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WSOP 2023 Day 20 Digest

Two bracelets were awarded yesterday:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$10,000	Event #38: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship	$1,209,000	130
$250,000	Event #40: $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em	$17,181,000	69

Event #38: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship

Five bracelets for Benny Glaser! The British player defeated Oscar Johansson, winning $311,428 and now having more than $7M in live earnings. Interestingly, it’s the fourth winner this year to capture a fifth bracelet, joining Josh Arieh, Brian Yoon and John Monette.

“I felt good coming into heads up today, I really love heads up and I’ve played a lot of it so I was pretty confident in my game there,”

Here are the notable results of this event:

Player	Place	Earnings
🇫🇷 Julien Martini	5th	$75,341
🇵🇹 Joao Vieira	7th	$42,965
🇺🇸 Mike Matusow	12th	$20,425
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	13th	$20,425
🇺🇸 John Monnette	15th	$20,425
🇺🇸 Allen Kessler	18th	$16,378

Event #40: $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em

Chris Brewer started the day with the fifth stack and made the magic happen to be the last man standing and put the huge $5,2M prize into his newly deep pocket. The player now totals $15,3M in live earnings. Being labeled as the most unlucky WSOP player, Brewer finally showed his talent and turned the luck in his favor. He has had his four best performances in a year, including a $1M win in the €50k European Poker Tour in Paris.

Here are the results of the final table:

1	Chris Brewer	United States	$5,293,556
2	Artur Martirosian	Russia	$3,271,666
3	Martin Kabrhel	Czech Republic	$2,279,038
4	Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	$1,632,005
5	Chance Kornuth	United States	$1,202,318
6	Dan Smith	United States	$912,022
7	David Peters	United States	$712,953
8	Brandon Steven	United States	$574,899
9	Steven Veneziano	United States	$478,663

In progress

Event #39: $1,500 MONSTER STACK No-Limit Hold’em has amassed a $11M prizepool from its 8,317 entries. Day 3 will resume today with 389 players, lead by David Vedral. We will also see the return of poker coach Fausto Valdez, Barry Greenstein and poker vlogger Ashley “PokerFaceAsh” Frank. The winner will add a $1,1M to his resume.

Event #41: $1,500 Big O registered 1,458 entries and 18 will return today. Gary Gwinn is our chip leader and has a good shot to win the $315,203 prize. The sensation of this event is the presence of Johnny Chan (12th), who will come back to try to win his 11th bracelet! He is currently tied for second in the bracelet race with Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth still firmly at the top with 16 bracelets.

Event #43: $50,000 Poker Players Championship has 54 players remaining after one day, and currently has a $3,4M prizepool. Josh Arieh leads the debates, followed by Phil Ivey (2nd), James Obst (3rd), John Monnette (4th) and Viktor Blom (5th)! See the full chip counts to see the beautiful list of players still in the tournament.

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

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WSOP 2023 Day 19 Digest

One new champion has been crowned yesterday:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$2,000	Event #37: $2,000 No-Limit Holdem	$3,492,360	1,962

Event #37: $2,000 No-Limit Holdem

The 1,962 entries build up a first prize of $524,777, which went to China’s Yuan Li. He defeated the Canadian Jonathan Camara who earned $324k.

It’s the first bracelet for the player who crossed the $2M in total live earnings. He notably won a No Limit Hold’em – Super High Roller at the 2016 Asia Championship of Poker for more than $860k.

In progress

Event #38: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship will add another day to decide who will win between Benny Glaser, leading with a 2 to 1 lead, and Sweden’s Oscar Johansson. The two men will battle for $311,428. Some high profiles lost in the final table, including Julien Martini (5th), David “Bakes” Baker (6th) and Joao Vieira (7th).

Nine players still have their chance to put their hands on the huge $5,2M first prize in Event #40: $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em. The 69 entries built a massive prizepool of $17M. Here is the chip count for those returning:

Chance Kornuth	22,450,000
Martin Kabrhel	18,400,000
Artur Martirosian	18,225,000
Alex Kulev	12,600,000
Chris Brewer	8,525,000
Dan Smith	7,800,000
Steven Veneziano	6,775,000
David Peters	4,925,000
Brandon Steven	3,225,000

Ben Heath lost in 11th but just made the money for $411k, and the bubble boy of this event was none other than Phil Ivey (12th). Jason Koon abandoned his day 2 stack when he learned that his wife went into labor, waiting their second kid. WSOP officials said that his $250,000 entry will be fully refunded.

Check out the full results if you want to see the beautiful line-up of players.

Today will mark the start of the mythical Event #43: $50,000 Poker Players Championship with its nine games!

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

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WSOP 2023 Day 18 Digest

The bracelet harvest resumes:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$10,000	Event #33: $10,000 Razz Championship	$948,600	102
$1,500	Event #34: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha	$1,808,925	1,355
$10,000	Event #35: $10,000 Secret Bounty No-Limit Hold’em	$5,282,400	568
$3,000	Event #36: $3,000 Nine Game Mix	$963,870	361

Event #33: $10,000 Razz Championship

Jerry Wong, 8th in the 2016 WSOP Main Event, having made 11 prior WSOP final tables, 83 WSOP cashes, finally put his hands on a coveted bracelet and $298,682. He was third and last at some point but finally overcame Carlos Chadha-Villamarin (2nd) and Michael Moncek (3rd). Wong’s total live earnings are now at $5,8M.

Event #34: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha

1,355 entries built this large Pot-Limit Omaha event. Robert Mizrachi started the day as the chip leader but only made a disappointing 7th place. It’s Sean Troha, starting the day with the fifth largest stack, who paved the way for victory, winning $298,192 in the process. It’s the second PLO bracelet for the player who won the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship last year.

“I guess I’m as confident as I’ve been, there are still better players out there, but I’ve done a little bit of work and I guess I’m just trying to do my best”, Troha told after the win.

Event #35: $10,000 Secret Bounty No-Limit Hold’em

After many ups and downs from chip leader to short stack, Chris Klodnicki did the work to earn $733,317 and his second bracelet, now cumulating $10,8M in live earnings. He denied the bracelet to serious players including Barak Wisbrod (3rd) and Jeremy Ausmus (4th).

He commented: “Really not traveling for poker but playing online. I’ve been playing a ton of online no-limit hold’em so, you know, I felt really good, and they have the bounty events online too so I felt really comfortable in this format and it was nice to get back to live poker. I’ve always felt comfortable in live poker. I’ve worked on my fundamentals a little bit more by playing online”.

Event #36: $3,000 Nine Game Mix

22 years old Ryutaro Suzuki from Japan bested a field of 361 players to earn his first bracelet and his first major performance in a live tournament ($221,124). It’s only the seventh World Series of Poker bracelet winner from Japan.

Justin Liberto (8th, 1 bracelet) and Scott Clements (9th, 3 bracelets) fell early yesterday and couldn’t add a new bracelet to their wrist.

“Now the Japanese poker community is really growing up. There were a few bracelet holders, especially in mixed games. So it’s really so special for me and the poker community,” Suzuki said through translator Tamon Nakamura, finishing himself fourth in this event.

In progress

Event #37: $2,000 No-Limit Holdem has registered 1,962 entries and 28 remains. Yuan Li in the lead and will return today, accompagnied by previous Main Event 3rd finisher Antoine Saout in fifth place. They will battle for the first prize of $524,777.

Ten remains in a stacked line-up in Event #38: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship. They were 130 entries in the event, all players secured $25k and they will play for $311,428.

Here are the chip counts:

Benny Glaser	1,695,000
Sampo Ryynanen	1,240,000
Joao Vieira	1,105,000
Jason Papastavrou	860,000
David “Bakes” Baker	750,000
Michael Rodrigues	735,000
Julien Martini	660,000
Oscar Johansson	500,000
George Alexander	120,000
Alexander Wilkinson	85,000

Day 1A has ended for Event #39: $1,500 MONSTER STACK No-Limit Hold’em with a prizepool already at $5,2M. A second flight will take place today.

The biggest buy-in event this year has started with Event #40: $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em. 56 entries were recorded on day 1 and 37 players remains, Dustin Bailey in the lead. Here is the current top 10:

Rank	Player	Country	Stack	BB
1st	Dustin Bailey	United States	4,850,000	162
2nd	Chance Kornuth	United States	4,340,000	145
3rd	Steven Veneziano	United States	4,315,000	144
4th	Henrik Hecklen	Denmark	4,285,000	143
5th	Artur Martirosian	Russia	3,785,000	126
6th	Ben Heath	United Kingdom	3,720,000	124
7th	Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	3,625,000	121
8th	Koray Aldemir	Germany	3,535,000	118
9th	James Chen	Taiwain	3,485,000	116
10th	Espen Jorstad	Norway	2,800,000	93

To end the recap, here are some of the notables finishes in these events

Player	Place	Earnings	Event
🇺🇸 John Hennigan	6th	$56,265	Event #33: $10,000 Razz Championship
🇺🇸 Nick Schulman	11th	$23,850	Event #33: $10,000 Razz Championship
🇦🇺 James Obst	17th	$17,789	Event #33: $10,000 Razz Championship
🇺🇸 Robert Mizrachi	7th	$42,200	Event #34: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
🇺🇸 Josh Arieh	13th	$16,028	Event #34: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu	16th	$10,632	Event #34: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
🇺🇸 John Racener	18th	$10,632	Event #34: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth	11th	$45,301	Event #35: $10,000 Secret Bounty No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Matt Berkey	14th	$29,600	Event #35: $10,000 Secret Bounty No-Limit Hold’em

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

WSOP 2023 Day 17 Digest

It was to be expected…we didn’t have a new champion yesterday. However, we have six tournaments running nonetheless!

Event #33: $10,000 Razz Championship

Players are still playing at the time of writing. Michael Moncek has just took the lead. He’s battling Carlos Chadha, second in chips, and Jerry Wong, third and last remaining player. $298,682 will go to the last player.

Several well known players were close but didn’t make it: Talal Shakerchi (5th), John Hennigan (6th) and Nick Schulman (11th).

Event #34: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha

Ten players remains in the event, lead by Robert Mizrachi, who will try to put his hands of a fifth bracelet and $298,192 in an event that registered 1,355 entries.

Familiar names were close to make the cut but fell near the end of the day, including Josh Arieh (13th), Daniel Negreanu (16th) and John Racener (18th).

Event #35: $10,000 Secret Bounty No-Limit Hold’em

The final eight players are set to return today for the final table and the big $733,317 prize. Chris Klodnicki (1 bracelet) will start as the chip leader, with a slight lead over Jeremy Ausmus (5 bracelets). Some other bracelet holder will return, including Angel Guillen (1 bracelet, 4th) and Barak Wisbrod (1 bracelet, 5th).

Phil Hellmuth made a deep run but fell in 11th place, Matt Berkey losing in 15th place.

Event #36: $3,000 Nine Game Mix

The event made 361 registrations and now only 22 players have the chance for the trophy. $221,124 are up for grabs, with British pro Philip Long with the largest stack. Justin Liberto (3rd), runner-up a few days ago will come back, accompagnied by Shawn Buchanan (6th) and Scott Clements (8th).

Many well known names made a deep run but won’t come back unfortunately: online legend Viktor Blom (26th), Eli Elezra (28th), Todd Brunson (30th), Dzmitry Urbanovich (34th) and Ari Engel (36th).

Event #37: $2,000 No-Limit Holdem and Event #38: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship just finished day 1, so plenty of players remains. More tomorrow on these!

To end the recap, let’s have a look at the most cashes for the 32 completed events:

Name	Cashes	Total Earnings
🇺🇸 Ivan Starostin	8	$28,719
🇦🇹 Koray Aldemir	7	$244,499
🇨🇦 Alex Livingston	6	$280,695
🇺🇸 Jordan Spurlin	6	$42,646
🇺🇸 Jake Schwartz	6	$20,926
🇨🇦 Kristen Bicknell	5	$436,639
🇺🇸 Josh Arieh	5	$340,731

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

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WSOP 2023 Day 16 Digest

In a rare occurrence, five new winners have been crowned yesterday:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool	Entries
$1,500	Event #28: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem	$2,731,410	2,046
$100,000	Event #29: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em	$8,997,750	93
$1,500	Event #30: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw	$696,870	522
$600	Event #31: $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em; Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack	$1,407,090	2,759
$3,000	Event #32: $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em	$3,313,470	1,241

Event #28: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem

Benjamin Ector is our winner for this large 2,000+ event. He put his hands on his first bracelet and $406,403. It’s Ector 26 WSOP cash, his previous best performance being a 5th place in the 2019’s Monster Stack for $286k, and now has more than $1,5M in total live earnings.

Popular poker coach and previous chip leader Matthew Hunt suffered two lost coin flips against Ector and ended up 7th for $59k.

Event #29: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em

The massive high-roller finally went to Jans Arends, who kept his chip lead to close the tournament and win the massive prize of $2,5M, defeating Cary Katz in the heads-up. It’s the first live bracelet for Arends, who won a $1,000 online bracelet last year.

“It’s completely different live,” Arends said. “Live is more pressure, there’s people around, there’s cameras, live-streamed final table. There’s added pressure. The first one was just an online tourney and basically, all that people saw in the end was who won. So, this is very different. Way more special, I would say.”

Here are the final table results:

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Jans Arends	Netherlands	$2,576,729
2nd	Cary Katz	United States	$1,592,539
3rd	Adrian Mateos	Spain	$1,142,147
4th	Chance Kornuth	United States	$833,854
5th	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	$619,919
6th	Biao Ding	China	$469,464
7th	Justin Bonomo	United States	$362,279
8th	Ren Lin	China	$284,979

Fresh off winning the #WSOP $100K High Roller, Jans Arends (@Graftekkel) is dishing on who is the toughest #poker competition in the big buy-in fields 🤩😎🤑

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— Poker Org (@pokerorg) June 15, 2023

Event #30: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw

Another big time WSOP veteran wins, in the name of John Monnette, joins the closed fifth bracelet club! He’s now ranked 31rd in the bracelet race, right behind Eli Elezra. What a year for the player, having a 1st, 4th and 5th place in three cashes!

He added $145,863 to his live earnings by defeating Christopher Chung in the heads-up, also denying the bracelet from the British powerhouse Patrick Leonard (3rd).

Event #31: $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em; Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack

Joseph Dulaney is the winner of this large 2,759 field for $194,155. Dulaney’s main occupation is fighting fires, and had until then 90k in total live earnings, accumulated since 2009.

“I’m really excited, kinda reeling at the moment,” Dulaney said afterward. “But I knew it was gonna happen and I plan on winning multiple Omaha bracelets this week, this year. I think all the best Omaha players in the world come from Houston and I’m trying to prove it this summer.”

Event #32: $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em

Mark Ioli won his first bracelet and one the largest prize this year for $558,266. He bested a tough competition, including the likes of Paul Volpe (10th) and Maria Ho (17th).

“It was a long two days, but it was worth it,” the newly crowned champion said, beaming. “The two previous times I got heads up for a bracelet, I was a card away from winning,” he said, referring to his two second places in WSOP online events. “So it feels good to finally win. It’s the one accolade in poker you want no matter what.”

In progress

Event #33: $10,000 Razz Championship has Talal Shakerchi in the lead at 13 left. Still in contention are veteran Jerry Wong (9th), legend John Hennigan (10th) and one of the hottest running player this year Nick Schulman (11th). They’ll battle for the top prize of $298,682.

Thanks for the read and see you tomorrow!

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

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