Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

WSOP 2013: Josephy wins his second bracelet, Wheeler wins his first

Two more bracelets are awarded and we have the latest chip counts from three more events at the World Series of Poker.

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WSOP facts & figures:
Events: 13/62
Participants:
14,691
Prize pool:
$23,624,010

Event #9: $3,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout
Event #10: $1,500 Limit Hold'em
Event #11: $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Six Max
Event #12: $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em
Event #13: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Low
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Cliff Josephy wins Event #9: $3,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout

WSOP 2013 Event #9: $3,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout

Final Results

Place Name Prize
1st Cliff 'JohnnyBax' Josephy $299,486
2nd Evan Silverstein $185,487
3rd Steven Silverman $123,202
4th Tim West $91,428
5th Alessandro Longobardi $68,613
6th David 'Bakes' Baker $51,997
7th Max Steinberg $39,756
8th Chris Klodnicki $30,641
9th Ryan Hughes $23,791
Players: 1 (477)  Prize Pool: $1,302,210  

 

Brent Wheeler wins Event #10: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

WSOP 2013 Event #10: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

Final Results

Place Name Prize
1st Brent Wheeler $191,605
2nd Mark Mierkalns $118,300
3rd Malissia Zapata $76,904
4th Chiduziem Obi $56,585
5th Grayson Scoggin $42,074
6th William James $31,747
7th Brian Nichols $24,232
8th Alexander Queen $18,703
9th Eric Froehlich $14,585
Players: 1 (645)  Prize Pool: $870,750  

 

Event #11: $2,500 Limit Hold'em Six Max

WSOP 2013 Event #11: $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Six Max

End of Day 2 Chip Counts   

Place Name Chips
1st Levi Berger 1,420,000
2nd Tuan Le 873,000
3rd Scott Clements 842,000
4th Eddy Sabat 694,000
5th Jacob Bazeley 638,000
6th Tamara Tibbles 418,000
7th David Gonia 405,000
8th Peter Turmezey 397,000
9th Clifford Goldkind 318,000
10th Luke Vrabel 226,000
 
11th Gary Pearce 188,000
12th Marco Cid 188,000
13th Ben Palmer 178,000
14th Mickey Petersen 145,000

             Players: 14 (924) | Prize Pool: $2,102,100

Average Chips: 495,000  | Blinds: 4,000/8,000/1,000

 

Event #12: $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em

A first prize of $166,136 awaits the winner of this Pot Limit Hold'em event.

Event #12: $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em

End of Day 1 Chip Counts   

Place Name Chips
1st Robert Corcione 144,600
2nd Mike Carson 111,400
3rd Blake Purvis 94,900
4th Jeannicolas Fortin 92,500
5th Sunny Chattha 81,000
6th Vincent Bartello 76,800
7th Eric Crain 76,000
8th Pim de Goede 74,500
9th Timothy Reilly 66,600
10th Lev Rofman 65,200
 
11th Johannes Strassmann 56,900
13th Jason Mercier 55,200
14th Allen Cunningham 52,100
38th Matt Stout 30,500
42nd Melanie Weisner 23,200
47th Martin Staszko 20,100
60th Griffin Benger 7,200

Players: 62 (535) | Prize Pool: $722,250

Average Chips: 38,830  | Blinds: 500/1,000     

 

Event #13: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Low

A first prize of $266,503 will be awarded in this event.

WSOP 2013 Event #13: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Low

End of Day 1 Chip Counts   

Place Name Chips
1st Matt Woodward 58,700
2nd Yuval Bronshtein 57,200
3rd Ilya Gorodetskiy 56,300
4th Gavin Smith 51,900
5th Matt Lefkowitz 50,300
6th David Bach 49,700
7th Tobias Hausen 49,300
8th Tuan Vo 48,500
9th Mike Leah 46,900
10th Michael Chow 45,900
 
11th Maria Ho 44,000
18th Daniel Negreanu 40,200
31st Justin Bonomo 32,700
41st Jason Mercier 29,800
62nd Brian Hastings 22,300
71st Mike Matusow 19,300
81st Barry Greenstein 18,100
93rd Eugene Katchalov 16,000
105th Scotty Nguyen 13,300
129th Phil Hellmuth 2,600

Players: 130 (210) | Prize Pool: $987,000

Average Chips: 24,230  | Blinds: 500/1,000/100    

 

Upcoming events

WSOP 2013: Upcoming Events

Event
 Buy-in & Game Type
Date
14 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em June 6
15 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. June 7
16 $10,000 Heads-Up No Limit Hold'em June 7
17 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em June 8
18 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em June 9

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PokerStrategy.com WSOP Podcast

In the second episode of our WSOP Podcast barrycarter talks with the first bracelet winner of the series and fellow poker blogger Chad Holloway:

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Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.