WSOP Event 5 - $1000 rebuy NLHE
1 $ 636,736 Michael Banducci  
2 $ 406,330 Jeff Williams  
3 $ 245,997 Peter Gould  
4 $ 201,139 Lyric Duveyoung  
5 $ 164,963 Alan Jaffray  
6 $ 130,234 Jonathan Aguiar  
7 $ 101,293 Michael Binger  
8 $ 79,587 Jamie Rosen  
9 $ 57,881 Steve Gross  
10 $ 36,176 Phi Nguyen  
11 $ 36,176 Randy Haddox  
12 $ 36,176 Adam Levy  
13 $ 28,940 Alan Sass  
14 $ 28,940 Ray Coburn  
15 $ 28,940 Clonie Gowen  
16 $ 21,705 Nam Le  
17 $ 21,705 Craig Gray  
18 $ 21,705 Chris Moore

WSOP Event 4 - $5K Mixed Holdem
1 $ 374,505 Erick Lindgren
2 $ 230,159 Justin Bonomo 
3 $ 144,337 Andrew Robl  
4 $ 117,030 Roland de Wolfe
5 $ 93,624 David Rheem  
6 $ 74,119 Howard Lederer
7 $ 58,515 David Williams
8 $ 46,812 Pat Pezzin  
9 $ 35,109 Isaac Haxton  
10 $ 23,406 Ron Kevin Haeri  
11 $ 23,406 Chau Giang  
12 $ 23,406 Ben Zamani  
13 $ 19,505 Jason Dewitt  
14 $ 19,505 Anh van Nguyen  
15 $ 19,505 Andy Bloch
16 $ 15,604 David Olson  
17 $ 15,604 Jordan Smith  
18 $ 15,604 Robert Williamson III

Erick Lindgren’s long awaited, and much anticipated, first WSOP bracelet

WSOP Event 3 - $1500 PL Holdem
1 $ 214,131 David Singer  
2 $ 136,643 Jacobo Fernandez  
3 $ 82,725 Gregory Alston  
4 $ 67,640 Robert Lipkin  
5 $ 55,474 Russ Harriman  
6 $ 43,796 Joe Tehan  
7 $ 34,063 Zachary King  
8 $ 26,764 Al Barbieri  
9 $ 19,464 Glen Bean  
10 $ 12,165 Ryan Fair  
11 $ 12,165 Brandon Schaefer  
12 $ 12,165 Doug Carli  
13 $ 9,732 Scott Seiver  
14 $ 9,732 Philip Yeh  
15 $ 9,732 Eric Shanks  
16 $ 7,299 Robert Fishman  
17 $ 7,299 Justin Young  
18 $ 7,299 Bobby Law

David Singer picking up his first WSOP bracelet, following many years as a pro

WSOP Event 2 - $1500 NLHE
1 $ 831,462 Grant Hinkle  
2 $ 520,219 James Akenhead  
3 $ 388,287 Chris Ferguson
4 $ 327,148 Theo Tran  
5 $ 268,154 Mike Ngo  
6 $ 211,841 Aaron Coulthard  
7 $ 158,211 Melvin Jones  
8 $ 117,987 David Bach  
9 $ 83,127 Joe Rutledge  
10 $ 52,021 Jeff Wiedenhoeft  
11 $ 52,021 Perry Friedman  
12 $ 52,021 Minh Nguyen  
13 $ 41,295 Josh Engerdahl  
14 $ 41,295 Eric Hicks  
15 $ 41,295 Matthew Kearney  
16 $ 30,569 Frank Sinopoli  
17 $ 30,569 Brandon Blake  
18 $ 30,569 Elia Ahmadian

The $1050 buy-in Super Tuesday on PokerStars attacted a smaller than normal field of 254 this week.  Not surprising really considering the WSOP being in full swing

mcnallyville emerged through the field to take it down

1st mcnallyville $57,150
2nd leoc00 $40,640
3rd 4ofaKindBud $27,940
4th exposabre $20,320
5th gciv $15,240

WSOP Event 1 - $10,000 PL Holdem

1 $ 794,112 Nenad Medic  
2 $ 488,048 Andy Bloch
3 $ 306,064 Kathy Liebert  
4 $ 248,160 Mike Sexton  
5 $ 198,528 Amit Makhija  
6 $ 157,168 Chris Bell  
7 $ 124,080 Patrik Antonius  
8 $ 99,264 Mike Sowers  
9 $ 74,448 Phil Laak  
10 $ 49,632 John Kabbaj  
11 $ 49,632 Ryan Young  
12 $ 49,632 Nikolay Evdakov  
13 $ 41,360 David Benefield  
14 $ 41,360 Chris Gildone  
15 $ 41,360 Justin Newton  
16 $ 33,088 Andreas Krause  
17 $ 33,088 Alexander Kostritsyn  
18 $ 33,088 Michael Pesek

Nenad Medic from Canada wins his first WSOP bracelet.  His previous best finish was 17th place.  This is not his biggest cash though.  He won $1.7million in a WPT event in 2006

6993 Entrants in the PokerStars Sunday Million this week

1. jotaele1 (Spain) $197,202.60
2. JHBrenes (Costa Rica) $99,300.60
3. mass.mike MA (United States) $69,930.00
4. OWWEX NY (United States) $55,944.00
5. late_entry (United States) $41,958.00
6. tpreston (Canada) $30,769.20
7. anybody1108 (Germany) $21,678.30
8. zeistpoker11 (Netherlands) $12,587.40
9. Jim Bee (United States) $8,251.74

No chop this week

jotaele1 is not a particularly high volume player.  He averages about 16 tournaments a month on Stars.  He generally plays higher buy-ins though, with an ABI of $168

The 5K winner-takes-all freezeout on PokerStars attracted 16 entrants this week. Not bad considering the WSOP had just started.

After 3 hours and 26 mins of play, nordlending took it down.

1st nordlending $80,000
2nd luckyulsa
3rd rivermanl
4th muchbetter
5th RandALLin
6th strassa2
7th BrynKenney

No big problem for rivermanl in 3rd.  He won the $215 rebuy in the same evening.  Taking home $40,999.00