# | Buy-in | Event | Player | Prize |
60 | $50,000 | Event #60: Poker Players Championship 6-Handed | 🇺🇸 Daniel Cates | $954,020 |
65 | $1,000 | Event #65: MINI Main Event No-Limit Hold’em (freezeout) | 🇬🇷 Georgios Sotiropoulos | $432,575 |
66 | $10,000 | Event #66: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship (8-Handed) | 🇺🇸 Josh Arieh | $484,791 |
Event #60: Poker Players Championship 6-Handed
It’s only the third cash of Dan Cates at the world series but he managed to make it count tonight as he defeated a tough competition to grab the $50k PPC bracelet for $954,020! Daniel is better known for his high stakes cash game apperances but he still have $9M in total live earnings, his best performance being finishing runner-up in the EPT €100,000 Super High Roller at Monte Carlo in 2014.
Here he defeated Ryan Leng ($589k) heads-up, Paul Volpe made 3rd for $404k and Eli Elezra 4th for $286k.
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Event #65: MINI Main Event No-Limit Hold’em (freezeout)
The $1,000 tournament took only two days to go from 3,821 entries to one winner, named Georgios Sotiropoulos. It’s now the third bracelet for the Greek: he won the $200 GGPoker Event #6: FLIP & Go No-Limit Hold’em earlier this year and a €1,100 No-Limit Hold’em in the WSOP Europe in 2015.
“I don’t really think about that,” said Sotiropoulos when asked about having established himself as one of the top no-limit hold’em players. “But it’s an amazing achievement. I really love the World Series of Poker, Las Vegas, the tournaments, the people here. Everything excites me. Makes me come again and again, playing more and winning more. Feeling grateful.”
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Event #66: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship (8-Handed)
Right after a big disappointement at the $50k PPC where he finished 6th for $161k, Josh Arieh just won a second bracelet this year by taking over the $10k championship! It’s the fourth bracelet for the player who is now 31st in the bracelet race.
Arieh had some analysis about the competition: “I noticed a lot of mistakes that I made, but I also noticed a lot of gameplay mistakes that they made. There was a point where they were letting me see flops when I shouldn’t see flops, they were gambling when they shouldn’t have been gambling. Just my experience in pot-limit really helped me figure out what I should be doing.”
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Event #67: MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship
Day 1B attracted 845 entries and ended with 611 players left. The chip leader of that day is Steve Foutty with a stack of 287,000, but Moustapha Kanit still have the biggest stack at this point. Notable names making day 2 are Stephen Chidwick (124,900), Kevin Gerhart (112,400), Mike Matusow (56,500) and Justin Bonomo.
To close this wonderful day at the world series, let’s have a look at the most cashes list:
Name | Cashes | Total Earnings |
🇺🇸 Daniel Zack | 14 | $241,422 |
🇺🇸 Roland Israelashvili | 14 | $126,920 |
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb | 13 | $1,341,353 |
🇺🇸 Ben Yu | 12 | $923,332 |
🇺🇸 Jake Schwartz | 12 | $391,100 |
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu | 11 | $258,605 |
🇮🇱 Ran Ilani | 11 | $208,581 |
🇺🇸 Brett Apter | 11 | $36,077 |
🇺🇸 Raymond Henson | 10 | $94,942 |
🇺🇸 JJ Liu | 10 | $69,948 |