We’re now at 14 started events in this year’s World Series of Poker and one bracelet has been awarded yesterday.
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Buy-in
Event
Player
Prize
8
$600
Event #8: No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
🇺🇸 Zhi Wu
$281,406
Event #8: No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
The $600 event attracted 4,527 players on Monday to end yesterday with the victory of Zhi Wu for $281,406. The win more than triples the player’s live earnings.
Zhi Wu with his black aces and his first bracelet
Still running
The $10k Event #9: Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship still counts Phil Hellmuth hoping to win a 16th bracelet but the player is now short stacked with 6 players remaining. The players will battle for $317,076.
The $25k Event #11: Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship has reached the semi-finals. Jason Koon and Daniel Zack will respectively face Henri Puustinen and Gabor Szabo to try to win the $243,981 prize.
The $3,000 Event #13: Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em has attracted loads of top pros, notably Maria Konnikova (9th), Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier (18th), Sam Grafton (20th) and many more. From the original 720 entries, 111 players are still in contention.
Do you recognize him?
Some stats
After 11 closed events, here is the list of players with the most cashes:
Name
Cashes
Total Earnings
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb
4
$11,643
🇺🇸 Joshua Faris
4
$8,628
🇺🇸 Mike Shin
4
$6,839
🇺🇸 Tyler Burke
4
$4,982
We’ll come back tomorrow with more results and more stats! If you want some specific stats on these WSOP hit us up!
Online Event #2: WSOP.com No-Limit Hold’em BIG 500
NJ_AcesmarkA
$89,356
10
$1,000
Event #10: Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em (freezeout)
🇺🇸 Michael Perrone
$152,173
Event #4: The Reunion No-Limit Hold’em
The 35 years old Long Ma outlasted a little field of 12,973 players to take home his first bracelet. This win is the american second cash at the WSOP, his first being a $1,751 prize in 2017, what an outburst!
Long Ma with nearly 700M chips
Event #7: Dealers Choice 6-Handed
The $1,500 tournament crowned Jaswinder Lally for $97,915. The 58 years old declared after the win: “I learned a lot playing all these games. Some of these games I’ve never played like Badacey or Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Regular.”, showing it’s still possible to win bracelets even in shark filled event!
Martin “Bathroomline” Zamani won his second bracelet on WSOP.com (NV/NJ). Martin Zamani is no stranger to poker as he has more than $2.5M of live earnings, his largest score being a win in the $25k PCA High Roller in 2019 for $895,110. He notably defeated Jason Koon, finishing at the 6th place for $39k.
Martin Zamani in a live setting
Event #10: Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em (freezeout)
Michael Perrone took home the bracelet for $152,173 by defeating french pro Pierre Calamusa in this $1,000 buy-in event. The tournament counted 1,640 players for a total prizepool of $1,459,600.
Online Event #2: WSOP.com No-Limit Hold’em BIG 500
The online event ended when “nj_acesmarka” bested the 742 players field to cash $89,356. Close to the top were David “vincevegas” ODB Baker (14th, $3,985) and former main event champion Ryan “BitC0in” Riess (11th, $5,042).
Still running
In the $10k event #9: Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship, 17 players remains, counting Phil Hellmuth (8th), Paul Volpe (10th), Robert Mizrachi (12th) and Brian Rast (15th).
The $25k Event #11: Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship now has 16 players still in contention for the coveted bracelet, featuring Jason Koon, Mikita Badziakouski, Dan Zack and David Peters.
Here are some big names cashes in the closed events:
Player
Place
Earnings
#
Event
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth
18th
$4,429
7
$1,500 Event #7: Dealers Choice 6-Handed
🇺🇸 Ryan Laplante
19th
$18,117
4
$500 Event #4: The Reunion No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb
59th
$2,505
10
$1,000 Event #10: Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em (freezeout)
The first of many WSOP high roller ended last night:
#
Buy-in
Event
Player
Prize
6
$25,000
Event #6: High Roller No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed
🇺🇸 Tyler Cornell
$833,289
Event #6: High Roller No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed
Tyler Cornell doubled his total live earnings by winning his first bracelet and the $833,289 prize. Despite claiming “I feel like I only got control of the table in the last hour” after the win, the player well managed his chip lead during the whole final table.
Tyler Cornell
Adrian Mateos managed to climb two spots since the tournament resumed on day 3 to finish 3rd:
Name
Total Earnings
🇺🇸 Tyler Cornell
$833,289
🇺🇸 Michael Liang
$515,014
🇪🇸 Adrian Mateos
$381,870
🇺🇸 Jonathan Jaffe
$286,202
🇮🇹 Mustapha Kanit
$216,842
Event #8 counted 135 entries
Other events in progress
The massive $500 event #4: The Reunion No-Limit Hold’em and its 12,973 entries enters its final stage as 9 players remain. Poker pro Ryan Laplante closely missed this golden $513,604 opportunity and ended up at the 19th place for $18,117.
In the $1,500 event #7: Dealers Choice 6-Handed only 14 remain, and unfortunately many big names did not make the cut in the latest stage, including legendary WSOP commentator Norman Chad (21st), Eli Elezra (20th) and Phil Hellmuth (18th).
Norman Chad
More events are currently underway including the $10k event #9: Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship where David Benyamine currently leads. Jason Somerville’s fans will also be happy to hear that Jason has entered the tournament.
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Connor Drinan started and ended day 3 with the most chips to beat a field of 607 and grab his second WSOP bracelet. Drinan claimed in the end: “This win is dedicated to Mike Fasco for the expensive O/8 lessons“. His first bracelet was the huge online $10K WSOP Super MILLION$ where he took $1,4M.
Robert Mizrachi fell short from winning a 5th bracelet, but he defended his day 2 stack pretty well to finish at the 3rd place for $71,602.
Robert Mizrachi, 3rd
Other events
The $25K event #6: High Roller No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed ended with 5 players only with Tyler Cornell currently sitting with the biggest stack. He’ll face tonight Mustapha Kanit (4th) and Adrian Mateos (5th) to take the big $833K top spot.
Losing in the money were day 2 chip leader Jake Daniels (14th), but also Jason Koon (9th) and Paul Newey (7th).
In $1,500 event #7: Dealers Choice 6-Handed, half of the field is gone with 307 entries. The tournament is full of specialists as fan favorites Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth currently sits in the top 10.
Yesterday Jesse Klein made the surprise by winning event #2 in a table full of sharks.
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Buy-in
Event
Player
Prize
2
$25,000
Event #2: H.O.R.S.E.
🇺🇸 Jesse Klein
$552,182
Event #2: H.O.R.S.E.
A stranger to most, Jesse Klein started the final table with the second stack and outlasted everybody. Combining a grand total of 5 Hendon Mob lines before the win, the last being a 12th place in a $1,000 tournament in 2010(!), he defeated a 22 bracelets table. Phil Hellmuth missed his chance of 16th bracelet and finished 6th for $95,329.
Jesse Klein
Here are the notable finishes in this event:
Player
Place
Earnings
#
Event
🇫🇷 David Benyamine
3rd
$236,626
2
$25,000 Event #2: H.O.R.S.E.
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth
6th
$95,329
2
$25,000 Event #2: H.O.R.S.E.
🇺🇸 Matt Glantz
9th
$52,211
2
$25,000 Event #2: H.O.R.S.E.
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu
10th
$46,002
2
$25,000 Event #2: H.O.R.S.E.
🇺🇸 Cary Katz
12th
$42,162
2
$25,000 Event #2: H.O.R.S.E.
78 players entered the tournament
Other events
The $1,500 Event #5: Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better gathered 607 players and at the end of day 2 less than 20 remains. Currently leading is Connor Drinan, followed by Robert Mizrachi. The winner will leave with a $163,252 paycheck.
The $25,000 Event #6: High Roller No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed started Saturday and recorded 135 entries. The arguably best Hold’em tournament players Stephen Chidwick and Michael Addamo have already fallen. However, there are still loads of huge names in this high roller where Jake Daniels ended up taking the chip lead after day 1.
Who’s this?
We can’t wait to see how this event will unfold so stay tuned!
