WSOP 2013 - Event #36 - Simeon Naydenov Wins $1,500 NLHE Shootout

A field of 1,194 players paid the buy-in of WSOP 2013 Event #36 $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Shootout, contributing to the $1,611,900 prize pool. By the end of Day 1, only 120 players remained, which also was the money bubble. On Day 2, one shootout round was played on 12 full-ring tables, which meant 12 players returning on Day 3 to two six-max tables.

The final day participants were Vladimir Kochelaevskiy, Andrew Kloc, Kevin Vandersmissen, Sumanth Reddy, Jake Schwartz, Tobias Wenker, Nacho Barbero, Simeon Naydenov, Jan Kropacek, Noah Bronstein, Salman Behbehani and Mike Watson.

Stacks ranged from 440,000 to 449,000 in chips, based on previous days’ eliminations by the players. Level 1 kicked off at 1,000/3,000/6,000 and, after the elimination of Kochelaevskiy and Vandersmissen, the official final table was formed on one full-ring table on Level 3 (2,000/6,000/12,000).

The following Final Table seats were drawn:

Seat 1: Andrew Kloc – 316,000
Seat 2: Nacho Barbero – 270,000
Seat 3: Noah Bronstein – 303,000
Seat 4: Tobias Wenker – 442,000
Seat 5: Jake Schwartz – 936,000
Seat 6: Salman Behbehani – 794,000
Seat 7: Jan Kropacek – 572,000
Seat 8: Sumanth Reddy – 156,000
Seat 9: Simeon Naydenov – 731,000
Seat 10: Mike Watson – 829,000

First out was Reddy on Level 4 (2,000/8,000/16,000), shoving with 108,000 in chips and holding A-Q. Kloc re-raised all-in but Watson folded, leaving only the two of them and he showed A-Ts. The flop came T-6-6-5-9 and Reddy was out in 10th. Bronstein, Behbehani, Kropacek, Watson, Barbero and Wenker followed in this order.

On Level 7 (5,000/15,000/30,000), Schwartz opened to 60,000 from the Button, Naydenov 3-bet to 165,000 from the SB and Kloc moved all-in from the BB. Schwartz folded and Naydenov snap-called.

Naydenov: A J
Kloc: A 9

Board: 5 9x J A A

With a top full house for Naydenov, Kloc was out in 3rd and the heads-up was set with Naydenov in a major lead.

Simeon Naydenov – 4,075,000
Jake Schwartz – 1,300,000

In just a couple of hands, the tournament was over: after a shot of tequila for both players right before the last hand, Naydenov 4-bet all-in on the 4 A 9 flop and Schwartz called.

Schwartz: A 9
Naydenov: K 8

Turn: 7
River: 2

The last streets did not help Schwartz and Bulgarian Naydenov won the tournament for his first WSOP bracelet.


The end results are as follows:

1st: Simeon Naydenov – $326,440
2nd: Jake Schwartz – $202,035
3rd: Andrew Kloc – $126,250
4th: Tobias Wenker – $91,749
5th: Nacho Barbero – $67,732
6th: Mike Watson – $50,774
7th: Jan Kropacek – $38,621
8th: Salman Behbehani – $29,771
9th: Noah Bronstein – $23,259
10th: Sumanth Reddy – $18,407