WSOP Day 26 Recap sees Robert Mizrachi win the inaugural Dealers Choice (DC) tournament; Sean Dempsey, a physician,wins the $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) event, and Laak and Kelly looking good for bracelets in Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) and NLHE respectively.
His son is named Jack and he wins a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet holding two of them.
I guess it was fate that Sean Dempsey would win Event #39: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE), and take home the not too shabby looking first prize of $548,460.
Dempsey who also made the final table of the $10K-PLO event last year, finishing seventh for a six-figure score, is not even a professional poker player – he is a Doctor.
So will he be giving up his job after two huge back-to-back scores?
No way hosay.
Dempsey says the life of the poker grinder is not one that he wants to sacrifice a career in the medical trade for, but after overcoming 992 players, and a stacked final table, you can’t help but ask.
This event wasn’t even on Dempsey’s schedule and he decided to play it at the very last minute. He overcame a final table that contained six-time WSOP bracelet winner, Layne Flack, World Poker Tour (WPT) Champions Club member Nam Le, and the recent PCA High Roller champion Jacob Schindler.
Final Table Standings
1st. Sean Dempsey – $548,460
2nd. Ryan Jaconetti – $339,440
3rd. Jacob Schindler – $212,373
4th. Ryan Olisar – $154,148
5th. Ryan Laplante – $113,796
6th. Nam Le – $85,307
7th. Layne Flack – $64,887
8th. Takashi Yagura – $50,019
9th. Andrew Becker – $39,078
Robert Mizrachi Wins Event #41: $1,500 Six-Handed Dealers Choice
It what must go down as a great inaugural performance by the WSOP dealers, the first-ever DC tournament has ended with Robert Mizrachi winning his second gold bracelet.
There are 419 players who paid the $1,500 entry fee and had 16different games to choose from, making it the most complicated tournament that has ever been run in the history of the WSOP.
So how did it turn out?
The players loved it—only they want more—and they want their more to be much bigger next year.
Mizrachi defeated Aaron Schaff in heads-up action, after searing through a final table that included the likes of Bill Chen, Daniel Idema, Frank Kassela and Shane Abbott.
Final Table Standings
1st. Robert Mizrachi – $147,092
2nd. Aaron Schaff – $90,854
3rd. Shane Abbott – $58,414
4th. Bill Chen – $38,735
5th. Daniel Idema – $26,444
6th. Frank Kassela – $18,575
The Best of the Rest
The Unabomber, Phil Laak, is as close as he can be to winning bracelet number two, as he takes a lead into the third day of action in Event #42: $5,000 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO).
There are 13players remain in the field and they include the likes of Sorel Mizzi, David “Bakes” Baker, Ryan Schmidt, and two people who are having the times of their lives this summer: Richard Ashby and Kory Kilpatrick.
There were two $1,500 Hold’em events filling in the three main rooms of the Rio and Dan Kelly takes a prominent lead into the final day of Event #43—the Limit version.
Once again the cream has seemingly risen to the top with multiple bracelet winners David Chiu and Jeffrey Lisandro making the final table; but special mention should go out to Brandon Shack Harris who makes his third final table of the series.
Event #44 is the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event and 1,914 players competed in that one, with Jason Johnson holding the chip lead with 212 players remaining.
Randal Flowers, Kennii Nguyen and Justin Schwartz have stacks in that one.
