The first few days of the WSOP was complete with three significant events: Vanessa Selbst winning her first bracelet, the first $1,000 pot-limit Omaha field setting a WSOP record and the no-limit masses returning to the Rio. The $1,000 buy-in Event 4 featured a field of 2,223 and served as a warm-up for many participating in the Millionaire Maker. Kyle Cartwright was happy to see the large field and it's something he's accustomed to seeing stop after stop on the WSOP Circuit. The five-time Circuit champion added a bracelet to his collection, along with $360,278, as he became the Event 4 champion.
"Winning this means a lot to me," Cartwright said to the WSOP. "Winning a gold bracelet has been my whole life's dream, and now finally it's come true. I'm excited and happy, so I'm going to head out and party. It's going to be a fun night."
Cartwright entered the final table as the chip leader and for the most part, dominated it. Ylon Schwartz chipped up as the table was reduced to only six, but Cartwright found the padding he needed as he won a major flip against Jeremy Dresch holding Q-Q to Dresch's A-K. The board ran clean and gave Cartwright a stack of 3.8 million in chips, 2.5 million more than Schwartz in second. Matthew O'Donnell fell in fifth to a Cartwright flopped-straight, then Schwartz knocked out Daniel Dizenzo in fourth.
Schwartz momentarily seized the chip lead from Cartwright, while Jason Paster survived and watched the two giants constantly battle. On the hand before the dinner break, Cartwright and Schwartz tangled in a four million-chip pot that resulted in the former November Niner's elimination. Paster opened from the button, Cartwright three-bet to 260,000 and Schwartz moved all-in for two million. Paster quickly folded as Cartwright thought, and eventually called with 9-9, which dominated Schwartz's 4-4. The board ran clean for Cartwright, and Schwartz earned $157,926 for his third-place result. Schwartz, who won his first bracelet in 2012, also finished seventh in the 2014 WSOP National Championship.
The heads-up match lasted only nine hands and ended with another victorious coin flip for Cartwright (A-Q > 4-4).
Deec first event of the summer. We win!!!!!
- Kyle Cartwright (@da_kyky) June 1, 2014
Other notable finishers include Jeff Gross (13th), Russell Thomas (42nd), Andrew Lichtenberger (46th) and Phil Collins (49th).
Below are the complete results of Event 4 at the 2014 World Series of Poker:
Event 4: No-limit hold 'em
Buy-in: $1,000
Entries: 2,223
Prize pool: $2,000,700
Players in the money: 243
1. Kyle Cartwright ($360,278)
2. Jason Paster ($223,418)
3. Ylon Schwartz ($157,855)
4. Daniel Dizenzo ($113,499)
5. Matthew O'Donnell ($82,688)
6. Jeremy Dresch ($61,041)
7. Robert Kuhn ($45,635)
8. Ken Weinstein ($34,552)
9. Michael Sortino ($26,489)
10. Steve Chanthabouasy ($20,547)
11. Geoffrey Mooney ($20,547)
12. Blake Barousse ($20,547)
13. Jeff Gross ($16,125)
14. Michael Katz ($16,125)
15. Nachman Berlin ($16,125)
16. Tom Koral ($12,824)
17. Ronald Cooper ($12,824)
18. Brian Bauer ($12,824)
19. Stephen Foutty ($10,303)
20. Tal Hart ($10,303)
21. Andjelko Andrejevic ($10,303)
22. Marcelo Asensio ($10,303)
23. Niall Farrell ($10,303)
24. Jie Gao ($10,303)
25. Scott Herz ($10,303)
26. Ademir Cuch ($10,303)
27. Jamie Kerstetter ($10,303)
28. David Melius ($8,382)
29. Mark Radoja ($8,382)
30. Harrison Gimbel ($8,382)
31. Raphael Chee ($8,382)
32. Joshua Weiss ($8,382)
33. Douglas Rosen ($8,382)
34. Brian Green ($8,382)
35. Scott Freeman ($8,382)
36. Paul Lentz ($8,382)
37. Shawn Rice ($6,902)
38. Dale Beaudoin ($6,902)
39. Phillip Lowery ($6,902)
40. Thayer Rasmussen ($6,902)
41. Ricky Bui ($6,902)
42. Russell Thomas ($6,902)
43. Hemanth Kumar ($6,902)
44. Jimmy Fricke ($6,902)
45. Jeremy Kottler ($6,902)
46. Andrew Lichtenberger ($5,742)
47. Ronald Hollis ($5,742)
48. Ryan Snyder ($5,742)
49. Phil Collins ($5,742)
50. Jonathan Bussieres ($5,742)
51. Michael Brockley ($5,742)
52. Scott Baumstein ($5,742)
53. Cy Williams ($5,742)
54. Maurice Hawkins ($5,742)
55. Vinhlong Than ($4,841)
56. Miguel Proulx ($4,841)
57. Matthew Glaser ($4,841)
58. Michael Mechaly ($4,841)
59. Louis Boutin ($4,841)
60. James Huang ($4,841)
61. David Peters ($4,841)
62. Robert Georato ($4,841)
63. Joseph Elpayaa ($4,841)
64. Anthony Zuniga ($4,121)
65. Aadam Daya ($4,121)
66. Aaron Benoit ($4,121)
67. Frank Vulpis ($4,121)
68. Lauri Pesonen ($4,121)
69. Thomas Harnois ($4,121)
70. Jonathan Neckar ($4,121)
71. Ryan Smith ($4,121)
72. Rinat Shakirov ($4,121)
73. Darren Des Voigne ($3,541)
74. Ryan Weeks ($3,541)
75. Alex Dovzhenko ($3,541)
76. Siva Ganta ($3,541)
77. Jacob Toole ($3,541)
78. Michael Hahn ($3,541)
79. Ken Loui ($3,541)
80. Chris Johnson ($3,541)
81. William Cooley ($3,541)
82. David Enda ($3,081)
83. Steve Bartlett ($3,081)
84. Lance Allred ($3,081)
85. Vassiliy Russanov ($3,081)
86. Franklin Azevedo ($3,081)
87. Warren Chu ($3,081)
88. Christopher Thomas ($3,081)
89. Hunter Moss ($3,081)
90. Kyle Bowker ($3,081)
91. Robert Karr ($2,700)
92. Fam Yat ($2,700)
93. Paul Mutschler ($2,700)
94. Thad Meeks ($2,700)
95. Kevin Robicheaux ($2,700)
96. Jake Schwartz ($2,700)
97. Craig Carrillo ($2,700)
98. Joseph Ogden ($2,700)
99. Keith Ferrera ($2,700)
100. Jesse Ercillo ($2,400)
101. Aldas Gomas ($2,400)
102. Jason Hallee ($2,400)
103. Stanley Chao ($2,400)
104. Benjamin Gold ($2,400)
105. Binh Nguyen ($2,400)
106. Todd Terry ($2,400)
107. Huy Nguyen ($2,400)
108. Tigran Yazychyan ($2,400)
109. Jose Arenstein ($2,400)
110. Joseph Marchal ($2,400)
111. Gregory Johns ($2,400)
112. Julius Malzanini ($2,400)
113. Patrick Ronan ($2,400)
114. Ken Cutt ($2,400)
115. Kevin Eyster ($2,400)
116. Matthew Newcombe ($2,400)
117. Isidro Sifuentes ($2,400)
118. Giovanni Gaglio ($2,400)
119. Bill Wood ($2,400)
120. Simon Cremniter ($2,400)
121. Ryan Hughes ($2,400)
122. James Cavanaugh ($2,400)
123. Joseph Gordon ($2,400)
124. Stephen Hesse ($2,400)
125. Clint Camua ($2,400)
126. Paul Cogliano ($2,400)
127. Olivier Busquet ($2,400)
128. Amanda Musumeci ($2,400)
129. Marilyn Schmitter ($2,400)
130. Paul Kazanchian ($2,400)
131. Roger Fontes ($2,400)
132. Shan Jing ($2,400)
133. Muruz Yohannes ($2,400)
134. Daniel Engels ($2,400)
135. John Gulino ($2,400)
136. Robert Gorodetsky ($2,160)
137. Christopher Lastiwka ($2,160)
138. Pavel Myndrov ($2,160)
139. Jennifer Richie ($2,160)
140. William Gaffney ($2,160)
141. Matthew Brock ($2,160)
142. Brian Mcinnis ($2,160)
143. Steve Cha ($2,160)
144. James Noonan ($2,160)
145. Tristan Wade ($2,160)
146. Huy Quach ($2,160)
147. James Snyder ($2,160)
148. Allan Vrooman ($2,160)
149. Jeffrey Van Den Broek ($2,160)
150. Edward Gitelson ($2,160)
151. Nelson Wong ($2,160)
152. Alexander Greenblatt ($2,160)
153. Shawn Casey ($2,160)
154. Joshua Reichard ($2,160)
155. Daniel Tafur ($2,160)
156. James Petzing ($2,160)
157. Ben Palmer ($2,160)
158. Jeremiah Pierce ($2,160)
159. Michael Shoemaker ($2,160)
160. Justin Crosbie ($2,160)
161. William James ($2,160)
162. Alan Clunie ($2,160)
163. Mark Thompson ($2,160)
164. Mason Rosenberg ($2,160)
165. Stephen Beck ($2,160)
166. Donald Civic ($2,160)
167. Tleuzhan Jumakov ($2,160)
168. Jesse Rockowitz ($2,160)
169. Dash Dudley ($2,160)
170. David Shepard ($2,160)
171. Jason Brauda ($2,160)
172. Marian Fridman ($1,980)
173. Ethan Werner ($1,980)
174. Ken Wu ($1,980)
175. Aaron Duczak ($1,980)
176. Joseph Pergola ($1,980)
177. James Copher ($1,980)
178. Kenneth Breidel ($1,980)
179. Jean-Pascal Savard ($1,980)
180. Brett Labar ($1,980)
181. Tolga Ural ($1,980)
182. Alan Myerson ($1,980)
183. Geronimo Caesar ($1,980)
184. Michael Vukovic ($1,980)
185. Louis Bruning ($1,980)
186. Robby Westrom ($1,980)
187. Amanda Baker ($1,980)
188. Russell Fenoglio ($1,980)
189. Christopher Mackinnon ($1,980)
190. Dean Metzger ($1,980)
191. Christopher Rauscher ($1,980)
192. Jacob Bucher ($1,980)
193. James Czarnecki ($1,980)
194. David Hassett ($1,980)
195. Zhenchao Yan ($1,980)
196. Frank Almond ($1,980)
197. Kevin O'Donnell ($1,980)
198. Dana Kellstrom ($1,980)
199. Jorge Arriola ($1,980)
200. Jonathan Alexander ($1,980)
201. Terry Wheeler ($1,980)
202. Joseph Cappuccio ($1,980)
203. Michael Vitorino ($1,980)
204. Dylan Thomassie ($1,980)
205. Michael Brady ($1,980)
206. Jim Kelley ($1,980)
207. Joe Ford ($1,980)
208. James Atkin ($1,800)
209. Athanasios Polychronopoulos ($1,800)
210. Alexander Raitz ($1,800)
211. Timothy Reilly ($1,800)
212. Ross Wagner ($1,800)
213. Casey Stewart ($1,800)
214. Irena Booth ($1,800)
215. Caroline Jordan ($1,800)
216. Douglas Carli ($1,800)
217. Paul Scott ($1,800)
218. Robert Moss ($1,800)
219. Jerry Wong ($1,800)
220. Blake Barnes ($1,800)
221. Jerry Payne ($1,800)
222. Paul Stanechewski ($1,800)
223. David Nowling ($1,800)
224. Michael Nelson ($1,800)
225. Jordan Siegel ($1,800)
226. Henrica Vanwordragen ($1,800)
227. Robert Toye ($1,800)
228. Dan Gannon ($1,800)
229. Todd Carpenter ($1,800)
230. Steven Wolansky ($1,800)
231. Jason Taylor ($1,800)
232. Severin Kock ($1,800)
233. Humberto Brenes ($1,800)
234. Robert Saltzman ($1,800)
235. Steven Powers ($1,800)
236. Michelle Shah ($1,800)
237. Craig Gold ($1,800)
238. John Yocca ($1,800)
239. Justin Ouimette ($1,800)
240. Noah Sandler ($1,800)
241. Matthew Kursar ($1,800)
242. Jane Howard ($1,800)
243. Brian Vu ($1,800)