WSOP Day 17 Digest

Jumping into the results, we’ve had two happy endings during the night:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
29$10,000HORSE🇨🇦 Greg Mueller$425,347
31$3,000No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed🇫🇷 Thomas Cazayous$414,766

The Canadian Greg Mueller won a new bracelet in the star studded $10,000 HORSE event. Greg is no stranger to the WSOP as he already won two bracelets in 2009, now cumulating $2,846,696 only in the WSOP.

The Stud Hi-Lo winning hand, and also Greg

Lots of big names have reached the HORSE final table, with Scott Clements a few inches away from a second bracelet in these series:

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇮🇹 Dario Sammartino3rd$184,85429$10,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Scott Clements4th$132,28829$10,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Phil Galfond8th$41,62529$10,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Anthony Zinno10th$32,68329$10,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Justin Bonomo19th$15,17629$10,000 HORSE

Our second winner is less known from the masses, Thomas Cazayous from France, in his second WSOP participation has just won his first bracelet in the $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed.

A first bracelet for France!

We’ve compiled a list of big names so see how many cashes they had, and indeed we can see that a few well known pros are grinding hard in this edition!

NameTotal EarningsCashes
🇦🇺 James Obst$27,0786
🇺🇸 Chris Ferguson$15,6056
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth$58,9415
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb$52,1575
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu$58,7454
🇺🇸 Joe Cada$15,1864

Note: Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson and Daniel Negreanu are respectively 1st, 2nd and 3rd in all times cashes. Decent consistency!

We should see tonight the conclusion of Event #26: $2,620 No-Limit Hold’em Marathon and Event #30: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha as they’ve reached the final table!