Event #41: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship
Day 2 Completed
2019 World Series of Poker
Event #41: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2019 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
88
Level
23
Limits
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
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Level 17
: 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante
The second day of Event #41: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship has now come to an end after seven exciting levels of play. The 88 player field had a total of 48 returning for Day 2 and when the dust had settled it was fan favorite Daniel Negreanu leading the final seven with 1,502,000 in chips.
Negreanu came into the second day with just over average and by the time the two table redraw happened he had one of the top stacks. He drew the better of the two tables, having several short-stacks clawing at a chance to make the money and he took complete advantage of it, opening as many pots as possible.
The Canadian continually climbed at his table with the aggressive style against the smaller stacks and when the final table came around he found himself sitting on a million in chips, just one of two players to be there at that point. Just moments into the final table Negreanu pulled in a massive pot against ninth-place finisher Michael Mizrachi with rolled up eights, pushing him into first place on the leaderboard, a place he stayed throughout the remainder of the night.
The original plan for this event was to play four days before crowning a champion, but things have moved quicker than expected and it will now only be three. Tomorrow will be the third and final day of the tournament, with a winner taking home a new WSOP bracelet along with the $245,451 first place prize.
Closest behind Negreanu and the only other player over with a seven-figure stack is David "ODB" Baker. He will be starting the day with 1,040,000 and will be looking for bracelet number two. Baker swung his chip stack around for the better part of the day and seemed to always be involved in every large pot during the latter part of the day. He and Negreanu had played an absurd amount of pots during the final table and it looked at one point like Baker was headed in the wrong direction, but Baker turned it around and will be starting the final day second in chips.
Well-known Frank Kassela will be sitting on a stack of 919,000 to start the day, which is good for third on the leaderboard and well above John Hennigan who will be sitting in the middle of the pack with his 682,000 stack. When nine-handed play started, Kassela had just half a million and quickly went to work, finding a pot against Hennigan and several against Negreanu. The five-time bracelet winner Hennigan went in the opposite direction of Kassela, losing almost every pot he played.
The bubble came quickly on Day 2, happening on level 15 and once there the play slowed down vastly. There was a total of 44 rounds of hand-for-hand play before someone finally dropped and unfortunately for Alan Boston it was him. Boston moved the rest of his chips all in on fourth street with three to a straight flush but failed to improve as David Singer's pair of kings took down the pot and everyone remaining was guaranteed at least a $14,667 for their efforts.
The other three players still in contention include bracelet winner Chris Tryba (542,000), two-time bracelet winner David Singer (388,000) and, coming in as the short stack, Russia's Mikhail Semin (183,000).
Final Table
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Singer | United States | 388,000 |
| 2 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 1,502,000 |
| 3 | David "ODB" Baker | United States | 1,070,000 |
| 4 | Chris Tryba | United States | 542,000 |
| 5 | John Hennigan | United States | 682,000 |
| 6 | Frank Kassela | United States | 919,000 |
| 7 | Mikhail Semin | Russia | 183,000 |
The remaining seven players will be starting on level 18 with the limits at 20,000/40,000 and each level will be 90-minutes in length. A restart time of 2 p.m. is set for the final day and the stream will start approximately an hour after that. The tournament will be playing down until the eventual champion is crowned.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be bringing you all of the action as it unfolds in the final day of this event.
Level 17
: 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante
The second day of Event #41: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship has now come to an end and it is Canadian poker legend Daniel Negreanu who is leading the way with his 1,502,000 chip stack.
A recap of the day will be posted shortly.
| Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | 1 | 1 | David Singer | United States | 388,000 |
| Amazon | 1 | 2 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 1,502,000 |
| Amazon | 1 | 3 | David "ODB" Baker | United States | 1,070,000 |
| Amazon | 1 | 4 | Chris Tryba | United States | 542,000 |
| Amazon | 1 | 6 | John Hennigan | United States | 682,000 |
| Amazon | 1 | 7 | Frank Kassela | United States | 919,000 |
| Amazon | 1 | 8 | Mikhail Semin | Russia | 183,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,502,000
202,000
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202,000 |
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1,070,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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919,000
-131,000
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-131,000 |
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682,000
87,000
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87,000 |
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542,000
142,000
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142,000 |
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388,000
58,000
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58,000 |
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183,000
78,000
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78,000 |
Level 17
: 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante
After a tough final level Frankie O'Dell is out in 8th place, losing the last of a very short stack to David "ODB" Baker.
O'Dell was on the losing end of a couple of big pots in the final hour of Day 2, including a previous pot to Baker which went all seven streets and saw O'Dell lose a big chunk of his stack when Baker's turned over aces up at showdown.
O'Dell's quest for WSOP bracelet No. 4 will have to come another time, but the eighth-place finish gives him his fourth cash at the 2019 WSOP, all top-20 finishes.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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Level 17
: 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante
Daniel Negreanu completed on his nine and Frank Kassela made it two bets in which Negreanu elected to call. Negreanu bet on fourth and Kassela called to fifth where he pushed in a bet. Negreanu called and the two checked it down the rest of the way.
Frank Kassela: 
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Daniel Negreanu: / 
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Kassela flipped over 
for a pair of aces and those were good as Negreanu chucked his hand into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,300,000
-150,000
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-150,000 |
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1,050,000
155,000
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155,000 |
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Level 17
: 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,450,000 | |
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1,040,000
320,000
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320,000 |
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895,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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595,000
-25,000
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-25,000 |
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400,000
-160,000
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-160,000 |
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330,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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300,000
-105,000
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-105,000 |
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105,000
-70,000
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-70,000 |
Level 17
: 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante
David "ODB" Baker: /
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Chris Tryba: /
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David "ODB" Baker fired bets on each of the final two streets, and Chris Tryba called both times. Baker, who's been involved in plenty of hands in this final level, showed down 
for aces full of sevens, taking down the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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845,000
125,000
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125,000 |
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350,000 | |
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Level 17
: 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante
Daniel Negreanu: / 
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David "ODB" Baker: / 
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Daniel Negreanu took the betting role of the hand, he completed and then fired on every street. David "ODB" Baker called him down until seventh where he hit the tank for a couple of minutes. Ultimately he chucked his cards into the muck and Negreanu scooped in another pot late in the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,450,000
130,000
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130,000 |
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720,000
-120,000
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-120,000 |
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Level 17
: 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante
David "ODB" Baker: /
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Frankie O'Dell: /
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The big pots are still going down on the last level of the night, and in this hand Baker showed down for aces up to win a sizable pile of chips against Frankie O'Dell.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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840,000
270,000
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270,000 |
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405,000
45,000
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45,000 |
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Level 17
: 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante
Daniel Negreanu: /
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David "ODB" Baker: /
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David Baker was the aggressor through fifth street, firing bets on each round and getting calls from Daniel Negreanu. Baker slowed down with a check on sixth street, and Negreanu checked back.
Negreanu bet the river and Baker called, but saw the bad news when Negreanu tabled 
for the broadway straight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,320,000
135,000
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135,000 |
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570,000
-120,000
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-120,000 |
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