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WSOP Day 40 Digest

During the heat of the Main Event, an online event has discreetly ended:

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
76	$800	WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed	🇨🇦 Shawn “bucky21” Buchanan	$223,119

Shawn Buchanan has just won his first bracelet in this event attracting 1,560 participants. Shawn Buchanan, a regular of the live circuit, has $2,704,724 in earnings and 56 cashes in the since 2004 in the world series.

In the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT, day 2C has ended, and the field has been reduced to 2,880 players. The separated fields will merge when play resume on day 3.

The payouts have been announced as the total prizepool of $80,548,600 have been announced! The minimum cash is $15,000 and all players reaching the final table will be millionaires, but maybe not so much after taxes and shares distribution!

1	$10,000,000
2	$6,000,000
3	$4,000,000

The current chip leader Julian Milliard has now 947,900 chips.

Also in the top 100:

Sam Greenwood: 535,800
Mike McDonald: 516,700
Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier: 428,200
David “ODB” Baker, winner of Event #66: 418,700
Our dear user Chad Power: 401,300

Play will resume later today as we advance quickly towards the bubble!

WSOP Day 39 Digest

The main event is taking much of the attention, as it should, and we had no new champion yesterday.

1,100 on 3,248 players survived this day 2 AB, , combining the qualified players of day 1A and day 1B.

Day 3 will start on Monday, waiting for the players being able to get to the end of today’s day 2C.

As usual with this massive event, many well-known players are losing quickly: Justin Bonomo, Stephen Chidwick, Chris Ferguson, Phil Galfond, Daniel Negreanu and Ryan Riess.

On the other side of the chip count reports, we can see much had better runs Qui Nguyen, former winner of the main event in 2016 with a stack of 600,000 or Anton Morgenstern who bagged 735,000. They are both behind the current chip leader Timothy Su his 800,000 chips. With the current blind level at 1,000/2,000 they are quite comfortable for the next day!

Timothy Su, current chip leader of the main event.

The Event #75: $1000 +$111 Little One for One Drop finished Day 1 with 56 players left, including Event #66 winner David “ODB” Baker, currently 34th.

Without any other event started, it’s already time to say good bye, see you tomorrow!

WSOP Day 38 Digest

The bracelet distribution is slowing down with the start of the Main Event:

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
71	$500	SALUTE TO WARRIORS – $500 No-Limit Hold’em	🇺🇸 Susan Faber	$121,161

We had to wait 38 days to have a women win an open event! Susan Faber had to defeat none other than Rob Stark in heads-up to win her place on the iron throne!

Susan Faber, first bracelet and second WSOP cash

Few notables made a deep run in the tournament except one legend:

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇺🇸 Mike Sexton	142nd	$865	71	$500 SALUTE TO WARRIORS – $500 No-Limit Hold’em

The Main Event total entries count is still to be defined as late registration are still possible into day 2, but the 8,000 mark is broken, making it the second largest ever! It should end as the 5th largest event of this 2019 edition.

Here is the current top 5 events in entries:

#	Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
3	$500	BIG 50 No-Limit Hold’em	$13,509,435	28371
61	$400	COLOSSUS	$4,382,515	13109
64	$888	Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em	$8,139,852	10185
19	$1,500	Millionaire Maker – No-Limit Hold’em	$11,892,150	8809
34	$1,000	Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em	$5,592,600	6241

So many well known faces have entered the tournament. However, some like Phil Ivey or Liv Boeree unfortunately didn’t make day 2. In the chipcount leaderboard, three players have managed to quintuple their starting stack, including Mike McDonald who is currently second. Mike has accumulated $13,290,044 in total live earnings since 2007, and despite being 43th in the all time money list, he “only” managed to cash ten times for $220,833 at the WSOP.

There are at this moment no other events in progress other than the Main, but we still have 17 events to bag, starting with the Little One for One Drop today!

WSOP Day 37 Digest

Big tournaments have ended yesterday and lots of prizes has been distributed:

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
70	$5,000	No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed	🇵🇹 Joao Vieira	$758,011
72	$10,000	Limit Hold’em Championship	🇫🇮 Juha Helppi	$306,622
74	$3,200	WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em High Roller	🇺🇸 Brandon Adams	$411,561

The lovely Event #70: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed broke its entry record with 815 participants. Team Winamax’s Joao Vieira, who started the day chip leader, came on top of this packed final table, defeating 2009 Main Event champion Joe Cada in the heads-up.

“When you sit down it’s just business and you try to do the best you can and compete to your full abilities.” – Joao about defeating his fellow teammate Pierre Calamusa (4th)

In Event #72: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship, Finland’s player Juha Helppi is the new world champion! Juha is a regular of the live circuit, he’s second on Finland’s all time money list with $7,426,146, behind the one and only Patrik Antonius!

In about 12 hours of play, Brandon Adams, a regular of the high roller live circuit, made his skills do the work to grab the bracelet of Event #74: $3,200 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em High Roller. He defeated multiple bracelet holder, such as Norbert Szecsi (6th) and Calvin Anderson (4th). The event attracted a healthy 593 players in this 3rd edition of the online high roller.

Here are all the prestigious finishes yesterday:

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇺🇸 Joe Cada	2nd	$468,488	70	$5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed
🇺🇸 Olivier Busquet	5th	$154,112	70	$5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed
🇺🇸 John Racener	11th	$20,963	72	$10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship
🇮🇱 Eli Elezra	12th	$20,963	72	$10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship
🇦🇺 James Obst	16th	$15,128	72	$10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship

Flight C of the Main Event is on the menu today as we hope the tournament will break new records!

WSOP Day 36 Digest

We have lots of new world champions since this night:

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
64	$888	Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em	🇺🇸 Rick Alvarado	$888,888
66	$1,500	Limit Hold’em	🇺🇸 David “ODB” Baker	$161,139
69	$1,000	Mini Main Event	🇫🇷 Jeremy Saderne	$628,654

It’s finally Rick Alvarado, 8th when starting the final table (a coincidence, really?), that took down Event #64: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em. Rick bought in seven times in the tournament to grab his first bracelet. Aleksandras Rusinovas, chip leader at the beginning of the day, had a rough day and finished 5th, while Vivian Saliba ended 4th.

Rick Alvarado, a bracelet and 8 cashes this year

Event #66: $1,500 Limit Hold’em made David “ODB” Baker a two time bracelet winner, his first being in 2012 in the $2,500 8-Game Mix.

David “ODB” Baker, one bracelet and 9 cashes

The brand new Event #69: $1,000 Mini Main Event saw Jeremy Saderne ending with all the chips. The Frenchman had no more than $100,000 in live total earnings until making this huge score! We almost crowned a women as Lula Taylor (2nd) and her particularly aggressive style was very close to win the whole event.

Jeremy Saderne, one bracelet and “only” 5 cashes

Here are the significant results from a few familiar faces:

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇺🇸 Chris Ferguson	5th	$33,948	66	$1,500 Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Matt Glantz	15th	$6,473	66	$1,500 Limit Hold’em
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	20th	$4,360	66	$1,500 Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Anthony Zinno	62nd	$2,554	66	$1,500 Limit Hold’em

Chris Ferguson continues his journey on the consistency road and now sits on top of the most cashes list:

Name	Total Earnings	Cashes
🇺🇸 Chris Ferguson	$235,582	15
🇺🇸 Jon Turner	$193,355	14
🇧🇷 Marcelo Giordano Mendes	$98,447	14
🇺🇸 Steven Wolansky	$89,978	14
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb	$525,019	13

Event #70: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed has reached a very exciting final table lead by Joao Vieira and featuring Olivier Busquet (3rd), Joe Cada (4th) and Pierre Calamusa (5th).

In Event #71: SALUTE TO WARRIORS – $500 No-Limit Hold’em, action stopped at 8-left. The chip leader is Taylor Carroll, anciently maintaining the beautiful B-52H bomber for the US airforce and playing his third live tournament ever!

Flight B of the Main Event starts today so grab your seats tight!

source: www.wsop.com