The cheaper No Limit holdem events ($1500 to $2500 buy-ins) are continuing to attract large fields (1390 in this case) and the pros are struggling to emerge through the carnage

WSOP Event 13 - $2500 NL Holdem
1 $ 666,777 Duncan Bell  
2 $ 428,948 Steven Merrifield  
3 $ 260,261 Nathan Doudney  
4 $ 218,491 Shawn Buchanan  
5 $ 178,327 Brent Hanks  
6 $ 139,769 Jason Sanders  
7 $ 107,638 Ariel Soffer  
8 $ 83,540 Brent Ditzik  
9 $ 59,442 Nicolas Levi  
10 $ 38,235 Adam Katz  
11 $ 38,235 Unknown Soldier
12 $ 38,235 Yury Shapiro  
13 $ 30,203 Jason Mercier  
14 $ 30,203 Joel Casper  
15 $ 30,203 John Roveto  
16 $ 22,170 Michael Kamran  
17 $ 22,170 Jacques Zaicik  
18 $ 22,170 Frank Vukasin

WSOP Event 12 - $1500 Limit Holdem
1 $ 257,105 Jimmy Shultz  
2 $ 165,165 Zac Fellows  
3 $ 99,099 Vinny Vinh  
4 $ 82,882 Brendan Taylor  
5 $ 67,867 Teddy ‘Iceman’ Monroe  
6 $ 53,453 Markus Golser
7 $ 41,441 Ali Eslami  
8 $ 32,432 Christoph Niesert  
9 $ 23,423 Chung Law  
10 $ 14,774 Erick Lindgren
11 $ 14,774 Zachary Henderson  
12 $ 14,774 Steven Shkolnik  
13 $ 11,771 John O’Brien  
14 $ 11,771 Eric Pratt  
15 $ 11,771 Duc Nguyen  
16 $ 8,768 Joseph Sanders  
17 $ 8,768 Steve Foutty  
18 $ 8,768 Arash Beral

Erick Lindgren in 10th having another deep run, but couldnt quite match his previous deep performance of several events ago.

Full Tilt Pro Greg “FBT” Mueller went close in the WSOP NL Holdem Shootout, finishing 2nd to Phil Tom

WSOP Event 11 $5000 NL Holdem Shootout (360 entrants)
1 $ 477,990 Phil Tom  
2 $ 298,638 Greg Mueller
3 $ 187,812 Leo Wolpert  
4 $ 118,440 Sirous Jamshidi  
5 $ 63,450 Tim West  
6 $ 38,070 Thomas Roupe  
7 $ 16,920 John Juanda
8 $ 16,920 John Murphy  
9 $ 16,920 Elton Beebe  
10 $ 16,920 Eugene Katchalov  
11 $ 16,920 Richard Kirsch  
12 $ 16,920 John Monnette  
13 $ 16,920 Eric Froehlich
14 $ 16,920 Adam Levy  
15 $ 16,920 William Palmer  
16 $ 16,920 Biechel Remy  
17 $ 16,920 Gabriel Costner  
18 $ 16,920 Bill Blanda

John Juanda in 7th, continuing his good series with another good finish

WSOP Event 10 - $2500 Omaha Hi-Lo/7-Card Stud Hi-Lo

1 $ 232,911 Farzad Rouhani  
2 $ 142,784 Tom Chambers  
3 $ 86,117 John Cernuto
4 $ 63,807 Yueqi Zhu  
5 $ 48,190 Greg Pappas  
6 $ 37,481 John Racener  
7 $ 28,557 Daniel Mowczan  
8 $ 24,095 Michael Mizrachi  
9 $ 19,633 Brandon Cantu  
10 $ 19,633 Tad Jurgens  
11 $ 15,171 James Van Alstyne  
12 $ 15,171 Matthew Graham  
13 $ 10,709 Mark Gallo  
14 $ 10,709 Hoyt Corkins  
15 $ 8,032 Craig Gray  
16 $ 8,032 Sam Silverman  
17 $ 6,247 Claude Cohen  
18 $ 6,247 Cory Wolnewitz

A notable finish in 3rd for long term pro John Cernuto

WSOP Event 9 - $1500 NL Holdem six-handed - 192 Entrants
1 $ 372,929 Rep Porter  
2 $ 231,981 Nathan Templeton  
3 $ 151,842 Devin Porter  
4 $ 101,228 John Conkright  
5 $ 70,859 Anatoly Shilyuk  
6 $ 53,313 Michiel Brummelhuis  
7 $ 36,442 Dave Zand  
8 $ 36,442 Kevin MacPhee  
9 $ 28,006 Andrew Fegan  
10 $ 28,006 Jared Okun  
11 $ 19,570 Jan Von Halle  
12 $ 19,570 Thomas Fuller  
13 $ 13,665 Richard Tatalovich  
14 $ 13,665 Peter Marr  
15 $ 13,665 Mikey Stotz  
16 $ 13,665 Jason Dewitt  
17 $ 13,665 Frank Blumlein  
18 $ 13,665 Tom Braband

Porter, not being a common name, might lead you to think it was brothers in the final 3.   But contrary to some reports, they are unrelated.  Still quite a considence though

6747 players entered this weeks Sunday Million on PokerStars.  Kongsgaard took down the glory

1st Kongsgaard - $158,555
2nd swishes2000 - $105,928
3rd flylice - $74,217
4th Terken89 - $60,723
5th zman2224 - $47,229
6th gyndok - $33,735
7th Wizard0f0dd5 - $23,615
8th farquad72 - $15,518
9th Djorgo - $10,525

Kongsgaard is a pro player by the name of Soren Kongsgaard.  He has final tabled the Sunday Million before, finishing 4th in Feb 2007

No doubt affected by the WSOP, this weeks $5K buy-in Winner-takes-all freezeout on PokerStars was attended by just 10 players.  Boykee won through, in a tourney lasting 3 hours 23 mins

1st Boykee $50,000
2nd arbianight
3rd Danny98765
4th quzzo
5th barryg1 (Barry Greenstein)
6th nordlending
7th westmenloAA (Isaac Baron)
8th muchbetter
9th EIMastermind
10th ahh_snap

The main benefit of this tourney is that it is relatvely easily to say you’ve final tabled a major

No shortage of big name stars in this one.  In fact it is more difficult to spot someone who isnt a household name.   In the end it was won by one of the few, Anthony Rivera, a cash game pro

 WSOP Event 8 - $10,000 Mixed Event
1 $ 483,688 Anthony Rivera  
2 $ 297,792 James Mackey   (WCOOP and WSOP Winner mig.com)
3 $ 184,992 Matt Glantz  
4 $ 139,872 Michael DeMichele  
5 $ 108,288 Eli Elezra  
6 $ 85,728 Sam Farha  
7 $ 67,680 Tom Dwan   (high stakes cash pro Durrrr)
8 $ 54,144 Jeff Madsen
9 $ 45,120 David Oppenheim  
10 $ 45,120 Gus Hansen
11 $ 36,096 Ali Eslami  
12 $ 36,096 Tom Schneider  
13 $ 27,072 Johnny Chan  
14 $ 27,072 Lee Watkinson
15 $ 18,048 Chris Gentile  
16 $ 18,048 Amnon Filippi  
17 $ 16,243 William McMahan  
18 $ 16,243 Brandon Adams

WSOP Event 7 - $2000 NLHE
1 $ 550,601 Matt Keikoan  
2 $ 349,141 Shannon Shorr  
3 $ 228,897 Carter Gill  
4 $ 191,231 Theo Tran  
5 $ 155,013 Mihai Manole  
6 $ 123,141 Chris Bjorin  
7 $ 94,166 J.C. Tran  
8 $ 72,436 Alex Bolotin  
9 $ 50,705 Mike Lisanti  
10 $ 33,320 Manny Minaya  
11 $ 33,320 Yan Chen  
12 $ 33,320 Thong ‘Jimmy’ Tran  
13 $ 26,076 Tim Taft  
14 $ 26,076 Issam Abbas  
15 $ 26,076 Dustin ‘Neverwin’ Woolf  
16 $ 18,833 Darren Nelson  
17 $ 18,833 Scott Montgomery  
18 $ 18,833 Keith Carter

Great finish for Shannon Shorr is 2nd.  She’ll be disappointed not to pick up the bracelet though

WSOP Event 6 - $1500 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo

1 $ 243,356 Thang Luu  
2 $ 156,343 Spencer Lawrence  
3 $ 93,806 George Guzman  
4 $ 78,456 James Pritchard   (2nd in LO8 WCOOP)
5 $ 64,243 Chris Falconer  
6 $ 50,598 Greg Jamison  
7 $ 39,228 Craig Sabel  
8 $ 30,700 Mark Wilds  
9 $ 22,172 Scott Clements (BigRiskky)
10 $ 13,985 Mark Gregorich  
11 $ 13,985 Jose Razocabrera  
12 $ 13,985 Jac Arama  
13 $ 11,143 Wayne Kepfer  
14 $ 11,143 Shirley Graham  
15 $ 11,143 John Lukas  
16 $ 8,300 Mallory Smith  
17 $ 8,300 Harold Heckethorn  
18 $ 8,300 John Shirk