A Look at WSOP Event #10: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship Day 1 Bracket

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Jun 03, 2015 6 min read Last updated Jun 04, 2015

The 2015 World Series of Poker $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship kicked off on Monday and drew 143 entries, which created a prize pool of $1,344,200. Of that, $334,430 is reserved for the eventual winner.

With an even bracket set at 128 players, that meant most of the registered field would receive byes. However, 30 players needed to partake in a play-in round. As a sort of consolation, each of those players was given a $5,000 refund, meaning they were essentially playing a $5,000 satellite into the Round of 128.

Here were the 15 play-in matches:

• Ronald Minnis def. Jake Abdalla
• Isaac Baron def. Russell Rosenblum
• Thomas Muehloecker def. Adam Bilzerian
• Valeriu Coca def. Matt Marafioti
• Connor Drinan def. Jason Les
• Erik Seidel def. Markus Gonsalves
• Jonathan Jaffe def. Jeff Gross
• Matt Hyman def. David Peters (the well-known David Peters)
• Jonathan Hanner def. David Peters (the other David Peters)
• Doug Polk def. Andrew Lichtenberger
• Dee Tiller def. Branden Hampton
• Yoshihisa Kanzaki def. Oliver Price
• Chung-Wei Wu def. Ankush Mandavia
• Brandon Steven def. Kevin Song
• Alexander Venovski def. Brandon Adams

With the bracket of 128 set, here is how it played out after three rounds on Monday:

Play resumes Wednesday at 1 p.m. when the final 16 players play three rounds down to the final two.

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