2011 World Series Of Poker Event 18

In the World Series of Poker, No Limit Hold 'em is the most common type of event, and this is exactly what event 18 in the 2011 WSOP is. Many players come out to these no limit Hold 'em tournaments, and this helps drive the prize pool up to astronomical levels. This should be one of the largest tournaments in the first half the series. Most of these events bring in thousands of players, and you could definitely win a massive prize if you have the luck and skill involved to make a deep run into the event.

The 18th event will begin on June 11th. This event will require a buy-in of $1,500, which is fairly small compared to many of the other events out there. Event 18 will be a 3 day event, and it seems that there will not be an event with a first day A and B. This event should accumulate a fairly significant 7 figure prize pool, as we are sure it will break $1 million in cash. If you are going to participate in one of the smaller events, it might be this one.

Tournament Updates
(New Updates Posted Daily During Event)

Day 1 Update - Of the 3,157 that came out to participate in this inexpensive hold 'em tournament, only 490 remain. This 490 includes Erick Lindgren, Humberto Brenes, Jon Turner, Scotty Nguyen, Frank Kassela, Christian Harder and Dwyte Pilgrim. Those who were not included in the 490 were Tom Dwan, David Benyamine, Michael MIzrachi, Joe Cada, Jason Mercier, Alexander Kravchenko, Andrew Lichtenburger, and many more. The tournament averaged about 5 losers every minute, thinning the field fairly rapidly. Kenny Nguyen is the chip leader going into the second day, holding 110,600 chips to his name. A top prize of $735,400 has been built for the lead player. The bubble will burst at 324th place, with a price of $2,855 going to the big winner.

Day 2 Update - On the second day of event 18, the field has been whittled down to 36 players. A total of 469 players came back during the day, with eliminations falling rapidly. The bubble burst within the first level of the day, making money earners out of the remaining participants. Chris Moorman, Daniel Kelly, Jon Turner, Erick Lindgren, and Prahlad Friedman had all made it into the money bubble. Jordan Young made it into the chip lead, holding 1,100,000 chips at the end of the night. He is the only player with more than 1 million chips. Foster Hays is his second closest lead, with 875,000 chips to his name. The first place winner will take $735,400 from the $4.26 million prizepool. A minimum of $17,005 will be won by the remaining 36 participants in this event

Day 3 Update - What was supposed to be the final day of the 18th event has run long, requiring a fourth day for for the final table of six. These six are all that remain of the initial 3,157 entrants, and chip counts are high enough to produce an explosive final day that could end up in anyone's favor. Foster Hays holds first place, with 3,620,000 chips. Casey Kelton holds 3,385,000. Jeffrey Lavelle has 2,135,000, while Robert Koss has 2,015,000. Stanley Tavanese has 1,735,000 chips, with the "short stacked" Allan Le holding 1,315,000 chips. The third day of the tournament ran like the Thunderdome, with rapid eliminations dropping out of the event fairly quickly. The final table will play out on the unforeseen fourth day, and one player will earn $735,400 for their efforts.

Day 4 Update - The 4th day of event 18 brought six players back to finish off an event that was meant to run for three, and this day of play ran much quicker than the previous day. In roughly three hours of play a winner was decided, and the top six players have all left with money, and in one case the glory of some WSOP gold. Foster Hays entered the final day as the chip leader, with 300,000 chips over his closest competitor. He stayed alive through the eliminations of Robert Koss, Stanley Tavanese, Allan Le and Jeffrey Lavelle, running into heads up play against Casey Kelton, who had only 3,235,000 chips to the 10,965,000. Hays proved that he will not be stopped, and it came down t a Jh-9s against an As-Jc. Kelton had the latter, and his dominant hand looked like it would last. The board ran 9d-7d-4c-7c-Qc, giving Hays a two pair and victory in the 18th event.

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