This is it!
| Buy-in | Event | Prizepool | Entries |
| $10,000 | Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship | $93,399,900 | 10,043 |
| $10,000 | Event #90: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship | $5,115,000 | 550 |
| $1,000 | Event #92: $1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em | $1,521,900 | 1,710 |
Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship
Daniel Weinman is our new 2023 Main Event champion! The American takes down the largest Main Event of history and its $12,100,000 prize!
With 10,043 entries, $93,399,900 of prizepool, this year’s Main Event largely outgrew the 2006’s event with its 8,773 players and $82M of prizepool.
Here is the final hand against Steven Jones:
Daniel Weinman (@notontilt09) is your 2023 @WSOP Main Event Champion.
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) July 17, 2023
In the final hand, Weinman and Steven Jones both flop top pair, and when Jones moves in on the turn, Weinman calls.
Weinman walks away with $12,100,000 after conquering the largest Main Event field ever. pic.twitter.com/bxOOJaOcMH
“Every year before this, I’ve been here from Event #1 to the last event,” Weinman said. “And by the time the Main Event comes around, I’m burnt out … I’ve said to many people, I don’t like this tournament. The structure is too good, I’m kind of over it for the summer. […] I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament”.
Here are the final table results:
| 1 | Daniel Weinman | United States | $12,100,000 |
| 2 | Steven Jones | United States | $6,500,000 |
| 3 | Adam Walton | United States | $4,000,000 |
| 4 | Jan-Peter Jachtmann | Germany | $3,000,000 |
| 5 | Ruslan Prydryk | Ukraine | $2,400,000 |
| 6 | Dean Hutchison | Scotland | $1,850,000 |
| 7 | Toby Lewis | England | $1,425,000 |
| 8 | Juan Maceiras | Spain | $1,125,000 |
| 9 | Daniel Holzner | Italy | $900,000 |
Event #90: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship
Two years after getting hold of his first bracelet, Alexandre Reard gets his second one by defeating none other than Stephen Chidwick in the heads-up. Reard will bring home $1,057,663 and the first bracelet for France this year.
“I did feel some pressure coming into the day because I knew that in France everyone was expecting me to be at least in the top two.”
Final results:
| 1 | Alexandre Reard | France | $1,057,663 |
| 2 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | $653,688 |
| 3 | AJ Kelsall | United States | $443,259 |
| 4 | Justin Liberto | United States | $306,555 |
| 5 | Eli Berg | United States | $216,319 |
| 6 | Eric Baldwin | United States | $155,809 |
Event #92: $1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em
Kang Hyun Lee wins the event and $236,741 by defeating Eric Mizrachi in the heads-up. With $112k in total live earnings in five years, Lee scored his biggest performance and earned his first bracelet. Vanessa Kade also made the final table and ended in 8th place.
“It feels amazing! Just being a poker enthusiast my whole life, to finally get the most coveted award in the game, it just feels surreal.”, said Lee afterwards.
In progress
Event #91: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. will resumes today with Ryan Miller (9,3M chips) facing Leonard August (3,9M) in the final heads-up of the tournament. The top prize is $208,460 and both players will leave with at least $128,835.
106 registrations were made in Event #93: $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em and five players will battle today for the $270,760 top prize. Martin Nielsen will come back as the chip leader and John Juanda will try to overcome the slim odds of his short stack to get a sixth bracelet.
After one day, Event #94: $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em has just 60 players, the tournament bringing a healthy count of 813 entries for the last event of the year. David Peters, 7th on the all-time money list, has put the most chips together in this first day. In the top 20 will return Alex Keating (8th), Phil Laak (11th) and Johan Guilbert (14th). The first prize is set at $701,688.
Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com
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