The Mixed Max - Third Most Expensive Buy-In Event in 2014 WSOP

The four-day 25K Mixed Max event has the third most expensive buy-in on the 2014 WSOP schedule (after The Big One for One Drop and the 50k Poker Players' Championship). It brought in 131 entries for a prizepool of $3,111,250. The field is studded with stars, one of whom will pocket the first-place prize of $871,148:

The Mixed Max will run for 4 days with a different variant each day:

Day 1- nine-handed; Day 2 - six-handed; Day 3 - four-handed; Day 4 - heads up (big stack vs short stack, and the two middle stacks pitted against each other).

Unsurprisingly, the interesting structure and big prizepool drew most of the stars of poker to the field. Even the early eliminations in this #WSOP2 event read like fantasy poker team lists: @Marvin Rettenmaier @Sorel Mizzi @Jennifer Tilly @Dimitar Danchev and @Scott Seiver were all sent to the rail.

You know it's #WSOP season when you get a poker news update like "Ivey check-raises Hellmuth" - check back often on RankingHero and hopefully we'll have many such poker moments:

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