playoff of Poker started its trek through it second weekend by awarding a pair of bracelets

 The 2021 playoff of Poker started its trek through it second weekend by awarding a pair of bracelets in non-No Limit Texas Hold’em events. In both instances, the gentlemen who won the bracelets each picked up their second award. the 2 tournaments also showed that the non-No Limit games were still strong as ever.

Yuval Bronshtein Defeats Kevin Erickson to Earn Bracelet #2

16 players came back on Friday to settle the score in Event #12, the $1500 Limit Hold’em event. It only took a pair of hours to induce all the way down to the official final table once Zachary Gruneberg was able to top Mike Lancaster in tenth place and a spot in need of the official final table. Yuval Bronshtein used an enormous hand against versus Tony Nasr when he was ready to get paid off for flopping a collection of deuces against Nasr’s pocket nines to carry the lead, but there have been challenges facing him from Gruneberg and Anh Van Nguyen.

Nasr got healthy in nearly doubling up through Nguyen, which helped to contribute to Nguyen’s departure in ninth place at the hands of Kevin Erickson. Bronshtein tried to stay up the pressure, but Erickson continued to knock off players until he built up a sizeable lead. In fact, when Erickson and Bronshtein reached heads up action, it looked as if Erickson (7.8 million) would be making quick work of Bronshtein (2.75 million) within the Limit format.

At one point, Erickson was ready to seize a quite 6:1 lead over Bronshtein, but he couldn't put Bronshtein away. A flush doubled up Bronshtein nearly an hour into the action and, moments later, another double pulled him to almost even. Bronshtein continued to swot up at Erickson’s stack until it absolutely was Bronshtein who held an oversized lead.

On the ultimate hand, both men found attractive hands to travel to battle. Once the chips visited the middle, Bronshtein’s A-K held the sting over Erickson’s K-Q, but the flop and switch decided to play with the duo. A 10-2-10-J flop and switch left Erickson trying to find a nine or an Ace (a Queen would give Bronshtein a Broadway straight) to require the hand. It came up one pip short with an eight, earning Bronshtein a second WSOP bracelet.

1. Yuval Bronshtein, $124,374
2. Kevin Erickson, $76,868
3. Tom McCormick, $53,588
4. John Bunch, $38,011
5. Ian Glycenfer, $27,488
6. Zachary Gruneberg, $20,262
7. Guy Cicconi, $15,230
8. Tony Nasr, $11,677
9. Anh Van Nguyen, $9137

Rafael Lebron Earns Second Bracelet in Five Years in Seven Card Stud

It was a tightly bunched six player final table that came back on Friday to choose the champion of Event #14, the $1500 Seven Card Stud match. it had been a star laden final table, with Shaun Deeb looking to earn his fifth WSOP bracelet and former WSOP Championship Event runner up David Williams also looking to feature to his bracelet count. They were both looking up at Rafael Lebron, however, who had the chip lead because the penultimate day of the tournament began.

Deeb and Lebron clashed from the beginning, with Deeb drawing first blood to require over the chip lead within the event momentarily. Deeb’s action game would work against him, however, as he passed those hard-earned chips round the table, first to Christina Hill so to Williams. Lebron was the one who picked up the wreckage, knocking Deeb move into fifth place and reasserting himself into the lead.

After Lebron took down Hill in fourth place, his gated tens finding a pair of eights through the runout to own two pair over Hill’s missed flush and straight draws, he was within the driver’s seat I the tournament. Lebron kept the pressure on the table, eventually knocking off David Moskowitz in third place to travel to heads up action against Williams with a sizeable (5.19 million/1.3 million) chip lead. together with his short stack, Williams never had an opportunity. Within ten minutes of the beginning of the battle, Lebron had slashed Williams all the way down to only 350K in chips and he was unable to recover. On the ultimate hand of the tournament, Lebron started with gated Kings and Williams looked to form a straight to remain alive. On Seventh Street, Lebron paired an up Jack to form two pair, Jacks up, while Williams squeezed and will only produce a pair of sevens to finish the event.

1. Rafael Lebron, $82,262
2. David Williams, $50,842
3. David Moskowitz, $35,521
4. Christina Hill, $25,344
5. Shaun Deeb, $18,475
6. Nicholas Seiken, $13,766
7. Maurizio Melara, $10,490
8. Hal Rotholz, $8179
9. Steve Albini, $6528