Sorry for missing yesterday so we’ll cover both day 11 and 12 in this recap:
| Buy-in | Event | Prizepool |
| $2,500 | Event #19: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em | $2,529,825 |
| $1,500 | Event #20: $1,500 Badugi | $688,860 |
| $1,000 | Event #21: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed | $1,795,130 |
Event #19: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em
Valentino Konakchiev is the winner of event #19 and will take home a nice $435,924 home. A first bracelet for the Bulgarian who’s doubled his total live earnings with the trophy. He defeated the Argentinian Andres Korn in the heads-up, Alexandre Reard finishing third and start of day 3 chipleader Qiang Xu saw his dreams shattered and finished 9th.
“I’ve been dreaming about it since I’ve been watching poker when I was 15 on TV and I can’t believe it actually happened,” Konakchiev told in the interview.” It feels really, really good,” Konakchiev said with a wide smile. “They already have bracelets, so it was my time.”
Event #20: $1,500 Badugi
After 22 cashes at the World Series, Michael Rodrigues Pires Santos grabbed his first bracelet in this impressive 516 entries first Badugi event ever, and won the $144,678 top prize. Yingui Li of China couldn’t beat his opponent and finished second, ahead of bracelet winner Danny Tang who ended fifth.
Event #21: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed
Another large Pot-Limit Omaha this year with this 2,071 entries $1,000 event. Stephen Nahm came out on top after 15 beers for his first bracelet and 8th live registered prize ever, and will pocker $267,991.
“Every poker player, obviously, comes here – you dream of this shit, right? I kinda made my dream come true a little bit; I’m not going to lie.”
It is said that the player requested to be brought a new beer every 18 minutes, drinking more than twenty beers for day 2.
In progress
Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship has just 3 players remaining. Main Event winner Joe McKeehen fell fourth, so now remains Josh Arieh in third, Nozomu Shimizu in second and chip leader Daniel Idema who will chase a fourth bracelet later today. The bracelet will be accompagnied by a $316,226 paycheck.
Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em had 124 entries and day 2 ends with only 5 player lead by Alex Foxen. Here is the chip count:
| 1 | Alex Foxen | United States | 13,340,000 | 111BB |
| 2 | Jans Arends | Netherlands | 10,300,000 | 86BB |
| 3 | Leon Sturm | Germany | 4,850,000 | 40BB |
| 4 | Bill Klein | United States | 4,675,000 | 39BB |
| 5 | Seth Davies | United States | 3,940,000 | 33BB |
All players secured $385k and the winner will take home $1,5M.
Event #24: $1,500 Razz stopped at 15 players left. William Burke will return with the biggest stack, followed by Jeff Lisandro (4th), Dzmitry Urbanovich (9th) and David “ODB” Baker in 14th place. They’ll play for the $152,991 top prize.
Here is an update for the most cashes at the moment after 21 events:
| Name | Cashes | Total Earnings |
| 🇺🇸 Jordan Spurlin | 6 | $42,646 |
| 🇺🇸 Ivan Starostin | 6 | $22,519 |
| 🇨🇦 Alex Livingston | 5 | $277,366 |
| 🇺🇸 Kevin Rand | 4 | $191,650 |
| 🇺🇸 Tyler Cornell | 4 | $119,318 |
| 🇺🇸 Ari Engel | 4 | $97,438 |
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Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com
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