WSOP Day 41 Digest

No bracelets were distributed yesterday but several tournaments are underway.

The Event #77: $3,000 Limit Hold’em 6-Handed started its day 1 with 193 players and ended with 57 players. The chip leader for day 2 is Ron Carmona with 147,000 chips.

Ron Carmona, chip looking

Event #75: $1000 + $111 Little One for One Drop is looking great with 5,463 players, including its Day 1C played yesterday. 2,025 players will come back for the Day 2, lead by Stefan Ivanov with 658,000.

Stefan Ivanov, looking happy

On the 109 players which started Event #90: $50,000 Final Fifty No-Limit Hold’em, only 45 will come back for the day 2. At this kind of limit, a lot of notables will still be able to compete: Dan Smith, Adrian Mateos, Fedor Holz, Daniel Negreanu, Christoph Vogelsang and many more. All of them are behind the current chip leader: Seth Davies with over two millions in chips.

Seth Davies, chip leading

Obviously the Event #73: No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT – World Championship is catching all the lights, bursting its bubble yesterday. The unlucky bubble boy, Ryan Pochedl made all the 1,286 remaining players quite happy. As usual, he wins his entry for the next edition.

On the other side of the chip count, everything looks great for the Norwegian pro player Preben Stokkan, who will be the starting chip leader at the beginning of the Day 4 with 2,184,000 chips.

Preben Stokkan

Event #78: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty will start today. GL for all players still playing at the world series!

source: wsop.com

WSOP Day 40 Digest

During the heat of the Main Event, an online event has discreetly ended:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
76$800WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed🇨🇦 Shawn “bucky21” Buchanan$223,119

Shawn Buchanan has just won his first bracelet in this event attracting 1,560 participants. Shawn Buchanan, a regular of the live circuit, has $2,704,724 in earnings and 56 cashes in the since 2004 in the world series.

In the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT, day 2C has ended, and the field has been reduced to 2,880 players. The separated fields will merge when play resume on day 3.

The payouts have been announced as the total prizepool of $80,548,600 have been announced! The minimum cash is $15,000 and all players reaching the final table will be millionaires, but maybe not so much after taxes and shares distribution!

1$10,000,000
2$6,000,000
3$4,000,000

The current chip leader Julian Milliard has now 947,900 chips.

Also in the top 100:

  • Sam Greenwood: 535,800
  • Mike McDonald: 516,700
  • Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier: 428,200
  • David “ODB” Baker, winner of Event #66: 418,700
  • Our dear user Chad Power: 401,300
Joseph Cheong, 141st and 354,500 chips

Play will resume later today as we advance quickly towards the bubble!

WSOP Day 39 Digest

The main event is taking much of the attention, as it should, and we had no new champion yesterday.

1,100 on 3,248 players survived this day 2 AB, , combining the qualified players of day 1A and day 1B.

Day 3 will start on Monday, waiting for the players being able to get to the end of today’s day 2C.

As usual with this massive event, many well-known players are losing quickly:  Justin Bonomo, Stephen Chidwick, Chris Ferguson, Phil Galfond, Daniel Negreanu and Ryan Riess.

On the other side of the chip count reports, we can see much had better runs Qui Nguyen, former winner of the main event in 2016 with a stack of 600,000 or Anton Morgenstern who bagged 735,000. They are both behind the current chip leader Timothy Su his 800,000 chips. With the current blind level at 1,000/2,000 they are quite comfortable for the next day!

Timothy Su, current chip leader of the main event.

The Event #75: $1000 +$111 Little One for One Drop finished Day 1 with 56 players left, including Event #66 winner David “ODB” Baker, currently 34th.

Without any other event started, it’s already time to say good bye, see you tomorrow!

WSOP Day 38 Digest

The bracelet distribution is slowing down with the start of the Main Event:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
71$500SALUTE TO WARRIORS – $500 No-Limit Hold’em🇺🇸 Susan Faber$121,161

We had to wait 38 days to have a women win an open event! Susan Faber had to defeat none other than Rob Stark in heads-up to win her place on the iron throne!

Susan Faber, first bracelet and second WSOP cash

Few notables made a deep run in the tournament except one legend:

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Mike Sexton142nd$86571$500 SALUTE TO WARRIORS – $500 No-Limit Hold’em

The Main Event total entries count is still to be defined as late registration are still possible into day 2, but the 8,000 mark is broken, making it the second largest ever! It should end as the 5th largest event of this 2019 edition.

Here is the current top 5 events in entries:

#Buy-inEventPrizepoolEntries
3$500BIG 50 No-Limit Hold’em$13,509,43528371
61$400COLOSSUS$4,382,51513109
64$888Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em$8,139,85210185
19$1,500Millionaire Maker – No-Limit Hold’em$11,892,1508809
34$1,000Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em$5,592,6006241

So many well known faces have entered the tournament. However, some like Phil Ivey or Liv Boeree unfortunately didn’t make day 2. In the chipcount leaderboard, three players have managed to quintuple their starting stack, including Mike McDonald who is currently second. Mike has accumulated $13,290,044 in total live earnings since 2007, and despite being 43th in the all time money list, he “only” managed to cash ten times for $220,833 at the WSOP.

Phil Ivey before his one hour bust

There are at this moment no other events in progress other than the Main, but we still have 17 events to bag, starting with the Little One for One Drop today!

WSOP Day 37 Digest

Big tournaments have ended yesterday and lots of prizes has been distributed:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
70$5,000No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed🇵🇹 Joao Vieira$758,011
72$10,000Limit Hold’em Championship🇫🇮 Juha Helppi$306,622
74$3,200WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em High Roller🇺🇸 Brandon Adams$411,561

The lovely Event #70: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed broke its entry record with 815 participants. Team Winamax’s Joao Vieira, who started the day chip leader, came on top of this packed final table, defeating 2009 Main Event champion Joe Cada in the heads-up.

“When you sit down it’s just business and you try to do the best you can and compete to your full abilities.” – Joao about defeating his fellow teammate Pierre Calamusa (4th)

A nice rail for the winner Joao Vieira

In Event #72: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship, Finland’s player Juha Helppi is the new world champion! Juha is a regular of the live circuit, he’s second on Finland’s all time money list with $7,426,146, behind the one and only Patrik Antonius!

The happy Juha Helppi

In about 12 hours of play, Brandon Adams, a regular of the high roller live circuit, made his skills do the work to grab the bracelet of Event #74: $3,200 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em High Roller. He defeated multiple bracelet holder, such as Norbert Szecsi (6th) and Calvin Anderson (4th). The event attracted a healthy 593 players in this 3rd edition of the online high roller.

Here are all the prestigious finishes yesterday:

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Joe Cada2nd$468,48870$5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed
🇺🇸 Olivier Busquet5th$154,11270$5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed
🇺🇸 John Racener11th$20,96372$10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship
🇮🇱 Eli Elezra12th$20,96372$10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship
🇦🇺 James Obst16th$15,12872$10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship

Flight C of the Main Event is on the menu today as we hope the tournament will break new records!