WSOP Day 20 Digest

Two great tournaments ended yesterday!

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
35$10,000Dealers Choice 6-Handed🇺🇸 Adam Friedman$312,417
36$3,000No-Limit Hold’em Shootout🇺🇸 David Lambard$207,193

The Event #35 $10,000 Dealer’s Choice 6-Handed was the story of the incredible back-to-back champion Adam Friedman! Winning this exact same tournament last year, he enters the very small circle of the players able to successfuly defend their title.

David Lambard got the upper hand against a stacked final table at the #Event 36 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout. He won the final heads-up against the french pro and poker coach Johan “YoH ViraL” Guilbert. As a side note, beating ‘unknown’ players like Justin Bonomo, Alexandru Papazian or Andrew Lichtenberger is no small feat and a nice story to tell to your kids.

A lot of poker celebrities cashed in yesterday in those tournaments. Like a clockwork, they show their consistency. And speaking of consistency, with his 2nd place, Shaun Deeb should moves 31 spots up to the 8th place of the Player Of the Year race, after being the POY in 2018, what a monster!

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb2nd$193,09035$10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed
🇫🇷 Johan Guilbert2nd$128,04236$3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout
🇺🇸 Matt Glantz3rd$139,12635$10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed
🇺🇸 Andrew Lichtenberger4th$67,70636$3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout
🇺🇸 Justin Bonomo10th$12,93736$3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout

Coming back tomorrow to maybe see the conclusion of the $1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Event #34) and the $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack (Event #37), both of them with around 40 players left.

WSOP Day 19 Digest

This was a pretty calm day but it required to be awake pretty late – after 3 AM this morning – to see the end of two events:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
32$1,000Seniors No-Limit Hold’em🇺🇸 Howard Mash$662,594
38$600WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em Knockout Bounty🇺🇸 Upeshka “gomezhamburg” De Silva$98,263

Event #32: Seniors No-Limit Hold’em, which didn’t appear to be so big at first as limited to 50+ years old only, turned out to be a pretty massive one: 4th in total entries, and 3rd in total prize pool out of 33 completed events!

Top 5 completed events by entries

#Buy-inEventPrizepoolEntries
3$500BIG 50 No-Limit Hold’em$13,509,43528371
19$1,500Millionaire Maker – No-Limit Hold’em$11,892,1508809
9$600No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack$3,229,2756150
32$1,000Seniors No-Limit Hold’em$5,324,4005916
22$1,000Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em$2,927,7003253

Top 5 completed events by prizepool

#Buy-inEventPrizepoolEntries
3$500BIG 50 No-Limit Hold’em$13,509,43528371
19$1,500Millionaire Maker – No-Limit Hold’em$11,892,1508809
32$1,000Seniors No-Limit Hold’em$5,324,4005916
5$50,000High Roller No-Limit Hold’em for the 50th Annual$5,280,000110
9$600No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack$3,229,2756150

As for the notables, two bracelets owners made a deep run in the tournament: Layne Flack (6 bracelets) and Barry Greenstein (3 bracelets), both winning their last bracelet in 2008.

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Layne Flack20th$22,98832$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Barry Greenstein57th$10,12232$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em

Two other events have reached the table final with very interesting line-ups!

Shaun Deeb, the reigning WSOP Player of the Year and currently 39th, leads the final table Event #35: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed. It is most likely that he will enter the top 10 of the race, and possibly reach 2nd place if he grabs the bracelet! They’re currently five left and Matt Glantz (WSOP records: 66 cashes, $3.1M in earnings) sits with the third stack.

Event #36: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout will resume today with a very stacked final table counting Andrew Lichtenberger, Justin Bonomo, and two well known French pros Johan Guilbert and Adrien Delmas.

Let’s hope for some beautiful action today!

Data source: www.wsop.com

WSOP Day 18 Digest

Like yesterday, three bracelets found a way to their new owners!

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
26$2,620No-Limit Hold’em Marathon🇷🇺 Roman Korenev$477,401
30$1,000Pot-Limit Omaha🇺🇸 Luis Zedan$236,673
33$1,500Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw🇦🇺 Robert Campbell$144,027

Event #26: $2,620 No-Limit Hold’em Marathon ended with after a long 6 days of battle with Roman Korenev taking the victory after a sick comeback of 12 double-ups against Jared Koppel.

Luis Zedan signs his first 6 digits cash in the Event #30: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha with $236,673 added to his bankroll.

Event #33 $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw ended with the victory Robert Campbell, signing there his 3rd final table of this edition: 5th place at the Event #18: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better and 8th place at the Event #10: $1,500 Dealers Choice.

No huge performance for the poker fans unfortunately. Erik Seidel signed its 4th cash in these series, also currently sitting 4th in the all time cashes count.

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇫🇷 Johan “YoH ViraL” Guilbert13th$21,20826$2,620 No-Limit Hold’em Marathon
🇷🇺 Vitaly Lunkin75th$2,61330$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
🇺🇸 Olivier Busquet77th$5,44426$2,620 No-Limit Hold’em Marathon
🇺🇸 Erik Seidel131st$1,74630$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

The Russian pro Roman Korenev enters the earnings top 10

NameTotal EarningsCashes
🇬🇧 Benjamin Heath$1,488,7522
🇺🇸 John Gorsuch$1,345,7512
🇺🇸 Femi Fashakin$1,147,4491
🇺🇸 Andrew Lichtenberger$919,0902
🇯🇵 Kazuki Ikeuchi$830,7831
🇨🇦 Paul Cullen$709,1831
🇺🇸 Sam Soverel$640,9241
🇺🇸 Lokesh Garg$619,0171
🇮🇱 Rafi Elharar$534,5741
🇷🇺 Roman Korenev$478,4752

Seniors will crown their best player tomorrow with the conclusion of the Event #32: Seniors No-Limit Hold’em, and hopefully many more results!

WSOP Day 17 Digest

Jumping into the results, we’ve had two happy endings during the night:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
29$10,000HORSE🇨🇦 Greg Mueller$425,347
31$3,000No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed🇫🇷 Thomas Cazayous$414,766

The Canadian Greg Mueller won a new bracelet in the star studded $10,000 HORSE event. Greg is no stranger to the WSOP as he already won two bracelets in 2009, now cumulating $2,846,696 only in the WSOP.

The Stud Hi-Lo winning hand, and also Greg

Lots of big names have reached the HORSE final table, with Scott Clements a few inches away from a second bracelet in these series:

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇮🇹 Dario Sammartino3rd$184,85429$10,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Scott Clements4th$132,28829$10,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Phil Galfond8th$41,62529$10,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Anthony Zinno10th$32,68329$10,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Justin Bonomo19th$15,17629$10,000 HORSE

Our second winner is less known from the masses, Thomas Cazayous from France, in his second WSOP participation has just won his first bracelet in the $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed.

A first bracelet for France!

We’ve compiled a list of big names so see how many cashes they had, and indeed we can see that a few well known pros are grinding hard in this edition!

NameTotal EarningsCashes
🇦🇺 James Obst$27,0786
🇺🇸 Chris Ferguson$15,6056
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth$58,9415
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb$52,1575
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu$58,7454
🇺🇸 Joe Cada$15,1864

Note: Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson and Daniel Negreanu are respectively 1st, 2nd and 3rd in all times cashes. Decent consistency!

We should see tonight the conclusion of Event #26: $2,620 No-Limit Hold’em Marathon and Event #30: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha as they’ve reached the final table!

WSOP Day 16 Digest

It’s Day 16 here in the WSOP. Two more bracelets were awarded yesterday to the first place finishers and the famous Michael Mizrachi got one, his fifth!

Event #27: $1,500 Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better

Michael Mizrachi topped a field of 460 and defeated Robert Gray heads-up to secure the title and $142,801, nine years after his first back in 2010.

Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi

Event #28: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Stephen Song entered the day with nearly half the chips in play at the beginning of Day 3. A huge advantage that he used to win his first bracelet even if it was not as easy as imagined, Ryan Laplante and Scot Masters fighting their best to win the tournament as well.

Stephen Song “It’s surreal. I don’t even know. The money’s insane. WSOP summer is where you can actually make life-changing money. It’s pretty unreal.”
#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
27$1,500Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better🇺🇸 Michael Mizrachi$142,801
28$1,000No-Limit Hold’em🇺🇸 Stephen Song$341,854

Phil Hellmuth and Shaun Deeb both finishing in top30 of Event #28:

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Ryan Laplante3rd$154,26828$1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth16th$13,83028$1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb28th$8,98928$1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Chris Ferguson62nd$2,33727$1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better

Event #26: $2,620 No-Limit Hold’em Marathon

There are only sixteen players left in this long race to come back for Day 5 tomorrow. The Russian Roman Korenev is leading the way with a stack of 3,800,000 chips. The sixteen survivors are guaranteed a minimum of $16,970 while $477,401 will be given to the winner.

Event #29: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

They are only seven left to be able to win one of the toughest tournament in these WSOP as well as $425,347 guaranteed for 1st place. Dario Sammartino will start the final table in great shape with a massive chiplead of 5.0M chips while the 2nd has only 1.6M.

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Dario Sammartino

Event #31: $3,000 NLHE 6-handed

Just 20 players remain in this event, and De Silva has the chiplead 100 big blinds after Day 2 coming back on Day 3 to lead the pack. The two-time bracelet winner is trailed by Nicholas Howard (1,700,000) and the French Thomas Cazayous (1,690,000) amid a top three that has paced a bit ahead of the others.

Tomorrow will see the final table of the Event #26: $2,620 NLHE Marathon and the winner will be awarded $477,401.