784 players registered to WSOP 2013 Event #57 $5,000 No Limit Hold’em, building a prize pool of $3,684,800 for the top 81 finishers. On Day 1, 235 entrants survived, including Philipp Gruissem, Sam Trickett, Olivier Busquet, Antonio Esfandiari, JC Tran, Mark Radoja, Dan Smith, Eugene Katchalov, Calvin Anderson, Phil Laak, Ali Eslami, Barry Shulman, Dominik Nitsche, Kevin MacPhee, Liv Boeree, Tobias Reinkemeier and Davidi Kitai, to just name a few from the field worthy of a $5,000 NLHE event.
The money bubble burst on Day 2, when Eros Nastasi pushed in his short stack on pocket tens and ran into an A-K hand with an ace on the board. Consequently, Andy Frankenberger finished 81th, Reinkemeier 77th, Frank Kassela 73rd, Dani Stern 72nd, Richard Lyndaker 67th, Kitai 66th, Shulman 63rd, MacPhee 62nd, Nitsche 60th, Eric Baldwin 43rd, Laak 41st and Jonathan Little 38th among the favourites of the tournament.
31 players remained for Day 3 with Seth Berger in the chiplead. On the way towards the final nine, Trickett busted out in 31st place, Grant Levy in 21st, JC Tran in 20th, Dan Martin in 14th, Busquet in 12th and Gruissem in 11th. Matt Schulte bubbled the Final Table, moving all-in with T-9 on the T-7-Q-5 board and getting called by Antonio Buonanno with Q-5 and the river coming neutral.
The Final Table seat draw was as follows:
Seat 1: Antonio Buonanno – 1,185,000
Seat 2: Seth Berger – 1,698,000
Seat 3: Thomas Muehloecker – 1,434,000
Seat 4: Kent Roed – 482,000
Seat 5: Matt Berkey – 1,585,000
Seat 6: Joe Serock – 1,211,000
Seat 7: Randal Flowers – 619,000
Seat 8: Matt Perrins – 1,946,000
Seat 9: Arthur Pro – 1,610,000
Play started on Level 25 (4,000/12,000/24,000) with WSOP 2011 $1,500 No Limit 2-7 Lowball winner Matt ‘pezler06’ Perrins in the lead. After 15 hands, Kent Roed got eliminated in 9th place, the neutral board not helping his
A 
J hand against Randal Flowers’ 
A Q .
Joe Serock followed and then Flowers, who moved all-in withK K and got called by Perrins, who held A 
K . The board came J 9 4 A 4 and the ace on the turn sealed Flowers’ fate for the tournament.
Thomas Muehloecker, Matt Berkey and Buonanno continued the list of eliminations, before the heads-up was formed on Level 30 (10,000/40,000/80,000): after a raising battle, Perrins 6-bet all-in and Berger called.
Perrins:K Q
Berger:A Q
Board:8 5 K 9 3
Berger was out in 3rd place and Perrins had a huge lead of 10:1 over Arthur Pro in the heads-up.
Matt Perrins – 10,765,000
Arthur Pro – 995,000
Pro managed to double up twice in the first few hands of their duel but could not prolong the game: in just about ten minutes, the final hand came, where he called on Perrins’ re-raise all-in.
Perrins:K Q
Pro:A J
Board:4 J 9 K 9
Despite being ahead, the king on the turn put Pro behind and it was all over with the river, Perrins winning the tournament.
British Matt Perrins earned his second WSOP title, along the $792,275 first prize.
The end results are as follows:
1st: Matt Perrins – $792,275
2nd: Arthur Pro – $489,451
3rd: Seth Berger – $315,529
4th: Antonio Buonanno – $231,147
5th: Matt Berkey – $171,822
6th: Thomas Muehloecker – $129,447
7th: Randal Flowers – $98,715
8th: Joe Serock – $76,164
9th: Kent Roed – $59,398
The money bubble burst on Day 2, when Eros Nastasi pushed in his short stack on pocket tens and ran into an A-K hand with an ace on the board. Consequently, Andy Frankenberger finished 81th, Reinkemeier 77th, Frank Kassela 73rd, Dani Stern 72nd, Richard Lyndaker 67th, Kitai 66th, Shulman 63rd, MacPhee 62nd, Nitsche 60th, Eric Baldwin 43rd, Laak 41st and Jonathan Little 38th among the favourites of the tournament.
31 players remained for Day 3 with Seth Berger in the chiplead. On the way towards the final nine, Trickett busted out in 31st place, Grant Levy in 21st, JC Tran in 20th, Dan Martin in 14th, Busquet in 12th and Gruissem in 11th. Matt Schulte bubbled the Final Table, moving all-in with T-9 on the T-7-Q-5 board and getting called by Antonio Buonanno with Q-5 and the river coming neutral.
The Final Table seat draw was as follows:
Seat 1: Antonio Buonanno – 1,185,000
Seat 2: Seth Berger – 1,698,000
Seat 3: Thomas Muehloecker – 1,434,000
Seat 4: Kent Roed – 482,000
Seat 5: Matt Berkey – 1,585,000
Seat 6: Joe Serock – 1,211,000
Seat 7: Randal Flowers – 619,000
Seat 8: Matt Perrins – 1,946,000
Seat 9: Arthur Pro – 1,610,000
Play started on Level 25 (4,000/12,000/24,000) with WSOP 2011 $1,500 No Limit 2-7 Lowball winner Matt ‘pezler06’ Perrins in the lead. After 15 hands, Kent Roed got eliminated in 9th place, the neutral board not helping his
A J hand against Randal Flowers’ A Q .Joe Serock followed and then Flowers, who moved all-in with
K K and got called by Perrins, who held A K . The board came J 9 4 A 4 and the ace on the turn sealed Flowers’ fate for the tournament.Thomas Muehloecker, Matt Berkey and Buonanno continued the list of eliminations, before the heads-up was formed on Level 30 (10,000/40,000/80,000): after a raising battle, Perrins 6-bet all-in and Berger called.
Perrins:
K Q Berger:
A Q Board:
8 5 K 9 3 Berger was out in 3rd place and Perrins had a huge lead of 10:1 over Arthur Pro in the heads-up.
Matt Perrins – 10,765,000
Arthur Pro – 995,000
Pro managed to double up twice in the first few hands of their duel but could not prolong the game: in just about ten minutes, the final hand came, where he called on Perrins’ re-raise all-in.
Perrins:
K QPro:
A J Board:
4 J 9 K 9 Despite being ahead, the king on the turn put Pro behind and it was all over with the river, Perrins winning the tournament.
British Matt Perrins earned his second WSOP title, along the $792,275 first prize.
The end results are as follows:
1st: Matt Perrins – $792,275
2nd: Arthur Pro – $489,451
3rd: Seth Berger – $315,529
4th: Antonio Buonanno – $231,147
5th: Matt Berkey – $171,822
6th: Thomas Muehloecker – $129,447
7th: Randal Flowers – $98,715
8th: Joe Serock – $76,164
9th: Kent Roed – $59,398
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