WSOP 2021 Day 18 Digest

Someone won a third bracelet yesterday!

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
28$1,000Event #28: Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed🇺🇸 Dylan Weisman$166,461
29$10,000Event #29: Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em🇺🇸 Chance Kornuth$194,670

Event #28: Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed

In the $1,000 event that totaled 1,069 entries, Dylan Weisman came out as the winner for his first bracelet. Dylan Weisman is a PLO coach and is clearly more used to play online as he only wrote his 6th live cash ever.

“It’s my bar mitzvah all over again!” – Dylan Weisman

Event #29: Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em

As shown in the picture, Chance Kornuth now holds 3 bracelets. He had to battle against the toughest competition in this $10k event: Dan Shak ($11M live earnings) finished 3rd for $82k, Joao Vieira (5th) grabbed $42k.

Chance previous bracelets were the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha in 2010 and three years ago the $3,200 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em High Roller. After the win Chance declared: “I am playing some of my best poker for the last six months and I really want to continue to do so and see what I can accomplish”.

Chance “J8” Kornuth

Event #31: No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw

The $1,500 is not finished yet but as always with less played variants of the game many known names remains! And who’s about to make another final? Yes you guessed right, he’s going for his fourth this year, it’s Phil Hellmuth, currently second in chips at 10 remaining. But the competition is fierce as he’ll be joined by Dario Sammartino (3rd) and Ryan Riess (10th).

Here are some more results in these events:

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇬🇧 Stephen Chidwick8th$20,58329$10,000 Event #29: Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Joseph Cheong35th$4,03328$1,000 Event #28: Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed
🇺🇸 Daniel Zack123rd$1,75328$1,000 Event #28: Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu140th$1,60328$1,000 Event #28: Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed
🇺🇸 Ryan Laplante158th$1,60328$1,000 Event #28: Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed

See you tomorrow for more updates!

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