Who Will Win Event #15: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship?
Welcome to Day 3 coverage of Event #15: $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship.
After four rounds of matches for some and five for most others, only four players remain from the starting field of 112 entrants. What's on the line? A coveted World Series of Poker gold bracelet. Each player is guaranteed $73,333 as of now, but alongside the bracelet is a first-place prize of $186,356, as well as the distinction of being the heads-up world champion.
Cord Garcia, Sean Swingruber and Ben Yu have each won five consecutive matches to reach this point, while Keith Lehr has won four thanks to a first-round bye. They'll each have to win two more to climb the mountain and capture the bracelet. Lehr has the unique opportunity to win a bracelet in the same event for a second time. Back in 2015, Lehr topped a field of 143 entrants to win this same event to the tune of $334,440.
Here was each player's respective path to this point:
| Round | Cord Garcia | Sean Swingruber | Keith Lehr | Ben Yu |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Play-In Round | Brian Green | Bill Klein | --- | Rainer Kempe |
| Round of 64 | Anton Morgenstern | Gregory Jensen | Richard Sklar | Pedro Waldburger |
| Round of 32 | Nick Schulman | Jimmy Guerrero | Ryan Hughes | Michael Song |
| Round of 16 | Ricky Guan | Jan Lakota | Simon Burns | Richard Tuhrim |
| Round of 8 | Matthias Eibinger | Jimmy D'Ambrosio | Jake Schindler | Kristen Bicknell |
Will Cord Garcia capture his second WSOP title? Will Sean Swingruber's first live WSOP cash result in hardware? Will Keith Lehr win this same event for the second time? Or will Ben Yu's fourth cash of the 2019 WSOP result in his fourth gold bracelet?
The action is set to kick off at noon when it will be randomly determined which semifinal match takes place first. The other match will follow, and the championship match will take place shortly afterward. Be sure to follow along here at PokerNews as we provide live updates on the action, as the quest to crown the newest bracelet winner concludes!