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WSOP Day 49 Digest

After 1.5 months of tournaments, the 50th WSOP are now officially finished with Hossein Ensan as the last crowned world champion in the Main Event.

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
73	$10,000	No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT – World Championship	🇩🇪 Hossein Ensan	$10,000,000
86	$10,000	No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed	🇺🇸 Anuj Agarwal	$630,747
87	$3,000	HORSE	🇷🇺 Denis Strebkov	$606,562
89	$5,000	No-Limit Hold’em	🇬🇧 Carl Shaw	$606,562

Event #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT

It took him about nine hours and things got a little rocky at times, but Ensan closed the deal. He eliminated both Alex Livingston and then Dario Sammartino across a little under 200 hands of play, securing the historic bracelet for the 50th running of the WSOP, as well as $10 million. Ensan called the moment, the culmination of getting through a field of 8,569, “unbelievable”. “It is the best feeling I have in all my life”, Ensan said and we can all imagine why.

Hossein Ensan celebrating his bracelet as well as $10,000,000.

Event #86: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship

Anuj Agarwal has taken down one of the last WSOP gold bracelets of the summer by beating 271 other players. Agarwal took home $630,747 for his biggest ever career cash. He more than doubled his total amount of recorded live cashes by beating Australia’s Kahle Burns heads up.

Anuj Agarwal saving his summer thanks to Event #86.

Event #87: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.

Denis Strebkov took down Event #87 beating a field of 301 entries. Strebkov claimed the $206,173 first prize and his first career bracelet.

Event #89: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em

A champion has been crowned in the final event of the 50th Annual World Series of Poker! Britain’s Carl Shaw defeated Tony Dunst heads-up for $606,562 and his first ever gold WSOP bracelet. This event attracted 608 players in total who created a prize pool of $2,827,200 with 92 players getting paid.

On the side, Phil Hellmuth and Shaun Deeb multiplied their good results yesterday but neither of them won the title of “2019 WSOP player of the Year”. Indeed, Robert Campbell finished in front of Deeb (2nd) and Negreanu (3rd) while Hellmuth finished 44th. In October, the WSOP Europe will close the deal to know who finishes the player of year.

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇮🇹 Dario Sammartino	2nd	$6,000,000	73	$10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT – World Championship
🇺🇸 Tony Dunst	2nd	$374,886	89	$5,000 No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Brian Hastings	4th	$182,575	87	$3,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth	6th	$94,899	89	$5,000 No-Limit Hold’em
🇬🇧 Benjamin Heath	6th	$85,915	86	$10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed
🇺🇸 Paul Volpe	8th	$52,760	87	$3,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Jonathan Little	13th	$24,941	89	$5,000 No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb	17th	$28,618	86	$10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed

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WSOP Day 48 Digest

The 50th WSOP are almost finished but they are still 3 players remaining in the Main Event to win the most prestigious bracelet of the series as well as $10,000,000!

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
84	$1,500	The Closer – No-Limit Hold’em	🇮🇳 Abhinav Iyer	$565,346
85	$3,000	Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed	🇺🇸 Alan Sternberg	$448,392

Event #84: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em The Closer

After two days of play, Abhinav Iyer won one of the last event of these WSOP for $565,346. With unlimited re-entries across all three starting flights, 2,800 entries were registered in total, generating a tasty $3,780,000 prizepool at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. Iyer brings home the fourth bracelet of the series for his home country, India.

Event #85: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed

Alan Sternberg reigned victorious in this PLO tournament to capture his first-ever bracelet along with $448,392 in prize money. Sternberg entered the final table fourth in chips “Coming into today, my goal was to at least make top four and then I got hit with the deck of cards. I made the best hand a lot so that makes it pretty easy.” He defeated Evangelos Kokkalis for the final heads-up.

Event #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event

The 2019 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event is just one day away from crowning a champion as the final trio remains out of a field of 8,569 entries with a WSOP Main Event bracelet for the winner and the payday of $10,000,000 that comes along with it.

Hossein Ensan finished Day 7 and 8 at the top of the leaderboard and made it three in a row by establishing a commanding lead at the end of Day 9. Ensan increased his stack by more than 50% on the day and bagged up 326,800,000.

That’s nearly two times as many chips as Alex Livingston (120,400,000) and Dario Sammartino (67,600,000) have combined at their disposal.

RÃ©sultat de recherche d'images pour "wsop main event top 3" — Dario Sammartino, Hossein Ensan and Alex Livingston.

Event #86: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship

Gal Yifrach had a day to remember after he went from start-of-day short stack to final six chip leader in just over four hours in Event #86. When the final 16 returned to action, Yifrach had just 319,000, but by the end of the play, the American bagged a massive 5,385,000 for the clear lead at the top.

Yifrach will be favorite to win this tournament but he will be challenged by Anuj Agarwal (4,350,000), Dong Chen (2,540,000), Kahle Burns(1,855,000), Leonard Maue (1,495,000) and Ben Heath (710,000).

RÃ©sultat de recherche d'images pour "gal yifrach" — Gal Yifrach analysing his opponent.

Famous names have also cashed in Event #84 and #85 as Shaun Deeb, Joao Vieira and Robert Mizrachi who are all doing great in these WSOP.

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇺🇸 Joseph Cheong	6th	$64,722	85	$3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb	7th	$80,766	84	$1,500 The Closer – No-Limit Hold’em
🇵🇹 Joao Vieira	7th	$47,043	85	$3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed
🇺🇸 JC Tran	10th	$37,215	84	$1,500 The Closer – No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Robert Mizrachi	57th	$5,686	85	$3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed

Are you wondering who are the most consistent players of these 50th WSOP? Here are the best cash averages for 5+ cashes:

Name	Total Earnings	Cashes
🇺🇸 Nick Schulman	$289,335	6
🇹🇼 James Chen	$250,553	5
🇺🇸 Dash Dudley	$183,414	6
🇺🇸 John Gorsuch	$169,653	8
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	$144,579	14

Tonight will crown the winner of the Main Event! Will Hossein Ensan be able to do it with his huge chiplead? See you tomorrow for the last recap of the season to get to know who’s gonna make it to the top and leave Vegas with $10,000,000!

source: wsop.com

WSOP Day 47 Digest

Sunday provided plenty of action as the main event final table got underway and two more WSOP gold bracelets found new owners, one from online play and one from live:

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
82	$1,500	No Limit Hold’em Double Stack	🇺🇸 Tom Koral	$530,164
88	$500	WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em Summer Saver	🇺🇸 Taylor “Galactar” Paur	$149,240

Event #82: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Double Stack

Claiming the second bracelet of his career yesterday was Tom Koral who outlasted a field of 2,589 entries and earned the top prize of $530,164. Koral is primarily a mixed game player, but didn’t seem to hinder him on his way to victory in the most popular format of the game. Barry Shulman also final tabled this event seeking his third bracelet but instead found third place coming up just short.

Event #88: $500 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em Summer Saver

Sunday also saw the ninth and final online event conclude with Taylor “Galactar” Paur claiming victory and his second bracelet over 1,325 entries for $149,240.52. This year was the most online events the World Series had ever hosted and they were all met with impressive numbers as anyone who was physically in Nevada or New Jersey was able to log in and play for a bracelet.

Event #84: The Closer – $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

The three opening flights of the repeat popular event attracted 2,337 entrants with about half of those coming from yesterday’s Day 1c field. Today was originally scheduled to be the final day, however, like several other tournaments this Summer, it may very well be extended an additional day as the large field still has 196 players returning. Notables Shaun Deeb, Ari Engel and Jeff Gross all bring in healthy stacks today but it is Tam Nguyen who leads them all in the hunt for the bracelet and the nearly half a million prize of $490,359.

Shaun Deeb enters the day third in chips

Event #85: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed

This event will award one of the final bracelets of the Summer today with just six players remaining out of the original field of 835 entrants. Millard Hale is in first place for chip counts but John Richards is also close on his heels with Joseph Cheong coming into the day as the short stack. In addition to their very first WSOP bracelet, the remaining contestants are battling for the $448,392 up top.

Millard Hale leads the final six players

Event #86: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship

This tournament saw 24 players join in on the action before the start of yesterday’s Day 2 to round out the field of 272 entries in the final $10,000 buy-in event of the World Series. Only 16 players survived to find a bag yesterday and return today with Anuj Agarwal leading the way and aiming for the whopping $630,747 first place prize. Two previous bracelet winners also remain in the hunt for their next one with Ben Heath securing a healthy stack and Gal Yifrach bagging the shortest stack of the remaining players. The tournament is scheduled to play down to the final six today however with only 16 remaining it’s possible tournament staff could let it play out to the end.

Event #87: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.

The final mixed-game event of the World Series kicked off yesterday drawing 301 entrants to create a prize pool of over $800,000 with first place taking home $206,173. Harold Klein enters the day as the chip leader but defending champion Brian Hastings also bagged a decent stack and is in contention for the rare back-to-back repeat with 127 players returning. Hastings has found plenty of success at the World Series in his career, already in possession of four gold bracelets.

Brian Hastings aims for back-to-back titles

Event #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT – World Championship

The main kicked off the first day of the final table yesterday with plenty of chips flying. The original plan was to play down to six from the nine who began the day, however, after only 56 hands play was stopped with just five remaining in contention for the prestigious bracelet and $10,000,000 prize that awaits the eventual champion. Hossein Ensan entered the day as the massive chip leader and was able to hold onto that position but Garry Gates also chipped up yesterday and the two big stacks hold around 75 percent of the chips in play between them. Yesterday saw Milos Skrbic take ninth for $1,000,000, Timothy Su eighth for $1,250,000, Nick Marchington seventh for $1,525,000, and then finally Zhen Cai for $1,850,000.

Hossein Ensan leads final five in the WSOP Main Event

As we enter the final two days of the 2019 World Series of Poker, stay tuned here as for updates as we draw closer to crowning the final bracelet winners and the next Main Event champion!

WSOP Day 46 Digest

Despite the main event taking a break yesterday, there was still plenty of action to be had with two new WSOP champions being crowned.

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
80	$1,500	Mixed No-Limit Hold’em Pot-Limit Omaha	🇸🇪 Jerry Odeen	$304,793
83	$100,000	No-Limit Hold’em High Roller	🇺🇸 Keith Tilston	$2,792,406

Event #80: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha

One of the final mixed games events of the Summer came to a close with Sweden’s Jerry Odeen claiming the title and $304,793. Odeen had to not only work through two games of alternating No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha, but also the 1,250 entry field which contained multiple notables with the likes of Greg Raymer, Vivian Saliba, Chris Ferguson, Ari Engel, Jonathan Little, and Craig Varnell. Odeen only arrived in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago but will be leaving town with a bracelet on his wrist and a dream of WSOP glory fulfilled.

Event #83: $100,000 High Roller

The event that drew much of the attention yesterday was certainly the $100,000 high roller final table with a notable pro occupying every seat. The day saw many stacks rise and fall, but when the dust settled it was Keith Tilston emerging at the top of the 99 player field for a whopping $2,792,406 after defeating Daniel Negreanu heads up. Negreanu entered the day with the shortest stack of the remaining six players but was able to find 5 double ups in order to play heads-up for his sixth bracelet for the second time this Summer. The key hand which ending up denying him that privilege was catching a nine high flush under Tilton’s ten high flush for most of his chips and was unable to recover. The highest buy-in event of the Summer saw the top three places all pay out over a million dollars. Notable pro and poker commentator Nick Schulman locked up a third-place finish with Igor Kurganov busting just prior to him in fourth. It was no surprise to have Germany once again making its presence felt on the high roller scene with Dominik Nitsche final tabling for 6th place and Steffen Sontheimer just missing out on doing so as well, busting in 11th.

Keith Tilston denied Negreanu a 6th bracelet

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	2nd	$1,725,838	83	$100,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller
🇺🇸 Nick Schulman	3rd	$1,187,802	83	$100,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller
🇷🇺 Igor Kurganov	4th	$840,183	83	$100,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller
🇩🇪 Dominik Nitsche	6th	$457,772	83	$100,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller
🇩🇪 Steffen Sontheimer	11th	$195,862	83	$100,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller

Event #84: The Closer – $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Yesterday saw poker pro-Shaun Deeb bag the chip lead as 724 entries in the second of three starting flights brought the event’s total to 1,187. Despite bagging an impressive stack of over 1.1 million chips from the 25,000 starting stack, Deeb still finds himself chasing flight 1a Chipleader Roman Korenev. Today will mark the third and final starting flight of this event as players will look to get into one of the final chances of WSOP gold left this Summer.

Shaun Deeb bagged the chip lead for the second flight.

Event #85: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed

Just 24 players remain out of the original field of 835 entrants and play is scheduled to condense down to the final table of six today. John Richards currently sits atop the chip counts followed closely by notables Joseph Cheong as well as Brandon Shack-Harris who is aiming to add a third WSOP bracelet to his resume. In addition to the bracelet, an impressive $448,392 also occupies the first place payout.

Event #86: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship

With the main event on hold yesterday, another $10,000 tournament began seeing 248 entries on day one with potentially more to come as registration remains open until the start of play today. Felix Bleiker has ahold of the chip lead after running up his 60,000 starting stack to 425,400 in chips. Also bagging big yesterday were John Andress, bracelet winner Yuri Dzivielevski, and Eric Kurtzman.

Event #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT – World Championship

The final nine players of the main event had a day off from playing after 7 long days of play required to see the rest of the 8,569 see their main event dreams come up short of the coveted bracelet. Hossein Ensan is far and away the chip leader who enters the day holding more chips than his two nearest competitors combined in Garry Gates and Zhen Cai. Fans and players alike from around the world can tune into ESPN tonight at 10 PM PDT for coverage as the players will resume the battle for the main event title and the $10,000,000 payout.

The main event enters the first day of final table play today

Earnings Leaderboard

With only three days left in the Summer here’s a look at those who have had the best Summer from an earnings standpoint. Daniel Negreanu saw himself rise above the $2 million mark yesterday in addition to his 14th cash from inside the walls of the Rio this year.

Name	Total Earnings	Cashes
🇺🇸 Keith Tilston	$3,068,280	2
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	$2,024,107	14
🇭🇰 Danny Tang	$1,839,207	2
🇺🇸 Nick Schulman	$1,736,012	6
🇺🇸 Sam Soverel	$1,634,996	2
🇬🇧 Benjamin Heath	$1,634,407	4
🇬🇧 Stephen Chidwick	$1,618,417	1
🇺🇸 Brandon Adams	$1,523,101	3
🇺🇸 John Gorsuch	$1,354,969	7
🇺🇸 Phillip Hui	$1,277,104	9

With the first day of the main event’s final table today and another WSOP bracelet to be awarded before the day is done, make sure to stay tuned for all of the updates from Sin City!

WSOP Day 45 Digest

For many people, Friday is known as payday, that held true yesterday for poker players at the Rio as four of the remaining bracelets were handed out to new champions.

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
75	$1,111	Little One for One Drop	🇺🇸 James Anderson	$690,686
78	$1,500	Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty	🇩🇰 Maximilian Klostermeier	$177,823
79	$3,000	No-Limit Hold’em	🇫🇷 Ivan Deyra	$380,090
81	$1,500	50th Annual Bracelet Winners Only No-Limit Hold’em	🇺🇸 Shankar Pillai	$71,580

Event #75: $1,000+111 Little One for One Drop No-Limit Hold’em

Defeating a record field of 6,246 entries was James Anderson who took home his very first bracelet along with a $690,686 first place prize. Fernando Karam battled Anderson heads up but was denied his third bracelet of the Summer in the end. Although no stranger to success in poker tournaments having already surpassed the two million dollar mark on Hendon Mob, this marks Anderson’s largest score of his career.

Event #78: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty

Vegas first-timer Maximilian Klostermeier claimed his first bracelet yesterday walking away a score of $177,823 in addition to all of the $500 bounties he collected for eliminating some of the 1,130 entries. He defeated David Callaghan heads up who also walked away with a six-figure score of $109,844. Klostermieier has only been playing poker professionally for a short time and in his first ever trip to Las Vegas, he found his name engraved in WSOP gold.

Event #81: $1,500 Bracelet Winners Only Event

In the only event of the Summer that was guaranteed to see someone add to their bracelet collection, Shankar Pillai took it down for $71,580. Pillai defeated a stacked field of 185 entries on his way to donning his second bracelet. It had been a gap of over a decade since his first bracelet win back in 2007 in a $3,000 No Limit Hold’Em event. This was a first-time event at the World Series this year and drew one of the smaller fields of the Summer, however, when everyone in the tournament has already won before the path to victory is certainly much more challenging.

Event #79: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Ivan Deyra saw himself hit multiple milestones of his poker career as he not only took home his first WSOP gold bracelet and $380,090 but also surpassed the one million dollar mark in tournament earnings. Deyra had to go through 671 entries in order to achieve his life long dream of owning a bracelet, eventually defeating David Gonzalez heads up who had the misfortune to bluff for all his chips when Deyra held a full house.

Event #83: $100,000 High Roller

The biggest buy-in event of the Summer played down to the final six of the 99 entries yesterday with Keith Tilston bagging up the chip lead after his pocket kings cracked Sergi Reixach‘s aces late in the day. Fans will see an exciting final table of all notable pros battle it out for the WSOP gold and $2,792,406 that lies in wait for the champion today. In the hunt include Nick Schulman, day one chip-leader Brandon Adams, Dominik Nitsche, Igor Kurganov, and Daniel Negreanu who comes in today with a short stack of thirteen big blinds.

Daniel Negreanu enters the final table with the shortest stack

Event #80: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha

Players not only swap chips but entire games in this tournament as every 8 hands they rotate from playing No-Limit Hold’em to Pot Limit Omaha. Ayaz Mahmood bagged the chip lead and is aiming for his second bracelet in addition to the $304,793 prize. A large field of 1,250 entries required extending this tournament an extra day as now only 7 remain to play for the bracelet. One of the notables in the field David “ODB” Baker who already claimed a bracelet this summer saw his final table hopes crushed as he exited in tenth place.

Event #82: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Double Stack

Day two of this new event ended with 6 players looking to don their first WSOP bracelet. Freek Scholten leads the final table and has already cashed four events this Summer will look to close out on the elusive bracelet and $530,164 first place prize. This event drew a massive field of 2,589 entries including many notables who saw their way to rail yesterday including Kristen Bicknell and Ryan Laplante.

Event 84: $1,500 The Closer No-Limit Hold’em

Day 1a of the three starting flights yesterday drew to a close with online poker pro-Roman Korenev bagging the chip-lead. 463 entries in the starting flight show signs of yet another large field as the two remaining flights are expected to draw even larger numbers. The field is not without notables either as recent bracelet winner Ari Engel, Ian O’Hara, and Fabian Gumz all found bags to advance to day two.

Event #85: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed

After an action-filled day one saw 901 entries pony up the $3,000 to play the four card game, Paresh Doshi leads the remaining 173 survivors coming into today. $475,033 is what everyone will be eyeing as the field will condense down significantly today through ten hours of play. Two-time bracelet winner Keith Lehr, Anton Morgenstern, Martin Zamani, bracelet winner David Williams, and bracelet winner Leif Force all were able to bag healthy stacks and will look to build upon them today.

Anton Morgenstern bagged a healthy stack on day one

Event #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT – World Championship

The main event is officially down to the final table as nine players remain of the 8,569. In addition to a million dollars, the players have also earned a day off today before play resumes tomorrow. Hossein Ensan holds a massive chip lead on the table of 177 big blinds well over Gary Gates also healthy stack of 99 big blinds. Despite the big stacks, the most feared player at the table might be poker pro-Dario Sammartino. He has already amassed over eight million dollars in tournament winnings and is one player the others certainly don’t want to see gain any steam off his 33 big blind stack. Sammartino got involved in a sticky situation with 11 players left when he faced a shove Nick Marchington. After asking for a count of what he thought was a little more than 20 big blinds he made the call. However, the dealer had miscounted and the shove was for much closer to 30 big blinds. The floor ruled Sammartino was committed to call off the full amount and his tens failed to improve against Marchington’s queens.

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇺🇸 Justin Bonomo	22nd	$10,387	79	$3,000 No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Ryan Riess	26th	$2,520	81	$1,500 50th Annual Bracelet Winners Only No-Limit Hold’em
🇦🇺 Jeff Lisandro	28th	$4,254	78	$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	42nd	$3,553	78	$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty
🇺🇸 Daniel Zack	44th	$3,553	78	$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty

Day 46 today will feature five events and two final tables, stay tuned here for updates on how they all unfold!