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We only had one new champion yesterday, but lots of tournaments are now running:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool
$300	Event #18: $300 Gladiators of Poker No-limit Hold’em	$5,679,648

Event #18: $300 Gladiators of Poker No-limit Hold’em

The most affordable live event in the history of the WSOP has registered 23,088 entries. Jason Simon paved the way for the victory and became the last standing “gladiator” for $499,852.

“Your tournament life is so valuable, you have to stay alive no matter what,” the new champion continued in reference to swings yesterday. “When I fell down to 14 million, I never really panicked, found a double up and went up from there.”

Daniel Negreanu notably made a deep run in the tournament but couldn’t get past the 72nd place and won close to 20 times his initial bet for $5,840.

In progress

212 took the starting line in Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship, now 7 remains with Ben Lamb in the lead, closely followed by two players including Erik Seidel (3rd). They’ve all secured $61k and will try to grab the top $492k main prize.

Event #26: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack (4,747 entries) stopped during heads-up with Matthew Elsby – looking for his second bracelet – currently ahead of Renji Mao. The players will return today to try to become the champion for $402,588.

Event #27: $1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed has 21 players left in the field. Chad Campbell leads, followed by Daniel Strelitz, Robert Mizrachi (5th), Shaun Deeb (10th), Nick Schulman (13th) and David “Bakes” Baker (19th). $198,854 will be given to the winner.

We’ll end this recap with the exciting Event #29: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em, packed with the biggest names of poker. 35 players remains out of an amazing line-up, Adrian Mateos finishing the day with the biggest stack. Prizes have not been announced yet but the prizepool is already over $7,6M. Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu and Jason Koon took the start but won’t make day 2.

Here is the current top 10:

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Adrian Mateos	Spain	3,650,000	91
2	Chris Hunichen	United States	3,620,000	91
3	Chance Kornuth	United States	3,375,000	84
4	Espen Jorstad	Norway	2,200,000	55
5	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	2,190,000	55
6	Talal Shakerchi	United Kingdom	2,120,000	53
7	Cary Katz	United States	1,880,000	47
8	Koray Aldemir	Austria	1,800,000	45
9	Justin Bonomo	United States	1,795,000	45
10	Ren Lin	United States	1,655,000	41

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

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Three bracelets have been awarded yesterday

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool
$10,000	Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship	$1,246,200
$50,000	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em	$5,921,000
$1,500	Event #24: $1,500 Razz	$742,260

Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship

Josh Arieh outclassed Daniel Idema and Nozomu Shimizu to add a new bracelet to his collection and joined the 5 bracelets club, now ranking 20th in the bracelet race. Arieh won $316,226 for his performance, his total live earnings crossing the $11M mark.

Arieh had already won a Limit Hold’em bracelet, back in 1999, showing how long he’s been performing in the World Series of Poker.

Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em

22 years old German Leon Sturm is the winner of the high roller event for the second biggest prize this year of $1,546,024. A battle of generation as he defeated Bill Klein, 75, a regular of the high stakes scene.

Bill Klein really went for it and pulled great moves like this hand at 3-left:

Bill Klein pulls off an absolutely MONSTER bluff against Jans Arends (@Graftekkel).

With Arends' fold, Klein takes over the chip lead while Arends drops to the shortest stack of the final three.

📺 – Watch live here: https://t.co/nAi7qdBuVj pic.twitter.com/3altEc2dmL

— PokerGO (@PokerGO) June 12, 2023

“It does feel amazing,” Sturm told after winning. “The bracelet is something special; it means more than just a trophy, I guess. Before, I was thinking that trophies and bracelets don’t mean much to me. But I think a bracelet is special, so that’s pretty cool. The competition was really tough, so that makes it better.”

The German is more of an online player and currently crushing on all sides, he just won last week the $10,000 buy-in GGPoker Super MILLION$ event for another $1,5M!

Event #24: $1,500 Razz

David “ODB” Baker started the day in 14th place, and climbed the ranks to finally grab the Razz trophy, winning $152,991 in the process. He’s now at three bracelets and 120 cashes, cementing his impressive record at the WSOP.

He overcame another bracelet winner in the heads-up in the name of Justin Liberto ($94k). Jeff Lisandro ended in 5th place, Dzmitry Urbanovich in 8th.

In progress

Event #18: $300 Gladiators of Poker No-limit Hold’em became the largest event at the moment with 23,088 entries and build a $5,6M prizepool. Eric Trexler is the leader of the 14 players still in the tournament. All will look to win their first bracelet.

Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship has 21 players remaining, lead by Jay Kerbel. Erik Seidel (3rd) will return today, as well as Ben Lamb (8th), John Hennigan (9th), James Obst (12th) and Sam Farha (20th). The event registered 212 entries, making the winning prize $492,795.

Here are the notable finishes in events 22 to 24:

Player	Place	Earnings	Event
🇺🇸 Josh Arieh	1st	$316,226	Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship
🇺🇸 Joe McKeehen	4th	$107,540	Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship
🇺🇸 Nick Schulman	7th	$48,298	Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship
🇺🇸 Alex Foxen	4th	$512,824	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Justin Bonomo	6th	$295,169	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Cary Katz	13th	$102,479	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Dan Smith	14th	$89,669	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Kevin Rabichow	15th	$89,669	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
🇪🇸 Adrian Mateos	17th	$89,669	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
🇦🇺 Jeff Lisandro	5th	$34,752	Event #24: $1,500 Razz
🇵🇱 Dzmitry Urbanovich	8th	$14,805	Event #24: $1,500 Razz

See you tomorrow for more!

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

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Sorry for missing yesterday so we’ll cover both day 11 and 12 in this recap:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool
$2,500	Event #19: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em	$2,529,825
$1,500	Event #20: $1,500 Badugi	$688,860
$1,000	Event #21: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed	$1,795,130

Event #19: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em

Valentino Konakchiev is the winner of event #19 and will take home a nice $435,924 home. A first bracelet for the Bulgarian who’s doubled his total live earnings with the trophy. He defeated the Argentinian Andres Korn in the heads-up, Alexandre Reard finishing third and start of day 3 chipleader Qiang Xu saw his dreams shattered and finished 9th.

“I’ve been dreaming about it since I’ve been watching poker when I was 15 on TV and I can’t believe it actually happened,” Konakchiev told in the interview.” It feels really, really good,” Konakchiev said with a wide smile. “They already have bracelets, so it was my time.”

Event #20: $1,500 Badugi

After 22 cashes at the World Series, Michael Rodrigues Pires Santos grabbed his first bracelet in this impressive 516 entries first Badugi event ever, and won the $144,678 top prize. Yingui Li of China couldn’t beat his opponent and finished second, ahead of bracelet winner Danny Tang who ended fifth.

Event #21: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed

Another large Pot-Limit Omaha this year with this 2,071 entries $1,000 event. Stephen Nahm came out on top after 15 beers for his first bracelet and 8th live registered prize ever, and will pocker $267,991.

“Every poker player, obviously, comes here – you dream of this shit, right? I kinda made my dream come true a little bit; I’m not going to lie.”

It is said that the player requested to be brought a new beer every 18 minutes, drinking more than twenty beers for day 2.

In progress

Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship has just 3 players remaining. Main Event winner Joe McKeehen fell fourth, so now remains Josh Arieh in third, Nozomu Shimizu in second and chip leader Daniel Idema who will chase a fourth bracelet later today. The bracelet will be accompagnied by a $316,226 paycheck.

Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em had 124 entries and day 2 ends with only 5 player lead by Alex Foxen. Here is the chip count:

1	Alex Foxen	United States	13,340,000	111BB
2	Jans Arends	Netherlands	10,300,000	86BB
3	Leon Sturm	Germany	4,850,000	40BB
4	Bill Klein	United States	4,675,000	39BB
5	Seth Davies	United States	3,940,000	33BB

All players secured $385k and the winner will take home $1,5M.

Event #24: $1,500 Razz stopped at 15 players left. William Burke will return with the biggest stack, followed by Jeff Lisandro (4th), Dzmitry Urbanovich (9th) and David “ODB” Baker in 14th place. They’ll play for the $152,991 top prize.

Here is an update for the most cashes at the moment after 21 events:

Name	Cashes	Total Earnings
🇺🇸 Jordan Spurlin	6	$42,646
🇺🇸 Ivan Starostin	6	$22,519
🇨🇦 Alex Livingston	5	$277,366
🇺🇸 Kevin Rand	4	$191,650
🇺🇸 Tyler Cornell	4	$119,318
🇺🇸 Ari Engel	4	$97,438

Thanks for the read, if you have any comment please let us know!

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

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Event #15: $1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em

Rafael Reis started with the second chip stack and ended up securing the win for $465,501. Day 2 chip leader and French poker pro Sarah Herzali ended up 3rd ($207k), while John Monnette climbed up the ladder and came close from a fifth bracelet but ended up 5th ($111k).

“I am feeling like I had a mission, and I accomplished my mission,” Reis said in his post-win interview. “Last time that I was here, I was at the final table, and I got third. This time I felt super comfortable.”

Event #16: $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed

Isaac Haxton is our winner for the current biggest prize of these World Series for close to $1,7M. The biggest $25k of the WSOP history finally offered the first bracelet of the high stakes legend Haxton, who’s having an amazing year: Six wins on the high roller circuit, three results for more than $1M for a total of nearly $7M in earnings. Haxton is 14th on the total live earnings rankings, and said he wasn’t especially chasing the top spot:

“No, not really,” he laughed. “I don’t really look at that stuff. I just really like playing poker and making money at it.”

Here are the payouts of the final table:

1st	Isaac Haxton	United States	$1,698,215
2nd	Ryan O’Donnell	United Kingdom	$1,049,577
3rd	Darren Elias	United States	$725,790
4th	Lewis Spencer	United Kingdom	$511,782
5th	Roman Hrabec	Czechia	$368,134
6th	Frank Funaro	United States	$270,238
7th	Brian Rast	United States	$202,532
8th	Joao Vieira	Portugal	$155,037

Event #17: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better

Jim Collopy is the winner of this long lasting Event #17, with a heads-up finishing at 3:10 AM this morning. The event had 1,143 entries and will offer $262,542 to its champion. It’s Collopy’s second bracelet, his first was won in the Event #32: H.O.R.S.E. two years ago, and he’s now totalling 77 cashes at the WSOP.

More to come later on the event…

In progress

In the Event #19: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em, 1,139 players took the starting line and they’re now only 11 left to have a chance at the bracelet. China’s Qiang Xu will come back as the chip leader, followed by Frenchman Alexandre Reard. They’ll battle for $435,924.

Event #20: $1,500 Badugi registered 516 entries and is now at 13 left with Serhii Popovych in the lead, followed by David “ODB” Baker (3rd) and Danny Tang (5th). The champion will receive the top prize of $144,678.

Today will see the start of Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship. See you later for more updates!

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

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We’ve had to to wait late in the night to get a new champion!

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool
$10,000	Event #14: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship	$1,032,300

Event #14: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship

In a long lasting heads-up, Dan Shak resisted as well as he could, but he finally succumbed to Brian Yoon who won his fifth WSOP bracelet to get the top prize of $311,433. Five bracelets and $3,7M in earnings will put him at the 27th place on the overall bracelet leaderboard.

In the interview, Yoon said: “Honestly, I don’t try to bracelet hunt or anything like that, I’m just trying to play the tournaments and enjoy playing the games. It feels great, obviously, to be the 33rd to get number five, so I’ll take it and see what happens in the future.”

Chad Eveslage missed a good chance to get a third bracelet this year and finished 12th ($20k).

In progress

In Event #15: $1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em, Sarah Herzali of France will return today with a large chip lead at 15 left. Multiple bracelet holders John Monnette (11th) and Upeshka De Silva (14th) will also have their chance to elevate their impressive track record. 2,454 entered the tournament and they will play for $465,501.

Event #16: $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed has broke the record of most entries in a $25k with 301, building a pretty decent $7M prizepool and a $1,6M first place. Czech player Roman Hrabec is the current chip leader at 13 left, and a star studded line-up will stand up to him: Aleksejs Ponakovs (3rd), Joao Vieira (4th), Brian Rast (5th), Isaac Haxton (6th) and Kristen Foxen, who fell from the chip lead and is now 10th.

Good luck if you’re playing today, and see you soon!

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

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