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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-in	Event	Player	Prize
37	$800	No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack	🇺🇸 Robert Mitchell	$297,537

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.

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇺🇸 Phil Ivey	64th	$3,700	37	$800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth	283rd	$1,422	37	$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-in	Event	Player	Prize
35	$10,000	Dealers Choice 6-Handed	🇺🇸 Adam Friedman	$312,417
36	$3,000	No-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!

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb	2nd	$193,090	35	$10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed
🇫🇷 Johan Guilbert	2nd	$128,042	36	$3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout
🇺🇸 Matt Glantz	3rd	$139,126	35	$10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed
🇺🇸 Andrew Lichtenberger	4th	$67,706	36	$3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout
🇺🇸 Justin Bonomo	10th	$12,937	36	$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-in	Event	Player	Prize
32	$1,000	Seniors No-Limit Hold’em	🇺🇸 Howard Mash	$662,594
38	$600	WSOP.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-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
9	$600	No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack	$3,229,275	6150
32	$1,000	Seniors No-Limit Hold’em	$5,324,400	5916
22	$1,000	Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em	$2,927,700	3253

Top 5 completed events by 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
32	$1,000	Seniors No-Limit Hold’em	$5,324,400	5916
5	$50,000	High Roller No-Limit Hold’em for the 50th Annual	$5,280,000	110
9	$600	No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack	$3,229,275	6150

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.

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇺🇸 Layne Flack	20th	$22,988	32	$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Barry Greenstein	57th	$10,122	32	$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

WSOP Day 18 Digest

Like yesterday, three bracelets found a way to their new owners!

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
26	$2,620	No-Limit Hold’em Marathon	🇷🇺 Roman Korenev	$477,401
30	$1,000	Pot-Limit Omaha	🇺🇸 Luis Zedan	$236,673
33	$1,500	Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw	🇦🇺 Robert Campbell	$144,027

Event #26: $2,620 No-Limit Hold’em Marathon ended with after a long 6 days of battle with Roman Korenev taking the victory after a sick comeback of 12 double-ups against Jared Koppel.

Luis Zedan signs his first 6 digits cash in the Event #30: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha with $236,673 added to his bankroll.

Event #33 $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw ended with the victory Robert Campbell, signing there his 3rd final table of this edition: 5th place at the Event #18: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better and 8th place at the Event #10: $1,500 Dealers Choice.

No huge performance for the poker fans unfortunately. Erik Seidel signed its 4th cash in these series, also currently sitting 4th in the all time cashes count.

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇫🇷 Johan “YoH ViraL” Guilbert	13th	$21,208	26	$2,620 No-Limit Hold’em Marathon
🇷🇺 Vitaly Lunkin	75th	$2,613	30	$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
🇺🇸 Olivier Busquet	77th	$5,444	26	$2,620 No-Limit Hold’em Marathon
🇺🇸 Erik Seidel	131st	$1,746	30	$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

The Russian pro Roman Korenev enters the earnings top 10

Name	Total Earnings	Cashes
🇬🇧 Benjamin Heath	$1,488,752	2
🇺🇸 John Gorsuch	$1,345,751	2
🇺🇸 Femi Fashakin	$1,147,449	1
🇺🇸 Andrew Lichtenberger	$919,090	2
🇯🇵 Kazuki Ikeuchi	$830,783	1
🇨🇦 Paul Cullen	$709,183	1
🇺🇸 Sam Soverel	$640,924	1
🇺🇸 Lokesh Garg	$619,017	1
🇮🇱 Rafi Elharar	$534,574	1
🇷🇺 Roman Korenev	$478,475	2

Seniors will crown their best player tomorrow with the conclusion of the Event #32: Seniors No-Limit Hold’em, and hopefully many more results!

WSOP Day 17 Digest

Jumping into the results, we’ve had two happy endings during the night:

#	Buy-in	Event	Player	Prize
29	$10,000	HORSE	🇨🇦 Greg Mueller	$425,347
31	$3,000	No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed	🇫🇷 Thomas Cazayous	$414,766

The Canadian Greg Mueller won a new bracelet in the star studded $10,000 HORSE event. Greg is no stranger to the WSOP as he already won two bracelets in 2009, now cumulating $2,846,696 only in the WSOP.

The Stud Hi-Lo winning hand, and also Greg

Lots of big names have reached the HORSE final table, with Scott Clements a few inches away from a second bracelet in these series:

Player	Place	Earnings	#	Event
🇮🇹 Dario Sammartino	3rd	$184,854	29	$10,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Scott Clements	4th	$132,288	29	$10,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Phil Galfond	8th	$41,625	29	$10,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Anthony Zinno	10th	$32,683	29	$10,000 HORSE
🇺🇸 Justin Bonomo	19th	$15,176	29	$10,000 HORSE

Our second winner is less known from the masses, Thomas Cazayous from France, in his second WSOP participation has just won his first bracelet in the $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed.

We’ve compiled a list of big names so see how many cashes they had, and indeed we can see that a few well known pros are grinding hard in this edition!

Name	Total Earnings	Cashes
🇦🇺 James Obst	$27,078	6
🇺🇸 Chris Ferguson	$15,605	6
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth	$58,941	5
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb	$52,157	5
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	$58,745	4
🇺🇸 Joe Cada	$15,186	4

Note: Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson and Daniel Negreanu are respectively 1st, 2nd and 3rd in all times cashes. Decent consistency!

We should see tonight the conclusion of Event #26: $2,620 No-Limit Hold’em Marathon and Event #30: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha as they’ve reached the final table!