WSOP Day 36 Digest

We have lots of new world champions since this night:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
64$888Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em🇺🇸 Rick Alvarado$888,888
66$1,500Limit Hold’em🇺🇸 David “ODB” Baker$161,139
69$1,000Mini Main Event🇫🇷 Jeremy Saderne$628,654

It’s finally Rick Alvarado, 8th when starting the final table (a coincidence, really?), that took down Event #64: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em. Rick bought in seven times in the tournament to grab his first bracelet. Aleksandras Rusinovas, chip leader at the beginning of the day, had a rough day and finished 5th, while Vivian Saliba ended 4th.

Rick Alvarado, a bracelet and 8 cashes this year

Event #66: $1,500 Limit Hold’em made David “ODB” Baker a two time bracelet winner, his first being in 2012 in the $2,500 8-Game Mix.

David “ODB” Baker, one bracelet and 9 cashes

The brand new Event #69: $1,000 Mini Main Event saw Jeremy Saderne ending with all the chips. The Frenchman had no more than $100,000 in live total earnings until making this huge score! We almost crowned a women as Lula Taylor (2nd) and her particularly aggressive style was very close to win the whole event.

Jeremy Saderne, one bracelet and “only” 5 cashes

Here are the significant results from a few familiar faces:

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Chris Ferguson5th$33,94866$1,500 Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Matt Glantz15th$6,47366$1,500 Limit Hold’em
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu20th$4,36066$1,500 Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Anthony Zinno62nd$2,55466$1,500 Limit Hold’em

Chris Ferguson continues his journey on the consistency road and now sits on top of the most cashes list:

NameTotal EarningsCashes
🇺🇸 Chris Ferguson$235,58215
🇺🇸 Jon Turner$193,35514
🇧🇷 Marcelo Giordano Mendes$98,44714
🇺🇸 Steven Wolansky$89,97814
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb$525,01913

Event #70: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed has reached a very exciting final table lead by Joao Vieira and featuring Olivier Busquet (3rd), Joe Cada (4th) and Pierre Calamusa (5th).

In Event #71: SALUTE TO WARRIORS – $500 No-Limit Hold’em, action stopped at 8-left. The chip leader is Taylor Carroll, anciently maintaining the beautiful B-52H bomber for the US airforce and playing his third live tournament ever!

Flight B of the Main Event starts today so grab your seats tight!

source: www.wsop.com

WSOP Day 35 Digest

We just witnessed the first double win in these series as Robert Campbell took Event #67!

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
67$10,000Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better🇦🇺 Robert Campbell$385,763

This last June 13th, Robert won his first bracelet ever in Event #33: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw, besting 466 players for the title. Twenty days later, he repeats this sick run for a second bracelet, showing how good he is in all poker variants! What a great summer for the Aussie as he’s currently cashed 7 times with four final tables!

The double finger

An emotionally rich event as Yueqi Zhu has finished runner-up for the second time in three days!

“More than pure. Whatever that next phase is after pure. It was really sick. I felt like ‘Holy f***ing s**t man, he just got barbecued, that poor man.” – A few kind words from Robert about his opponent.

However, Yueqi Zhu will be hard to pity as he’s currently ranked 7th in most cashes and bagged $454,535 this summer.

The possibly slightly frustrated Yueqi Zhu

As often in these specialists event we have a lot of notables running deep, with “The Mouth” close to win a 5th bracelet:

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Mike Matusow4th$116,25567$10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
🇺🇸 Eli Elezra11th$23,66467$10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
🇺🇸 Anthony Zinno12th$23,66467$10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
🇺🇸 Bryn Kenney16th$17,06467$10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better

The huge Event #64: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em with its 10,185 entries has now selected its final ten players, featuring brazilian pro Vivian Saliba, currently 3rd and holding 10% of all chips, Lithuanian chip leader Aleksandras Rusinovas holding 28%.

Vivian Saliba, probably making her sponsor pretty happy

The $1,000 Mini Main Event has stopped at 8 left. Only two days were necessary to eliminate most of the original 5,521 players that joined the starting blocks of the 30-minutes level tournament, which will pay a lovely $628,654 to its champion.

Another huge milestone as today marks the beginning of Flight A of the famous Event #73, the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT – World Championship! Shuffle up and deal!

source: www.wsop.com

WSOP Day 34 Recap

Two events ended last night, one live and one online.

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
65$10,000Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better 🇺🇸 Nick Schulman$463,670
68$1,000WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em Championship🇺🇸 Nicholas Baris$303,739

“That’s long enough!”; it might have been something Nick Schulman told himself before this final table. Seven years was long enough before getting his 3rd WSOP bracelet, even with some nice cashes along the way. Nick beat quite a heavy three-way composed of Brian Hastings in 2nd place, Joe Hachem in 3rd.

Nick Schulman

Our second winner of the day is Nicholas “Illari” Baris, beating a field of 1,750 players in the Event #68: $1,000 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em Championship. With $303,738.75 of prize money for the 1st place, he signs his best result and first bracelet. The final table was stacked with known players, David “YoungPitts” Baker (4th), Chris “Camdi” Ferguson (7th) and Tara “bertperton” Cain (2nd). The final heads-up was against Tara who had 70% of the chips at that time.

Nicholas “Illari” Baris

About the ongoing events before wrapping up, the Event #64: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em is down to 91 players left at the end of its second day.

The 6 last players will come back today for Event #66: $1,500 Limit Hold’em., including Chris Ferguson who was playing the Event #68 on his iPad!

Those online events are a way of multi-tabling your WSOP!

The Event #67: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better has 19 players remaining. We lost Erik Seidel and the Mizrachi brothers amongst others. Well-know players still remains, like Eli Elezra, Mike Matusow or even Yueqi Zhu.

Hope you enjoy the read, see you!

source: wsop.com

WSOP Day 33 Recap

Here are the results of the night at the World Series:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
61$400COLOSSUS🇰🇷 Sejin Park$451,272
63$1,500Omaha Mix🇷🇺 Anatolii Zyrin$199,838

The huge $400 COLOSSUS with its 13,109 entries crowned the South Korean player Sejin Park. The player won the tournament to mark his first cash in the WSOP. The previous biggest live tournament of the player was a $7,933 first place in Manila.

The Colossus is now our second largest event in entries:

#Buy-inEventPrizepoolEntries
3$500BIG 50 No-Limit Hold’em$13,509,43528371
61$400COLOSSUS$4,382,51513109
19$1,500Millionaire Maker – No-Limit Hold’em$11,892,1508809
34$1,000Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em$5,592,6006241
9$600No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack$3,229,2756150

In Event #63: $1,500 Omaha Mix, last year’s winner Yueqi Zhu couldn’t make magic happen again and failed in the second spot for $123,466. He offered the win to the Russian online streamer Anatolii Zyrin (14 WSOP cashes since 2017).

A few notable pros made the money in this $1,500 Omaha Mix, Barry Greenstein making its 7th cash this year.

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Phil Laak20th$7,44863$1,500 Omaha Mix
🇺🇸 Ryan Riess21st$7,44863$1,500 Omaha Mix
🇺🇸 Barry Greenstein35th$4,92563$1,500 Omaha Mix
🇦🇺 Jeff Lisandro95th$2,28763$1,500 Omaha Mix

Event #65: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better has reached the final table and stopped at seven players. Our current podium is composed of Nick Schulman (2 bracelets), Brian Hastings (4 bracelets) and 2005 Main Event champion Joe Hachem!

Today will see the start of the new $1,000 Mini Main Event with its turbo structure and the lovely $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed!

source: www.wsop.com

WSOP Day 32 Recap

Only one bracelet was distributed yesterday and it was for Scott Seiver which got his very own third WSOP bracelets! He came back for the final heads-up with Andrey Zhigalov and followed the trend from last night were he went from last in chip with only 2 big bets in front of him at 3 left to chip leader.

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
62$10,000Razz🇺🇸 Scott Seiver$301,421
Scott Seiver

As usual for this type of buy-in, some well known pro players took their share of the prizepool.

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Chris Ferguson3rd$131,19462$10,000 Razz
🇺🇸 Daniel Zack4th$94,30562$10,000 Razz
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu5th$69,22362$10,000 Razz
🇺🇸 Mike Gorodinsky11th$20,52862$10,000 Razz
🇮🇹 Max Pescatori17th$14,87262$10,000 Razz
🇦🇺 James Obst18th$14,87262$10,000 Razz

From 13,109 players to 8 in only 3 days of tournament, that’s the Event #61 $400 COLOSSUS for you! The finalists will come back today for the last day:

  • Georgios Kapalas: 53bb
  • Andrew Barber: 45bb
  • Maksim Kalman: 43bb
  • Ryan Depaulo: 36bb
  • Juan Lopez: 28bb
  • Sejin Park: 24bb
  • Norson Saho: 24bb
  • Patrick Miller: 9bb

Everyone has a chance to get near half a million dollars for the first place!

The Event #63 $1,500 Omaha Mix stopped at four players left. Once again in this edition of the WSOP, a defending champion will be present at the table: Yueqi Zhu won this exact tournament last year! The previous one was Adam Friedman a few days ago, who won the Event #35 $10,000 Dealer’s Choice 6-Handed for the second time in a row!

The defending champion: Yueqi Zau
  • Anatolii Zyrin: 66bb
  • Yueqi Zhu: 55bb
  • Mesbah Guerfi: 39bb
  • James Van Alstyne: 12bb

39 players put their chips in a bag at the end of day 2 of the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better (Event #65), including some notables, in no particular order: Joe Hachem, Joao Vieira, Chris Ferguson, Brian Hastings, Yuri Dzivielevski and Michael Mizrachi.

See you tomorrow to share the outcome of these events!

source: wsop.com