1,500 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em. While the 2023 World Series of Poker has been packed with mixed game variants, this event will not only be the first Short Deck event of the summer but will be an inaugural event for the WSOP.
As of 2019, the WSOP has made the $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em event a constant fixture on the calendar. However, this year is the first of its kind as the WSOP is bringing a lower-stakes warm-up variant of the same format that will no doubt attract a new crowd of players.
Last year Shota Nakanishi took down Event #60: $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em having bested a field of 110 entries to claim his career-first golden bracelet and $277,212. Most recently cashing in the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event, Nakanishi will likely be registering today in an attempt claim another short deck win.
Other likely entrants include Jason Koon. While rising to success via the Cadillac of poker, Koon has gained recent fame as he is currently regarded as one of the best short deck players in the world. With twenty live cashes within this variant, Koon’s resume also boasts three short deck trophies and is likely to arrive today in an attempt to claim a fourth.
Short Deck Hold'em plays with a deck of 36 cards as all deuces to fives are removed. The ace plays as a high and low card, thus making a wheel from ace to nine is possible. Another significant difference to regular Hold'em is the rank of hand combinations, as a flush beats a full house.
There are also no blinds in this game — all players pay an ante every hand and the player on the button pays two times the ante. It is played six-handed, so the initial pot is seven times the ante.
The tournament is set to begin at 12 p.m. PDT and players will start with 25,000 chips on Level 1 with an ante of 100. They will play through 15 levels of 40 minutes on Day 1, which will increase to 60 minutes on Days 2 and 3. There is also a 60 minute dinner break scheduled at the end of Level 9, about 6:30 p.m.
Players who are eliminated during the registration period, which ends after Level 9 (about 7:45 p.m.), have the option to reenter up to two times.
Stay locked into PokerNews for all the updates on this event and everything else that happens at the 2023 World Series of Poker.
Level: 1
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 100
Level 1
: 0/0, 100 ante
Cards are in the air for Event #83: $1,500 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em. There are currently 48 entrants in the field.
Level 1
: Blinds 0/0, 100 ante
With players four-way on a board reading K♠9♠7♥ and about 1,500 in the middle, a player in middle position bet 700, folding out a player in the hijack while a player in the cutoff raised to 2,000. Arthur Morris called on the button as did the initial bettor.
Action checked to Morris on the A♦ turn, who bet 5,500. The middle position player called while the cutoff folded.
The river came the 10♠ and action again checked to Morris who bet 12,000, forcing a fold from his opponent to take down a decent early pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
34,000
34,000
|
34,000 |
Level 1
: Blinds 0/0, 100 ante
Rostyslav Sabishchenko limped from under the gun, as did the hijack. The cutoff raised to 500 and only Sabishchenko continued.
On a flop of A♦8♣7♥, Sabishchenko check-called a bet of 800 from his opponent.
The 9♥ turn checked through to the 6♣ on the river. Sabishchenko now took the lead for 1,500 and his opponent opted to fold.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
22,800
22,800
|
22,800 |
Level 1
: Blinds 0/0, 100 ante
The under-the-gun player raised to 500, to their direct left was Todd Ritson who called and the button squeezed to 2,700. The original raiser called and Ritson decided to four-bet jam for 20,500. Both opponents folded.
The very next hand Ritson was under the gun and raised to 500, which the cutoff called
The flop of J♣9♦8♦ checked through to the 9♣ on the turn. Ritson bet out for 700 and his opponent called.
The 10♣ river checked to a showdown.
Todd Ritson: J♠J♦
Cutoff: 9♥6♠
Ritson's full house won him his second pot in a row.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
31,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
Level 1
: Blinds 0/0, 100 ante
The pot stood at 4,000 with two players looking at a board that read 8♥A♣10♣.
Peter Jetten in middle position checked the action to the player on the button. They bet out for 2,000 and Jetten called.
The turned 7♦ checked through to the 6♠ on the river. Jetten led out for 5,500 and his opponent flicked in the call. Jetten turned over 9♥7♥ for a straight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
37,000
37,000
|
37,000 |
Level 1
: Blinds 0/0, 100 ante
Jon Turner limped in from the hijack and another player limped from the cutoff. Kenji Yamase made it 600 to go from the button and received a call from both players.
The flop came K♦7♥6♣ and action checked around to Yamase, who bet 1,100. Turner made the call and the cutoff got out of the way.
Turner led for 2,200 on the 8♦ turn and Yamase made the call. Both players checked through the 6♦ river.
Turner tabled 9♠8♣ for a missed straight draw and pair of eights while Yamase tabled A♥K♣ for top pair to take the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
27,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
21,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 200