WSOP Day 23 Digest

Here are the results of the night:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
39$1,000Super Seniors No-Limit Hold’em🇺🇸 Michael Blake$359,863
42$600Mixed No-Limit Hold’em / Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 8-Handed🇬🇷 Aristeidis Moschonas$194,759
43$2,500Mixed 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.

Winning tournaments with Q6o

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!

Aristeidis “the Phoenix” Moschonas

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.

Hall of Famer Mike Sexton

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

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇩🇪 Rainer Kempe4th$65,48242$600 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em / Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 8-Handed
🇺🇸 Mike Sexton7th$12,24043$2,500 Mixed Big Bet
🇺🇸 David Benyamine11th$7,19743$2,500 Mixed Big Bet
🇦🇺 Jeff Lisandro15th$5,80243$2,500 Mixed Big Bet
🇺🇸 Chris Ferguson20th$4,84343$2,500 Mixed Big Bet

An update on our notables most cashes rankings:

NameTotal EarningsCashes
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb$252,5349
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu$217,0418
🇺🇸 Chris Ferguson$22,7768
🇦🇺 James Obst$31,9997
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth$61,7526

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

WSOP Day 22 Digest

Three new players received their new jewellery yesterday!

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
34$1,000Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em🇺🇸 Joseph Cheong$687,782
40$1,500Pot-Limit Omaha🇦🇹 Ismael Bojang$298,507
41$10,000Seven Card Stud🇺🇸 John Hennigan$245,451

Joseph Cheong survived the 6,214 contenders of the #34 Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em event. Nine years after his 3rd place in the world famous main event of the WSOP, he clutched the first place of this event.

John Hennigan

Daniel Negreanu couldn’t stop John Hennigan in the Seven Card Stud $10,000 heads-up. John got his hand on a 6th bracelets and he is now tied up with Daniel!

Quite the same type of story for Austria’s player Ismael Bojang, after his 2nd place at last year WSOP $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em event, he finished this $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event #40 at the place all the 1,216 players dreamed about.

The Event #34 Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em enters the top 5 of this WSOP in term of field and prizepool.

#Buy-inEventPrizepoolEntries
3$500BIG 50 No-Limit Hold’em$13,509,43528371
19$1,500Millionaire Maker – No-Limit Hold’em$11,892,1508809
34$1,000Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em$5,592,6006241
32$1,000Seniors No-Limit Hold’em$5,324,4005916
5$50,000High Roller No-Limit Hold’em for the 50th Annual$5,280,000110
#Buy-inEventPrizepoolEntries
3$500BIG 50 No-Limit Hold’em$13,509,43528371
19$1,500Millionaire Maker – No-Limit Hold’em$11,892,1508809
34$1,000Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em$5,592,6006241
32$1,000Seniors No-Limit Hold’em$5,324,4005916
7$400WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em$1,017,0002825

That’s all for today, tomorrow we should see the end of the super senior event (#39), the original $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em / Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 8-Handed (Event #42) and the $2,500 Mixed Big Bet (Event #43). Worth noting that Mike Sexton is 8th in chips for this final table.

WSOP Day 21 Digest

Our winner of the day is named Robert Mitchell, winning the large Event #37 with its 2,808 entries. Robert is not very well known from the masses as he has a “little” $566,654 in total live earnings, his biggest performance until now being a 52nd place in the 2015 Main Event for $137,300.

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
37$800No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack🇺🇸 Robert Mitchell$297,537
A happy bracelet winner

On the side of our notables, we can notice the surprising presence of Phil Ivey, ending a deep run at the 64th. It looks like the 10-bracelets owner might be interested again in the climbing the ranks of greatness. In the legacy category, current “being the greatest” Phil Hellmuth has signed his 6th cash in the series.

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Phil Ivey64th$3,70037$800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth283rd$1,42237$800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack

Now let’s have a quick look at our other events:

In the Event #34: $1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em, Joseph Cheong, 3rd in the 2010 Main Event, leads in the final table at 6 left with 40% of the chips.

And we’ll have another very interesting final table in Event #41: $10,000 Seven Card Stud, as it’s no other than Daniel Negreanu that leads the debates at 7 left in the final table, with slightly less than 30% of the total chips. Also present in this final table are Frank Kassela (3rd, 3 bracelets) and John Hennigan (4th, 5 bracelets).

Will Daniel Negreanu grab a 7th bracelet to reach Billy Baxter and Men Nguyen in the all time race? Can’t wait!

WSOP Day 20 Digest

Two great tournaments ended yesterday!

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
35$10,000Dealers Choice 6-Handed🇺🇸 Adam Friedman$312,417
36$3,000No-Limit Hold’em Shootout🇺🇸 David Lambard$207,193

The Event #35 $10,000 Dealer’s Choice 6-Handed was the story of the incredible back-to-back champion Adam Friedman! Winning this exact same tournament last year, he enters the very small circle of the players able to successfuly defend their title.

David Lambard got the upper hand against a stacked final table at the #Event 36 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout. He won the final heads-up against the french pro and poker coach Johan “YoH ViraL” Guilbert. As a side note, beating ‘unknown’ players like Justin Bonomo, Alexandru Papazian or Andrew Lichtenberger is no small feat and a nice story to tell to your kids.

A lot of poker celebrities cashed in yesterday in those tournaments. Like a clockwork, they show their consistency. And speaking of consistency, with his 2nd place, Shaun Deeb should moves 31 spots up to the 8th place of the Player Of the Year race, after being the POY in 2018, what a monster!

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb2nd$193,09035$10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed
🇫🇷 Johan Guilbert2nd$128,04236$3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout
🇺🇸 Matt Glantz3rd$139,12635$10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed
🇺🇸 Andrew Lichtenberger4th$67,70636$3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout
🇺🇸 Justin Bonomo10th$12,93736$3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout

Coming back tomorrow to maybe see the conclusion of the $1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Event #34) and the $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack (Event #37), both of them with around 40 players left.

WSOP Day 19 Digest

This was a pretty calm day but it required to be awake pretty late – after 3 AM this morning – to see the end of two events:

#Buy-inEventPlayerPrize
32$1,000Seniors No-Limit Hold’em🇺🇸 Howard Mash$662,594
38$600WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em Knockout Bounty🇺🇸 Upeshka “gomezhamburg” De Silva$98,263

Event #32: Seniors No-Limit Hold’em, which didn’t appear to be so big at first as limited to 50+ years old only, turned out to be a pretty massive one: 4th in total entries, and 3rd in total prize pool out of 33 completed events!

Top 5 completed events by entries

#Buy-inEventPrizepoolEntries
3$500BIG 50 No-Limit Hold’em$13,509,43528371
19$1,500Millionaire Maker – No-Limit Hold’em$11,892,1508809
9$600No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack$3,229,2756150
32$1,000Seniors No-Limit Hold’em$5,324,4005916
22$1,000Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em$2,927,7003253

Top 5 completed events by prizepool

#Buy-inEventPrizepoolEntries
3$500BIG 50 No-Limit Hold’em$13,509,43528371
19$1,500Millionaire Maker – No-Limit Hold’em$11,892,1508809
32$1,000Seniors No-Limit Hold’em$5,324,4005916
5$50,000High Roller No-Limit Hold’em for the 50th Annual$5,280,000110
9$600No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack$3,229,2756150

As for the notables, two bracelets owners made a deep run in the tournament: Layne Flack (6 bracelets) and Barry Greenstein (3 bracelets), both winning their last bracelet in 2008.

PlayerPlaceEarnings#Event
🇺🇸 Layne Flack20th$22,98832$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Barry Greenstein57th$10,12232$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em

Two other events have reached the table final with very interesting line-ups!

Shaun Deeb, the reigning WSOP Player of the Year and currently 39th, leads the final table Event #35: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed. It is most likely that he will enter the top 10 of the race, and possibly reach 2nd place if he grabs the bracelet! They’re currently five left and Matt Glantz (WSOP records: 66 cashes, $3.1M in earnings) sits with the third stack.

Event #36: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout will resume today with a very stacked final table counting Andrew Lichtenberger, Justin Bonomo, and two well known French pros Johan Guilbert and Adrien Delmas.

Let’s hope for some beautiful action today!

Data source: www.wsop.com