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The bracelet distribution resumes:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$1,500	Event #78: $1,500 BOUNTY Pot-Limit Omaha	$1,620,690	1,214

Event #78: $1,500 BOUNTY Pot-Limit Omaha

Thomas Skaggs is our winner for event #78! Until now, Skaggs live résumé held in just 3 cashes, but with a WSOP circuit ring nonetheless! Skaggs adds one more row to his now dense performance list with a gold bracelet and the $171,742 top prize.

More than 180 players were paid, including Noah Schwartz (8th), Jeff Madsen (12th) and Daniel Negreanu (31st).

Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship

Two days ago we were at 9,350 entries and counting, and yesterday the payouts have been announced: a whopping 10,043 total entries have been registered, building a $93M prizepool!

Here are the final table payouts:

Place	Earnings
1st	$12,100,000
2nd	$6,500,000
3rd	$4,000,000
4th	$3,000,000
5th	$2,400,000
6th	$1,850,000
7th	$1,425,000
8th	$1,125,000
9th	$900,000

Day 3 ended with 1,517 players remaining. 1,507 places will be paid at least $15,000, so we’re now close from the bubble bursting.

Antonio Mallol Heredia is the chip leader for the end of day 3 with 1,899,000 chips and is closely followed by Chance Kornuth (1,8M+), who’s having a great run this year (9 cashes, five top 9, three $750k+ performances).

In the top 100 are coming back today: Chris Brewer (11th), Faraz Jaka (29th), Stephen Chidwick (41st), Yuri Dzivielevski (46th), Jason Somerville (52th), Julien Martini (75th) and Chris Moneymaker (90th).

Many more well known name have bagged for day 4 but we will wait to see if they can advance!

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

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Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship

All day ones have been completed, letting us know how many entered the main event this year. So has the 2006 record of 8,773 entries been beaten?

The exact number is still undefined but official sources says we’re at 9,350 and counting, beating the previous number by nearly 600 entries!

Day 1D finished with Nicholas Rigby having the most chips with 408,000. He’ll start day 2 as the overall chip leader and the only one with more than 400,000. Brittney Stout finishes the day as second in chips with 375,500.

Amongst the previous main event winners, day 2 will return with Joe Hachem (125,300), Qui Nguyen (121,800), Chris Moneymaker (143,100), and Scotty Nguyen (8,400).

Other well known names returning from day 1D with a doubled stack include Chance Kornuth (241,500), Men Nguyen (221,000), Ari Engel (203,000), Bill Klein (133,300), Davidi Kitai (129,800) and Jake Schwartz (128,800).

Phil Hellmuth made his usual grand entrance accompanied by Dan Cates in a cage:

THE 🎪 CIRCUS 🎪 HAS ARRIVED!@phil_hellmuth has made his grand entrance with @junglemandan the 🦁 followed by 17 models – one for each of his bracelets!

Welcome to the World Series Of Poker! pic.twitter.com/g42Iz8g7Rh

— PokerNews (@PokerNews) July 6, 2023

He managed to bag 108,500 chips and will get to day 2, whereas his caged lion did not and will return prematurely to the jungle.

That’s it for today’s recap, but the Main Event comes back with day 2 for flights A, B and C! Schedule resumes with the start of the Event #77: $777 Lucky 7’s No-Limit Hold’em, with a $777,777 guaranteed 1st place.

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

Action slows down to make place for the main event:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$5,300	Online Event #13: $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Championship	$2,040,000	408

Online Event #13: $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Championship

The tournament played online until six players remained, then moving to a live setting to play the final table and crown the champion.

After five cashes this year in $10k to $50k tournaments, Sam Soverel took down his second WSOP bracelet ever for $393,516. Soverel’s first bracelet was won back in 2016 in Event #19: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha. He now has more than $21M in total live earnings and sits in the top 40 of the all time money list.

“I much prefer live. I hadn’t played online since late-2020,” Soverel said in the winner’s interview. “Honestly, I don’t really trust the online environment. Live’s fun. It’s more social. It’s way better to me.”

Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship

Day 1C has hosted 3,080 players yesterday. With all players starting stack with 60,000 chips, Christopher Brammer grew his stack more than six times to end up the chip leader of day 1C at 386,100.

Four more former champions will come back for day 2: Joe McKeehen (111,500), Scott Blumstein (71,900), Espen Jorstad (62,000) and Ryan Riess (68,100).

The event has around 5,200 entries so far. With the great attendance this year, the question is: Will the famous 2006 record of 8,773 entries will be beaten?

Some stats please?

Let’s end this recap with a few stats!

Here are the most cashes this year:

Name	Cashes	Total Earnings
🇺🇸 Ivan Starostin	13	$73,372
🇺🇸 David “Bakes” Baker	12	$199,948
🇺🇸 Ian Matakis	11	$482,728
🇺🇸 Daniel Buzgon	11	$70,992
🇦🇹 Ismael Bojang	11	$37,886
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth	10	$1,014,569

Here are the best average cash for 7+ cashes:

Name	Average cash value	Count
🇺🇸 Christopher Brewer	$671,821	9
🇺🇸 Jesse Lonis	$305,611	8
🇺🇸 Aram Oganyan	$120,098	8
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth	$101,457	10
🇨🇦 Alex Livingston	$86,679	9

And here is the top 5 number of bracelets per country:

Country	Bracelets
🇺🇸 US	49
🇨🇳 CN	5
🇨🇦 CA	4
🇧🇷 BR	3
🇬🇧 GB	2

This year, the WSOP will launch the last tournament on July 18th with Event #95: $1,000 Super Turbo No-Limit Hold’em, so we’re nowhere at the end as there are still 20 live events to launch! See you tomorrow!

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

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Three bracelets were distributed yesterday:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$2,500	Event #73: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event	$838,825	377
$1,000	Event #74: $1,000 MINI Main Event No-Limit Hold’em	$4,678,730	5,257
$10,000	Event #75: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	$2,297,100	247

Event #73: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event

Julio Belluscio from Argentina scored his best performance ever by taking down event #73 for $190,240. Competition was fierce and many well known players fell close to the title: Benny Glaser (3rd, $78k), Erick Lindgren (5th, $37k), Hye Park (6th, $27k), Anthony Zinno (7th, $19k) and Steve Zolotow (9th, $14k).

After playing for 15 years, Belluscio announced: “This year, I expected to win.”.

He later added: “If I make the Main Event final table, then you will see a real rail. I will spend $100,000 to fly all my friends and family from Argentina here, and they will be making too much noise.”

Event #74: $1,000 MINI Main Event No-Limit Hold’em

Bradley Gafford succeeded to take all the chips from the 5,257 entries tournament, and takes home the sweet $549,555 associated prize. A huge performance for the American who had $130k in total earnings until then. Probably a face we will see again as he started having live results since last year only, scoring a second place for $97,386 in the Wynn Millions Poker Series for his second official result!

Event #75: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship

Hassan Kamel from Australia wins the championship event for $598,613, outlasting a total of 247 entries. It’s only the sixth live performance for the player whose best cash was €20,340 at the €5,300 EPT Barcelona.

Some words from Kamel after winning: “I was playing cash games back in the days but honestly don’t play that much any more. I just happen to be here and sort of thought I come and check it out”, later adding: “I actually planned on coming second. I wasn’t greedy and already said I was gonna bust the $1,500 three times and come second in the bracelet event … but I only busted the $1,500 only twice and came first in the $10k.”

Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship

Van der Spuy closed day 1B as the chip leader with 287,000, closely followed by Julien Martini with 284,700. Two former Main Event champions took the start of day 1B yesterday: Greg Raymer and Johnny Chan. Both bagged solid stacks of over 200,000.

Today is flight C of the Main Event, good luck to everyone playing!

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

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