Two more champions have been crowned yesterday:
| Buy-in | Event | Prizepool | Entries |
| $1,500 | Event #41: $1,500 Big O | $1,946,430 | 1,458 |
| $800 | Event #42: $800 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack | $2,656,192 | 3,773 |
Event #41: $1,500 Big O
It was the first Big O event of the World Series and the event got 1,458 entries for a $1,9M prizepool. Scott Abrams is our winner, bagging $315,203 by defeating Robert Williamson III. Johnny Chan couln’t make it beyond 14th, passing a good chance to win his 11th bracelet.
“I’ve done a lot of work in Limit O/E,” Abrams said. “Big O is that but extrapolating strong hands on both sides. If I see a good O8 hand, but my opponent wants to bet a lot, I lean towards fold most of the time, and I’ll just make nut-nut the next hand.”
Event #42: $800 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
They were 3,773 entries is this $800 event, crushing last year’s attendance of 2,812. It made up for a $339,033 top prize that finally went to China’s Qiang Xu in just two days. 2021 Main Event winner Koray Aldemir made a deep run but finally lost in 12th place.
“It’s a dream coming true,” said Xu a few minutes after his victory. “My goal coming from China was to win a bracelet, and now, I’ve got it!”
“I tried to use my stack to pressure at this point,” he added. “Then I changed my strategy a bit to be more stable. That’s what I did at the final table when my stack decreased. Afterward, I tried not to hurry up and to find the right moment to catch up.”
In progress
Event #39: $1,500 MONSTER STACK No-Limit Hold’em had a total of 8,317 entries, now down to only 42. China’s Xuming Qi leads with a large 24M stack. Still in the event are British Brandon Sheils (19th), Joe Cada (21st) and famous poker vlogger Ashley “PokerFaceAsh” Frank (40th). All have already secured $30k, but they’re probably all thinking about the $1,1M main prize.
Event #43: $50,000 Poker Players Championship closed its registration and ended up with a count of 99 entries, setting the top prize at $1,324,747. Dan Cates lost today and won’t be able to defend his title after winning it twice in a row.
32 players remains, and here is the leaderboard:
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Obst | Australia | 2,972,000 |
| 2 | Daniel Alaei | United States | 2,064,000 |
| 3 | Phil Ivey | United States | 1,655,000 |
| 4 | Talal Shakerchi | United Kingdom | 1,598,000 |
| 5 | Johannes Becker | Germany | 1,387,000 |
| 6 | Josh Arieh | United States | 1,365,000 |
| 7 | Brian Rast | United States | 1,306,000 |
| 8 | Lyle Berman | United States | 1,268,000 |
| 9 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | Poland | 1,196,000 |
Event #44: $3,000 No-Limit Holdem and Event #45: $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi Low have just started, we will see tomorrow how the action progresses!
Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com
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