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WSOP 2023 Day 24 Digest

Here are the newly completed events:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$50,000	Event #43: $50,000 Poker Players Championship	$4,727,250	99
$3,000	Event #44: $3,000 No-Limit Holdem	$4,632,450	1,735
$1,500	Event #47: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.	$1,116,060	836
$1,500	Event #49: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em	$2,971,710	2,226

Event #43: $50,000 Poker Players Championship

Brian Rast is our winner for the PPC for $1,324,747! The American pro bracelet collection has now six items, ranking him 11th in the bracelet race, right behind Shaun Deeb who is still hunting hard. This wins also makes Rast tie Michael Mizrachi in winning this event three times (2011, 2016, 2023).

Here are the final results of the final table:

Place	Winner	Country	Prize (in USD)
1	Brian Rast	United States	$1,324,747
2	Talal Shakerchi	United Kingdom	$818,756
3	Matthew Ashton	United Kingdom	$573,679
4	James Obst	Australia	$411,824
5	Kristopher Tong	United States	$303,071
6	Phil Ivey	United States	$228,793
7	Ray Dehkharghani	United States	$177,294

Event #44: $3,000 No-Limit Holdem

After four days of play, the gold bracelet finally went to China’s Yang Zhang for $717,879. It’s the first bracelet for Zhang but he is a regular of the World Series nonetheless with 28 cashes, all this despite not playing these last 3 years because of COVID. It’s by far the best performance for the player but still he’s now close from $3M in total live earnings.

Event #47: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.

Brazil’s Yuri Dzivielevski just won this third bracelet yesterday for $207,688. His previous bracelets were Event #42: $400 PLOSSUS on GGPoker.com in 2020 and Event #51: $2,500 Mixed Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or Better, Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better in 2019. The Brazilian defeated bracelet holder Randy Ohel ($128,356) in the heads-up.

“It helps a lot, believe me,” Dzivielevski said about the various chants of his rail. “It gives an extra power that I cannot explain. It’s pretty special to have all this rail like, I don’t know, maybe 50 people rooting for you is, of course, it’s pretty special. I’m feeling very loved for all this crowd. Pretty happy.”

Event #49: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em

Pengfei Wang is the winner for $270,700 of the 2,226 entries Super Turbo event. Easy game for the American who just played his first live tournament ever!

“So excited! Yeah, so it’s actually my first time. It’s my first tournament ever. We sometimes play some private games and sometimes at the casino in Los Angeles for fun. We mostly play cash games; I don’t really have tournament experience. This time, it was a lot of good luck.”

In progress

Event #50: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship has 42 remaining players out of its 731 entries, making up for a big $1,3M first prize. In the lead is Dimitar Danchev immediately followed by Sam Soverel.

Event #51: $1,000 TAG TEAM No-Limit Hold’em started with 1,282 teams, 252 are still playing, lead Mark Evangelista and his unknown teammate. $95,331 will go to the top team.

Here is a list of the notables finishes for the completed events:

Player	Place	Earnings	Event
🇳🇴 Espen Jorstad	21st	$25,168	Event #44: $3,000 No-Limit Holdem
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	54th	$12,530	Event #44: $3,000 No-Limit Holdem
🇺🇸 Matt Berkey	104th	$6,939	Event #44: $3,000 No-Limit Holdem
🇫🇷 Romain Lewis	24th	$9,817	Event #49: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em
🇨🇦 Xuan Liu	122nd	$2,444	Event #49: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em
🇩🇪 Dominik Nitsche	166th	$2,028	Event #49: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Chance Kornuth	333rd	$1,505	Event #49: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em

See you tomorrow for more WSOP stories!

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

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WSOP 2023 Day 23 Digest

The Monster Stack finally came to an end after five days of battle, and two more events also delivered their bracelets!

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$1,500	Event #39: $1,500 MONSTER STACK No-Limit Hold’em	$11,103,195	8,317
$1,500	Event #45: $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi Low	$1,456,485	1,091
$500	Event #46: $500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem	$2,243,640	5,342

Event #39: $1,500 MONSTER STACK No-Limit Hold’em

After a long battle Braxton Dunaway from Texas put his hand on the coveted bracelet and the large $1,1M prize. It’s the first bracelet for the player who had until then $333k in total live earnings. Joe Cada had a chance to win his 5th bracelet yesterday but couldn’t climb the ranks. Still he pocketed a more than decent $186,149 for his 7th place.

“I want to say that all the people who were at the final table were really nice, great opponents, good players,” Dunaway said in the winner interview. “I got extremely lucky a few times, but you have to win one of these things. It was just my turn, it’s just awesome.”

Event #45: $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi Low

William Leffingwell is the winner of the event for $253,651. A first bracelet for the American who had until then $374,168 in total live earnings. Shaun Deeb had a shot for the double this year, but got stuck in fifth place for $55k. He’s currently 3rd in the Player Of the Year race, currently lead by Ian Matakis.

Event #46: $500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem

The small buy-in event attracted 5,342 players and only two days were needed to go down to a winner. Jay Lockett defeated Benson Tang to claim the $262,526 prize. Before yesterday, Lockett only live cash was in the $600 Deepstack event at the 2021 WSOP, what a second cash he got!

“This wasn’t supposed to happen” an emotional Lockett said. “I was dead money coming in…this is amazing. You have to run so hot. I had quads twice at the final table. I had ace-queen that ended up beating ace-king earlier”.

In progress

Only seven players were eliminated on day 4 of Event #43: $50,000 Poker Players Championship. Daniel Alaei lost in 10th, Josh Arieh in 9th, and finally Phil Ivey was the last eliminated of the day in 6th for $228k.

Here are the final five by seat order:

Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	James Obst	Australia	5,110,000
2	Talal Shakerchi	United Kingdom	10,170,000
3	Brian Rast	United States	4,545,000
4	Matthew Ashton	United Kingdom	7,380,000
5	Kristopher Tong	United States	2,500,000

Obst and Ashton will try to capture their second bracelet, while Rast can win his sixth! The chips favors Shakerchi who still has to win a bracelet despite his generous $12M in total live earnings. Shakerchi won $3,5M last March in the $100k of the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series.

Event #44: $3,000 No-Limit Holdem is at 15 left, with Aram Oganyan in the lead. Out of the numerous known names that started the day, none made the cut. Main Event winner Espen Jorstad lost in 21st for $25k.

Twenty eight players remain in Event #47: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. Chip leader Yuri Dzivielevski will return as the chip leader and will try to put his hands on the $207,688 top prize.

Also happening yesterday: 3,692 took the start of Event #48: $1,000 SENIORS No-Limit Hold’em Championship, 2,226 in the Event #49: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em and one of the most prestigious championship started with Event #50: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship.

One final word…Jeremy Ausmus won Online Event #8: $3,200 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller and his sixth bracelet for $360,036!

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

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WSOP 2023 Day 22 Digest

There were no distribution of bracelet yesterday, but we do have 6 tournaments currently running!

Event #39: $1,500 MONSTER STACK No-Limit Hold’em

Nicholas Gerrity bagged the biggest stack in day 4 to return as the chip leader in the last day of the tournament. Seven players will return for the final table, including Main Event winner Joe Cada, who has the smallest stack. All have secured $186k and will play for $1,1M.

Brandon Sheils and Ashley “PokerFaceAsh” Frank lost in 16th and 17th place and both cashed $56k for their deep run.

Event #43: $50,000 Poker Players Championship

Twelve are still dreaming to win the prestigious tourney, starting with British player Matthew Ashton. John Monnette and Phil Hellmuth made the money but lost in 14th and 15th place.

Here are the stacks of the 12 returning players:

Matthew Ashton	4,450,000
Hal Rotholz	3,900,000
Talal Shakerchi	3,430,000
Brian Rast	3,365,000
Phil Ivey	3,135,000
Josh Arieh	2,360,000
Ray Dehkharghani	2,285,000
Daniel Alaei	1,885,000
James Obst	1,805,000
Johannes Becker	1,520,000
Kristopher Tong	1,190,000
Marco Johnson	375,000

They will play for the championship bracelet and a small $1,3M.

There is more

Yang Zhang lead the 109 players still playing in Event #44: $3,000 No-Limit Holdem. Many known names made day 3: Matt Berkey (30th), Chris Moorman (41th), Espen Jorstad (62th), Jans Arends (68th), Daniel Negreanu (76th) and David “ODB” Baker (84th). The top prize is set at $717,879.

In Event #45: $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi Low, 33 players remains and Joey Couden is in the lead. Shaun Deeb (4th) will try to put his hands on his second bracelet this year. The main prize is $253,651.

Event #46: $500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem and Event #47: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. just started yesterday so more on these tomorrow!

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

WSOP 2023 Day 21 Digest

Two more champions have been crowned yesterday:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$1,500	Event #41: $1,500 Big O	$1,946,430	1,458
$800	Event #42: $800 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack	$2,656,192	3,773

Event #41: $1,500 Big O

It was the first Big O event of the World Series and the event got 1,458 entries for a $1,9M prizepool. Scott Abrams is our winner, bagging $315,203 by defeating Robert Williamson III. Johnny Chan couln’t make it beyond 14th, passing a good chance to win his 11th bracelet.

“I’ve done a lot of work in Limit O/E,” Abrams said. “Big O is that but extrapolating strong hands on both sides. If I see a good O8 hand, but my opponent wants to bet a lot, I lean towards fold most of the time, and I’ll just make nut-nut the next hand.”

Event #42: $800 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack

They were 3,773 entries is this $800 event, crushing last year’s attendance of 2,812. It made up for a $339,033 top prize that finally went to China’s Qiang Xu in just two days. 2021 Main Event winner Koray Aldemir made a deep run but finally lost in 12th place.

“It’s a dream coming true,” said Xu a few minutes after his victory. “My goal coming from China was to win a bracelet, and now, I’ve got it!”

“I tried to use my stack to pressure at this point,” he added. “Then I changed my strategy a bit to be more stable. That’s what I did at the final table when my stack decreased. Afterward, I tried not to hurry up and to find the right moment to catch up.”

In progress

Event #39: $1,500 MONSTER STACK No-Limit Hold’em had a total of 8,317 entries, now down to only 42. China’s Xuming Qi leads with a large 24M stack. Still in the event are British Brandon Sheils (19th), Joe Cada (21st) and famous poker vlogger Ashley “PokerFaceAsh” Frank (40th). All have already secured $30k, but they’re probably all thinking about the $1,1M main prize.

Event #43: $50,000 Poker Players Championship closed its registration and ended up with a count of 99 entries, setting the top prize at $1,324,747. Dan Cates lost today and won’t be able to defend his title after winning it twice in a row.

32 players remains, and here is the leaderboard:

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	James Obst	Australia	2,972,000
2	Daniel Alaei	United States	2,064,000
3	Phil Ivey	United States	1,655,000
4	Talal Shakerchi	United Kingdom	1,598,000
5	Johannes Becker	Germany	1,387,000
6	Josh Arieh	United States	1,365,000
7	Brian Rast	United States	1,306,000
8	Lyle Berman	United States	1,268,000
9	Dzmitry Urbanovich	Poland	1,196,000

Event #44: $3,000 No-Limit Holdem and Event #45: $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi Low have just started, we will see tomorrow how the action progresses!

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

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WSOP 2023 Day 20 Digest

Two bracelets were awarded yesterday:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$10,000	Event #38: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship	$1,209,000	130
$250,000	Event #40: $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em	$17,181,000	69

Event #38: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship

Five bracelets for Benny Glaser! The British player defeated Oscar Johansson, winning $311,428 and now having more than $7M in live earnings. Interestingly, it’s the fourth winner this year to capture a fifth bracelet, joining Josh Arieh, Brian Yoon and John Monette.

“I felt good coming into heads up today, I really love heads up and I’ve played a lot of it so I was pretty confident in my game there,”

Here are the notable results of this event:

Player	Place	Earnings
🇫🇷 Julien Martini	5th	$75,341
🇵🇹 Joao Vieira	7th	$42,965
🇺🇸 Mike Matusow	12th	$20,425
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	13th	$20,425
🇺🇸 John Monnette	15th	$20,425
🇺🇸 Allen Kessler	18th	$16,378

Event #40: $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em

Chris Brewer started the day with the fifth stack and made the magic happen to be the last man standing and put the huge $5,2M prize into his newly deep pocket. The player now totals $15,3M in live earnings. Being labeled as the most unlucky WSOP player, Brewer finally showed his talent and turned the luck in his favor. He has had his four best performances in a year, including a $1M win in the €50k European Poker Tour in Paris.

Here are the results of the final table:

1	Chris Brewer	United States	$5,293,556
2	Artur Martirosian	Russia	$3,271,666
3	Martin Kabrhel	Czech Republic	$2,279,038
4	Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	$1,632,005
5	Chance Kornuth	United States	$1,202,318
6	Dan Smith	United States	$912,022
7	David Peters	United States	$712,953
8	Brandon Steven	United States	$574,899
9	Steven Veneziano	United States	$478,663

In progress

Event #39: $1,500 MONSTER STACK No-Limit Hold’em has amassed a $11M prizepool from its 8,317 entries. Day 3 will resume today with 389 players, lead by David Vedral. We will also see the return of poker coach Fausto Valdez, Barry Greenstein and poker vlogger Ashley “PokerFaceAsh” Frank. The winner will add a $1,1M to his resume.

Event #41: $1,500 Big O registered 1,458 entries and 18 will return today. Gary Gwinn is our chip leader and has a good shot to win the $315,203 prize. The sensation of this event is the presence of Johnny Chan (12th), who will come back to try to win his 11th bracelet! He is currently tied for second in the bracelet race with Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth still firmly at the top with 16 bracelets.

Event #43: $50,000 Poker Players Championship has 54 players remaining after one day, and currently has a $3,4M prizepool. Josh Arieh leads the debates, followed by Phil Ivey (2nd), James Obst (3rd), John Monnette (4th) and Viktor Blom (5th)! See the full chip counts to see the beautiful list of players still in the tournament.

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}