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WSOP 2023 Day 8 Digest

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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WSOP 2023 Day 7 Digest

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

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WSOP 2023 Day 6 Digest

Buy-in	Event	Prize
$25,000	Event #8: $25,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship	$507,020
$1,500	Event #9: $1,500 Seven Card Stud	$110,800

Event #8: $25,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship

They were 64 in the begin, and after winning his 6 matches in a row, Chanracy Khun came out victorious for $507,020. He battled heads-up specialist Doug Polk in the final match, who took home $313,362.

“When you play heads up, you’re always going to play a different strategy against different opponents.”, said Khun after the match. “I knew he was really, really good, so I just try to do my best. And so yeah, I was just luckier than him today.”

Chanracy Khun total live earnings are now close to the $2M mark. He wrote his first HendonMob line in 2011, and has 13 cashes at the World Series.

Event #9: $1,500 Seven Card Stud

The final table setting had lots of bracelet holder, and one of them won his fourth: Nick Schulman defeated Andrew Hasdal in the heads-up to become the winner of this Stud event, John Monnette finishing fourth and Shaun Deeb fifth.

Schulman is definitely one of the best mixed games specialists in the world. His previous bracelets were in No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw and Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better. He now sits at the 60th place in the all time money list with over $15M in earnings.

In Progress

In the Event #3: $1,000 Mystery Millions – No-Limit Hold’em, more than 18,000 entries were registered, and the tournament in now down to 30 players. First place will award $1,000,000, as much as the two top mystery bounties which have been awarded to Shant Marashlian and Patrick Liang.

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In the Event #10: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship, 115 entries have been registered and the money has been reached at 20 left. Chad Eveslage ended the day as the chipleader, and we notably find Ari Engel (6th), John Hennigan (9th), Paul Volpe (12th) and Patrick Leonard (16th).

Event #12: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed has started and totals 735 entries for a prizepool of $3,3M. At the end of day 1, 152 players remains with lots of familiar names, including Josh Arieh (9th) and Felipe Ramos (21st). Previous Main Event winners Koray Aldemir and Ryan Riess are also in good place.

That’s it for today! Thanks for reading us and good luck if you’re participating!

Player	Place	Earnings	Event
🇺🇸 Doug Polk	2nd	$313,362	Event #8: $25,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship
🇺🇸 John Monnette	5th	$32,828	Event #9: $1,500 Seven Card Stud
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb	5th	$23,476	Event #9: $1,500 Seven Card Stud
🇺🇸 Anthony Zinno	6th	$74,648	Event #8: $25,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship
🇺🇸 Landon Tice	7th	$74,648	Event #8: $25,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship
🇵🇱 Dzmitry Urbanovich	16th	$3,736	Event #9: $1,500 Seven Card Stud

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WSOP 2023 Day 5 Digest

Two bracelets have been awarded yesterday:

Buy-in	Event	Prize
$0	Event #4: Tournament of Champions	$200,000
$1,500	Event #7: $1,500 Limit Hold’em	$146,835

Event #4: Tournament of Champions

The Tournament of Champions is a freeroll and opened to winners of ring events from the 2022/2023 WSOP Circuit season and bracelet winners from the WSOP Online and WSOP Europe.

741 took the starting line, and the $1M prizepool was divided between the top 100. After battling four days, the top prize of $200,000 went to Ronnie Day, winner of $400 Ring Event #6 at the WSOPC Southern Indiana in May.

A big win for the player who won his first bracelet as his total earnings now tops at $508k.

Event #7: $1,500 Limit Hold’em

Ukrainian Vadim Shlez is the winner of the 527 entries tournament for $146,835.

“I’ve been working on it for pretty much my whole life,” Shlez told PokerNews. “I started poker pretty much with the World Series of Poker. … I didn’t expect to win in this discipline, even though it was my favorite game when I started.”

Shlez is not a newcomer, having totaled more than $1,4M in total live earnings, particularly winning a $3,500 Borgata event for $533k in 2011.

In progress

Event #8: $25,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship is now down to four players: Doug Polk, Chris Brewer, Chanracy Khun and Sean Winter only have two rounds left to win the coveted heads-up bracelet. All players have secured $192k and they will play for the $507k title. Many famous players lost yesterday, including Anthony Zinno, Landon Tice and Chance Kornuth.

Event #9: $1,500 Seven Card Stud has its final table set with a great line-up. John Monnette (4 bracelets) leads the 9 players, followed by Nick Schulman (3 bracelets) and Shaun Deeb (7th, 5 bracelets). They will battle for the $110,800 top prize.

Here are the notables finishes in events #4 and #7:

Player	Place	Earnings	Event
🇺🇸 Joe McKeehen	44th	$3,275	Event #7: $1,500 Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Landon Tice	69th	$3,000	Event #4: Tournament of Champions
🇺🇸 Nick Schulman	56th	$2,625	Event #7: $1,500 Limit Hold’em

That’s is for today! We will probably have some updates on the Event #10: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship which is a filled with very well known players!

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WSOP 2023 Start Digest

Welcome back and thanks for taking the read of the first recap of the action in the 2023 World Series of Poker!

Right now the fourth day has ended, nine events have already started, and four events have already ended, so let’s jump in!

Event #1: $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em

The traditional Casino Employees event has welcomed 1,015 casino employees, the third largest in the history. In the end, Peter Thai wrote his 9th Hendon mob result since his first in 2014 and pocketed $75,535.

Event #2: $25,000 High Roller Six Handed No-Limit Hold’em

Open to everyone, this $25k High Roller attracted 207 players. Last year, the comparable event #8: $25k 8-Handed gathered 251 players, so slightly down this year, but that could be due to the early place in the calendar.

The tournament still had a huge prizepool of $4,8M, of which $1,2M went to Alexandre Vuilleumier. The Swiss is pretty much exploding these last 9 months as he made more than 75% of his total live earnings with 3 results above $200k.

He battled Chance Kornuth in the heads-up, who took home $751,463.

Event #5: $1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed

The events had 456 entries in total. It’s the American poker pro Chad Eveslage who came up first to win $131,879. It’s the second bracelet for the player, who came first in the $25k said event #8 last year. WSOP’s veteran John Racener came fourth and bagged $36,953.

Event #6: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em; Pot-Limit Omaha

The event attracted 568 players this year, which is significantly less than the 788 of last years, but the event was number 53 and could have profited from more affluence in the series.

Nonetheless it made quite a big event with a prizepool of $2,6M. Michael Moncek took the bracelet and the nice $534,499 paycheck. The player declared his ambition for the year: “It means a lot and now I have a decent shot at going for Player of the Year”. Moncek is now a 2 time bracelet holder, largely crossing the $1M mark in total live earnings with this win.

Here are some notables finishes in these events:

Player	Place	Earnings	Event
🇺🇸 Chance Kornuth	2nd	$751,463	Event #2: $25,000 High Roller Six Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Andrew Lichtenberger	10th	$80,314	Event #2: $25,000 High Roller Six Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇪🇸 Adrian Mateos	14th	$62,763	Event #2: $25,000 High Roller Six Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Cary Katz	19th	$50,000	Event #2: $25,000 High Roller Six Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	22nd	$50,000	Event #2: $25,000 High Roller Six Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Justin Bonomo	29th	$43,750	Event #2: $25,000 High Roller Six Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 John Racener	4th	$36,953	Event #5: $1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed

And that’s it for this first recap! Many more tournaments have started, including the Event #8: $25,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship with lots of famous name, including Anthony Zinno, Landon Tice, Doug Polk and Chance Kornuth!

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