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WSOP Day 27 Recap

The tables of the Rio have been shy of distributing gold jewelry but hopefully the online streets have found their king!

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
55	$1,000	WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em Double Stack	🇺🇸 Jason Gooch	$241,492

Jason Gooch signs his biggest performance to date, slightly more than his Main Event deep run last year, where he ended 36th for $230,475. He’s having a great run this year as the win marks his 7th cash this year. In the run for the crown we found two well known Italians:

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇮🇹 Dario Sammartino	4th	$75,094	55	$1,000 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em Double Stack
🇮🇹 Max Pescatori	9th	$17,348	55	$1,000 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em Double Stack

In the other events still in progress, we’re approaching the final table in Event #54: $1,500 Razz where Jennifer Tilly (5th) and Scott Clements (7th) are still in contention for the title.

The hostilities have started in the famous $50,000 Poker Players Championship, filled with the best of best. Amongst the names we haven’t heard a lot yet are Gus Hansen, Dan Smith and Daniel Cates. Michael Mizrachi has of course joined them, hoping to win his fourth championship win for this single event!

Let’s now have a look at the cashes leaderboard:

Name	Total Earnings	Cashes
🇦🇹 Ismael Bojang	$322,998	10
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb	$261,099	10
🇺🇸 Daniel Zack	$244,185	10
🇺🇸 Steven Wolansky	$34,777	10

Daniel Zack is also currently in the lead for Player of the Year. Ismael Bojang and Shaun Deeb are not far away, respectively 4th and 5th.

That’s it! Have a great day at the tables!

source: www.wsop.com

WSOP Day 26 Digest

Two bracelets were distributed yesterday:

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
47	$10,000	$1,000/$10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em	🇰🇷 Ji young Kim	$167,308
51	$2,500	Mixed Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or Better, Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better	🇧🇷 Yuri Dzivielevski	$213,750

968 ladies entered the this $10,000 event #47, Ji young Kim got all the chips at the end and the coveted bracelet. First cash for her and first bracelet for South Korea in this edition, congratulations!

Yuri Dzivielevski shipped $2,500 Mixed Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or Better, Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better (Event #51). Just like that, adding his best result ever to his résumé.

Let’s not forget the great run of Michael Thompson. At 3 players left, he had only 1 BB left against the 13.5 BB and 10 BB of the two other players Yuri Dzivielevski and Denis Strebkov. He triples up before moving up chip leader and knocking out Denis. Unfortunately for him, Yuri calmly managed to break the run of Michael.

Here is the number of bracelets per country for this WSOP edition

Country	Cashes
🇺🇸 United States	35
🇬🇧 United Kingdom	3
🇧🇷 Brazil	2
🇮🇱 Israel	2
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka	1
🇬🇷 Greece	1
🇰🇷 South Korea	1
🇫🇷 France	1
🇦🇹 Austria	1
🇷🇺 Russian Federation	1

Quite some events to follow for the next days:

The road is still long for the remaining 457 players of the incredible Event #50 Monster Stack – $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em and its fabulous prizepool of $8,147,250. Notables Pierre Neuville, Adrien Allain and Joe Cada are still there in the top 20. Let’s not forget Roman Korenev, winner of the #26 Marathon Event just a week ago who is 4th in chips right now!

It will be the third day tomorrow for the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed (Event #52). The recent $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw (Event #49) bracelet winner Luke Schwartz, second in chips, is still amongst the 72 players left!

See you tomorrow!

WSOP Day 25 Digest

United Kingdom hits the double-combo in yesterday’s results!

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
45	$25,000	Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller	🇬🇧 Stephen Chidwick	$1,618,417
48	$2,500	No-Limit Hold’em	🇺🇸 Ari Engel	$427,399
49	$10,000	Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw	🇬🇧 Lukas Schwartz	$273,336

It took 53 cashes in the World Series for Stephen Chidwick to win his first bracelet. The former GPI #1 (currently #3), 18th in the all time live earnings with $24,749,230 won the $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller and also booked his biggest live prize. The debated-ably current best player in the world is now on an amazing run of six $1M+ prizes since March 2018.

Getting ready to punch someone with his bracelet

Alex Epstein came close to make 2 bracelets in 2 WSOP cashes ever as he finished 5th, already holding the bracelet of Event #8: $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em.

Event #48 $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em has ended with Ari Engel grabbing all the chips. The poker coach won his first bracelet and now counts a decent 43 WSOP cashes.

Ari “Never give up” Engel and his 15 years of WSOP experience

Event #49 $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw has crowned Lukas Schwartz, giving the United Kingdom its 3rd bracelet for this edition.

A truly dense day as our well-known list has lots of close first place finishers:

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇺🇸 Robert Mizrachi	4th	$497,112	45	$25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller
🇺🇸 Erik Seidel	6th	$264,186	45	$25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller
🇺🇸 Mike Gorodinsky	7th	$32,127	49	$10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw
🇺🇸 Brian Hastings	8th	$32,127	49	$10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw

Also, Stephen Chidwick now tops the top 10 biggest earners of this edition

Name	Total Earnings	Cashes
🇬🇧 Stephen Chidwick	$1,618,417	1
🇬🇧 Benjamin Heath	$1,499,012	3
🇺🇸 John Gorsuch	$1,347,173	3
🇺🇸 Femi Fashakin	$1,147,449	1
🇹🇼 James Chen	$1,007,091	3
🇺🇸 Andrew Lichtenberger	$994,900	4
🇺🇸 Matthew Gonzales	$895,064	7
🇯🇵 Kazuki Ikeuchi	$839,790	2
🇨🇦 Paul Cullen	$709,183	1
🇺🇸 Robert Mizrachi	$699,614	3

See you tomorrow for the end of the ladies event!

source: www.wsop.com

WSOP Day 24 Digest

A single bracelet has been distributed during the night:

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
44	$1,500	No-Limit Hold’em Bounty	🇮🇱 Asi Moshe	$253,933

A couple of month after his first place in the €1,650 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Deepstack during the WSOP-E, Asi Moshe shows us his consistency by shipping this Event #44: $1,500 Bounty No-Limit Hold’em for his second bracelet.

Event #45: $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller is getting close to an end, with 7 players left. Stephen Chidwick and Alex Epstein are the two chip leaders with around 81BB and 68BB respectively. Robert Mizrachi and Erik Seidel are still in the run for a very exciting final table!

The top 5 completed events in prizepool:

#	Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
3	$500	BIG 50 No-Limit Hold’em	$13,509,435	28371
19	$1,500	Millionaire Maker – No-Limit Hold’em	$11,892,150	8809
45	$25,000	Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller	$6,602,500	278
34	$1,000	Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em	$5,592,600	6241
32	$1,000	Seniors No-Limit Hold’em	$5,324,400	5916

While lots of big names have failed close the final table of the Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller, Phil Ivey is clearly on a mission. Is he looking for his first Hold’em bracelet or is he getting in all time bracelets race?

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇺🇸 Ben Tollerene	11th	$92,102	45	$25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller
🇺🇸 Paul Volpe	15th	$60,732	45	$25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller
🇺🇸 Ryan Laplante	29th	$43,270	45	$25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller
🇺🇸 Justin Bonomo	31st	$43,270	45	$25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller
🇺🇸 Phil Ivey	76th	$2,752	44	$1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty

We’ll end this recap noting that Event #49: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw reached the final table featuring Brian Hastings (4 bracelets, 41 cashes) and Mike Gorodinsky (2 bracelets, 24 cashes).

We wish you all a great day!

WSOP Day 23 Digest

Here are the results of the night:

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
39	$1,000	Super Seniors No-Limit Hold’em	🇺🇸 Michael Blake	$359,863
42	$600	Mixed No-Limit Hold’em / Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 8-Handed	🇬🇷 Aristeidis Moschonas	$194,759
43	$2,500	Mixed Big Bet	🇺🇸 Loren Klein	$127,808

The seniors events are truly very successful. Event #39, reserved to 60+ years old only, attracted 2,650 players, making it the 7th biggest event so far! Michael Blake came out victorious of this large field, grabbing a bracelet as his 3rd WSOP cash, all three being in WSOP Super Seniors events.

The Greek Aristeidis Moschonas had even more success than Michael Blake as he took down Event #42: $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em / Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 8-Handed as his second WSOP cash ever, coming back with a stack of half a big blind after the first four levels!

Mike Sexton (1 bracelet, 70 WSOP cashes) sadly finished 7th in Event #43: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet for his first cash of the series. It is Loren Klein, now owner of 4 bracelets, who took the win for $127,808 in this specialists event.

Event #43 brang lots of known pros, but its Rainer Kempe who came the closest to win in Event #42.

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇩🇪 Rainer Kempe	4th	$65,482	42	$600 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em / Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 8-Handed
🇺🇸 Mike Sexton	7th	$12,240	43	$2,500 Mixed Big Bet
🇺🇸 David Benyamine	11th	$7,197	43	$2,500 Mixed Big Bet
🇦🇺 Jeff Lisandro	15th	$5,802	43	$2,500 Mixed Big Bet
🇺🇸 Chris Ferguson	20th	$4,843	43	$2,500 Mixed Big Bet

An update on our notables most cashes rankings:

Name	Total Earnings	Cashes
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb	$252,534	9
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	$217,041	8
🇺🇸 Chris Ferguson	$22,776	8
🇦🇺 James Obst	$31,999	7
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth	$61,752	6

Currently underway, Event #45: $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller brings a whole new lot of top pros eager to play the biggest events only, such as Ben Tollerene (9th) or Stephen Chidwick (26th). The event just reached the money at 42 left.

That’s it for today, GL to all of you playing in Vegas!

Data source: www.wsop.com