WSOP Day 15 Digest

Half a month have passed in the WSOP and 31 events out of 89 have started. 6 tournaments are still in play and 3 other have finished yesterday. Amongst them:

Event #26: $2,620 NLHE Marathon

Day 3 has come to an end with 52 marathon runners left fighting the win (188 players started Day 3). Matt Russell takes the overnight chip lead with 1,260,000 in chips behind.

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Event #19: $1,500 NLHE Millionaire Maker

Huge performance of John Gorsuch who wins the million after falling to two big blinds at the final table. He finally managed to win the tournament for $1,344,930 and his first gold bracelet.

John Gorsuch remembering his last win in a tournament “I’ve not won an outright tournament since maybe 2013, a small bar-type tournament.”

Event #23: $1,500 8-Game Mix

Rami Boukai captured his second career World Series of Poker gold bracelet, closing out the heads-up battle against John Evans. Boukai, whose previous bracelet win came at the 2009 WSOP in the $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha/Hold’em event, said the money is the most important thing to him.

Rami Boukai happy to take home $177,294 “It’s $170K, so yeah, it’s a big deal. I’m here for the money.”

Event #25: $600 PLO DeepStack

With 2,577 players registered at the start of this event in Pot Limit Omaha, it was necessary to have the patience and know how to hold his four cards. This is obviously the case for the American Andrew Donabedian who won the bracelet and $205,605. This is the first bracelet of this PLO fan.

Andrew Donabedian taking back home more than 342 buy-ins for his performance.
#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
19$1,500Millionaire Maker – No-Limit Hold’em🇺🇸 John Gorsuch$1,344,930
23$1,500Eight Game Mix🇺🇸 Rami Boukai$177,294
25$600Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack🇺🇸 Andrew Donabedian$205,605

Phil Hellmuth didn’t win a gold bracelet yet but he already cashed in 5 tournaments in these 2019 WSOP:

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth59th$2,45323$1,500 Eight Game Mix
🇺🇸 Joe McKeehen65th$17,41619$1,500 Millionaire Maker – No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb82nd$2,25723$1,500 Eight Game Mix
🇺🇸 Alex Foxen89th$2,25723$1,500 Eight Game Mix
🇺🇸 Olivier Busquet93rd$10,39919$1,500 Millionaire Maker – No-Limit Hold’em

Event #29: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

This high stakes tournament attracted many top regs as Brian Hastings, Justin Bonomo and Phil Galfond who are still in at 20 left with $425,347 for the winner.

Who is the most consistent player in these WSOP?

Ismael Bojang (more than $3,200,000 in total live earnings) is the player who cashed the most in these WSOP (8 times) for a little $25,637:

NameTotal EarningsCashes
🇦🇹 Ismael Bojang$25,6378
🇺🇸 Ben Yu$165,7856
🇷🇺 Andrey Zaichenko$35,2866
🇺🇸 David “ODB” Baker$20,8756
🇺🇸 Steven Wolansky$19,3406

Tomorrow will see the day 4 of the Event #26: $2,620 NLHE Marathon and the winner will be awarded $477,401 during Day 5.