WSOP 2013 - Event #3 - Charles Sylvestre Wins First $1,000 NLHE Event

With the elimination of Seth Baker, the nine-handed final table of WSOP 2013 Event #3 $1,000 NLHE was set. It was only 38 players returning on Event Day 3 and they also celebrated a winner that day.

The final table chipcount was as follows:

Ruben Ybarra – 2,250,000
Seth Berger – 1,480,000
Charles Sylvestre – 1,270,000
Michael Cooper – 870,000
Binh Ta – 810,000
William Guerrero – 665,000
Darren Rabinowitz – 656,000
Ryan Olisar – 650,000
Ping Liu – 550,000

Ping Liu was out first, followed by Ruben Ybarra, who, despite beginning the finale in the chiplead, lost several big pots and ended up showing with K-9 top pair on the Q-4-K-5-J board, most of them hearts, against Seth Berger’s ace-high flush.

Darren Rabinowitz, Ryan Olisar, Binh Ta and Michael Cooper finished next, in this order.

Seth Berger – 4,750,000
Charles Sylvestre – 3,900,000
William Guerrero – 900,000

Shortstack William Guerrero lost his chips in a cooled hand, his pocket nines getting cracked by Charles Sylvestre’s A-4 and an ace on the river on the otherwise neutral board.

Seth Berger – 4,950,000
Charles Sylvestre – 4,600,000

In a mucked hand, Sylvestre took a big pot in the beginning of the heads-up and he soon claimed the victory as well: he showed A-J on the 3-A-K-X-8 board and Berger mucked again.


Canadian Sylvestre scooped in his first ever recorded live tournament result.

The end results are as follows:

1st: Charles Sylvestre – $491,360
2nd: Seth Berger – $303,952
3rd: William Guerrero – $215,107
4th: Michael Cooper – $155,706
5th: Binh Ta – $114,017
6th: Ryan Olisar – $84,459
7th: Darren Rabinowitz – $63,273
8th: Ruben Ybarra – $47,925
9th: Ping Liu – $36,705