Jeff Madsen Latest Former WSOP POY to Earn Gold in 2013

It's been another wild week at the 2013 World Series of Poker, with 13 more bracelets being won over the last seven days of play.  Another former WSOP Player of the Year won a bracelet as Jeff Madsen earned his third career title.  Players from Bulgaria, Hungary, and Russia took away some hardware with victories.  And players from Canada continued to do well, earning two more bracelets to bring the country's overall total to nine.

Here's a rundown of how last week's events finished up with a few highlights from each.

Event No. 34: Gathy Binks Another for Belgium

Following Davidi Kitai's win in Event No. 19 ($5,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em), fellow Belgian Michael Gathy won a bracelet in Event No. 34 by topping a field of 1,629 in a new "turbo"-structured no-limit hold'em event. The event saw players begin with half-hour levels (1-4), then 40-minute levels (5-17), then subsequently settle into the hour-long levels used in other NLHE events for the endgame portion.
 
2013 WSOP Event No. 34: $1,000 Turbo NLHE results
1st: Michael Gathy (Belgium) -- $278,613
2nd: Benjamin Reason (United States) -- $172,252
3rd: Yueqi Zhu (United States) -- $113,358
4th: Sergey Rybachenko (Russia) -- $81,720
5th: Daniel Bishop (United States) -- $59,816
6th: Jason Duval (Canada) -- $44,422
7th: Jake Cody (United Kingdom) -- $33,456
8th: Noah Vaillancourt (Canada) -- $25,539
9th: Russell Crane (United States) -- $19,748

Event No. 35: Madsen Nails Number Three

2006 WSOP Player of the Year Jeff Madsen won his third career bracelet in the $3K Pot-Limit Omaha event nearly seven years after he won his first two within a week as a 21-year-old. Madsen became the fourth former WSOP Player of the Year to win a bracelet in 2013, following 2004 WSOP POY Daniel Negreanu (who won the WSOP Asia Pacific Main Event), 2007 WSOP POY Tom Schneider (who has picked up two this summer), and 2008 WSOP POY Erick Lindgren. A total of 640 played, with Scott Clements among those making the final table (finishing fifth).

2013 WSOP Event No. 35: $3,000 PLO results
1st: Jeff Madsen (United States) -- $384,420
2nd: Douglas Corning (United States) -- $237,374
3rd: Michael Maryska (Czech Republic) -- $154,312
4th: Danny Hannawa (United States) -- $113,340
5th: Scott Clements (United States) -- $84,424
6th: Ryan Chapman (United States) -- $63,702
7th: William "Tom" Black (United States) -- $48,624
8th: Joni Jouhkimainen (United States) -- $37,529
9th: Jason DeWitt (United States) -- $29,265

Event No. 36: Naydenov Gets Bulgaria on Bracelet Board

Having already made one shootout final table this summer in Event No. 9 (the $3,000 NLHE shootout), Simeon Naydenov made another in Event No. 36 and won it this time, picking up his first bracelet and the first for Bulgaria this summer. A total of 1,138 played the event, with the ten-handed final table being the most international so far in 2013 with seven different countries represented.

2013 WSOP Event No. 36: $1,500 NLHE Shootout results
1st: Simeon Naydenov (Bulgaria) -- $326,440
2nd: Jake Schwartz (United States) -- $202,035
3rd: Andrew Kloc (United States) -- $126,250
4th: Tobias Wenker (Germany) -- $91,749
5th  Jose "Nacho" Barbero (Argentina) -- $67,732
6th: Mike Watson (Canada) -- $50,774
7th: Jan Kropacek (Czech Republic) -- $38,621
8th: Salman Behbehani (United Kingdom) -- $29,771
9th: Noah Bronstein (United States) -- $23,259
10th: Sumanth Reddy (United States) -- $18,407

Event No. 37: Moore Makes Good

The $5K fixed-limit hold'em event saw 63-year-old Michael Moore break through to win his first career bracelet after playing at the WSOP for more than three decades. Moore's previous career highlight at the WSOP was a 10th-place finish in the Main Event way back in 1995, the year Dan Harrington won. The final table featured three former LHE bracelet winners in Ronnie Bardah (third), Todd Witteles (fifth), and Greg Mueller (eighth), with Bardah coming close to defending his title in this same event after winning it a year ago.

2013 WSOP Event No. 37: $5,000 LHE results
1st: Michael Moore (United States) -- $211,743
2nd: Gabriel Nassif (France) -- $130,852
3rd: Ronnie Bardah (United States) -- $94,793
4th: Brian Aleksa (United States) -- $69,968
5th Todd Witteles (United States) -- $52,582
6th: Dom Denotaristefani (United States) -- $40,205
7th: Ben Yu (United States) -- $31,264
8th: Greg Mueller (Canada) -- $24,721
9th: Justin Bonomo (United States) -- $19,863

Event No. 38: Oliver to the Max in 4-max.

Canada's Justin Oliver took away the top prize in the $2,500 four-handed no-limit hold'em event, beating out a field of 566 to do so. The final table included two-time bracelet winner David "The Dragon" Pham (who finished fourth), with five-time bracelet winner John Juanda just missing the final four by finishing fifth.

2013 WSOP Event No. 38: $2,500 NLHE 4-max.results
1st: Justin Oliver (Canada) -- $309,071
2nd: Nick Schwarmann (United States) -- $191,434
3rd: Jared Jaffe (United States) -- $129,447
4th: David Pham (United States) -- $89,736

Event No. 39: Idema Continues Canadian Success

Shortly after Oliver's win on Sunday, it was Daniel Idema winning Canada's ninth bracelet of the summer, a total that triples the three the country claimed in 2012. Idema won his in the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low event, earning his second bracelet of the summer. Idema is the brother of Adam Schwartz who co-hosts with Mike Johnson of the Two Plus Two Pokercast, interviewed here last month.
  
2013 WSOP Event No. 39: $1,500 7CS Hi-Low results
1st: Daniel Idema (Canada) -- $184,590
2nd: Joseph Hertzog (United States) -- $114,109
3rd: Raul Paez (Spain) -- $71,736
4th: Matt Vengrin (United States) -- $51,488
5th: Mike Leah (Canada) -- $37,552
6th: Tony Gill (Canada) -- $27,834
7th: Fei Chu (United States) -- $20,964
8th: Artie Cobb (United States) -- $16,037 

Event No. 40: Hamby Has His Way

Online star Jared Hamby earned a big live score by winning Event No. 40, another of the many $1,500 NLHE events on the schedule this summer. Hamby's win saw him prevailing over a 2,162-player field, with the turnout representing the largest so far among the five $1,500 NLHE tourneys (excluding the "Millionaire Maker").

2013 WSOP Event No. 40: $1,500 NLHE results
1st: Jared Hamby (United States) -- $525,272
2nd: Peter Hengsakul (United States) -- $325,780
3rd: Allan Vrooman (United States) -- $230,178
4th: Nicolas Fierro (Chile) -- $165,501
5th: Joao Dorneles Neto (Brazil) -- $120,574
6th: Matt Berkey (United States) -- $89,008
7th: Richard Dubini (Argentina) -- $66,544
8th: Fred Berger (United States) -- $50,382
9th: David Nicholson (United States) -- $38,625

Event No. 41: Gross Gets There

Continuing the theme of online phenoms finding success in the live arena, former Card Player Online Player of the Year Steve Gross won his first WSOP bracelet in Event No. 41, the $5K Pot-Limit Omaha six-handed event. Among those just missing the final six in this one were Yevgeniy Timoshenko (seventh) and Sorel Mizzi (16th).

2013 WSOP Event No. 41: $5,000 PLO 6-max. results
1st: Steve Gross (United States) -- $488,817
2nd: Salman Behbehani (United Kingdom) -- $301,965
3rd: Timo Pfutzenreuter (Germany) -- $194,147
4th: Joseph Leung (Canada) -- $128,742
5th: Lee Goldman (United States) -- $87,890
6th: Nader Arfai (United States) -- $61,739

Event No. 42: Szecsi Secures Bracelet for Hungary

In another of the $1K NLHE events, it was Norbert Szecsi winning the first bracelet for Hungary this summer and only the fourth ever for the country. Among those not quite making the final table were Rachel Kranz who finished 14th and Thiago Nishijima who took 15th.

2013 WSOP Event No. 42: $1,000 NLHE results
1st: Norbert Szecsi (Hungary) -- $345,037
2nd: Denis Gnidash (United States) -- $214,760
3rd: Chris DeMaci (United States) -- $149,281
4th: Kirby Martin (United States) -- $107,512
5th: Rory Mathews (United Kingdom) -- $78,576
6th: Bryce Landier (United States) -- $58,126
7th: Ariel Celestino (Brazil) -- $43,564
8th: Dana Buck (United States) -- $33,065
9th: Jonathan Bennett ($25,392) -- $25,292

Event No. 43: Martin Manages Tough Field

In one of the few $10K buy-in events on this year's schedule, Jesse Martin managed to outlast a tough, small field of 87 players to win the 2-7 NL Draw event and his first career bracelet. In fact, the final table included five other WSOP bracelet holders in David "Bakes" Baker (finished second, has two bracelets), Konstantin Puchkov (third; one bracelet); Jeff Lisandro (fourth; five bracelets), Layne Flack (sixth; six bracelets), and John Hennigan (seventh; two bracelets).  Paul Volpe (eighth), Ashton Griffin (ninth), and Calvin Anderson (11th) also made deep runs in Event No. 43.

2013 WSOP Event No. 43: $10,000 2-7 NL Draw results
1st: Jesse Martin (United States) -- $253,524
2nd: David "Bakes" Bakes (United States) -- $156,674
3rd: Konstantin Puchkov (Russia) -- $99,313
4th: Jeff Lisandro (Italy) -- $67,264
5th: Jon Turner (United States) -- $47,792
6th: Layne Flack (United States) -- $35,549
7th: John Hennigan (United States) -- $27,644

Event No. 44: Pulusani Picks Up Win

A total of 1,072 entered this $3K no-limit hold'em event, with Sandeep Pulsani ultimately prevailing while denying the U.K. its first 2013 WSOP bracelet of the summer by topping runner-up Niall Farrell. Another Brit, Mark Teltscher took sixth, while Nam Le (seventh), Pedro "Pete" Rios (eight), Will Jaffe (13th), and Jason Mercier (16th) were among the notables also going deep.

2013 WSOP Event No. 44: $3,000 NLHE results
1st: Sandeep Pulusani (United States) -- $592,684
2nd: Niall Farrell (United Kingdom) -- $366,815
3rd: Michael Rocco (United States) -- $229,500
4th: Martin Hanowski (Germany) -- $166,579
5th: Zo Karim (United States) -- $122,974
6th: Mark Teltscher (United States) -- $92,186
7th: Nam Le (United States) -- $70,120
8th: Pedro "Pete" Rios (United States) -- $54,053
9th: Phillippe Vert (United States) -- $42,230

Event No. 45: Volpe Claims All the Antes, and the Bracelet

Event No. 45 presented players with a unique "ante only" format of no-limit hold'em that saw the antes start with the first level and increase throughout, with no blinds and only a "bring in" to start the preflop betting sequence. A total of 678 players found the format intriguing enough to try the $1,500 buy-in event, with Ben Volpe ultimately winning the bracelet after outlasting a final table that included Blair Hinkle (fourth) and Chris Moorman (fifth), with Tommy Vedes (10th), Aaron Massey (12th), and David Vamplew among those just missing the final nine.

2013 WSOP Event No. 45: $1,500 Ante Only NLHE results
1st: Ben Volpe (United States) -- $201,399
2nd: Paul Lieu (United States) -- $124,352
3rd: Louis Bonnecaze (United States) -- $80,839
4th: Blair Hinkle (United States) -- $59,375
5th: Chris Moorman (United Kingdom) -- $44,227
6th: Horacio Chaves Cortes (Paraguay) -- $33,371
7th: Adam Stone (United States) -- $25,472
8th: Daniel Johnson (United States) -- $19,660
9th: Samuel Panzica (United States) -- $15,331

Event No. 46: Success for Shchemelev

Finally, last night Vladimir Shchemelev picked up his first career WSOP bracelet and the first for Russia this summer by winning Event No. 46, the $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Low event in which 435 players took part. The win further added to Shchemelev's impressive WSOP resume, highlighted in part by having made three final tables in $10,000 buy-in events back in 2010. Shchemelev denied runner-up finisher Mel Judah a third career bracelet, with "Miami" John Cernuto (fifth), Shchmelev's fellow countryman Andrey Zaichenko (seventh), and Allyn Jaffrey Shulman (eighth) also among the final tablists.

2013 WSOP Event No. 46: $3,000 PLO8 results
1st: Vladimir Shchemelev (Russia) -- $279,094
2nd: Mel Judah (United Kingdom) -- $172,361
3rd: Ashly Butler (United States) -- $124,645
4th: Brian Hacker (United States) -- $91,085
5th: John Cernuto (United States) -- $67,262
6th: Tyler Nelson (United States) -- $50,197
7th: Andrey Zaichenko (Russia) -- $37,847
8th: Allyn Jaffrey Shulman (United States) -- $28,821
9th: Alexey Makarov (United States) -- $22,171

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