In a rare occurrence, five new winners have been crowned yesterday:
| Buy-in | Event | Prizepool | Entries |
| $1,500 | Event #28: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem | $2,731,410 | 2,046 |
| $100,000 | Event #29: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em | $8,997,750 | 93 |
| $1,500 | Event #30: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw | $696,870 | 522 |
| $600 | Event #31: $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em; Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack | $1,407,090 | 2,759 |
| $3,000 | Event #32: $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em | $3,313,470 | 1,241 |
Event #28: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem
Benjamin Ector is our winner for this large 2,000+ event. He put his hands on his first bracelet and $406,403. It’s Ector 26 WSOP cash, his previous best performance being a 5th place in the 2019’s Monster Stack for $286k, and now has more than $1,5M in total live earnings.
Popular poker coach and previous chip leader Matthew Hunt suffered two lost coin flips against Ector and ended up 7th for $59k.
Event #29: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
The massive high-roller finally went to Jans Arends, who kept his chip lead to close the tournament and win the massive prize of $2,5M, defeating Cary Katz in the heads-up. It’s the first live bracelet for Arends, who won a $1,000 online bracelet last year.
“It’s completely different live,” Arends said. “Live is more pressure, there’s people around, there’s cameras, live-streamed final table. There’s added pressure. The first one was just an online tourney and basically, all that people saw in the end was who won. So, this is very different. Way more special, I would say.”
Here are the final table results:
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Jans Arends | Netherlands | $2,576,729 |
| 2nd | Cary Katz | United States | $1,592,539 |
| 3rd | Adrian Mateos | Spain | $1,142,147 |
| 4th | Chance Kornuth | United States | $833,854 |
| 5th | Jeremy Ausmus | United States | $619,919 |
| 6th | Biao Ding | China | $469,464 |
| 7th | Justin Bonomo | United States | $362,279 |
| 8th | Ren Lin | China | $284,979 |
Fresh off winning the #WSOP $100K High Roller, Jans Arends (@Graftekkel) is dishing on who is the toughest #poker competition in the big buy-in fields 🤩😎🤑
— Poker Org (@pokerorg) June 15, 2023
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Event #30: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw
Another big time WSOP veteran wins, in the name of John Monnette, joins the closed fifth bracelet club! He’s now ranked 31rd in the bracelet race, right behind Eli Elezra. What a year for the player, having a 1st, 4th and 5th place in three cashes!
He added $145,863 to his live earnings by defeating Christopher Chung in the heads-up, also denying the bracelet from the British powerhouse Patrick Leonard (3rd).
Event #31: $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em; Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack
Joseph Dulaney is the winner of this large 2,759 field for $194,155. Dulaney’s main occupation is fighting fires, and had until then 90k in total live earnings, accumulated since 2009.
“I’m really excited, kinda reeling at the moment,” Dulaney said afterward. “But I knew it was gonna happen and I plan on winning multiple Omaha bracelets this week, this year. I think all the best Omaha players in the world come from Houston and I’m trying to prove it this summer.”
Event #32: $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
Mark Ioli won his first bracelet and one the largest prize this year for $558,266. He bested a tough competition, including the likes of Paul Volpe (10th) and Maria Ho (17th).
“It was a long two days, but it was worth it,” the newly crowned champion said, beaming. “The two previous times I got heads up for a bracelet, I was a card away from winning,” he said, referring to his two second places in WSOP online events. “So it feels good to finally win. It’s the one accolade in poker you want no matter what.”
In progress
Event #33: $10,000 Razz Championship has Talal Shakerchi in the lead at 13 left. Still in contention are veteran Jerry Wong (9th), legend John Hennigan (10th) and one of the hottest running player this year Nick Schulman (11th). They’ll battle for the top prize of $298,682.
Thanks for the read and see you tomorrow!
Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com
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