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WSOP 2023 Day 48 Digest

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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!

Daniel Weinman Wins 2023 WSOP Main Event

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.

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
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) July 17, 2023

“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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WSOP 2023 Day 47 Digest

We’re nearing the end of this year’s series but the action is still strong:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$2,500	Event #87: $2,500 Mixed	$1,023,500	460
$1,500	Event #88: $1,500 The Closer – No-Limit Hold’em	$4,713,885	3,531
$1,000	Event #89: $1,000 FLIP & GO No-Limit Hold’em Presented by GG Poker	$911,360	1,024

Event #87: $2,500 Mixed

Starting with the smallest stack at 3 left, Bradley Smith found the path to victory to put his hands on his first bracelet and winning $221,733 in the process. His previous best performance was five years ago when he won $87k by finishing third in the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.

“I think I played every single hand in this tournament to the best of my ability, and there was not any point that I ever gave up for one second, even if I didn’t have a lot of chips. Your mental health is a huge part of the game, just your mentality,” Smith said.

“Throughout my entire life, I’ve just been a very calm and chill person. There’s not many things that get to me. I’m not someone who’s going to raise my voice or if someone says something to me, I don’t usually make a big deal about it or say something back, you know? I just do my thing.”

Notable finishes	Place	Earnings
🇺🇸 Ari Engel	16th	$7,969
🇬🇧 Patrick Leonard	31st	$6,702

Event #88: $1,500 The Closer – No-Limit Hold’em

The event attracted 3,531 entries making up for a $606,810 first prize. Pierre Shum made his first official live cash by taking down the event and gaining a bracelet! He defeated Peter Nigh who takes home $376,420 for his performance.

Notable finishes	Place	Earnings
🇫🇷 Erwann Pecheux	45th	$13,030
🇨🇦 Mike Leah	163rd	$3,950
🇺🇸 Sammy Farha	180th	$3,950
🇺🇸 Matt Glantz	185th	$3,950
🇺🇸 Ryan Laplante	330th	$3,004
🇺🇸 Joseph Cheong	374th	$2,628
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb	380th	$2,628
🇺🇸 Phil Laak	475th	$2,403

Event #89: $1,000 FLIP & GO No-Limit Hold’em Presented by GG Poker

Here are the official rules for this peculiar event:

The first hand of each flight is played pineapple style where players discard one of their hole cards after the flop and everyone is all-in with 1 player advancing per table, followed by a standard tournament structure played as No-Limit Hold’em. If there is a split on the first hand, play will continue with all existing players being all-in each hand until 1 player remains.

Dong Meng found the miracle path of victory to put his hands on the bracelet and the $160,490 main prize.

The event looks particularly attractive to numerous famous pros who doesn’t hesitate to fire multiple bullets, hoping to get to the top:

Player	Place	Earnings
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb	44th	$3,870
🇨🇦 Mike Leah	48th	$3,320
🇺🇸 Scott Seiver	54th	$3,320
🇺🇸 Ryan Riess	79th	$2,300
🇺🇸 Josh Arieh	90th	$2,100
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	106th	$2,000

Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship

Nine started the day and play went all the way down to three players who will all leave with at least $4,000,000.

The top 3 players stayed the same between the start of the day and the end, except for Steven Jones who captured the most chips yesterday:

Seat	Player	Chip Count	Big Blinds	Big Blinds (%)
1	Steven Jones	238,000,000	119	39.5
4	Adam Walton	165,500,000	83	27.5
5	Daniel Weinman	199,000,000	100	33.0

Steven Jones has $245,346 in total live earnings, his best performance to date is a 9th place in 2018’s Colossus for $57k.

Daniel Weinman, second in chips, has $3,7M in live earnings, is the holder of 2022’s event #30 bracelet: $1,000 Pot Limit Omaha. His best performance is a win in 2017’s $3,300 + 200 No Limit Hold’em WPT Main Event for $892,433.

Adam Walton (3rd) has 20 WSOP cashes, $989,037 in total live earnings and a $283,072 runner-up performance at the Wynn last year.

The victory is truly up to anyone at this point.

Here are the results from the 4th to 9th place:

Place	Player	Country	Prize (in USD)
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

Also in progress

Only four remains in Event #90: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship. Bracelet holder Alexandre Reard will return as the chip leader with more than half of the chips. Will also return: Stephen Chidwick (2nd), AJ Kelsall (3rd) and Justin Liberto with the shortest stack. They were 550 entries in the tournament, making a huge $1,057,663 first prize.

Eighteen players will come back for the end of Event #91: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. today to have a chance to win $208,460. Leonard August is in the lead, accompagnied by Todd Brunson (4th) and Chad Eveslage (7th) with another chance for a third bracelet this year.

See you tomorrow to see who’s our new Main Event champion!

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

WSOP 2023 Day 46 Digest

Day 46 brings us two new bracelet holders:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$1,500	Event #85: $1,500 SHOOTOUT No-Limit Hold’em	$1,317,645	987
$1,979	Event #86: $1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold’em	$2,495,776	1,417

Event #85: $1,500 SHOOTOUT No-Limit Hold’em

With more than $7M in total live earnings and 64 cashes at the WSOP, he didn’t have any bracelet yet…Faraz Jaka finally succeeded yesterday in grabbing his first in this shootout event for $237,367.

Five time bracelet winner Adam Friedman lost in 8th place for $29k, and Yuri Dzivielevski was out fifth for $63k.

“Pretty great and just taking it all in,” Jaka said about his feelings. “I was so zoned in that, I’m still kind of decompressing. I mean, I’ve gotten a lot of seconds and thirds, not just in WSOP but also in like WPT events and so on. So, it’s definitely nice to kind of get that monkey off my back and I feel like it’s just one of those things and I’m gonna start shipping the rest now.”

Event #86: $1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold’em

Peruvian Diego Ventura earns his first bracelet and the first one for his country by taking down event #86. He defeated Thomas Kysar in the heads-up to take home the first prize of $402,054. Ventura crossed the $2M mark in live earnings but this win is not his biggest ever, he made $907,080 in 2015 by finishing runner-up in the PCA Main Event.

Ventura was getting pretty emotional during the tournament: “I was actually getting emotional way before, like when I got to the final table I already wanted to cry. I was like, wait it’s not the moment yet, so I was trying to calm myself down. So when the moment arrived I was like so calm that I couldn’t let my emotions out until, I just started to look back at my life and in that moment I got emotional.”

In progress

Play stopped during the night at three players left in Event #87: $2,500 Mixed:

Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count	Big Bets
1	Nick Pupillo	United States	6,045,000	12
2	Bradley Smith	Canada	2,655,000	5
3	Nghia Le	United States	7,400,000	15

The players will battle for the $221,733 top prize. A few notables went deep but fell short: Yuval Bronshtein (8th), David “Bakes” Baker (12th) and Ari Engel (16th).

The final nine players of the Main Event had the day off yesterday. Play resume today at level 38, with 600,000/1,200,000 blinds, 1,200,000 ante!

To end this recap, let’s have a look at the most live cashes for the completed events:

Name	Cashes	Total Earnings
🇺🇸 Ivan Starostin	15	$90,718
🇦🇹 Koray Aldemir	13	$812,177
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	13	$344,480
🇺🇸 Daniel Buzgon	13	$75,955
🇺🇸 Ren Lin	12	$770,964
🇺🇸 Ian Matakis	12	$688,424
🇺🇸 David “Bakes” Baker	12	$199,948
🇮🇱 Yuval Bronshtein	12	$184,709

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

WSOP 2023 Day 45 Digest

Day 45 was dense with three bracelets awarded, day 7 of the Main Event, and two other events reaching the final table:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$600	Event #81: $600 Ultra Stack – No-limit Hold’em	$3,675,570	7,207
$3,000	Event #82: $3,000 6-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha	$2,704,710	1,013
$50,000	Event #84: $50,000 HIGH ROLLER No-Limit Hold’em	$8,404,000	176

Event #81: $600 Ultra Stack – No-limit Hold’em

The large event with its 7,207 entries built a $401,250 prize who went to Joseph Roh. Roh is not a poker pro but still had more than $100k in live earnings, now totalling $533,132.

Event #82: $3,000 6-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha

Matthew Parry grabs his first bracelet in the Pot-Limit Omaha event and takes home $480,122. It’s the best result for the player who has $1,7M in total live earnings. Parry was very close to win Event #34: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event a few weeks ago when he finished third for $134,156.

Ian Matakis will add solid points to the Player of the Year race by finishing third for $205,696. Connor Drinan lost in 6th place and takes $75k for the performance.

Event #84: $50,000 HIGH ROLLER No-Limit Hold’em

It’s the fifth event that had a prize over $2M this year, and the $2,087,073 check goes to the Hungarian Alex Kulev. Kulev is having a great summer this year, he already won $1,6M in the $250,000 Super High Roller.

“The best players in the world came out to play this tournament,” Kulev said, “I max-late-regged with 15 big blinds, so it was very touch and go for a bit but when the cards want you to win, they usually let you win.”

Here are the final payouts of the tournament:

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	$2,087,073
2	Gergely Kulcsar	Hungary	$1,289,909
3	Jake Schindler	United States	$957,491
4	Daniel Smiljkovic	Germany	$713,413
5	Koray Aldemir	Germany	$533,561
6	Johannes Straver	Netherlands	$400,562
7	Brandon Wittmeyer	United States	$301,859
8	Moshe Refaelowitz	Israel	$228,347

Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship

Six hours of play were needed to go from 15 to the 9 players that will play the final table of the World Series of Poker.

Adam Walton started the day second with 75M and went up to 143M to take the chip lead. He nearly has a quarter of the total chips, comfortably installed ahead of Steven Jones with 90M and 15% of the total chips.

I wasn’t a great day from Juan Maceiras who started as the chip leader with 108M and finished with the fifth stack of 68M.

Two players have one bracelet at the table: Daniel Weinman (3rd, $3,7M in live earnings) and Jan-Peter Jachtmann (4th, $1,9M in live earnings). Both won a bracelet in Pot-Limit Omaha.

Probably the most well known player of the group was Alec Torelli, who was very short at the start of the day and finally went bust in 11th place for $700,000.

The 9 players will be paid a minimum of $900,000.

Also in progress

987 entered Event #85: $1,500 SHOOTOUT No-Limit Hold’em. A very entertaining final table has been set with Adam Friedman (5 bracelets), Yuri Dzivielevski (3 bracelets) and Faraz Jaka . The first prize is set at $237,367.

Event #86: $1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold’em is also down to 9 players. The event registered 1,417 entries for a prizepool of $2,4M. Diego Ventura is the chip leader and is joined by 2014 Main Event champion Martin Jacobson in fifth place. Phil Hellmuth made another deep run but fell in 19th place.

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

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WSOP 2023 Day 44 Digest

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$1,500	Event #83: $1,500 Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em	$484,605	363

Event #83: $1,500 Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em

They were 363 at the start for one of the smallest events of the year. Starting the final day with the third stack, Thai Ha found the path for the $111,170 win. He defeated David Prociak ($68k) in the heads-up, Ryan Laplante ($21k) ending in 5th place. It’s the first live cash at the WSOP, but Thai Ha has a strong $2,5M in total live earnings, including a second place for $511k in the 2019 €25,500 Short Deck event at the WSOP Europe.

Some words from the winner: “It feels great. Short Deck is one of the games I play the most and I got second twice already so this time it definitely feels great not to get second again. I feel like Short Deck is my strongest game.”

Day 7 ended and we’re down to only 15 players, but the winner won’t be crowned before another four days.

Juan Maceiras from Spain has the current best spot with a 108M stack and nearly 18% of the remaining chips. Following him is Adam Walton from California with 75M (12%) in chips.

Our most famous name in Alec Torelli has survived day 7 but has one of the shortest stack (13M, 2%).

Yesterday had lots of action, especially free breathing lessons given at the featured table:

Let us all join in on @danielvampan's collective breathing exercise.

😮💨😮💨😤😤 pic.twitter.com/VGoj8cRyt8
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) July 13, 2023

All 15 players have now secured $430,200.

Also in progress

With 7,207 entries, Event #81: $600 Ultra Stack – No-limit Hold’em is down to 9 players after day 2. John Fagg is the chip leader and will try to put his hands on the $401,250 prize.

Five remains in Event #82: $3,000 6-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha amongst the 1,013 entries of the tournament. Matthew Parry will return as the chip leader today and will be joined by Ian Matakis, currently 3rd and leader of the Player of the Year race. They will battle for the $480,122 winner’s prize.

Two days were need to go down to 5 players in Event #84: $50,000 HIGH ROLLER No-Limit Hold’em. Here are the chips counts of the remainings five:

Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Jake Schindler	United States	13,550,000	27
2	Koray Aldemir	Germany	4,000,000	8
3	Daniel Smiljkovic	Germany	3,150,000	6
4	Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	19,800,000	40
6	Gergely Kulcsár	Hungary	12,350,000	25

All have already won at least $533,561 and will look for the massive $2,087,073 first place. Many top pros made the money, including: Cary Katz (13rd), Daniel Negreanu (14th), Jason Koon (15th) and Christoph Vogelsang (18th).

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}