WSOP 2013 - Main Event - The Bubble Bursts

A star-studded field of 666 players returned to the tables on Day 4 of WSOP 2013 Event #62 $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event. With 648 in the money finishes, the players were 18 eliminations from the money. The bubble eventually burst on Level 16 (500/2,500/5,000).

In teh decisive hand, Nick Schwarmann raised preflop to 12,000 from MP, Farzad Bonyadi called and the flop came J 5 3 . Schwarmann check-raised Bonyadi’s 14,000 bet to 37,000 and Bonyadi called. The turn came T , Schwarmann bet 54,000 and Bonyadi called again. On the K river, Schwarmann shoved and Bonyadi called all-in instantly.

Bonyadi: A J
Schwarmann: A Q

Schwarmann got his straight on the river and three times WSOP champion Bonyadi was out, bubbling the Main Event money.

In the end, 239 players remained and the field is led by Jon Lane with 2,839,000 in chips. Lane is a veteran of WSOP finales but he has never managed so far to win one; his current best result is a runner-up finish in the WSOP 2011 $2,500 Mixed Hold’em event. He is accompanied in the top 10 by FTOPS Main Event winner Yann ‘Yadio1111’ Dion, among others.


The day saw a large number of notables eliminated, including but not limited to Ivan Demidov, Ludovic Lacay, Melanie Weisner, Bertrand Grospellier, Jon Turner, Russell Thomas, Matt Marafioti, Allen Cunningham, Nicolas Levi, Robert Salaburu, Matt Affleck, Lauren Kling, Jake Cody, Dutch Boyd, Isaac Haxton, Michael Mizrachi, Bryn Kenney, Rupert Elder, Stephen Chidwick, Paul Wasicka, Erik Seidel as well as Doyle Brunson.

Ten times WSOP title holder Brunson busted out on Level 18 (1,000/4,000/8,000), when he called all-in preflop with 204,000 in chips on Sergei Stazhkov’s 4-bet all-in.

Stazhkov: T T
Brunson: K T

Board: 7 3 2 9 A

Brunson was eliminated in 409th place for $28,063. On his way out, the Amazon Room gave him an ovation.

The top 10 chip counts after Day 4 are as follows:

1st: Jon Lane – 2,839,000
2nd: Sami Rustom – 2,485,000
3rd: Grayson Ramage – 2,438,000
4th: Victor Cianelli – 2,197,000
5th: Seaver Kyaw – 2,060,000
6th: Yann Dion – 2,025,000
7th: Kevin Williams – 2,007,000
8th: Vincent Robert - 1.976,000
9th: Robert Sichelstiel – 1,910,000
10th: Ami Alibay – 1,890,000

Additional stacks of interest include:

13th: Vladimir Geshkenbein – 1,800,000
19th: David Benefield – 1,675,000
24th: Max Steinberg – 1,591,000
25th: Ashley Mason – 1,585,000
26th: Yevgeniy Timoshenko – 1,563,000
27th: Rep Porter – 1,526,000
29th: Simon Ravnsbaek – 1,506,000
30th: Byron Kaverman – 1,475,000
34th: Ashton Griffin – 1,415,000
55th: Annette Obrestad - 1th:186,000
57th: JC Tran – 1,141,000
66th: Robin Ylitalo – 1,026,000
90th: Vivek Rajkumar – 858,000
97th: Marvin Rettenmaier – 809,000
108th: Jim Collopy – 734,000
123rd: Greg Merson – 635,000
142nd: Sergio Castelluccio – 554,000
174th: Aditya Agarwal – 400,000
177th: Amit Makhija – 390,000
195th: Carlos Mortensen - 302th:000
199th: Greg Mueller – 300,000

Prizes:

1st: $8,359,531
2nd: $5,173,170
3rd: $3,727,023
4th: $2,791,983
5th: $2,106,526
6th: $1,600,792
7th: $1,225,224
8th: $944,593
9th: $733,224
10-12th: $573,204
13-15th: $451,398
16-18th: $357,655
19-27th: $285,408
28-36th: $229,281
37-45th: $185,694
46-54th: $151,063
55-63rd: $123,597
64-72nd: $102,102
73-81st: $84,786
82-90th: $71,053
91-99th: $59,708
100-162nd: $50,752
163-225th: $42,990
226-288th: $37,019
289-360th: $32,242
361-432nd: $28,063
433-504th: $24,480
505-576th: $21,495
577-648th: $19,106