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WSOP 2013 - Main Event - 68 Players Remain

68 remained in play of the 239 participants, who entered Day 5 of World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 Event #62 $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event. Sami Rustom leads the way with over 7 million in chips.
author-picture Admin - 2013. July 14.

After about a week of play, 239 entrants remained in WSOP 2013 Event #62 $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event. They returned with Jon Lane in the lead, who had 2,839,000 in chips. By the end of the Day, 68 of them remained and several notables got railed along the way, including Lane, who eventually finished 94th for $59,708, as well as Joshua Field, Greg Mueller, Steve Bartlett, Max Steinberg, Ronnie Bardah, Ashton Griffin, Marvin Rettenmaier, Brandon Steven, Annette Obrestad, Chris Johnson, Kevin Williams, Nick Schwarmann and 2012 champion Greg Merson.

Merson was eliminated on Level 22 (3,000/10,000/20,000), when he 3-bet all-in with 481,000 in chips on Brett Richey’s raise to 40,000 and Richey called.

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Richey: {#}A {#}K

Board: {#}3 {#}K {#}2 {#}9 {#}4

Richey got his flush, in addition to his top pair, and the defending champion was out in 167th place for $42,990.

At the end of the day, US player Sami Rustom had the largest chip count of 7,050,000. The best of his few live tournament results is a 21st finish in the WSOP 2007 $2,000 NLHE event for $16,585. Of the most recognised players, World Poker Classic winner Yevgeniy Timoshenko fared the best, waiting Day 6 in the 10th position of the chip counts. Above the average stack of 2,802,353 stands David ‘Raptor’ Benefield as well with 3,675,000 in chips.

Sami Rustom

The top 10 chip counts after Day 5 are as follows:

1st: Sami Rustom – 7,050,000
2nd: Marc McLaughlin – 6,695,000
3rd: Jason Mann – 6,580,000
4th: Maxx Coleman – 6,260,000
5th: George Wong – 5,740,000
6th: Sylvain Loosli – 5,690,000
7th: Ryan Riess – 5,570,000
8th: Keanu Tabali – 5,435,000
9th: Matthew Reed – 5,255,000
10th: Yevgeniy Timoshenko – 4,095,000


Additional stacks of interest include:

12th: Jackie Glazier – 4,045,000
18th: David Benefield – 3,675,000
20th: Noah Schwartz – 3,595,000
28th: JC Tran – 3,280,000
35th: Carlos Mortensen – 2,665.000
37th: Yann Dion – 2,270,000
42nd: Jim Collopy – 1,970,000
50th: Sergio Castelluccio – 1,655,000
54th: Vladimir Geshkenbein – 1,400,000
57th: Andrea Dato – 1,150.000
59th: Vitaly Lunkin – 1,000,000
61st: Rep Porter – 950,000
66th: Simon Ravnsbaek – 600,000


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


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