What a year at the World Series!
We’ve had new records of attendance, Scott Seiver winning 3 bracelets, Phil Ivey making a serious comeback with 19 cashes and one bracelet, the sick Jeremy Ausmus run equaling Phil Helmuth’s record of 7 final tables in one year and many more great moments.
Here is the data we’ve compiled for you:
Here is the link for last year’s infographic if you want to compare both. Enjoy!
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This is it! We’ve compiled all the data this year to provide you tons of stats and leaderboards for the 2023 World Series of Poker. Here is the link for last year’s infography if you want to compare.
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It was truly the biggest year ever for the World Series. A few facts:
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The last day of the World Series ends up with 4 bracelets:
| Buy-in | Event | Prizepool | Entries |
| $3,000 | Event #91: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. | $883,770 | 331 |
| $10,000 | Event #93: $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em | $985,800 | 106 |
| $5,000 | Event #94: $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em | $3,739,800 | 813 |
| $1,000 | Event #95: $1,000 Super Turbo No-Limit Hold’em | $1,318,980 | 1,482 |
Two bracelets in a year for Ryan Miller! After winning Event #63: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship three weeks ago, Miller gets a second bracelet and $208,460. Leonard August lost in second place and will still get a nice $128,835.
“I came in today feeling pretty good, but right away he evened it up, so at that point, I thought that anything could happen. The limits are high, so if anyone wins three or four hands in a row it’s gonna swing their way. But then the next round or two went my way and I finished it.”, Miller told in the post-win interview.
| Notable finishes | Place | Earnings |
| 🇮🇹 Max Pescatori | 37th | $5,330 |
| 🇺🇸 Ari Engel | 38th | $5,330 |
| 🇺🇸 Mike Matusow | 39th | $5,330 |
| 🇺🇸 Allen Kessler | 44th | $4,873 |
| 🇦🇺 James Obst | 50th | $4,873 |
Five returned to end the tournament yesterday, and starting chip leader Martin Nielsen from Denmark made the chips talk to put his hands on the bracelet. John Juanda did not succeed in raising the stack that would give him a chance to win a sixth bracelet, thus finishing 5th.
“It’s so weird, though, I thought I would be nervous,” Nielsen said after his victory, “I don’t know, I am a full-time short-deck cash player, but I mostly play online.”
Alex Keating is the winner of the penultimate event of the year and grabbed the $701,688 top prize. Keating improves his previous best live performance of getting 3rd for $423,890 in 2016’s $9,600 + 400 No Limit Hold’em WPT Championship. Keating crosses the $3M mark in total live earnings with this victory.
| Notable finishes | Place | Earnings |
| 🇺🇸 David Peters | 20th | $26,210 |
| 🇫🇷 Johan Guilbert | 34th | $18,217 |
| 🇺🇸 Phil Laak | 35th | $18,217 |
| 🇬🇧 Patrick Leonard | 70th | $10,923 |
| 🇺🇸 Ari Engel | 89th | $8,815 |
When Paul Berger came to casino yesterday morning, he didn’t came to play but to close out the remaining money in his account. When he noticed this super turbo event was happening, he decided to jump in.
Only twelve hours of play were needed to go from 1,482 entries to one winner with the unexpected Paul Berger taking out this very last event of the year for $212,645. A huge performance for the Las Vegas local who denied Yuri Dzivielevski a second bracelet this year by beating him in the heads-up. Still a great year for the brazilian who’ll end with 12 cashes, 4 final tables and one bracelet.
| Notable finishes | Place | Earnings |
| 🇺🇸 Ari Engel | 89th | $8,815 |
| 🇺🇸 Jonathan Little | 71st | $3,208 |
| 🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu | 80th | $2,838 |
| 🇧🇷 Felipe Ramos | 155th | $1,751 |
| 🇺🇸 Faraz Jaka | 163rd | $1,751 |
That’s a wrap for us on the daily digests! Thank you so much for reading them and let us know how you liked them. We’ll soon start working on the infography to sum up all the stats this year. You can have a look at last year’s if you’re interested.
Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com
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| Buy-in | Event | Prizepool | Entries |
| $10,000 | Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship | $93,399,900 | 10,043 |
| $10,000 | Event #90: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship | $5,115,000 | 550 |
| $1,000 | Event #92: $1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em | $1,521,900 | 1,710 |
Daniel Weinman is our new 2023 Main Event champion! The American takes down the largest Main Event of history and its $12,100,000 prize!
With 10,043 entries, $93,399,900 of prizepool, this year’s Main Event largely outgrew the 2006’s event with its 8,773 players and $82M of prizepool.
Here is the final hand against Steven Jones:
Daniel Weinman (@notontilt09) is your 2023 @WSOP Main Event Champion.
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) July 17, 2023
In the final hand, Weinman and Steven Jones both flop top pair, and when Jones moves in on the turn, Weinman calls.
Weinman walks away with $12,100,000 after conquering the largest Main Event field ever. pic.twitter.com/bxOOJaOcMH
“Every year before this, I’ve been here from Event #1 to the last event,” Weinman said. “And by the time the Main Event comes around, I’m burnt out … I’ve said to many people, I don’t like this tournament. The structure is too good, I’m kind of over it for the summer. […] I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament”.
Here are the final table results:
| 1 | Daniel Weinman | United States | $12,100,000 |
| 2 | Steven Jones | United States | $6,500,000 |
| 3 | Adam Walton | United States | $4,000,000 |
| 4 | Jan-Peter Jachtmann | Germany | $3,000,000 |
| 5 | Ruslan Prydryk | Ukraine | $2,400,000 |
| 6 | Dean Hutchison | Scotland | $1,850,000 |
| 7 | Toby Lewis | England | $1,425,000 |
| 8 | Juan Maceiras | Spain | $1,125,000 |
| 9 | Daniel Holzner | Italy | $900,000 |
Two years after getting hold of his first bracelet, Alexandre Reard gets his second one by defeating none other than Stephen Chidwick in the heads-up. Reard will bring home $1,057,663 and the first bracelet for France this year.
“I did feel some pressure coming into the day because I knew that in France everyone was expecting me to be at least in the top two.”
Final results:
| 1 | Alexandre Reard | France | $1,057,663 |
| 2 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | $653,688 |
| 3 | AJ Kelsall | United States | $443,259 |
| 4 | Justin Liberto | United States | $306,555 |
| 5 | Eli Berg | United States | $216,319 |
| 6 | Eric Baldwin | United States | $155,809 |
Kang Hyun Lee wins the event and $236,741 by defeating Eric Mizrachi in the heads-up. With $112k in total live earnings in five years, Lee scored his biggest performance and earned his first bracelet. Vanessa Kade also made the final table and ended in 8th place.
“It feels amazing! Just being a poker enthusiast my whole life, to finally get the most coveted award in the game, it just feels surreal.”, said Lee afterwards.
Event #91: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. will resumes today with Ryan Miller (9,3M chips) facing Leonard August (3,9M) in the final heads-up of the tournament. The top prize is $208,460 and both players will leave with at least $128,835.
106 registrations were made in Event #93: $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em and five players will battle today for the $270,760 top prize. Martin Nielsen will come back as the chip leader and John Juanda will try to overcome the slim odds of his short stack to get a sixth bracelet.
After one day, Event #94: $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em has just 60 players, the tournament bringing a healthy count of 813 entries for the last event of the year. David Peters, 7th on the all-time money list, has put the most chips together in this first day. In the top 20 will return Alex Keating (8th), Phil Laak (11th) and Johan Guilbert (14th). The first prize is set at $701,688.
Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com
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We’re nearing the end of this year’s series but the action is still strong:
| Buy-in | Event | Prizepool | Entries |
| $2,500 | Event #87: $2,500 Mixed | $1,023,500 | 460 |
| $1,500 | Event #88: $1,500 The Closer – No-Limit Hold’em | $4,713,885 | 3,531 |
| $1,000 | Event #89: $1,000 FLIP & GO No-Limit Hold’em Presented by GG Poker | $911,360 | 1,024 |
Starting with the smallest stack at 3 left, Bradley Smith found the path to victory to put his hands on his first bracelet and winning $221,733 in the process. His previous best performance was five years ago when he won $87k by finishing third in the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.
“I think I played every single hand in this tournament to the best of my ability, and there was not any point that I ever gave up for one second, even if I didn’t have a lot of chips. Your mental health is a huge part of the game, just your mentality,” Smith said.
“Throughout my entire life, I’ve just been a very calm and chill person. There’s not many things that get to me. I’m not someone who’s going to raise my voice or if someone says something to me, I don’t usually make a big deal about it or say something back, you know? I just do my thing.”
| Notable finishes | Place | Earnings |
| 🇺🇸 Ari Engel | 16th | $7,969 |
| 🇬🇧 Patrick Leonard | 31st | $6,702 |
The event attracted 3,531 entries making up for a $606,810 first prize. Pierre Shum made his first official live cash by taking down the event and gaining a bracelet! He defeated Peter Nigh who takes home $376,420 for his performance.
| Notable finishes | Place | Earnings |
| 🇫🇷 Erwann Pecheux | 45th | $13,030 |
| 🇨🇦 Mike Leah | 163rd | $3,950 |
| 🇺🇸 Sammy Farha | 180th | $3,950 |
| 🇺🇸 Matt Glantz | 185th | $3,950 |
| 🇺🇸 Ryan Laplante | 330th | $3,004 |
| 🇺🇸 Joseph Cheong | 374th | $2,628 |
| 🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb | 380th | $2,628 |
| 🇺🇸 Phil Laak | 475th | $2,403 |
Here are the official rules for this peculiar event:
The first hand of each flight is played pineapple style where players discard one of their hole cards after the flop and everyone is all-in with 1 player advancing per table, followed by a standard tournament structure played as No-Limit Hold’em. If there is a split on the first hand, play will continue with all existing players being all-in each hand until 1 player remains.
Dong Meng found the miracle path of victory to put his hands on the bracelet and the $160,490 main prize.
The event looks particularly attractive to numerous famous pros who doesn’t hesitate to fire multiple bullets, hoping to get to the top:
| Player | Place | Earnings |
| 🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb | 44th | $3,870 |
| 🇨🇦 Mike Leah | 48th | $3,320 |
| 🇺🇸 Scott Seiver | 54th | $3,320 |
| 🇺🇸 Ryan Riess | 79th | $2,300 |
| 🇺🇸 Josh Arieh | 90th | $2,100 |
| 🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu | 106th | $2,000 |
Nine started the day and play went all the way down to three players who will all leave with at least $4,000,000.
The top 3 players stayed the same between the start of the day and the end, except for Steven Jones who captured the most chips yesterday:
| Seat | Player | Chip Count | Big Blinds | Big Blinds (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steven Jones | 238,000,000 | 119 | 39.5 |
| 4 | Adam Walton | 165,500,000 | 83 | 27.5 |
| 5 | Daniel Weinman | 199,000,000 | 100 | 33.0 |
Steven Jones has $245,346 in total live earnings, his best performance to date is a 9th place in 2018’s Colossus for $57k.
Daniel Weinman, second in chips, has $3,7M in live earnings, is the holder of 2022’s event #30 bracelet: $1,000 Pot Limit Omaha. His best performance is a win in 2017’s $3,300 + 200 No Limit Hold’em WPT Main Event for $892,433.
Adam Walton (3rd) has 20 WSOP cashes, $989,037 in total live earnings and a $283,072 runner-up performance at the Wynn last year.
The victory is truly up to anyone at this point.
Here are the results from the 4th to 9th place:
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (in USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Jan-Peter Jachtmann | Germany | $3,000,000 |
| 5 | Ruslan Prydryk | Ukraine | $2,400,000 |
| 6 | Dean Hutchison | Scotland | $1,850,000 |
| 7 | Toby Lewis | England | $1,425,000 |
| 8 | Juan Maceiras | Spain | $1,125,000 |
| 9 | Daniel Holzner | Italy | $900,000 |
Only four remains in Event #90: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship. Bracelet holder Alexandre Reard will return as the chip leader with more than half of the chips. Will also return: Stephen Chidwick (2nd), AJ Kelsall (3rd) and Justin Liberto with the shortest stack. They were 550 entries in the tournament, making a huge $1,057,663 first prize.
Eighteen players will come back for the end of Event #91: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. today to have a chance to win $208,460. Leonard August is in the lead, accompagnied by Todd Brunson (4th) and Chad Eveslage (7th) with another chance for a third bracelet this year.
See you tomorrow to see who’s our new Main Event champion!
Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com
Poker Analytics is the favorite poker tracking app of many poker pros around the world. It’s the most user friendly tracker on the market and will provide you all the information you need to become the poker player you want to be.
