WSOP 2021 Day 27 Digest

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
46$800Event #46: No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack🇺🇸 Chad Norton$214,830

Event #46: No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack

The 2,053 entries $800 tournament ended with an unexpected win for Chad Norton, casually booking a win for his first ever WSOP participation.

Norton told the media: “To be honest I’ve only played in one WPT event and this was my first ever live WSOP tournament. I play mostly online but I came in on such a down swing so to be able to come in and win my first ever WSOP tournament feels amazing.”

“Winning bracelets is pretty easy right?”

Event #43: DOUBLE STACK No-Limit Hold’em

The third largest event this year with 3,991 entries now counts 17 players. The $1,000 event has gathered a prizepool of $3,5M and the top prize is $446K. Michael Wang ($3M in live earnings), holder of one bracelet, will return with the chip lead and poker commentator Jeff Platt, currently 9th in chips, will try to win his first bracelet.

Michael Wang

Event #45: Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship

There are now 5 players left in the tournament, lead by Tommy Le, winner of the event in 2017 for $900K. Day 3 chip leader Jonathan Witz failed to qualify and ended twelfth. Our most familiar names also all fell yesterday: Mike Matusow (17th), Daniel Zack (13th) and Eli Elezra (6th – $124K) will not be able to grab the $746,477 prize.

Tommy Le

We will return to see how all these events unfold today!

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WSOP 2021 Day 26 Digest

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
44$3,000Event #44: 6-Handed Limit Hold’em🇺🇸 Ryan Hansen$109,692

Event #44: 6-Handed Limit Hold’em

The $3,000 event did not attract much as it registered only 162 entries, but Ryan Hansen really stunned the field as his online profile suggests a very recreative player. Hansen had only wrote 3 low-stakes lines on his Hendon Mob profile in 11 years until then!

To win the bracelet, Hansen needed 2 hours in heads-up to defeat the Japanese Kosei Ichinose, cashing for the 5th time this year.

The player declared: “I’m a little shell-shocked right now. I was kind of a Moneymaker-effect person. Came in after that like 2004-2005, and switched to limit hold’em. I think it’s a great game; I always liked that game the best. So I switched over to that and have been playing that ever since.”

Ryan “Limit” Hansen

A few more performances worth noting in this event:

PlayerPlaceEarnings
🇺🇸 Mike Matusow16th$6,668
🇺🇸 Daniel Zack19th$5,597
🇺🇸 Nick Schulman21st$5,597
🇺🇸 Joe McKeehen23rd$4,830

Event #45: Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship

The $10k championship event has cumulated 344 entries for a large $3,2M prizepool. Eighteen players will battle for the $746,477 first prize. Some of the fan favorites include Daniel Zack (4th), Mike Matusow (11th) and Eli Elezra (14th).

A few stats!

Dan Zack, who cashed once more in event #44, became the first player this year to cash for the tenth time! Can he reach twenty?

NameCashesTotal Earnings
🇺🇸 Daniel Zack10$166,461
🇺🇸 Ben Yu9$138,400
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb9$42,776
🇺🇸 Mike Shin9$17,937
🇺🇸 Jake Schwartz8$304,158

That’s it for today, see you tomorrow for more updates!

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WSOP 2021 Day 25 Digest

Three lucky guys made it yesterday!

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
40$10,000Event #40: H.O.R.S.E. Championship🇺🇸 Kevin Gerhart$361,124
41$2,500Event #41: Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em🇹🇼 Carlos Chang$364,589
42$1,500Event #42: Razz🇺🇸 Brad Ruben$99,188

Event #40: H.O.R.S.E. Championship

Kevin Gerhart converted his chip lead at 5 left into a third bracelet and $361k! Last year he won the WSOP.com Event #20: $500 PLO 6-Handed and the $1,500 Razz (Event #54) the year before, showing he’s climbing up the poker ranks. He just crossed the $1M in total live earnings by writing his biggest line up to date.

“I would consider the first one, the Razz one, the most important just because it opened the doors for me for bigger and better things. I just started playing 10ks this year so it’s something new to me and I haven’t experienced this field very much but I have played against all these guys in the $1,500’s”.

The player also added how mentally exhausting the tournament was: “It was so difficult. Playing nine-handed, anything is difficult, the hand ranges you have to play, tighten up so much and the short stacks kept doubling and doubling. By the end of the day I got home, I had no energy to think about anything and went straight to sleep for twelve hours”

Kevin “Omaha 8/B” Gerhart

Event #41: Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em

Carlos Chang achieved his biggest performance by winning the $2,500 event with a prizepool close to $2M. That’s the first bracelet for the Taiwanese considering himsef “a hobby player”, adding: “I’m probably the better non-pro out there”. Chang has 28 WSOP cashes and this was his fourth final table: “I told myself, this year if I make a final table, I will win the bracelet. And it happened! I am pretty excited. I was focused all day and yesterday.”

Carlos Chang

Event #42: Razz

Bradley Ruben total live earnings does not look that impressive with $640k compared to the usual WSOP population, but the player has just won his 3rd bracelet! He won the previous ones at the online tables in 2020 and 2021. To make it happen, he defeated a solid final table including Yuri Dzivielevski (2 bracelets), David “ODB” Baker (2 bracelets), and Matt Grapenthien (1 bracelet).

Bradley Ruben

Here are some other notable results for these finished events:

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇫🇷 David Benyamine8th$38,03540$10,000 Event #40: H.O.R.S.E. Championship
🇮🇹 Max Pescatori14th$20,27240$10,000 Event #40: H.O.R.S.E. Championship
🇺🇸 Mike Gorodinsky20th$16,21840$10,000 Event #40: H.O.R.S.E. Championship
🇺🇸 Scott Seiver22nd$16,21840$10,000 Event #40: H.O.R.S.E. Championship
🇺🇸 Frank Kassela23rd$3,37642$1,500 Event #42: Razz
🇫🇷 Julien Martini24th$3,37642$1,500 Event #42: Razz
🇺🇸 Ryan Riess27th$3,03942$1,500 Event #42: Razz
🇺🇸 Anthony Zinno41st$2,43142$1,500 Event #42: Razz

Good luck at the tables!

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WSOP 2021 Day 24 Digest

We’ve had a single winner yesterday at the world series:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
39$1,500Event #39: Pot-Limit Omaha (8-Handed)🇺🇸 Josh Arieh$204,766

Event #39: Pot-Limit Omaha (8-Handed)

The event gathered the largest prizepool for an omaha event to date for $1,096,035 and 821 entries. In the end Josh Arieh took the win against other bracelet holders: Tommy Le (2nd – 126k) and Ivan Deyra (4th – 64k). Arieh now has 3 bracelets on his arm: his previous ones were a $2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha in 2005 and a $3,000 Limit Hold’em in 1999! The player now has more than $8M in total live earnings. Arieh particularly finished 3rd in the 2004 Main Event where he cashed $2,5M.

The player was pretty emotional in the end: “I mean I don’t know, I think I’m really good, just like everybody else,” he said. “But I haven’t won a bracelet in 15 years, I’ve come close. I think I have three or four seconds in the last six years and I f***ing dog it, like I choke, and I started feeling that pressure again right at the beginning. But I was lucky enough to hold some cards and fought through the mental weakness I guess. But it’s always good, winning money and winning bracelets is always good. I don’t know there’s part of me that like, I feel like I should, that I could be a Hall of Fame inductee. I don’t know inducted but at least a chance to be inducted. So I’ve been thinking about that for a few years, get a third bracelet and maybe I’ll get on the ballot. But now I’ll try to get four.”

AAxx holding up for Josh Arieh

Event #40: H.O.R.S.E. Championship

Kevin Gerhart will return today as the chip leader of the 5-handed final table. He’ll try to take home his third bracelet. The story is the same for Marco Johnson (4th) and Kevin Gerhart (5th) as they both hold two bracelets. Unfortunately some well known names fell close to reach to final day, especially Jake Schwartz (7th), David Benyamine (8th) and Bertrand Grospellier (10th).

Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier

Here is our updated most cashes list:

NameCashesTotal Earnings
🇺🇸 Daniel Zack9$160,864
🇺🇸 Ben Yu9$138,400
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb9$42,776
🇺🇸 Mike Shin9$17,937
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu8$123,247

So who’s going to be the first to reach 10 cashes this year? Time to place your bets!

That’s it for today! See you tomorrow for more bracelets!

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WSOP 2021 Day 23 Digest

The biggest prize since the beginning of the series has been awarded yesterday:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
38$50,000Event #38: High Roller No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed🇦🇺 Michael Addamo$1,132,968

Event #38: High Roller No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed

It almost looks as no surprise to see Michael Addamo win the tournament as he almost lead the tournament from start to finish to win his 3rd WSOP bracelet. However, the heads-up match against Justin Bonomo wasn’t decided at all as Bonomo had the lead at some point with a 3-to-2 chip advantage. In the final hand of the tournament, both players had similar stacks and Adamo finally called a 4-bet allin with KJ. Bonomo showed a speculative T9 and then the flop came QJT giving the lead to Adamo. The dealer then showed a ten on the turn giving trips to Bonomo, but an ace on the river made Adamo a winning straight, and the trophy of course.

To put the win into perspective, let’s have a look at the 6 last live cashes of Adamo:

source: hendonmob.com

Given this amazing run our winner stayed pretty down-to-earth: “Obviously there’s some skill involved, but winning this much is really attributed to luck in the end, so it’s very fortunate. I play a strategy where I put a lot of big bets in. That’s no secret. Sometimes you’re going to be out in the first level and sometimes you’re gonna build up a big stack.”


Michael Addamo now 49th on the total live earnings list with $15.5M

Event #40: H.O.R.S.E. Championship

In the $10k championship twenty players remain. Eric Rodawig is currently in the chip lead, but France has placed two of its legends in David Benyamine (3rd) and Bertrand Grospellier (7th). Many other well known names will fight for title, including Jake Schwartz (11th), Max Pescatori (12th) and Dylan Linde (17th).

Scott Seiver just making the money but losing 22nd

To close the day, let’s have a look at the top 10 earners this year at the world series:

NameTotal EarningsCashes
🇦🇺 Michael Addamo$1,132,9681
🇺🇸 Daniel Lazrus$1,000,0001
🇺🇸 Tyler Cornell$835,0042
🇺🇸 Justin Bonomo$700,2281
🇺🇸 Scott Ball$655,7126
🇺🇸 Michael Noori$642,7735
🇺🇸 Jesse Klein$552,1821
🇺🇸 Jonathan Jaffe$524,5133
🇺🇸 Gal Yifrach$519,5267
🇺🇸 Ryan Leng$518,1293

Have a great day and see you tomorrow!

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