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WSOP 2023 Day 37 Digest

Action slows down to make place for the main event:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$5,300	Online Event #13: $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Championship	$2,040,000	408

Online Event #13: $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Championship

The tournament played online until six players remained, then moving to a live setting to play the final table and crown the champion.

After five cashes this year in $10k to $50k tournaments, Sam Soverel took down his second WSOP bracelet ever for $393,516. Soverel’s first bracelet was won back in 2016 in Event #19: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha. He now has more than $21M in total live earnings and sits in the top 40 of the all time money list.

“I much prefer live. I hadn’t played online since late-2020,” Soverel said in the winner’s interview. “Honestly, I don’t really trust the online environment. Live’s fun. It’s more social. It’s way better to me.”

Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship

Day 1C has hosted 3,080 players yesterday. With all players starting stack with 60,000 chips, Christopher Brammer grew his stack more than six times to end up the chip leader of day 1C at 386,100.

Four more former champions will come back for day 2: Joe McKeehen (111,500), Scott Blumstein (71,900), Espen Jorstad (62,000) and Ryan Riess (68,100).

Negreanu will come back with a stack of 25,900

The event has around 5,200 entries so far. With the great attendance this year, the question is: Will the famous 2006 record of 8,773 entries will be beaten?

Some stats please?

Let’s end this recap with a few stats!

Here are the most cashes this year:

Name	Cashes	Total Earnings
🇺🇸 Ivan Starostin	13	$73,372
🇺🇸 David “Bakes” Baker	12	$199,948
🇺🇸 Ian Matakis	11	$482,728
🇺🇸 Daniel Buzgon	11	$70,992
🇦🇹 Ismael Bojang	11	$37,886
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth	10	$1,014,569

11 more players have 10 cashes

Here are the best average cash for 7+ cashes:

Name	Average cash value	Count
🇺🇸 Christopher Brewer	$671,821	9
🇺🇸 Jesse Lonis	$305,611	8
🇺🇸 Aram Oganyan	$120,098	8
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth	$101,457	10
🇨🇦 Alex Livingston	$86,679	9

And here is the top 5 number of bracelets per country:

Country	Bracelets
🇺🇸 US	49
🇨🇳 CN	5
🇨🇦 CA	4
🇧🇷 BR	3
🇬🇧 GB	2

This year, the WSOP will launch the last tournament on July 18th with Event #95: $1,000 Super Turbo No-Limit Hold’em, so we’re nowhere at the end as there are still 20 live events to launch! See you tomorrow!

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

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WSOP 2023 Day 36 Digest

Three bracelets were distributed yesterday:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$2,500	Event #73: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event	$838,825	377
$1,000	Event #74: $1,000 MINI Main Event No-Limit Hold’em	$4,678,730	5,257
$10,000	Event #75: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	$2,297,100	247

Event #73: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event

Julio Belluscio from Argentina scored his best performance ever by taking down event #73 for $190,240. Competition was fierce and many well known players fell close to the title: Benny Glaser (3rd, $78k), Erick Lindgren (5th, $37k), Hye Park (6th, $27k), Anthony Zinno (7th, $19k) and Steve Zolotow (9th, $14k).

After playing for 15 years, Belluscio announced: “This year, I expected to win.”.

He later added: “If I make the Main Event final table, then you will see a real rail. I will spend $100,000 to fly all my friends and family from Argentina here, and they will be making too much noise.”

Event #74: $1,000 MINI Main Event No-Limit Hold’em

Bradley Gafford succeeded to take all the chips from the 5,257 entries tournament, and takes home the sweet $549,555 associated prize. A huge performance for the American who had $130k in total earnings until then. Probably a face we will see again as he started having live results since last year only, scoring a second place for $97,386 in the Wynn Millions Poker Series for his second official result!

Event #75: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship

Hassan Kamel from Australia wins the championship event for $598,613, outlasting a total of 247 entries. It’s only the sixth live performance for the player whose best cash was €20,340 at the €5,300 EPT Barcelona.

Some words from Kamel after winning: “I was playing cash games back in the days but honestly don’t play that much any more. I just happen to be here and sort of thought I come and check it out”, later adding: “I actually planned on coming second. I wasn’t greedy and already said I was gonna bust the $1,500 three times and come second in the bracelet event … but I only busted the $1,500 only twice and came first in the $10k.”

Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship

Van der Spuy closed day 1B as the chip leader with 287,000, closely followed by Julien Martini with 284,700. Two former Main Event champions took the start of day 1B yesterday: Greg Raymer and Johnny Chan. Both bagged solid stacks of over 200,000.

Today is flight C of the Main Event, good luck to everyone playing!

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

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WSOP 2023 Day 35 Digest

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$400	Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em	$6,000,000	15,894

Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em

This year’s Colossus event made the second largest field with 15,894, behind the 18,188 of Event #3: $1,000 Mystery Millions. It built a cool $501,120 first prize which went to Moshe Refaelowitz. The former Israeli’s national football player scored big and crushed his previous best cash of $53k when he finished 186th in last year’s Main Event.

Here are some of the notable finishes in the event:

Player	Place	Earnings	Event
🇺🇸 Allen Cunningham	72nd	$7,070	Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em
🇨🇦 Kevin Martin	163rd	$3,610	Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Joe Cada	272nd	$2,869	Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em
🇬🇧 Benjamin Spragg	333rd	$2,680	Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Allen Kessler	379th	$2,378	Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em

In progress

Three remains in Event #73: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event. Julio Belluscio leads with about 60% of the total chips. Federico Quevedo has the second stack and Benny Glaser is third, still having a chance to win a second bracelet this year. The players have locked in $78k and play for $190,240.

After two days, only five remains out the 5,257 entries in Event #74: $1,000 MINI Main Event No-Limit Hold’em. The French Jérémy Oleon ended the day with the lead and will fight four Americans, including Jennifer Abad (2nd), for the $549,555 top prize.

Event #75: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship registered 247 entries and has 19 players still battling. Stephen Deutsch has the biggest stack, and will be joined by Martin Zamani (6th), Dzmitry Urbanovich (7th), Ben Yu (10th), Paul Volpe (13th) and Patrick Leonard with the shortest stack. The top prize for this championship is $598,613.

A quick update to end this recap with the end of day 1A of Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship. Israel’s Yehuda Dayan leads with a big stack of 389,900. Doug Polk has also bagged a comfortable stack of 282,000. Four Main Event champions will return in day 2: Jamie Gold (2006), Joe Cada (2009), Martin Jacobson (2014), and Damian Salas (2020).

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

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WSOP 2023 Day 34 Digest

What a day at the World Series!

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$1,000	Event #67: $1,000 LADIES No-Limit Hold’em Championship	$1,152,550	1,295
$10,000	Event #69: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship	$1,432,200	154
$50,000	Event #71: $50,000 HIGH ROLLER Pot-Limit Omaha	$9,550,000	200
$10,000	Event #72: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em	$5,970,600	642

Event #67: $1,000 LADIES No-Limit Hold’em Championship

Tamar Abraham makes her biggest score ever by winning the largest ladies event of history and the $192,167. Day 4 starting chipleader Shiina Okamoto from Japan ended up defeated in the heads-up and will bring home $118,768.

It’s the fourth WSOP cash for Tamar, who had cashed twice in the ladies event since 2018. Emotions flowed and Tamar couldn’t say much after the win: “It’s surreal. I don’t even know what to say, I don’t have any words right now.”

Event #69: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship

Luck wasn’t on David “ODB” Baker yesterday. Starting with half the chips at 3 left, he was the first to fall, leaving Alex Livingston and Chris Brewer battle for the $367,599 title. In the end, Chris Brewer made history happen as he won the title and a second bracelet this year!

“The other one was a $250,000 tournament with $5 million on top,” Brewer said about between the two tournaments. “I wanted to win the bracelet and it still means a lot, but the stakes were very different and it definitely was a lot less intense.”

Event #71: $50,000 HIGH ROLLER Pot-Limit Omaha

One of the highest buy-in of the year ended up distributing the third biggest prize of $2,303,017. With two rings and close to $900k in WSOP earnings, Jesse Lonis scored big by defeating Tyler Smith and win his first bracelet.

Bracelet holders Ian Matakis (9th) and Isaac Haxton (7th) improved a bit on the ladder but couldn’t do more.

“I put a lot of hours in. Besides family, poker is pretty much what I do. I don’t do studying. I’ve actually never studied in my life,” Lonis said. “I just play. Volume over and over. The more and more hands you see obviously you’re going to get better. I watched some of the best players in the world play over and over. After you see it enough times you’re going to eventually get better and better. And I think this proves the point that hard work pays off.”

Event #72: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em

He has done it again! Phil Hellmuth wins another bracelet to get further ahead in the World Series of Poker bracelet race with 17 trophies! It’s the fourteenth bracelet in No-Limit Hold’em for the player, his others being in No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw (2021) and Razz (2015, 2012).

After falling at some point with a stack of two big blinds, Hellmuth got the good run to finish the tournament on top, taking home $803,818 and the additional $3,000 bounties.

“I tried not complain. Oh, I’ve been unlucky in key spots. F*** all that bulls*** you know, because things happen for a reason. You know maybe part of the reason I busted the Pot Limit Omaha was to come and win this. You know, maybe part of the reason I busted the deuce to seven was so I could get rest”.

Here are the final table results:

Place	Player	Country	Payout
1	Phil Hellmuth	United States	$803,818
2	Justin Zaki	United States	$496,801
3	Tom Kunze	Germany	$349,737
4	Kelvin Kerber	Brazil	$249,876
5	Chris Savage	United States	$181,230
6	Phil Ivey	United States	$133,461
7	Brandon Steven	United States	$99,817
8	Marc Foggin	United Kingdom	$75,837

In progress

Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em is down to 80 players after making the second largest field this year with 15,894. Jesse Kertland is the current chip leader and will look to win the $501,120 prize.

Event #73: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event registered 377 entries and 29 remains. Jon Turner leads the pack, and he will return with Anthony Zinno (3rd), Hye Park (4th), Benny Glaser (6th) and Steve Zolotow (8th). They’ll play for the $190,240 first prize.

Today is a big day at the World Series as players will take the start of Event #76: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship with flight A! Four flights are scheduled this year. See you tomorrow for more stories!

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}

WSOP 2023 Day 33 Digest

Two more champions got a gold bracelet:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$600	Event #64: $600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold’em	$2,194,530	4,303
$5,000	Event #65: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em	$5,515,400	1,199

Event #64: $600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold’em

At the start of the day, the three players all had a fair chance to win chip-wise. Canadian David Guay had the most solid resumé with $1.2M in total live earnings, and made the experience talk to take down the $271,032 first prize.

“I’m definitely going to be more emotional later,” Guay said about his feelings. “I’m going to call my mom soon to let her know,”.

Event #65: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em

China’s Weiran Pu is our winner in thig big $5,5M prizepool event for $938,244. He put his hands on his first bracelet and China’s fifth this year after defeating Hungarian Norbert Szecsi.

Some words from Pu after the win: “I’m so thankful. I didn’t start traveling to play poker until this year. I went to the PCA and other events like EPT’s and the results were not what I expected. This is a big moment. It’s a big surprise because the first half of this year wasn’t so smooth. Right now I’m a social media influencer for poker in China. I’ve made hundreds of vlogs, but this one may be my biggest”.

More results from this event:

Player	Place	Earnings	Event
🇺🇸 Scott Seiver	39th	$22,344	Event #65: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Matt Berkey	52nd	$16,261	Event #65: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Phil Ivey	75th	$11,524	Event #65: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇦🇺 James Obst	83rd	$11,524	Event #65: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇩🇪 Steffen Sontheimer	120th	$8,787	Event #65: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
🇩🇪 Rainer Kempe	133rd	$8,787	Event #65: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em

In progress

Event #67: $1,000 LADIES No-Limit Hold’em Championship is lead by Shiina Okamoto at 7 left. The ladies have all secured $26k and will play for the $192,167 top prize.

A high level three way will take place in Event #69: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship: David “ODB” Baker (3 bracelets) leads with half the chips, followed by Chris Brewer (winner of the $250,000 High Roller) and Alex Livingston (1 bracelet won last year). The three player will return today to win $367,599.

After two days, Event #71: $50,000 HIGH ROLLER Pot-Limit Omaha, only 11 players remain in the tournament. There were 200 entries building a large prizepool of $9,5M, making the players eyeing a more than decent $2,303,017 top prize. Tyler Smith is the chip leader, and he will be joined by two other bracelet holders: Isaac Haxton (10th) and Ian Matakis (11th).

Event #72: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em had 642 entries and after a single day just 14 remains! The end of the tournament will be very entertaining as Phil Ivey (7th) returns, and he’s joined by Phil Hellmuth (9th). There is a big $803,818 to grab for the winner.

_{Sources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com}