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Five bracelets were awarded yesterday! Let’s jump in:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$1,000	Event #61: $1,000 SUPER SENIORS No-Limit Hold’em	$2,777,690	3,121
$1,500	Event #62: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha	$2,771,460	2,076
$10,000	Event #63: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	$1,311,300	141
$1,500	Event #66: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	$1,501,875	1,125
$1,000	Event #68: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em	$2,513,360	2,824

Event #61: $1,000 SUPER SENIORS No-Limit Hold’em

Austria’s Klaus Ilk is our winner for the event reserved to the 60 years old and more. The event had about 20% more entries than last year, building hefty prize of $330,609 for the winner. What a performance for the player who had until then $30k in total live earnings! Moreover, Ilk started the day with the lowest stack and succeeded in outlasting the 12 other competitors.

Event #62: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha

After four days of play, David Simon defeated David Prociak in heads-up to put his hands on his first bracelet and $410,659. Probably a life changing experience for this player who had until then $98k in live earnings.

“I’ve played with a lot of people who have always been super positive with me and just been like, ‘It’s gonna happen for you at some point,'” said Simon. “I don’t know if I myself really believed that, but during this event in particular I just felt incredibly calm and locked in.”.

Event #63: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship

After a long heads-up battle of more than five hours, Ryan Miller was able to overcome the second player of the all time money list Bryn Kenney to win his first bracelet. Here are the final results of the event:

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Ryan Miller	United States	$344,677
2	Bryn Kenney	United States	$213,027
3	Maximilian Schindler	United States	$149,981
4	Andres Korn	Argentina	$107,824
5	Chino Rheem	United States	$79,189
6	Eddie Blumenthal	United States	$59,441
7	Yong Wang	China	$45,624
8	Joao Vieira	Portugal	$35,826

“I’ve waited a long time and I wasn’t sure if it would ever come,” said Miller, whose first WSOP cash stems from 2007, after all was said and done, “but I’m super excited to get one. I feel like I put a lot of time in poker and was deserving of one, and now it finally came and it’s great to get it in a Championship event.”

Event #66: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better

Event #66 had 1,125 entries and ended yesterday with William Kopp earning his first bracelet and $259,549, putting his live earnings at $1,3M. The player is now part of a family of bracelet winners as his sister Katie Kopp won last years’s Casino Employees Event.

“When we were growing up we were always about poker. We’re pretty close…me, my sister, and my mom. We all talk poker and help make each other better,” Kopp said.

Event #68: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em

With a total of 2,854 entries, the event build up a prizepool of $2,5M and a $228,632 top prize. Brazil’s Gabriel Schroeder knocked out 15 players ($300 each) to become the final survivor of the event.

In progress

Only three player remains in Event #64: $600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold’em. A close three-way will attend John Taylor (48M), David Guay (46M) and Steven Stolzenfeld (35M). They have all secured $124,821 and will play for their first bracelet and $270,972.

The Event #65: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em (1,199 entries) is down to six players lead by Hungarian Norbert Szecsi. Angelina Rich, second in chips, has a good chance to become the first female winner this year. Top prize is set at $938,244.

Event #67: $1,000 LADIES No-Limit Hold’em Championship is down to 47 ladies. Mary Dvorkin has the top stack after two days. Unfortunately many notables did not make it today, including Veronica Brill, Vanessa Kade, Melissa Schubert, Kristen Foxen and Vivian Saliba.

That’s it for today, Event #70: $400 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em and Event #71: $50,000 HIGH ROLLER Pot-Limit Omaha have just started, so more about these event tomorrow!

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

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There has been a single bracelet awarded yesterday but we have many tournaments in reached the later stages:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$1,500	Event #60: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw	$731,580	548

Event #60: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw

We haven’t seen him much at the WSOP since 2018, but it looks like the skills are still there for Jason Mercier, who won $151,276 and his sixth bracelet! He’s now 15th in the bracelet race, right behind John Hennigan and ahead of TJ Cloutier. Mercier is also ranked 39th in all time money list with more than $20M.

Mercier defeated Mike Watson, who’s unfortunately also seen this story happen already: “I’ve been three-handed with him four separate times in major events and I’ve won all four.”, said Mercier. “So he’s gotten second twice and third twice. But in particular, we played heads up for the no-limit deuce bracelet in the $10K in 2016. So it was definitely a bit of déja vu.”

In progress

Event #61: $1,000 SUPER SENIORS No-Limit Hold’em stopped with 13 players remaining. Rassoul Malboubi is in the lead to grab and his first 6 figure score with $371,603 on the line.

There are five players left out of 2,076 entries in Event #62: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha. Robert Mizrachi was the last to fall in sixth place for $76k, continuing a great run this year. David Prociak will return as the chip leader to try to win a second bracelet.

Only six remain in Event #63: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship. Bryn Kenney lost his chip lead to Ryan Miller but is still second. Many well known players fell in day 3: Joao Vieira (8th), Mike Matusow (9th), Bruno Fitoussi (10th), Dzmitry Urbanovich (14th) and Daniel Negreanu (17th). The winner of the event will take home $344,677.

After two days of play, 44 players will return in Event #64: $600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold’em (4,303 entries). Cade Lautenbacher has the biggest stack and will try to win the main prize of $270,972.

Two days have also been played in Event #65: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em, keeping 48 players. 1,199 entries have been registered, building a large $5,5M prizepool. Vitor Dzivielevski is again on the front line, followed by another fellow Brazilian Pedro Garagnani. Some familiar names will return with: Ryan Leng, Artur Martirosian, Scott Seiver and David “Bakes” Baker.

William Kopp leads Event #66: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better at 13 left. Anthony Zinno (10th) has a chance to put his hands on bracelet number five and $259,549.

The famous Event #67: $1,000 LADIES No-Limit Hold’em Championship has started with 1,295 entries. Bernice McLennan is in the lead after day 1. Will also return: Veronica Brill (12th), Vanessa Kade (42th) and Melissa Schubert (86th).

See you tomorrow for an exciting day!

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

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The current second and fifth biggest prizepool events have ended yesterday:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$1,500	Event #53: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold’em	$13,905,360	10,416
$25,000	Event #57: $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha	$10,551,500	449
$3,000	Event #59: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em	$4,266,660	1,598

Event #53: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold’em

Pavel Plesuv wins the first ever bracelet for Moldova and a millionaire prize of $1,201,564. It puts the top Moldova’s earner at $7,2M in total live earnings. The tournament made another millionaire in the name of Florian Ribouchon from France, defeated in the final heads-up.

Here is one of the highlights of the day between Andreas Kniep and Pavel Plesuv:

You grind past 10,000 people, get to the last 4 and get in AA v A2. What a sick game we play

pic.twitter.com/KscoNp6qDd

— Patrick Leonard 🫡 (@padspoker) June 28, 2023

In the winner’s interview, Plesuv declared: “Keep studying and keep believing in your dreams. Follow your passion and the results will come. Don’t let results affect your life too much. You can extract a lot of good things, even when you have a losing streak.”

He are the final results:

Place	Winner	Country	Prize
1	Pavel Plesuv	Moldova	$1,201,564
2	Florian Ribouchon	France	$1,003,554
3	Paul Gunness	United States	$650,058
4	Andreas Kniep	Germany	$501,182
5	Anton Smirnov	Russia	$373,524

Event #57: $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha

After losing to Shaun Deeb in this event in 2021, Ka Kwan Lau went all the way to finish at the top place this year. A significant performance as it was the biggest prize pool for a Pot-Limit Omaha live poker event in the history of the WSOP.

Here are the final eight results:

Place	Player	Country	Prize (in USD)
1	Ka Kwan Lau	Hong Kong	$2,294,756
2	Sergio Martinez Gonzalez	Spain	$1,418,270
3	Andjelko Andrejevic	Serbia	$989,464
4	Roger Teska	United States	$701,522
5	Mads Amot	Norway	$505,588
6	Quan Zhou	China	$370,498
7	Firas Kashat	United States	$276,141
8	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	$209,392

“My secret is to grind a lot. I love poker and push hard.”, said Lau. “PLO is getting more and more popular. I didn’t come the last year, but people told me that it is almost double the field and that is a lot. Also in the 10k, the field was up a lot. I think the game is getting more popular.”

Event #59: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em

Austria’s Robert Schulz wins his first bracelet in the $3,000 event for $675,275 by defeating Julien Sitbon. Accumulating more than $1M in live earnings since 2010, Schulz crushed his previous best performances.

After making two podiums this year, Barak Wisbrod added a fourth place to an already impressive run, and Dario Sammartino finished 5th for his second cash this year.

In progress

Event #60: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw is down to only five players. Brad Ruben is the current leader, followed by Erik Seidel (2nd) and Jason Mercier in third place. WSOP veterans Mike Watson (82 cashes) and Jon Turner (116 cashes) completes the picture. They’ll play for $151,276.

Event #61: $1,000 SUPER SENIORS No-Limit Hold’em counted 3,121 entries, building a $2,7M prizepool. 109 players, lead by Farhad Davoudzadeh will return in day 3 today.

2,076 entered Event #62: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha. Israel’s Eran Carmi is the current chip leader amongst the 28 remaining players, and he will notably be joined by Robert Mizrachi (6th), who has already six cashes and four top 25 this year.

Event #63: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship ended day 2 with 17 players. A star-studded line-up will come back today, including Bryn Kenney as the chip leader, Joao Vieira (8th), Bruno Fitoussi (9th), Mike Matusow (11th), Dzmitry Urbanovich (14th) and Daniel Negreanu (15th). The top prize for this 141 entries event is $344,677.

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

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Here are the two completed events from yesterday:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$500	Event #56: $500 SALUTE to Warriors – No-Limit Hold’em	$1,936,350	4,303
$3,000	Event #58: $3,000 6-Handed Limit Hold’em	$702,210	263

Event #56: $500 SALUTE to Warriors – No-Limit Hold’em

After ten live cashes in the course of 13 years, Steven Genovese casually grabbed the event #56 bracelet and its associated $217,921! His previous best performance was a $21,018 win in a $185 daily tournament at the Rio in 2015.

“It feels amazing! I was pinching myself the whole time!”, the now retired fireman said. “You can do it, too. If I can do it, you can do it.”

Event #58: $3,000 6-Handed Limit Hold’em

Jason Daly made his starting chip lead work for him yesterday as he didn’t let the other 16 players upset his run to victory. A first bracelet for American who adds $165,250 to his live earnings, now reaching $918k.

The most famous names fell early yesterday: Joe McKeehen couldn’t built a stack and was the first eliminated (17th), shortly followed by Dan Shak (14th).

“This is my third World Series final table. I had a huge chip lead like this last year and blew it, so I was focused, and I was doing everything I could not to screw this one up”, said the happy winner.

In progress

Seven players remain in Event #53: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold’em, and Moldova’s top earner ($6M) Pavel Plesuv has the top spot to take the $1,2M prize. All the player will look forward winning their first bracelet.

Hong Kong-based poker pro Ka Kwan Lau leads Event #57: $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha for a chance to win the third biggest prize this year. Many spotlight pros fell in the later stages of day, including Jeremy Ausmus (8th, $209k), Chance Kornuth (9th, $161k) and Isaac Haxton (11th, $126k).

At 18 left, Barak Wisbrod from Israel leads Event #59: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em. 2019 Main Event Runner-up Dario Sammartino will return with the 13th stack, hoping to finally grab a bracelet. They’ll play for $675,275.

Event #60: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw ended day 2 with 24 players. Ryan Moriarty has the biggest stack, and will be joined by the 5 bracelets holder Adam Friedman (7th), Erik Seidel (9th), Maria Ho (12th), and Jason Mercier (18th).

A few more results:

Player	Place	Earnings	Event
🇺🇸 Ari Engel	61st	$3,754	Event #56: $500 SALUTE to Warriors – No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Barry Greenstein	302nd	$1,165	Event #56: $500 SALUTE to Warriors – No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Joe McKeehen	17th	$8,061	Event #58: $3,000 6-Handed Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Maria Ho	32nd	$5,290	Event #58: $3,000 6-Handed Limit Hold’em

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

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Three tournaments have ended yesterday:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$1,000	Event #48: $1,000 SENIORS No-Limit Hold’em Championship	$7,280,200	8,180
$10,000	Event #54: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship	$1,720,500	185
$1,500	Event #55: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better	$755,610	566

Event #48: $1,000 SENIORS No-Limit Hold’em Championship

Just a bit more than two hours were needed to close the final table and crown Lonnie Hallett as the winner of the large 8,140 entries field. After one cash in 2012 and another one in 2015, the Canadian puts his hands on his first bracelet for his third cash and $771,234 in the process.

Billy Baxter fought hard over a chip deficit compared to the two starting chip leaders and reached the final heads-up! He was as close as possible from an eight bracelet that would have put in in 7th place in the bracelet race.

“You can make money, but you can’t buy a bracelet”, humbly said Hallett after the win.

Event #54: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

Mike Gorodinsky mostly cruised through the final table to bring home a new bracelet and $422,747. It’s the third bracelet for the player after winning the 2015’s $50k Poker Players Championship and a $2,500 Omaha/Stud Hi-Lo in 2013. Gorodinsky denied Alex Livingston a second bracelet in the heads-up, Brian Yoon finished 4th, Scott Seiver 5th and Carol Fuchs 6th.

The win arrived on point for Gorodinsky: “I had kind of a rocky start to my summer, and my plan actually was if I didn’t cash or go far in this tournament, I was going to fly home for a week and a half to recharge and spend some time with my wife. So, this run was kind of like an unexpected, really cool way to wrap up an otherwise long, tough month.”

Event #55: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better

Polish Marcin Horecki is the winner of the event of the 566 entries event for $155,275 and his first bracelet, putting his live earnings at more than $1,5M. Mike Matusow was defeated in the heads-up and was very close from winning his fifth bracelet but he will still put $95k in his pockets.

In progress

Event #53: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold’em is down to 41 players after starting with 10,416. German Andreas Kniep leads the tournament, and he will be notably joined by David “ODB” Baker (25th) and Erick Lindgren (28th).

Starting with 4,303 entries, Event #56: $500 SALUTE to Warriors – No-Limit Hold’em is already down to 15 players after two days. Ryan Stephens will return as the chip leader today and will try to put his hands on the $217,921 top prize.

Event #57: $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha continues to break records as 449 registered, building a massive $10,5M prizepool and making up for a $2,2M top prize! Chance Kornuth has a comfortable chip advantage over the 30 other players, including: Isaac Haxton (3rd), Jeremy Ausmus (10th), Dan Zack (12th) and Ben Lamb (14th). Chad Eveslage (21st) still has a chance to win a third bracelet this year and Yuri Dzivielevski (24th) can win a second one!

Event #58: $3,000 6-Handed Limit Hold’em is down to 17 players, lead by Jason Daly. Dan Shak (13th) and Joe McKeehen (16th) will also return into day 3 to try to grab the $165,250 first prize, one of the smaller prize this year.

Here are the notables results of these events:

Player	Place	Earnings	Event
🇺🇸 Mike Matusow	177th	$5,138	Event #48: $1,000 SENIORS No-Limit Hold’em Championship
🇺🇸 Allen Kessler	203rd	$5,138	Event #48: $1,000 SENIORS No-Limit Hold’em Championship
🇺🇸 Sammy Farha	274th	$4,486	Event #48: $1,000 SENIORS No-Limit Hold’em Championship
🇺🇸 Scott Seiver	5th	$101,319	Event #54: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth	11th	$29,478	Event #54: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship
🇺🇸 John Racener	17th	$20,442	Event #54: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship
🇺🇸 Brian Rast	7th	$18,709	Event #55: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb	19th	$5,630	Event #55: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
🇮🇹 Max Pescatori	31st	$4,681	Event #55: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better

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

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