WSOP 2021 Day 21 Digest

Here are yesterday results:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
30$1,500Event #30: MONSTER STACK No-Limit Hold’em (freezeout)🇺🇸 Michael Noori$610,347
34$1,500Event #34: Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw🇺🇸 David “Bakes” Baker$87,837
35$500Event #35: Freezeout No-Limit Holdem🇺🇸 Anthony Koutsos$167,272

Event #30: MONSTER STACK No-Limit Hold’em (freezeout)

Ryan Leng came super close from winning a second bracelet this year but finally fell in a quick heads-up match to let Michael Noori take the trophy. Noori is no stranger at the world series as he’s cashed 54 times since 2009 but his best performance until now was “only” a 4th place in 2016 for $74k.

Mister Noori getting one of the biggest prize this year

Event #34: Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw

In the $1,500 event, David “Bakes” Baker won his third lifetime bracelet by defeating a 285 players field. David previous bracelets were more than 9 years ago: he won the $10k H.O.R.S.E. in 2012 and the $10k No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw in 2010, “Bakes” now totals more than $3M in live earnings.

It’s no surprise that the player felt happy but quite honest nonetheless: “It feels amazing. I wanted it real bad. I don’t know what I was doing heads-up those last few times.”

David “Bakes” Baker

Event #35: Freezeout No-Limit Holdem

The $500 event has attracted no less than 2,931 gamblers for a total prizepool of $1.2M. Anthony Koutsos, a real estate agent with until then a best live cash of $6k got in another dimension by grabbing a first bracelet and the $167k prize. That said, he stayed relatively jaded after the win: “the money doesn’t mean much, it was more about the competition and the drive to win.”

Anthony Koutsos

Event #36: Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship

The $10k event has not ended yet but only 10 players still have a chance to win. Nearly all remaining players have millions in live earnings. Jake Schwartz and Adam Friedman comfortably lead the tournament with 3 times over the stack of Mike Gorodinsky (3rd). Friedman will attempt to make history by winning the tournament for a 3rd consecutive time so all eyes will be on him!

Next in chips is Daniel Negreanu, followed by Phil Hellmuth who continues his casual WSOP run, attempting to reach a 5th final table this year. Mike Matusow stands in the 6th place so everything is in place for fireworks when play will resume today!

Two times reigning champion Adam Friedman

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

The huge $50k high roller has started with one of the sharkiest field ever seen at the WSOP as most names there are very well known pros taking their chance. It’s difficult to say who has an edge in this field but giving his recent results Michael Addamo definitely looks like a favorite as he’s already taken the chip lead at 21 left.

See you tomorrow to see how these crazy events unfold!

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WSOP 2021 Day 20 Digest

We’ve had three new bracelet winners yesterday:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
32$3,000Event #32: H.O.R.S.E.🇺🇸 Jim Collopy$173,823
33$800Event #33: 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack🇮🇱 Ran Koller$269,478
4$888Online Event #4: WSOP.com PLO Crazy 8’s🇺🇸 Ryan “Santasbzack2” Stoker$95,338

Event #32: H.O.R.S.E.

Jim Collopy came out on top of the $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. event to get his second bracelet. His first was a win in the 2013 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific for A$69k.

The 32-years-old poker pro had to defeat a lot of known names to get the biggest prize, including Daniel Negreanu (8th), Maria Ho (5th) and Eli Elezra (4th).

Jim Collopy

Event #33: 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack

After cashing once this year, the Israeli Ran Koller won the event for $269k, where he cocaceously defeated another Ran (Ilani), also from Israel, in heads-up. The event is currently the third biggest tournaments in volume with 2,778 entries.

Ran Koller with bracelet number #1

Online Event #4: WSOP.com PLO Crazy 8’s

Ryan “Santasbzack2” Stoker of Washington won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the $888 event on WSOP.com (NV/NJ). Ryan had until then 17 WSOP cashes, his best performance being a 5th place and $37k on the WSOP circuit.

Some stats!

Here is the top 5 average cash for players with a minimum of 4 cashes:

NameAverage EarningsCashes
🇺🇸 Scott Ball$141,7784
🇺🇸 Anthony Zinno$87,9634
🇺🇸 Ari Engel$67,3565
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth$64,0675
🇺🇸 John Monnette$63,9264

See you tomorrow to see who advances in the $10k event #36: Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship which is of course star filled!

If you have any comments to make, or if you want to see some particular statistics, please leave a comment to let us know!

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WSOP 2021 Day 19 Digest

What can we say? The poker brat never ceases to entertain the WSOP this year:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
31$1,500Event #31: No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth$84,951

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

He finally did it! Starting second in chips at 10 left, Phil Hellmuth made it happen to reach his 16th bracelet, making him even harder to reach in the bracelet race.

“I’ve wanted a deuce-to-seven bracelet ever since the 1980’s because it was the coolest bracelet to win. It’s the one tournament that Chip, Doyle, and all the big named poker players showed up for.”

Phil tried to explain what happened the other days: “I’ve studied these games my whole life, so I have all the knowledge. What’s been killing me is that I get tired and I blow it. Or I get tilted and I blow it. I’ll be down here at the Rio and it’s one in the morning and I’m so tired. And I just play a bunch of bad hands and I’m out.”

Phil “top brat” Hellmuth

Here are the other results of the tournaments:

PlayerPlaceEarnings
🇮🇹 Dario Sammartino6th$13,463
🇺🇸 Ryan Riess9th$7,602
🇺🇸 Daniel Zack29th$2,674
🇺🇸 Brian Rast39th$2,445
🇺🇸 John Racener40th$2,445

That’s not all!

In the $1,500 event #30: MONSTER STACK No-Limit Hold’em, Ryan Leng, winner of event #23 is in the chip lead. 2,342 players entered the tournament and the 148 remaining will battle for a nice $610k payday.

20 players are still trying to take the win in the $3,000 Event #32: H.O.R.S.E., featuring Eli Elezra (2nd), Maria Ho (11th) and Daniel Negreanu (14th). 282 players entered the tournaments and $173k is up for the top prize.

Let’s have a look at the updated most cashes list:

NameCashesTotal Earnings
🇺🇸 Daniel Zack8$154,061
🇺🇸 Ben Yu7$133,436
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb7$35,488
🇺🇸 Dylan Linde6$238,034
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu6$79,980
🇺🇸 Roland Israelashvili6$76,993
🇺🇸 Ryan Riess6$31,310
🇺🇸 Thomas Zanot6$16,335
🇺🇸 Mike Shin6$13,601
🇺🇸 Ari Engel5$336,780
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth (4 final tables)5$320,333

What a day! We hope the WSOP will continue this exciting run!

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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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WSOP 2021 Day 17 Digest

Aaaaand…we have a double bracelet winner this year in Anthony Zinno!

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
25$5,000Event #25: 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em🇺🇸 Scott Ball$562,667
27$1,500Event #27: H.O.R.S.E.🇺🇸 Anthony Zinno$160,636

Event #25: 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em

Scott Ball came out on top on one of the toughest tournament so far. The $5,000 event attracted a very high level field and 578 entries. With no more than 20 lines of his hendon mob profile, Scott Ball will smash his total live earnings, previously at $100k.

Ball stopped John Racener (6th, 81k) and Galen Hall (2nd, $347k) in their quest to get a second bracelet.

Scott Ball with the big win smile

Event #27: H.O.R.S.E.

Anthony Zinno makes history by taking down his second bracelet this year in the $1,500 event. This makes it his 4th bracelet and puts him in 32nd place in the bracelets WSOP rankings.

“The feeling is indescribable,” Zinno said . “Poker is my passion and to be so fortunate and run so well…what can I say?”

Anthony “RAZZ” Zinno

Still in progress…

In the $10K event #29: Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em, Chance Kornuth now leads the final six, and will be joined by Dan Shak (4th) and Joao Vieira (5th). The tournament registered 66 entries and the players will fight for the $194k top prize.

Here are the notables cashes of the day:

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 John Racener6th$81,73625$5,000 Event #25: 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇮🇹 Max Pescatori8th$15,21827$1,500 Event #27: H.O.R.S.E.
🇺🇸 Nick Petrangelo13th$27,15025$5,000 Event #25: 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Joe McKeehen13th$7,59127$1,500 Event #27: H.O.R.S.E.
🇨🇦 Vanessa Kade19th$21,83825$5,000 Event #25: 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu22nd$21,83825$5,000 Event #25: 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇨🇦 Xuan Liu33rd$15,20025$5,000 Event #25: 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Ryan Laplante34th$15,20025$5,000 Event #25: 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em

That’s it for today! GL at the tables if you’re playing!

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