WSOP: Mitchell Wins Deepstack, Negreanu Leads $10K Stud Final Table
Only one bracelet was awarded Tuesday at the 2019 World Series of Poker, but the table has been set for one of poker’s biggest names to take center stage on Wednesday. Daniel Negreanu sits on top of the final seven players in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship, putting him in position to win his seventh career bracelet. Meanwhile, Joseph Cheong used Tuesday to improve his chances of winning his first career bracelet.
Joseph Cheong Headlines $1K Double Stack Final Six
Three times in his poker career, Joseph Cheong has finished runner-up in a WSOP bracelet event. On Tuesday he did everything possible to give himself the best chance possible to improve upon those results. Cheong finished Day 3 of the $1,000 Double Stack No Limit Hold’em event with 100,300,000 – over 40% of the chips in play – and heads into Wednesday’s six-handed final table with the chip lead.
The player closest to Cheong is David Ivers with 60,400,000. China’s Zinan Xu, who started the day with the chip lead sits third with 53,900,000.
Among the 34 players who busted on Tuesday were Jack Sinclair, former #1-ranked PocketFiver Tim West, and recent WPT ARIA Summer Championship winner Matthew Wantman.
Action resumes at Noon PT.
Final Table Chip Counts
- Joseph Cheong – 100,300,000
- David Ivers – 60,400,000
- Zinan Xu – 53,900,000
- Andrea Buonocore – 17,800,000
- Ido Ashkenazi – 11,700,000
- Arianna Son – 4,500,000
Robert Mitchell Wins $800 Deepstack
Vegas-based poker pro Robert Mitchell beat Italy’s Marco Bognanni to win the $800 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack event for the first bracelet of his career and nearly $300,000.
“Overall, that’s what poker players play for is the bracelet,” Mitchell said. “To have one now, it’s on my resume and it feels good.”
The win comes a little more than a week after the 41-year-old came 17th in the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Shootout event. This is just the sixth career WSOP cash for Mitchell, but he felt the win was coming.
“One-hundred percent I did. I knew I was going to have another shot at it. I’ve been playing poker for a long time and felt like it was long overdue. It’s awesome.”
Bognanni had to settle for $183,742 as runner-up.
Final Table Payouts
- Robert Mitchell – $297,537
- Marco Bognanni – $183,742
- Axel Hallay – $134,817
- Francois Evard – $99,752
- Benjamin Underwood – $74,435
- Kamel Mokhammad – $56,019
- Benjamin Moon – $42,524
- Zachary Mullennix – $32,561
- Nick Jivkov – $25,152
Just 120 Remain in Record-Setting Super Seniors
Day 2 of the $1,000 Super Seniors event saw the field go from 838, through the money bubble and stopped with just 120 players still in contention for the bracelet and $359,863 first place prize money. Leading the way is Jay Hong, from California.
Hong has a talented group of players chasing him though. Barry Shulman, co-owner of CardPlayer Magazine and winner of the 2009 WSOP Europe Main Event, sits second. His wife, Allyn Shulman, also advanced to Day 3 with an average stack. Other notables still holding on to a shot at the title include Don Zewin, Larry Wright, Tom Franklin, and Humberto Brenes.
The schedule calls for an 11 AM PT restart with plans to play down to a winner on Wednesday.
Top 10 Chip Counts
- Jay Hong – 1,838,000
- Barry Shulman – 1,270,000
- James Plateroti – 1,181,000
- Clifford Pappas – 1,165,000
- Miles Harris – 1,090,000
- Steven Wenrich – 1,074,000
- Stuart Hosen – 992,000
- Jimmy Crouch – 916,000
- Aaron Dolgin – 898,000
- Jian Zhang – 858,000
Denis Bagdasarov Bags Day 2 Chip Lead $1,500 PLO
Pennsylvania poker player Denis Bagdasarov finished Day 2 of the record-setting $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event as the only player over 3,000,000 in chips and leads the final 21 players heading into Day 3.
The rest of the field includes Ben Zamani, Anton Wigg, Ismael Bojang, and Steve Sung. This is Bojang’s 10th cash of the 2019 WSOP and puts him alone atop the leaderboard for most cashes. He also has 72 career WSOP cashes without a win, moving him into sixth all-time on that list behind Roland Israealashvili, Tony Cousineau, Tom McCormick, Allen Kessler, and Shannon Shorr.
James Little finished with the fifth largest stack. This is Little’s eighth cash of the 2019 WSOP. He’s only had three other WSOP cashes in his career.
There were 200 players at the start of the day, and after 17 eliminations all remaining players were guaranteed an in-the-money finish. Matt Stout, Ankush Mandavia, Dan Zack, Loren Klein, Kenny Hallaert, Erik Seidel, and Mike Matusow were among the 162 players to cash and bust on Tuesday.
The final 21 players are back in action beginning at a Noon PT.
Top 10 Chip Counts
- Denis Bagdasarov – 3,035,000
- Glen Cressman – 2,910,000
- Johannes Toebbe – 2,905,000
- Benjamin Zamani – 2,900,000
- James Little – 2,575,000
- Anton Wigg – 1,900,000
- Ismael Bojang – 1,900,000
- Steve Sung – 1,450,000
- William Mitchell – 1,405,000
- Mihai Niste – 1,245,000
Daniel Negreanu Headlines $10K Seven Card Stud Final Table
Daniel Negreanu gave his investors a chance to dance on Tuesday night. Negreanu, who sold pieces of himself to fans and followers before the Series started, has just six other players standing in the way of his seventh career bracelet and a $245,451 payday.
Negreanu finished Day 2 of the $10,000 Seven Card Stud event with 1,502,000, nearly 500,000 more than the second biggest stack, belonging to David ‘ODB’ Baker. Those two are followed by bracelet winners Frank Kassela, John Hennigan, Chris Tryba, and David Singer.
The only player at the final table who does not already have a WSOP bracelet is Russian Mikhail Semin. He recently finished sixth in the $10,000 HORSE Championship.
Among the players to bust on Tuesday were Scott Seiver, Paul Volpe, Scott Clements, and Michael Mizrachi. Frankie O’Dell, who won the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo event earlier this summer, busted in eighth place.
The final table begins at a 2 PM PT.
Top 10 Chip Counts
- Daniel Negreanu – 1,502,000
- David “ODB” Baker – 1,070,000
- Frank Kassela – 919,000
- John Hennigan – 682,000
- Chris Tryba – 542,000
- David Singer – 388,000
- Mikhail Semin – 183,000
2,403 Players Flock to $600 Mixed NLHE/PLO Deepstack
At the start of the day, Adam Lamphere was just one of 2,403 players who entered the $600 Mixed NLHE/PLO Deepstack event. After 20 30-minute levels, however, Lamphere was bagging up the chip lead. The Michigan native finished with 1,870,000 from a starting stack of 30,000 and sits 628,000 ahead of the next biggest stack, belonging to Caleb Hershey.
A total of 2,208 players were eliminated on Day 1. Some of the 195 players who managed to avoid busting were Ylon Schwartz, Konstantin Puchkov, Jake Schwartz, Rainer Kempe, Mark Gregorich, Jamie Gold, and Matthew Wantman. Former #1-ranked PocketFivers Calvin Anderson, Tim West, and Ari Engel also managed to make Day 2.
Day 2 starts at Noon PT and is scheduled to play down to a winner.
Top 10 Chip Counts
- Adam Lamphere – 1,870,000
- Caleb Hershey – 1,242,000
- Dustin Goldklang – 1,114,000
- Tim Finne – 1,110,000
- Ylon Schwartz – 1,105,000
- Hao Chen – 1,000,000
- Andrew Ostapchenko – 915,000
- Qi Luo – 900,000
- Sean Legendre – 886,000
- Henry Tran – 869,000
Jonathan Depa Leads $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Day 1
Day 1 of the $2,500 Mixed Big Bet event, which includes a game rotation of No Limit and Pot Limit games, attracted 218 players and only 55 of them managed to survive to Day 2. Leading that group is Jonathan Depa with 171,600.
Jared Bleznick sits second with 149,900 while Arthur Morris is third with 137,000.
Ryan Hughes, who came second in this event last year, finished with the fourth best stack at 131,900.
Players are just 23 eliminations away from the bubble when action resumes at 2 PM PT.
Top 10 Chip Counts
- Jonathan Depa – 171,600
- Jared Bleznick – 149,900
- Arthur Morris – 137,000
- Ryan Hughes – 131,900
- Cary Katz – 99,600
- Mateus Deoliveira – 95,700
- David “Bakes” Baker – 94,900
- Joseph Couden – 92,300
- Max Kruse – 90,900
- Brandon Shack-Harris – 87,500
Player of the Year Update
Now properly credited with the 951.7 POY points he earned by winning the $600 Online Knockout Bounty event, Upeshka De Silva leads the WSOP Player of the Year race after passing Dan Zack. De Silva is just 15.82 points ahead of Zack.
Scott Clements sits third after picking up an additional 97.7 POY points for his 10th place finish in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship on Tuesday.
| POSITION | PLAYER | POINTS |
| 1 | Upeshka De Silva | 2,162.02 |
| 2 | Daniel Zack | 2,146.20 |
| 3 | Scott Clements | 1,837.33 |
| 4 | Robert Campbell | 1,605.08 |
| 5 | Daniel Strelitz | 1,597.26 |
