WSOP Day 16 Recap: Jarvis Looking to Reclaim his Crown; Seidel After Bracelet No.9 and Much More

WSOP Day 16 Recap: Jarvis Looking to Reclaim his Crown; Seidel After Bracelet No.9 and Much More

WSOP Day 16 recap sees Matt Jarvis looking to reclaim the $5,000 Six-Handed title he won back in 2012; Erik Seidel is hoping that the $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low will produce bracelet number nine, and Dan Smith leads the $1.5k heading into the money.

WSOP Day 16 Recap: Jarvis Looking to Reclaim his Crown; Seidel After Bracelet No.9 and Much MoreThe 16th day of the 45th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a quiet one by their usual standards.

No new bracelet winners to speak of, and only three tournaments to bring you up to speed on.

We will start with Event #24: $5,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em. 541 players bought into the event that is usually reserved for the professional’s in the game, and at the time of writing they are heading towards their final table at a pretty rapid rate.

Two years ago, Matt Jarvis, took down this event, after wading through a much larger field of 732 players, and he was the overnight chip leader as Day 2 drew to a close. He’s still in the top three spots, but the recent CalvinAyre guest, Andrew Lichtenberger, has the chip lead, as he continues to show how the changes he has made in his lifestyle are bearing fruit on the felt.

The third day of action has seen exits for the recent WSOP bracelet winner Kory Kilpatrick, online wizard Griffin Benger, Mark Darner, Jay Dragland, former WSOP Main Event champion Greg Merson, Amanda Musumeci, Pratyush Buddiga and Byron Kaverman.

From this point onward only one thing is known for sure: we are going to have a stacked final table: the aforementioned Jarvis and Lichtenberger may be leading the way, but they have the likes of Bryn Kenney, Fabrice Touil. Kevin Eyster, David Borrat, Jeremy Kottler, Pierre Neuville and Mustapha Kanit all chasing their coat tails.

Event #25: $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low

14-players remain from the 470 that started Event #25, and it’s the IveyPoker Pro Mike Leah who holds the chip lead.

Leah is a mixed games specialist who holds more FTOPS jersey’s than Tour de France bike riders hold yellow ones, and he has made his second cash of the series after finishing 11th in Event #16: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball.

There are plenty of interesting names still in the boiling pot, and one of them is Erik Seidel. The New Yorker is looking to join Phil Ivey, and Johnny Moss, on the rung where the nine WSOP bracelet holder hang out, and win his first bracelet since 2007.

Multiple bracelet winner, Tom Schneider is scrapping for his life at the bottom end of those counts, and Allyn Jaffrey Shulman is also short.

Keep an eye out for the British grinder, John Kabbaj, who sits ominously in the middle of the pack, and I expect him to make the final table.

Event #26: $1,500 NLHE

1,594 players is not one of the largest $1,500 WSOP events you will see this year, but it’s still littered with enough quality to produce a story.

At the time of writing we have 119 players left, meaning they are now in the money, and Dan Smith towers above everyone else with 204k in chips.

Plenty of play left in that one and with the likes of Martin Finger, Max Silver, Scott Clements, Mike McDonald, Brandon Cantu and Phil Hellmuth all still in the mix to ensure we will have plenty of story fodder when tomorrow comes.