Tuesday, Jun 8, 2010 WSOP 2010 Event 14 - Yan Chen Wins NL 2-7 Lowball Bracelet

Event 14 at the 2010 WSOP was the $1,500 NL 2-7 Single Draw Lowball Event.  250 players entered this event to take their shot at the first of two NL Lowball events this series.



WSOP 2010 Event 14 winner Yan Chen

This field was a very strong mix of professional players, amateurs, and lowball specialists.  29 players received a payday in this event.  Among those that made the money in the event were Ted Forrest in 28th, $2,500 Triple Draw bracelet winner Peter Gelencser in 23rd, Tad Jurgens in 17th, JC Tran in 15th, Erik Seidel in 14th, and Chino Rheem in 9th.

The final table of this even was headlined by both Nick Binger and Alex Kravchenko. Binger entered the final table as chip leader.  Here is how the final seven players started final table play:

Seat 1: James Bord                             83,800
Seat 2: Alexander Kravchenko           144,500
Seat 3: Mike Wattel                            146,000
Seat 4: Yan Chen                                182,500
Seat 5: Derric Haynie                          189,000
Seat 6: Nick Binger                             309,500
Seat 7: Todd Bui                                 68,500

Nick Binger started as chip leader, but ultimately was short stacked three-handed.  He was all-in drawing two with a 7-3-2 and Mike Wattel drew one holding 9-6-5-2.  Binger drew Q-6 to finish with a queen.  Wattel drew a ten for a ten and Nick Binger finished in 3rd.

Going into heads-up play, Yan Chen held a 620,000 to 505,000 chip lead over Mike Wattel.  Play went back and forth in this one and both players were chip leader at some point.  Chen then started taking over and eventually moved up to over 1 Million chips, not bad seeing the world series of poker blind schedule.

The final hand saw Wattel move all-in pre-draw for 98,000 and Chen called.  Wattel stood pat and showed Q-J-10-9-4.  Chen showed 10-8-7-6-2 and that was all she wrote for Wattel.

Yan Chen is the $1,500 NL Single Draw 2-7 Lowball champion.  He takes the bracelet and $92,817.

Below are the final table payouts:

1

 Yan Chen

92,817

2

 Mike Wattel

57,375

3

 Nicholas Binger

37,857

4

 Derric Haynie

25,839

5

 Todd Bui

18,096

6

 James Bord

12,997

7

 Alexander Kravchenko

9,568

 

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