Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship
All day ones have been completed, letting us know how many entered the main event this year. So has the 2006 record of 8,773 entries been beaten?
The exact number is still undefined but official sources says we’re at 9,350 and counting, beating the previous number by nearly 600 entries!
Chip leader Nick Rigby
Day 1D finished with Nicholas Rigby having the most chips with 408,000. He’ll start day 2 as the overall chip leader and the only one with more than 400,000. Brittney Stout finishes the day as second in chips with 375,500.
Amongst the previous main event winners, day 2 will return with Joe Hachem (125,300), Qui Nguyen (121,800), ChrisMoneymaker (143,100), and Scotty Nguyen (8,400).
Other well known names returning from day 1D with a doubled stack include Chance Kornuth (241,500), Men Nguyen (221,000), Ari Engel (203,000), Bill Klein (133,300), Davidi Kitai (129,800) and Jake Schwartz (128,800).
Phil Hellmuth made his usual grand entrance accompanied by Dan Cates in a cage:
THE 🎪 CIRCUS 🎪 HAS ARRIVED!@phil_hellmuth has made his grand entrance with @junglemandan the 🦁 followed by 17 models – one for each of his bracelets!
He managed to bag 108,500 chips and will get to day 2, whereas his caged lion did not and will return prematurely to the jungle.
That’s it for today’s recap, but the Main Event comes back with day 2 for flights A, B and C! Schedule resumes with the start of the Event #77: $777 Lucky 7’s No-Limit Hold’em, with a $777,777 guaranteed 1st place.
Action slows down to make place for the main event:
Buy-in
Event
Prizepool
Entries
$5,300
Online Event #13: $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Championship
$2,040,000
408
Online Event #13: $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Championship
The tournament played online until six players remained, then moving to a live setting to play the final table and crown the champion.
After five cashes this year in $10k to $50k tournaments, Sam Soverel took down his second WSOP bracelet ever for $393,516. Soverel’s first bracelet was won back in 2016 in Event #19: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha. He now has more than $21M in total live earnings and sits in the top 40 of the all time money list.
“I much prefer live. I hadn’t played online since late-2020,” Soverel said in the winner’s interview. “Honestly, I don’t really trust the online environment. Live’s fun. It’s more social. It’s way better to me.”
Sam Soverel
Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship
Day 1C has hosted 3,080 players yesterday. With all players starting stack with 60,000 chips, Christopher Brammer grew his stack more than six times to end up the chip leader of day 1C at 386,100.
Four more former champions will come back for day 2: Joe McKeehen (111,500), Scott Blumstein (71,900), Espen Jorstad (62,000) and Ryan Riess (68,100).
Negreanu will come back with a stack of 25,900
The event has around 5,200 entries so far. With the great attendance this year, the question is: Will the famous 2006 record of 8,773 entries will be beaten?
Some stats please?
Let’s end this recap with a few stats!
Here are the most cashes this year:
Name
Cashes
Total Earnings
🇺🇸 Ivan Starostin
13
$73,372
🇺🇸 David “Bakes” Baker
12
$199,948
🇺🇸 Ian Matakis
11
$482,728
🇺🇸 Daniel Buzgon
11
$70,992
🇦🇹 Ismael Bojang
11
$37,886
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth
10
$1,014,569
11 more players have 10 cashes
Here are the best average cash for 7+ cashes:
Name
Average cash value
Count
🇺🇸 Christopher Brewer
$671,821
9
🇺🇸 Jesse Lonis
$305,611
8
🇺🇸 Aram Oganyan
$120,098
8
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth
$101,457
10
🇨🇦 Alex Livingston
$86,679
9
And here is the top 5 number of bracelets per country:
Country
Bracelets
🇺🇸 US
49
🇨🇳 CN
5
🇨🇦 CA
4
🇧🇷 BR
3
🇬🇧 GB
2
This year, the WSOP will launch the last tournament on July 18th with Event #95: $1,000 Super Turbo No-Limit Hold’em, so we’re nowhere at the end as there are still 20 live events to launch! See you tomorrow!
Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com
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Event #74: $1,000 MINI Main Event No-Limit Hold’em
$4,678,730
5,257
$10,000
Event #75: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship
$2,297,100
247
Event #73: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event
Julio Belluscio from Argentina scored his best performance ever by taking down event #73 for $190,240. Competition was fierce and many well known players fell close to the title: Benny Glaser (3rd, $78k), Erick Lindgren (5th, $37k), Hye Park (6th, $27k), Anthony Zinno (7th, $19k) and Steve Zolotow (9th, $14k).
After playing for 15 years, Belluscio announced: “This year, I expected to win.”.
He later added: “If I make the Main Event final table, then you will see a real rail. I will spend $100,000 to fly all my friends and family from Argentina here, and they will be making too much noise.”
Julio Belluscio
Event #74: $1,000 MINI Main Event No-Limit Hold’em
Bradley Gafford succeeded to take all the chips from the 5,257 entries tournament, and takes home the sweet $549,555 associated prize. A huge performance for the American who had $130k in total earnings until then. Probably a face we will see again as he started having live results since last year only, scoring a second place for $97,386 in the Wynn Millions Poker Series for his second official result!
43o Bradley
Event #75: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship
Hassan Kamel from Australia wins the championship event for $598,613, outlasting a total of 247 entries. It’s only the sixth live performance for the player whose best cash was €20,340 at the €5,300 EPT Barcelona.
Some words from Kamel after winning: “I was playing cash games back in the days but honestly don’t play that much any more. I just happen to be here and sort of thought I come and check it out”, later adding: “I actually planned on coming second. I wasn’t greedy and already said I was gonna bust the $1,500 three times and come second in the bracelet event … but I only busted the $1,500 only twice and came first in the $10k.”
Hassan Kamel
Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship
Van der Spuy closed day 1B as the chip leader with 287,000, closely followed by Julien Martini with 284,700. Two former Main Event champions took the start of day 1B yesterday: Greg Raymer and Johnny Chan. Both bagged solid stacks of over 200,000.
Today is flight C of the Main Event, good luck to everyone playing!
Johnny Chan, winner in 1987 and 1988
Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com
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This year’s Colossus event made the second largest field with 15,894, behind the 18,188 of Event #3: $1,000 Mystery Millions. It built a cool $501,120 first prize which went to Moshe Refaelowitz. The former Israeli’s national football player scored big and crushed his previous best cash of $53k when he finished 186th in last year’s Main Event.
Moshe Refaelowitz
Here are some of the notable finishes in the event:
Player
Place
Earnings
Event
🇺🇸 Allen Cunningham
72nd
$7,070
Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em
🇨🇦 Kevin Martin
163rd
$3,610
Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Joe Cada
272nd
$2,869
Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em
🇬🇧 Benjamin Spragg
333rd
$2,680
Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Allen Kessler
379th
$2,378
Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em
In progress
Three remains in Event #73: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event. Julio Belluscio leads with about 60% of the total chips. Federico Quevedo has the second stack and Benny Glaser is third, still having a chance to win a second bracelet this year. The players have locked in $78k and play for $190,240.
After two days, only five remains out the 5,257 entries in Event #74: $1,000 MINI Main Event No-Limit Hold’em. The French Jérémy Oleon ended the day with the lead and will fight four Americans, including Jennifer Abad (2nd), for the $549,555 top prize.
Event #75: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship registered 247 entries and has 19 players still battling. Stephen Deutsch has the biggest stack, and will be joined by Martin Zamani (6th), Dzmitry Urbanovich (7th), Ben Yu (10th), Paul Volpe (13th) and Patrick Leonard with the shortest stack. The top prize for this championship is $598,613.
A quick update to end this recap with the end of day 1A of Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship. Israel’s Yehuda Dayan leads with a big stack of 389,900. Doug Polk has also bagged a comfortable stack of 282,000. Four Main Event champions will return in day 2: Jamie Gold (2006), Joe Cada (2009), Martin Jacobson (2014), and Damian Salas (2020).
Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com
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Tamar Abraham makes her biggest score ever by winning the largest ladies event of history and the $192,167. Day 4 starting chipleader Shiina Okamoto from Japan ended up defeated in the heads-up and will bring home $118,768.
It’s the fourth WSOP cash for Tamar, who had cashed twice in the ladies event since 2018. Emotions flowed and Tamar couldn’t say much after the win: “It’s surreal. I don’t even know what to say, I don’t have any words right now.”
Luck wasn’t on David “ODB” Baker yesterday. Starting with half the chips at 3 left, he was the first to fall, leaving Alex Livingston and Chris Brewer battle for the $367,599 title. In the end, Chris Brewer made history happen as he won the title and a second bracelet this year!
“The other one was a $250,000 tournament with $5 million on top,” Brewer said about between the two tournaments. “I wanted to win the bracelet and it still means a lot, but the stakes were very different and it definitely was a lot less intense.”
Chris Brewer
Event #71: $50,000 HIGH ROLLER Pot-Limit Omaha
One of the highest buy-in of the year ended up distributing the third biggest prize of $2,303,017. With two rings and close to $900k in WSOP earnings, Jesse Lonis scored big by defeating Tyler Smith and win his first bracelet.
Bracelet holders Ian Matakis (9th) and Isaac Haxton (7th) improved a bit on the ladder but couldn’t do more.
“I put a lot of hours in. Besides family, poker is pretty much what I do. I don’t do studying. I’ve actually never studied in my life,” Lonis said. “I just play. Volume over and over. The more and more hands you see obviously you’re going to get better. I watched some of the best players in the world play over and over. After you see it enough times you’re going to eventually get better and better. And I think this proves the point that hard work pays off.”
Jesse Lonis
Event #72: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em
He has done it again! Phil Hellmuth wins another bracelet to get further ahead in the World Series of Poker bracelet race with 17 trophies! It’s the fourteenth bracelet in No-Limit Hold’em for the player, his others being in No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw (2021) and Razz (2015, 2012).
17 Phil
After falling at some point with a stack of two big blinds, Hellmuth got the good run to finish the tournament on top, taking home $803,818 and the additional $3,000 bounties.
“I tried not complain. Oh, I’ve been unlucky in key spots. F*** all that bulls*** you know, because things happen for a reason. You know maybe part of the reason I busted the Pot Limit Omaha was to come and win this. You know, maybe part of the reason I busted the deuce to seven was so I could get rest”.
Here are the final table results:
Place
Player
Country
Payout
1
Phil Hellmuth
United States
$803,818
2
Justin Zaki
United States
$496,801
3
Tom Kunze
Germany
$349,737
4
Kelvin Kerber
Brazil
$249,876
5
Chris Savage
United States
$181,230
6
Phil Ivey
United States
$133,461
7
Brandon Steven
United States
$99,817
8
Marc Foggin
United Kingdom
$75,837
In progress
Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em is down to 80 players after making the second largest field this year with 15,894. Jesse Kertland is the current chip leader and will look to win the $501,120 prize.
Event #73: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event registered 377 entries and 29 remains. Jon Turner leads the pack, and he will return with Anthony Zinno (3rd), Hye Park (4th), Benny Glaser (6th) and Steve Zolotow (8th). They’ll play for the $190,240 first prize.
Today is a big day at the World Series as players will take the start of Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship with flight A! Four flights are scheduled this year. See you tomorrow for more stories!
Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com
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