| # | Buy-in | Event | Player | Prize |
| 68 | $1,111 | Event #68: LITTLE ONE FOR ONE DROP No-Limit Hold’em | 🇺🇸 Scott Ball | $396,445 |
| 71 | $1,500 | Event #71: BOUNTY Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed | 🇫🇷 Mourad Amokrane | $132,844 |
Event #68: LITTLE ONE FOR ONE DROP No-Limit Hold’em
Scott Ball makes the double by winning the $1,111 Little One for One Drop! What a series for the player who beat Michael Shanahan heads-up (245k), Sorel Mizzi finishing 3rd (186k): the player made 9 cashes this year, including two wins and cash in the $50k PPC.
And what a year for him: Having live cashes since 2016, he wrote more lines on his Hendon Mob in 2021 than all the other years combined, going from roughly $60k to more than a million in just a few weeks!
“I told my friends here that before the start I feel like this isn’t the real-life” declared Ball. “It’s like a simulation to be heads up again for a bracelet in like two weeks. I’ve just worked so hard to get better at No-Limit this past year so when it peeled off and I won another one it just didn’t feel like reality. It feels like I’m dreaming and I’m going to wake up tomorrow and be like dang I can’t wait to live that one day.”
Event #71: BOUNTY Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed
The $1,500 event bracelet went to Mourad Amokrane from France, who earned $132,844 by beating a field of 860 players, including Jeff Gross who finished 8th.
“I have no words. I look at all the poker shows on TV. I know all the famous players and getting a WSOP bracelet is something unbelievable for me. I don’t realize it”, he said.
Amokrane is an optician, selling eyeglasses in the suburbs of Paris, his biggest score until then was $5,972 in 2016. “I’m not a professional player. I have a daily job and going to Vegas is my way to relax and enjoy my hobby”.
Event #67: MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship
Less than a hundred remain in the Main Event now, and each of them will go home will at least $59,000.
It is now the German Koray Aldemir who’s the chip leader with a stack of 14M. Aldemir is a serious candidate for the win with his $12M in live earnings and a top performance of $2.1M when he finished 3rd of the $111,111 High Roller in 2016.
He’s closely followed by Ramon Colillas (12M), our chip leader from yesterday. Our well-known top pro list has unfortunately dried up quite a bit as we’re only left with Chance Kornuth (20th, 5,9M), Stephen Chidwick (48th, 3.7M) and Nick Petrangelo (92nd, 1M).
That’s it for today, see you tomorrow for more updates!
source: www.wsop.com, www.hendonmob.com