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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

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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!

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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!

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Here are the completed events of yesterday:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool
$5,000	Event #12: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed	$3,381,000
$600	Event #13: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack	$1,632,000

Event #12: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed

The top 2 froze between the start and the end of the day, with Jeremy Eyer coming out on top for $649,550, seconded by Felipe Ramos ($401,460). Eyer captures his first WSOP bracelet after battling Ramos for three hours in the heads-up.

Eyer declared: “I’m just trying to improve each year. I’ve been playing a lot online, improving my game, and now I’m transitioning more into live mostly, and that’s helping my game a lot. And coming here, playing with the best players, and finishing first also helps.”

Event #13: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack

Event #13 makes history by being the largest Pot-Limit Omaha ever with its 3,200 entries. Joseph Altomonte is our winner for $217,102 and defeated Michael Holmes ($134,171).

“My ex said being a poker player wasn’t an acceptable occupation, so I quit for a very long time. It’s a dream come true, you don’t even understand.”, Altomonte said during the interview.

After nine years away from the live tables, Altomonte mostly doubled his total live earnings, and looks to take over the poker world with six top 3 finishes this year in a live setting.

In progress

Event #14: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship is now at 15 left. Max Hoffman is our current leader, followed by Ben Yu (3rd), David “Bakes” Baker (6th) and Chad Eveslage (11th), already in the tracks for a potential third bracelet this year! Dan Shak (13th) and Julien Martini (15th) will also have their shot.

Event #16: $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed has started and registered 264 entries. Calvin Anderson leads the 93 remaining players. The event is full of top pros, and we notably find Freddy Deeb as the second, and Isaac Haxton in fourth. With late registration still open, there is a chance it could be the largest $25k buy-in event ever hosted at the World Series.

After 13 completed events, let’s have a look at the most cashes leaderboard this year:

Name	Cashes	Total Earnings
🇺🇸 Jordan Spurlin	4	$29,946
🇺🇸 Ivan Starostin	4	$15,503
🇨🇦 Alex Livingston	3	$251,319
🇺🇸 Christopher Brewer	3	$251,263
🇬🇧 Rostyslav Sabishchenko	3	$110,843
🇺🇸 Ari Engel	3	$93,427
🇺🇸 Tyler Cornell	3	$62,387
🇺🇸 Scott Eskenazi	3	$54,132
🇦🇹 Koray Aldemir	3	$47,523
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb	3	$40,873

And here are our notables finishes for events #12 and #13:

Player	Place	Earnings	Event
🇧🇷 Felipe Ramos	2nd	$401,460	Event #12: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb	17th	$8,647	Event #13: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack
🇺🇸 Josh Arieh	39th	$15,873	Event #12: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed
🇺🇸 Scott Clements	61st	$3,323	Event #13: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack
🇺🇸 Ryan Riess	106th	$8,011	Event #12: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed

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Three events came to an end yesterday:

Buy-in	Event	1st Prize
$1,000	Event #3: $1,000 Mystery Millions – No-Limit Hold’em	$1,000,000
$10,000	Event #10: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship	$311,428
$600	Event #11: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack	$351,098

Event #3: $1,000 Mystery Millions – No-Limit Hold’em

After 6 days of play and its 18,188 entries, the Mystery Millions finally came to an end by crowning Tyler Brown, who won $1,000,000, the second biggest prize this year.

The tournament also made two other millionaires who didn’t needed to play that much, in the names of Shant Marashlian (138th) and Patrick Liang (62nd) as they correctly picked the biggest $1M bounties.

Our winner Tyler Brown only have 7 official live cashes, but he looks to have a promising future as he cashed three times this March in $10k events on the PokerGO Tour, including a second place for $146k.

Event #10: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship

Chad Eveslage is now a three-time bracelet holder, and the first to win two bracelets this year, in the two Dealers Choice events held! Already making history, Chad won $311,428 by defeating Dutch Boyd in a Big O hand.

Many other well known player tried but couldn’t make it, including: Ari Engel (5th), Mike Gorodinsky (7th) and John Hennigan (9th).

Event #11: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack

Event #11 is currently the second largest event this year with 6,085 entries, totaling a prizepool of $3,1M.

Kenneth O’Donnell is the winner of this deep event for $351,098, winning against Jefferson Guerrero in the heads-up in just three hands. The KT of Guerrero didn’t held against the J8 of O’Donnell who turned up into a beautiful full house.

It is by far the biggest performance of O’Donnell so far:

“It’s absurdly lucky,” O’Donnell told. “These giant field events are an exercise of just repeatedly getting lucky, and I did.”

“I’m very, very happy to have been the ‘Chosen One’ for the poker gods today. This feels really special. I just feel really blessed.”

In Progress

In Event #12: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed, 16 remains. Jeremy Eyer leads the pack and is closely followed by Felipe Ramos (2nd). Josh Arieh (28th) and Kristen Foxen (30th) fell short and couldn’t make it to day 3.

Event #14: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship has started with 111 entries and its load of well known names, and we can’t wait to see who’s going to make the cut!

To end the recap, here is the list of notables results from these events:

Player	Place	Earnings	Event
🇺🇸 Mike Gorodinsky	7th	$42,965	Event #10: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship
🇺🇸 Paul Volpe	11th	$25,822	Event #10: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship
🇦🇺 James Obst	13th	$20,425	Event #10: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship
🇺🇸 Robert Mizrachi	19th	$16,378	Event #10: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth	47th	$7,385	Event #11: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack

Thanks for reading and see you tomorrow!

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