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Three lucky guys made it yesterday!

Event #40: H.O.R.S.E. Championship

Kevin Gerhart converted his chip lead at 5 left into a third bracelet and $361k! Last year he won the WSOP.com Event #20: $500 PLO 6-Handed and the $1,500 Razz (Event #54) the year before, showing he’s climbing up the poker ranks. He just crossed the $1M in total live earnings by writing his biggest line up to date.

“I would consider the first one, the Razz one, the most important just because it opened the doors for me for bigger and better things. I just started playing 10ks this year so it’s something new to me and I haven’t experienced this field very much but I have played against all these guys in the $1,500’s”.

The player also added how mentally exhausting the tournament was: “It was so difficult. Playing nine-handed, anything is difficult, the hand ranges you have to play, tighten up so much and the short stacks kept doubling and doubling. By the end of the day I got home, I had no energy to think about anything and went straight to sleep for twelve hours”

Event #41: Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em

Carlos Chang achieved his biggest performance by winning the $2,500 event with a prizepool close to $2M. That’s the first bracelet for the Taiwanese considering himsef “a hobby player”, adding: “I’m probably the better non-pro out there”. Chang has 28 WSOP cashes and this was his fourth final table: “I told myself, this year if I make a final table, I will win the bracelet. And it happened! I am pretty excited. I was focused all day and yesterday.”

Event #42: Razz

Bradley Ruben total live earnings does not look that impressive with $640k compared to the usual WSOP population, but the player has just won his 3rd bracelet! He won the previous ones at the online tables in 2020 and 2021. To make it happen, he defeated a solid final table including Yuri Dzivielevski (2 bracelets), David “ODB” Baker (2 bracelets), and Matt Grapenthien (1 bracelet).

Here are some other notable results for these finished events:

Good luck at the tables!

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We’ve had a single winner yesterday at the world series:

Event #39: Pot-Limit Omaha (8-Handed)

The event gathered the largest prizepool for an omaha event to date for $1,096,035 and 821 entries. In the end Josh Arieh took the win against other bracelet holders: Tommy Le (2nd – 126k) and Ivan Deyra (4th – 64k). Arieh now has 3 bracelets on his arm: his previous ones were a $2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha in 2005 and a $3,000 Limit Hold’em in 1999! The player now has more than $8M in total live earnings. Arieh particularly finished 3rd in the 2004 Main Event where he cashed $2,5M.

The player was pretty emotional in the end: “I mean I don’t know, I think I’m really good, just like everybody else,” he said. “But I haven’t won a bracelet in 15 years, I’ve come close. I think I have three or four seconds in the last six years and I f***ing dog it, like I choke, and I started feeling that pressure again right at the beginning. But I was lucky enough to hold some cards and fought through the mental weakness I guess. But it’s always good, winning money and winning bracelets is always good. I don’t know there’s part of me that like, I feel like I should, that I could be a Hall of Fame inductee. I don’t know inducted but at least a chance to be inducted. So I’ve been thinking about that for a few years, get a third bracelet and maybe I’ll get on the ballot. But now I’ll try to get four.”

Event #40: H.O.R.S.E. Championship

Kevin Gerhart will return today as the chip leader of the 5-handed final table. He’ll try to take home his third bracelet. The story is the same for Marco Johnson (4th) and Kevin Gerhart (5th) as they both hold two bracelets. Unfortunately some well known names fell close to reach to final day, especially Jake Schwartz (7th), David Benyamine (8th) and Bertrand Grospellier (10th).

Here is our updated most cashes list:

So who’s going to be the first to reach 10 cashes this year? Time to place your bets!

That’s it for today! See you tomorrow for more bracelets!

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The biggest prize since the beginning of the series has been awarded yesterday:

Event #38: High Roller No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed

It almost looks as no surprise to see Michael Addamo win the tournament as he almost lead the tournament from start to finish to win his 3rd WSOP bracelet. However, the heads-up match against Justin Bonomo wasn’t decided at all as Bonomo had the lead at some point with a 3-to-2 chip advantage. In the final hand of the tournament, both players had similar stacks and Adamo finally called a 4-bet allin with KJ. Bonomo showed a speculative T9 and then the flop came QJT giving the lead to Adamo. The dealer then showed a ten on the turn giving trips to Bonomo, but an ace on the river made Adamo a winning straight, and the trophy of course.

To put the win into perspective, let’s have a look at the 6 last live cashes of Adamo:

Given this amazing run our winner stayed pretty down-to-earth: “Obviously there’s some skill involved, but winning this much is really attributed to luck in the end, so it’s very fortunate. I play a strategy where I put a lot of big bets in. That’s no secret. Sometimes you’re going to be out in the first level and sometimes you’re gonna build up a big stack.”

Event #40: H.O.R.S.E. Championship

In the $10k championship twenty players remain. Eric Rodawig is currently in the chip lead, but France has placed two of its legends in David Benyamine (3rd) and Bertrand Grospellier (7th). Many other well known names will fight for title, including Jake Schwartz (11th), Max Pescatori (12th) and Dylan Linde (17th).

To close the day, let’s have a look at the top 10 earners this year at the world series:

Have a great day and see you tomorrow!

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Here are the latest results at the world series:

Event #36: Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship

What an end to this championship event! The day started with Adam Friedman, second in chips, looking to win the championship for the third time in a row and Phil Hellmuth (5th), looking for his 17th bracelet and the second this year.

The two biggest stories at 10 left finally somehow collided in heads-up, with Hellmuth having at one point a 2-to-1 chip advantage, but Friedman succeeded in grinding back Hellmuth’s stack and finally ended up with all the chips.

Here are some words from the winner: “It’s really amazing. I didn’t expect this. I just wanted to have a shot to be able to do something that no one else has done in the 53-year history of the World Series and to do it in this event is pretty fantastic. Once people play the dealer’s choice, they always keep coming back.”

Here are the other notable results of the event:

Event #37: Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em (freezeout)

Lituanian Karolis Sereika was crowned the winner of $1,500 event, which counted 1,441 entries. Karolis Sereika impressively eliminated all but one player to win his first bracelet. The player only had 5 WSOP cashes until then so that’s a pretty big win for the player.

Sereika said in the interview: “This is the first live Lithuanian WSOP bracelet so that means a lot to me and all Lithuanian players, I’m very happy and very excited. Just so many emotions, I really wanted it with all my heart.”

Event #38: High Roller No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed

In the huge $50k, Michael Addamo kept the lead in day 2 and now only 5 remains. Addamo has nearly half the chips and will return today to face Justin Bonomo (2nd) and Erik Seidel (3rd) to try to win his 3rd bracelet and extend his crazy $5M+ in live earnings since September. The players will play for $1.1M, the biggest prize awarded since the start the series.

We wish you all the best at the tables!

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