Ein immer wiederkehrendes Highlight der World Series of Poker ist sicherlich das Seniors Event. Auch in diesem Jahr kamen wieder zahlreiche ältere Spieler an die Tische. Mit Sam Farha befindet sich ein bekanntes Gesicht in den Top 5 Chipcounts.
Es ist bereits das dritte Seniors Event in Folge, das mehr als 4.000 Spieler an die Tische ins Rio Casino lockt. Im Vorjahr nahmen 4.406 Senioren am Turnier teil, in diesem Jahr wurde der Rekord ausgebaut. 4.425 Spieler folgten dem Ruf des Seniors Event. Doch die meisten von ihnen sind bereits aus dem Turnier ausgeschieden. Zur Dinnerbreak nach sechs gespielten Level waren bereits mehr als 2.800 Spieler an der Rail. Am Ende des Tages tüteten 486 Spieler ihre Chips ein.
Morgen startet dann direkt der Kampf an der Bubble, denn 468 Spieler bekommen ein Stück des Preisgeldkuchens ab. Michel Abecassis, Marcel Luske, Pierre Neuville, European Poker Tour Gründer John Duthie, James Woods, Cyndy Violette und unser WSOP Bracelet Champion aus dem Jahr 2009 Jörg Peisert sind nicht mehr dabei. Besser machten es hier unter anderem Dennis Phillips, Simon Trumper, Barney Boatman und Mick McCloskey. Aus deutschsprachiger Sicht ist einzig Bracelet Gewinner Nikolaus Teichert dabei. Er zählt allerdings mit 9.300 Chips zu den Shortstacks. Er braucht somit noch den ein oder anderen Verdoppler, um sein zweites Bracelet und $627.462 zu gewinnen.
Chipcounts
| Player | Chips |
| Ronald Bradway | 125,100 |
| Mary Totzke | 115,100 |
| Richard Munro | 104,400 |
| Herbert Bennett | 90,600 |
| Sammy Farha | 89,400 |
| Milwood Motley | 86,000 |
| Kevin Detienne | 85,100 |
| Dennis Palmer | 79,000 |
| Marcia Topp | 78,900 |
| Lenard Sepke | 75,100 |
| Navid Nazem | 73,700 |
| Doc Barry | 72,800 |
| James Traber | 70,700 |
| John Coleman | 70,600 |
| Donna Rosenthal | 70,400 |
| Hamid Feiz | 68,700 |
| Solomon Rousso | 68,100 |
| Terry Timmins | 67,000 |
| Theresa Hatcher | 64,300 |
| Gary La Duca | 64,100 |
| Dennis Pfau | 63,900 |
| Lonnie Smith | 62,800 |
| Kevin Brown | 62,100 |
| David Tran | 61,400 |
| Ross Novak | 61,400 |
| David Jones | 61,400 |
| Kenna James | 61,200 |
| Ramana Epparla | 60,500 |
| Michele Limongi | 59,500 |
| Tanya Gawarecki | 59,400 |
| Chris Barton | 57,600 |
| Arthur Leger | 56,000 |
| Richard Lysinger | 56,000 |
| Jim Custer | 55,900 |
| Donald Wawrzyniak | 55,500 |
| David Poces | 55,300 |
| Thane Lyons | 55,200 |
| Allen Baker | 55,200 |
| Rick Cooper | 55,000 |
| Michael Frederick | 54,900 |
| Alan Gillespie | 54,700 |
| Walter Bell | 54,600 |
| Gary Braufman | 54,100 |
| Steven Lafleche | 53,800 |
| David Hollenberg | 53,100 |
| Stephen Barbella | 53,000 |
| Darrell Cain | 52,800 |
| Alfred Bailey | 52,500 |
| Micheal Rudy | 52,300 |
| Yossi Krispin | 52,200 |
| Alexandr Orlov | 52,100 |
| Vincent Palma | 51,300 |
| John Macnaughton | 49,800 |
| Thomas Jones | 49,800 |
| Richard Hemphill | 49,300 |
| David James | 48,500 |
| Sal Catanese | 48,300 |
| Debbie Vorndran | 48,300 |
| Joseph Mattingly | 48,200 |
| Tony Snyder | 48,100 |
| Ivan Crnogorac | 48,100 |
| Marino Thomas | 48,000 |
| Deborah Phillips | 47,700 |
| Walter Weiss | 47,700 |
| Stuart Spear | 47,500 |
| Steven Plymale | 47,100 |
| Nabih Zaczac | 47,100 |
| Walter Davis | 47,000 |
| Alex Huynh | 46,800 |
| Bradley Coldiron | 46,700 |
| Alice Jean Sutey | 46,600 |
| Jeffrey Beckett | 46,300 |
| Donald Lawrence | 46,000 |
| Stanley Statkiewicz | 45,700 |
| Young Ji | 45,500 |
| Simon Trumper | 45,400 |
| david plastik | 45,300 |
| David Vida | 45,000 |
| Steven Ward | 44,700 |
| Walter Shawne Browne | 43,900 |
| John Tavss | 43,500 |
| Clarke Hill | 43,500 |
| Robert Bryan | 43,400 |
| Brian Livie | 43,100 |
| John Short | 42,800 |
| Scott Malone | 42,700 |
| Mitchell Baldwin | 42,600 |
| Daniel Goldman | 42,600 |
| Timothy Roberts | 42,400 |
| Daniel Davies | 41,900 |
| Peter Costa | 41,800 |
| John Thornton | 41,700 |
| Stephen Bennette | 41,700 |
| John E. White | 41,700 |
| Ronald Blount | 41,300 |
| Brent Bixby | 41,000 |
| Donald Phillips | 40,900 |
| Jerry Illoulian | 40,900 |
| John Leathart | 40,900 |
| Paul Hubbard | 40,800 |
| Ronald Lemco | 40,700 |
| Joseph Warlen | 40,400 |
| Carl Mcgill | 40,100 |
| Richard Mombourquette | 40,000 |
| Richard Aiple | 40,000 |
| Roger Stewart | 39,900 |
| John Laudon | 39,500 |
| Bruce Anderson | 39,200 |
| Barny Boatman | 39,100 |
| Donald Maas | 39,100 |
| Guy Cicconi | 38,800 |
| Craig Carrillo | 38,800 |
| Walter S Shew | 38,700 |
| Mark Ellis | 38,500 |
| James Miller | 38,300 |
| Timothy Mieczkowski | 38,300 |
| Frederick Wolf | 38,300 |
| Arthur Hatcher | 38,300 |
| Nathan Schleifer | 38,000 |
| David Price | 37,700 |
| Douglas Rowley | 37,500 |
| Eugene Lang | 37,300 |
| John Kelly | 37,200 |
| Shawn Byrnes | 37,200 |
| Robert Mairley | 37,100 |
| Peter Davis | 37,100 |
| Douglas Best | 37,000 |
| Colin Genge | 36,400 |
| Dean Hoffman | 36,300 |
| James Pronger | 36,300 |
| James Hansen | 36,100 |
| Steven Knox | 36,100 |
| Moshe Bouskila | 36,000 |
| David Russell | 35,800 |
| Mary Walker | 35,600 |
| William Speer | 35,600 |
| Ronald Hutchinson | 35,500 |
| Joseph Antoine | 35,400 |
| Johnnie Craig | 35,300 |
| Michael Terrell | 35,300 |
| Ron Mcmillen | 35,100 |
| Phillip Berres | 35,100 |
| Yacht You | 35,000 |
| David Koland | 35,000 |
| David Kanealii | 34,600 |
| Alan Emerson | 34,500 |
| Paul Niemela | 34,300 |
| Michael Fisher | 34,100 |
| DID NOT REPORT 1 | 33,900 |
| Donald Cobby | 33,800 |
| Michael Dagen | 33,700 |
| Nasser Shirazi | 33,400 |
| Kurt Chenchick | 33,300 |
| Gregory Corley | 33,200 |
| Joseph Trezzo | 33,000 |
| Randy Oaks | 32,900 |
| Edmond Ikuma | 32,900 |
| Patrick Walton | 32,500 |
| Jeffrey Forsyth | 32,100 |
| Ray Rumler | 32,000 |
| David Toneman | 31,800 |
| Wistar Holt | 31,700 |
| Imad Hermez | 31,700 |
| Daniel Genachte | 31,600 |
| John Gilbert | 30,900 |
| Thomas Bochynski | 30,800 |
| James Kirvin | 30,800 |
| Thomas Matacale | 30,700 |
| Michael Smith | 30,700 |
| Kenneth Brower | 30,600 |
| Sean Byrne | 30,300 |
| Dan Heimiller | 30,300 |
| Sam Barnhart | 29,800 |
| Seyed Edalat | 29,800 |
| Nathan Ucuzoglu | 29,500 |
| Earl Gallegos | 29,400 |
| Daniel Yu | 29,300 |
| Brian Bord | 29,200 |
| Michael Wilson | 29,200 |
| Michel Pomaret | 29,000 |
| James Cargill | 28,900 |
| Jeffrey Russell | 28,600 |
| Jeanluc Moraly | 28,600 |
| David Stirling | 28,500 |
| Dimitry Agrachov | 28,500 |
| John Carter | 28,400 |
| George Nino | 28,300 |
| Peter Lipton | 28,300 |
| Gil George | 28,300 |
| Stuart Kerridge | 28,200 |
| Robert Cramer | 28,100 |
| Patrick Bohannon | 28,100 |
| Jeffrey Cook | 28,000 |
| Steven Nichols | 28,000 |
| Joel Scott | 27,700 |
| John Rogers | 27,600 |
| Dong Tao | 27,300 |
| Cheryl Kaufman | 27,200 |
| Hal Marcus | 27,200 |
| Milton Jaffee | 27,100 |
| Peter Alson | 26,900 |
| Robert Wachtel | 26,900 |
| Michael Stonehill | 26,800 |
| Cheryl Billings | 26,700 |
| Alan Green | 26,100 |
| Albert Eskenazi | 26,000 |
| Randall Rapp | 25,800 |
| Kenneth Hood | 25,600 |
| Lonnie Mason | 25,500 |
| Kevin Deibert | 25,400 |
| Ken Aldridge | 25,400 |
| Galen Peiskee | 25,300 |
| Daniel Heit | 25,200 |
| Mitchell Lehman | 25,100 |
| Barbara Enright | 25,000 |
| Kanajett Hathaitham | 25,000 |
| David Lavin | 24,900 |
| Charles Kneff | 24,800 |
| Miguel Balderas | 24,700 |
| Neil Roberts | 24,600 |
| Randal Ryckebosch | 24,600 |
| Kevin McCarthy | 24,600 |
| William Davis | 24,600 |
| Jon Kassel | 24,500 |
| Lorin Haagenson | 24,400 |
| David Phillips | 24,400 |
| Frank Presley | 24,200 |
| Valdis Vavere | 24,100 |
| Nemesio Alegado | 24,100 |
| Marvin Wood | 24,000 |
| Paul Pavlides | 24,000 |
| Jack Rosenfeldt | 23,800 |
| Mark McGaffin | 23,700 |
| George Hunt | 23,700 |
| Frank Hutfless | 23,700 |
| Michael Moelter | 23,700 |
| Laurie Morgan | 23,000 |
| Breyer Calvert | 22,700 |
| Ted Cohen | 22,500 |
| Elliott Zaydman | 22,400 |
| Derek Miller | 22,400 |
| Anthony Wise | 22,400 |
| Aleksandr Andreev | 22,200 |
| Ealey Harris | 22,200 |
| Pierre Jean Muller | 22,100 |
| David Smith | 22,000 |
| Jim Shaw | 21,900 |
| Elizabeth Lynch | 21,800 |
| Gasem Haldy | 21,500 |
| Jean Gobeil | 21,500 |
| Mark Goodson | 21,400 |
| Theodore Fitzgerald | 21,300 |
| Curtis Cressy | 21,200 |
| Micky Mccloskey | 21,200 |
| Steven Baker | 21,100 |
| Michael Harris | 21,100 |
| Carl Torelli | 21,000 |
| Charles Gassner | 21,000 |
| Richard Butler | 21,000 |
| Paul Fleischer | 21,000 |
| Jeffrey Schwartzmann | 20,800 |
| Douglas Gibson | 20,700 |
| Randy Allen | 20,700 |
| Richard Hodgkins | 20,600 |
| George Merchant | 20,500 |
| Danny Jensen | 20,400 |
| Thomas Tucker | 20,300 |
| Hendrik Stasik | 20,300 |
| DID NOT REPORT 2 | 20,200 |
| William Misener | 20,000 |
| Mike Jaunais | 20,000 |
| Colin Birkbeck | 19,600 |
| Tony Hoskins | 19,300 |
| Dumitru Gazetovici | 19,300 |
| Steve Trivelpiece | 19,300 |
| Steve Grant | 19,000 |
| Thomas Coan | 19,000 |
| Robert Cutshall | 19,000 |
| Nicholas Thomas | 18,900 |
| Philip Belshaw | 18,800 |
| Glen Biddle | 18,700 |
| Bruce Rosen | 18,600 |
| Paulette Faucher | 18,600 |
| Salvadore Mortillaro | 18,600 |
| Robert Mullinax | 18,600 |
| Jeremy Gold | 18,500 |
| Bruce Angeski | 18,500 |
| Steven Elie | 18,400 |
| Philip Ford | 18,400 |
| Mark Rubin | 18,300 |
| Edward Schoenberg | 18,300 |
| Robert Mckown | 18,300 |
| James Mallen | 18,300 |
| Salvatore Spada | 18,300 |
| Robert Stevanovski | 18,200 |
| Steven Snyder | 18,100 |
| John Freemon | 18,100 |
| Alan Barefoot | 18,100 |
| Chris Westergard | 18,100 |
| Allen Dimmlich | 18,100 |
| Joseph Goldwasser | 18,000 |
| John Pace | 18,000 |
| Mark Abrahams | 18,000 |
| Jerry Probst | 17,900 |
| Catherine Miller | 17,800 |
| Richard Seward | 17,800 |
| Dewayne Phillips | 17,800 |
| Herb Montalbano | 17,770 |
| Stephen Waggoner | 17,600 |
| Marvin Bastow | 17,600 |
| James Orr | 17,500 |
| Phillip Fusilier | 17,400 |
| Todd Thompson | 17,400 |
| Daniel Perry | 17,300 |
| Norman Cummings | 17,100 |
| Andrew Fish | 17,000 |
| Dennis Phillips | 16,900 |
| Shirley Williams | 16,800 |
| Bradford Weiss | 16,800 |
| Edward Sebesta | 16,800 |
| Dale Eberle | 16,700 |
| Andre Hamilton | 16,700 |
| Robert Mcmillan | 16,600 |
| Sergey Pevzner | 16,600 |
| Daniel Violette | 16,600 |
| David Gutfreund | 16,500 |
| Michael Cowart | 16,500 |
| Bill Croft | 16,500 |
| Harry Bolger | 16,300 |
| Timothy Hallinan | 16,200 |
| James Forbes | 16,200 |
| Thomas Mayer | 16,100 |
| Nicola Maiorana | 16,100 |
| Richard Barry | 16,100 |
| Daniel Grant | 16,100 |
| David Wortham | 16,000 |
| Shaun Tobin | 16,000 |
| Randy Winn | 16,000 |
| James Gibson | 15,900 |
| Glynn Price | 15,900 |
| Bob Jarman | 15,800 |
| Alan Tarnowski | 15,700 |
| Steven Dubin | 15,600 |
| Jon Guidry | 15,500 |
| George Alex | 15,500 |
| George Bellon | 15,300 |
| Art Christman | 15,300 |
| Louis Werman | 15,200 |
| Carl Mckelvey | 15,200 |
| Joseph Mcmenamy | 15,200 |
| Debra Bain | 15,200 |
| Gerald Johonnot | 15,200 |
| Thomas Ohara | 15,100 |
| Robert Connolly | 15,000 |
| David Bromberg | 15,000 |
| Mohammad Berenji-Nata | 14,700 |
| William Fric | 14,500 |
| Robert Fournier | 14,400 |
| John Murray | 14,400 |
| Edward Brogdon | 14,300 |
| David Preston | 14,200 |
| Rodney Levingston | 14,200 |
| Paul Lui | 14,200 |
| Bret Ohlson | 14,100 |
| Andrew Callahan | 14,100 |
| Tony Ma | 14,100 |
| William Cotter | 13,900 |
| Steven Rosebro | 13,900 |
| David Berenson | 13,700 |
| Charles Standridge | 13,700 |
| Lamar Hayward | 13,700 |
| James Dillon | 13,600 |
| Alex Brown | 13,600 |
| Ernest Meier | 13,500 |
| Martin Davidson | 13,500 |
| Everett Carlton | 13,400 |
| Allen Figeley | 13,300 |
| Rajiv Khanna | 13,100 |
| Gary Schwartz | 13,100 |
| Lee Amberg | 13,100 |
| Richard Laufer | 13,000 |
| Terry Nother | 13,000 |
| James Hert | 12,600 |
| John Karaffa | 12,400 |
| Bo Hu | 12,300 |
| Gordon Tessman | 12,300 |
| Ronald Mcmillan | 12,200 |
| Christopher Bibb | 12,000 |
| John Herrick | 11,900 |
| Michael Falvey | 11,900 |
| Pok Kim | 11,900 |
| Randall Sandretto | 11,800 |
| Robert Kim | 11,800 |
| Troy Fleming | 11,700 |
| Alvin Schachner | 11,700 |
| Mark Daly | 11,500 |
| Glenn Galfond | 11,300 |
| Jonathan Bramson | 11,300 |
| Kenneth Breaux | 11,300 |
| Peter Lambiris | 11,200 |
| Jeffrey Hudson | 11,200 |
| William Yeager | 11,100 |
| Mike Gilbert | 11,000 |
| Mark Caswell | 11,000 |
| Clyde Shiroma | 11,000 |
| Michael Souchak | 11,000 |
| Morgan Most | 10,900 |
| Cash Carpenter | 10,800 |
| Thomas Bell | 10,800 |
| Thomas Lutjens | 10,600 |
| Elias Hourani | 10,500 |
| John Duffy | 10,500 |
| Melville Loewen | 10,500 |
| Dennis Schneider | 10,500 |
| Gerald Stanley | 10,500 |
| Charles Read | 10,400 |
| Phongthep Thiptinnakon | 10,300 |
| Clay Smith | 10,200 |
| Donald Spagnuolo | 10,200 |
| Gregory Montague | 10,000 |
| Dennis Owen | 9,800 |
| Cezar Borba | 9,800 |
| George Krasowsky | 9,800 |
| Robert Perillo | 9,600 |
| Robert Dorini | 9,500 |
| Steven Spate | 9,500 |
| Edward Walker | 9,400 |
| Stephen Izzi | 9,400 |
| Stephen Dennis | 9,400 |
| Nikolaus Teichert | 9,300 |
| Robert Decker | 9,300 |
| Jeffery Bond | 9,200 |
| Berry Johnston | 9,200 |
| Donald Baker | 9,100 |
| Salvatore Todero | 9,100 |
| Bruce Kinseth | 9,000 |
| Joel Marcus | 9,000 |
| Jensen Cheng | 9,000 |
| Stephen Baldwin | 8,700 |
| Lawrence Gesner | 8,500 |
| Richard Stearns | 8,400 |
| Michael Lawrence | 8,300 |
| Said Elsanafiri | 8,300 |
| David Bye | 8,300 |
| Scott Day | 8,300 |
| Kenneth Wells | 8,200 |
| Richard Liotta | 7,900 |
| Joseph Glazier | 7,600 |
| Robert Schulze | 7,500 |
| Michael Schmidt | 7,400 |
| Nicholas Collins | 7,400 |
| Douglas Lafave | 7,200 |
| Mark Smith | 7,100 |
| James Tarabochia | 7,100 |
| Ronald Schiffman | 7,000 |
| Christopher Corriere | 6,800 |
| Simon Hawksworth | 6,800 |
| Robert Geier | 6,600 |
| Glen Cates | 6,500 |
| Lora Stewart | 6,500 |
| Neil Zimmet | 6,400 |
| Hristos Tzortzis | 6,100 |
| Al Adler | 6,000 |
| John Sandberg | 5,900 |
| Richard White | 5,800 |
| Ronald Kirsh | 5,700 |
| Richard Harris | 5,600 |
| John Moore | 5,500 |
| Tho Ha | 5,500 |
| Craig Oliver | 5,100 |
| William Spiegel | 5,000 |
| Richard Vest | 3,700 |
| Richard Malacaria | 3,300 |
| Phil Wade | 3,300 |
| Paul Miller | 3,000 |
| James Schulte | 3,000 |
| Randall Katzmark | 2,300 |
| Douglas Hall | 1,900 |
| Douglas Voelker | 1,600 |
