World Series of Poker: Day 29

Here’s what to expect today at the World Series of Poker.

Wednesday’s schedule:

11 a.m. — $1,500 Shootout No-limit Hold’em (3-day event)

Noon — $5,000 No-limit Hold ’em (Final table); $1,000 No-limit Hold ’em (Final table); $1,500 Bounty No-limit Hold ’em (Final table)

2 p.m. — $10,000 2-7 Limit Triple Draw Lowball Championship (Final table); $1,500 Seven-card Stud (Day 2)

3 p.m. — $10,000 Pot-limit Omaha Eight-handed Championship (3-day event)

Players to watch:

* Kristen Bicknell of Nepean, Ontario, is second out of 36 players in the $1,500 buy-in Bounty No-limit Hold ’em event. Bicknell won the Ladies No-limit Hold ’em Championship in 2013. Also lurking in the field are 2012 Main Event “November Niner” Steve Gee, the chip leader, plus bracelet winners Calvin Anderson, Jared Hamby, Mike Kachan and Norbert Szecsi.

* Chris Klodnicki opens the nine-handed final table of the $10,000 buy-in 2-7 Limit Triple Draw Lowball Championship with a sizable chip lead (more than 30 percent of the chips in play). The professional poker player with more than $5.3 million in lifetime WSOP earnings has never won a bracelet, finishing second on three occasions. He will have to overcome a final table that includes three-time bracelet winners Michael Gathy and John “World” Hennigan, along with two-time bracelet winner J.C. Tran.

* Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi is second in chips with 49 players remaining in the $5,000 buy-in No-limit Hold ’em event. The three-time bracelet winner has cashed in eight events so far but is looking for his first big score of the summer.

* Wenlong Jin of Arcadia, California, and Steven Wolansky of Cooper City, Florida, played heads-up for approximately three hours (85 hands) before action was halted early Wednesday in the $1,000 buy-in No-limit Hold ’em event. Jin will have a slight chip advantage (5.265 million to 5.12 million) when play resumes.

Tuesday’s highlights:

* Mitchell Towner, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona, won the $1,500 buy-in “Monster Stack” No-limit Hold’em event.

* Loren Klein, 34, won the $1,500 buy-in Mixed No-limit Hold ’em/Pot-limit Omaha event ($241,427) for his first career bracelet. The professional poker player from Verdi in northern Nevada had 22 previous WSOP cashes, including a runner-up finish in a Pot-limit Omaha tournament in 2010, and now has $670,861 in career WSOP earnings.

Quotable:

“It’s about money. It’s about glory. It’s about bracelets. I guess I like them all.” — Klein