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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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We’ve had three new bracelet winners yesterday:

Event #32: H.O.R.S.E.

Jim Collopy came out on top of the $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. event to get his second bracelet. His first was a win in the 2013 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific for A$69k.

The 32-years-old poker pro had to defeat a lot of known names to get the biggest prize, including Daniel Negreanu (8th), Maria Ho (5th) and Eli Elezra (4th).

Event #33: 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack

After cashing once this year, the Israeli Ran Koller won the event for $269k, where he cocaceously defeated another Ran (Ilani), also from Israel, in heads-up. The event is currently the third biggest tournaments in volume with 2,778 entries.

Online Event #4: WSOP.com PLO Crazy 8’s

Ryan “Santasbzack2” Stoker of Washington won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the $888 event on WSOP.com (NV/NJ). Ryan had until then 17 WSOP cashes, his best performance being a 5th place and $37k on the WSOP circuit.

Some stats!

Here is the top 5 average cash for players with a minimum of 4 cashes:

See you tomorrow to see who advances in the $10k event #36: Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship which is of course star filled!

If you have any comments to make, or if you want to see some particular statistics, please leave a comment to let us know!

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What can we say? The poker brat never ceases to entertain the WSOP this year:

Event #31: No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw

He finally did it! Starting second in chips at 10 left, Phil Hellmuth made it happen to reach his 16th bracelet, making him even harder to reach in the bracelet race.

“I’ve wanted a deuce-to-seven bracelet ever since the 1980’s because it was the coolest bracelet to win. It’s the one tournament that Chip, Doyle, and all the big named poker players showed up for.”

Phil tried to explain what happened the other days: “I’ve studied these games my whole life, so I have all the knowledge. What’s been killing me is that I get tired and I blow it. Or I get tilted and I blow it. I’ll be down here at the Rio and it’s one in the morning and I’m so tired. And I just play a bunch of bad hands and I’m out.”

Here are the other results of the tournaments:

That’s not all!

In the $1,500 event #30: MONSTER STACK No-Limit Hold’em, Ryan Leng, winner of event #23 is in the chip lead. 2,342 players entered the tournament and the 148 remaining will battle for a nice $610k payday.

20 players are still trying to take the win in the $3,000 Event #32: H.O.R.S.E., featuring Eli Elezra (2nd), Maria Ho (11th) and Daniel Negreanu (14th). 282 players entered the tournaments and $173k is up for the top prize.

Let’s have a look at the updated most cashes list:

What a day! We hope the WSOP will continue this exciting run!

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— phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth) October 18, 2021

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