WSOP Day 8 Digest

Eight tournaments, three finals, three bracelets awarded, the $10,000 heads-up with all the top regs present in Las Vegas, the day was once again very exciting.

Event #3: $500 Big 50

At the end of Day 3, 127 players are still running for the victory of this XXL tournament.
Among the favorites, a particularly dangerous player: Allen Cunningham is currently 14th and will try to win his sixth bracelet.

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Cunningham competing to win the Big 50

Awarded bracelets

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
9$600No-Limit Hold’em DeepstackJeremy Pekarek$398,281
10$1,500Dealers ChoiceScott Clements$144,957
12$1,000No-Limit Hold’em Super Turbo BountyDaniel Park$226,243
Pekarek

Event #9: Jeremy Pekarek can celebrate after winning his first bracelet over a field of 6151 players for $398,281
Scott Clements 4e bracelet
Event #10: $1,500 Dealers Choice : The consecration of a specialist!
It’s been years since Scott Clements appeared in the top of the chip counts of Dealers Choice events. The American, who already had three bracelets on his record, adds a fourth one with this event #10.
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Event #12: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty :
Daniel Park was lucky enough to win this one-day Super Turbo tournament for more than 226 buy-ins!

Here are the notable results:

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Robert Mizrachi11th$7,65210$150 Dealers Choice
🇦🇺 James Obst15th$11,48312$1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super Turbo Bounty
🇺🇸 Frank Kassela35th$3,29910$150 Dealers Choice
🇺🇸 Dan O’Brien50th$4,01412$1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super Turbo Bounty
🇺🇸 Erik Seidel343rd$1,7399$600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu485th$1,2579$600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
🇺🇸 Ryan Riess750th$9849$600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth897th$8749$600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack

Event #15: $10,000 Heads-Up NLHE Championship

They are 16 left in the race, all chasing a victory in this prestigious event such as Ben Yu, Brian Rast, or Ole Schemion. We will not forget to add Jake Schindler who eliminated Phil Hellmuth with J8o beating Hellmuth’s pair of aces. You can imagine Hellmuth’s reaction!

Here is the current top 5 cashes leaderboard for completed events. Three players have impressively reached the money 4 times, unfortunately all short of a big result yet!

NameTotal EarningsCashes
James Obst$19,8724
David Moskowitz$13,7974
Ismael Bojang$11,1194
Daniel Zack$182,4683
Ben Yu$45,3213

See you tomorrow for another Daily Digest at the WSOP!