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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 🤩😎🤑

More from today’s tourneys on https://t.co/eD3emYuD7i pic.twitter.com/Ixl0bwS5EV

— 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!

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Buy-in	Event	Prizepool
$10,000	Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	$1,971,600
$800	Event #26: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack	$3,341,888
$1,500	Event #27: $1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed	$1,053,315

Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship

It’s the second bracelet for Ben Lamb, getting through a very tough competition in the championship event and taking home $492,795. Ben Lamb defeated all six opponents yesterday, including James Chen (2nd) for $304,571 and Erik Seidel (4th) for $150,445. Another good attendance this year as the event gathered 212 players.

Ben Lamb won his first bracelet back in 2011 in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship where he pocketed $814k. Lamb is one the top performer ever at the WSOP Main Event, including a 3rd place in 2011, a 9th in 2017 and a 14th in 2009.

“I guess I am not any more confident than I was, I mean, I don’t know. Cards come and go, you have a hot streak and a cold streak, and I ran hotter than the fuckin sun, which was nice. Again, I think I am playing pretty good poker. I haven’t been playing a lot but when I have been playing, I have been more emotionally invested and focusing harder.”, Lamb said.

Event #26: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack

Matthew Elsby and Renji Mao came back yesterday to end the heads-up, with Elsby with a close to 2:1 lead, but he couldn’t do it and ended at the second place, offering Renji Mao his first bracelet and $402,588. Mao started writing hendon mob lines since 2019 and has cashed 50k until then, crushing all his previous performances.

Event #27: $1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed

It’s now six for Shaun Deeb! Deeb now ranks 10th in the WSOP bracelet race, right behind Daniel Negreanu. The player made $198,854 by beating Aloisio Dourado in the final heads-up, and has now more than $12M in live earnings.

“I don’t take days off. I don’t even take hours off. I wish the Razz was still running right now, I would hop in right now,” he said. “I love to grind. I wish the World Series was longer. I wish they had more events. The fields have been great. The players I’ve met have been awesome. Just so happy.”

In progress

17 players out of the initial 2,046 remains in Event #28: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem, lead by Matthew Hunt, looking to put his hand on the $406,403 top treasure.

There are only 6 left in Event #29: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em. There has been 93 entries, making up for the current biggest prizepool of the series with nearly $9M, $2,5M going to the winner. Here is the seat draw and the stacks:

Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Cary Katz	United States	12,775,000	51
2	Jans Arends	Netherlands	16,625,000	67
3	Biao Ding	China	8,800,000	35
4	Adrian Mateos	Spain	7,175,000	29
5	Chance Kornuth	United States	4,600,000	18
6	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	5,750,000	23

Event #30: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw totalled 522 entries and is now at 18 left, with Benny Glaser in the lead. Lots of known players are still playing, including John Monnette (2nd), Patrick Leonard (5th), Allen Kessler (8th) and Carol Fuchs (12th). They’ll battle for the $145,863 top prize.

See you tomorrow for the follow-up!

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We only had one new champion yesterday, but lots of tournaments are now running:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool
$300	Event #18: $300 Gladiators of Poker No-limit Hold’em	$5,679,648

Event #18: $300 Gladiators of Poker No-limit Hold’em

The most affordable live event in the history of the WSOP has registered 23,088 entries. Jason Simon paved the way for the victory and became the last standing “gladiator” for $499,852.

“Your tournament life is so valuable, you have to stay alive no matter what,” the new champion continued in reference to swings yesterday. “When I fell down to 14 million, I never really panicked, found a double up and went up from there.”

Daniel Negreanu notably made a deep run in the tournament but couldn’t get past the 72nd place and won close to 20 times his initial bet for $5,840.

In progress

212 took the starting line in Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship, now 7 remains with Ben Lamb in the lead, closely followed by two players including Erik Seidel (3rd). They’ve all secured $61k and will try to grab the top $492k main prize.

Event #26: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack (4,747 entries) stopped during heads-up with Matthew Elsby – looking for his second bracelet – currently ahead of Renji Mao. The players will return today to try to become the champion for $402,588.

Event #27: $1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed has 21 players left in the field. Chad Campbell leads, followed by Daniel Strelitz, Robert Mizrachi (5th), Shaun Deeb (10th), Nick Schulman (13th) and David “Bakes” Baker (19th). $198,854 will be given to the winner.

We’ll end this recap with the exciting Event #29: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em, packed with the biggest names of poker. 35 players remains out of an amazing line-up, Adrian Mateos finishing the day with the biggest stack. Prizes have not been announced yet but the prizepool is already over $7,6M. Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu and Jason Koon took the start but won’t make day 2.

Here is the current top 10:

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Adrian Mateos	Spain	3,650,000	91
2	Chris Hunichen	United States	3,620,000	91
3	Chance Kornuth	United States	3,375,000	84
4	Espen Jorstad	Norway	2,200,000	55
5	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	2,190,000	55
6	Talal Shakerchi	United Kingdom	2,120,000	53
7	Cary Katz	United States	1,880,000	47
8	Koray Aldemir	Austria	1,800,000	45
9	Justin Bonomo	United States	1,795,000	45
10	Ren Lin	United States	1,655,000	41

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

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Three bracelets have been awarded yesterday

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool
$10,000	Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship	$1,246,200
$50,000	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em	$5,921,000
$1,500	Event #24: $1,500 Razz	$742,260

Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship

Josh Arieh outclassed Daniel Idema and Nozomu Shimizu to add a new bracelet to his collection and joined the 5 bracelets club, now ranking 20th in the bracelet race. Arieh won $316,226 for his performance, his total live earnings crossing the $11M mark.

Arieh had already won a Limit Hold’em bracelet, back in 1999, showing how long he’s been performing in the World Series of Poker.

Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em

22 years old German Leon Sturm is the winner of the high roller event for the second biggest prize this year of $1,546,024. A battle of generation as he defeated Bill Klein, 75, a regular of the high stakes scene.

Bill Klein really went for it and pulled great moves like this hand at 3-left:

Bill Klein pulls off an absolutely MONSTER bluff against Jans Arends (@Graftekkel).

With Arends' fold, Klein takes over the chip lead while Arends drops to the shortest stack of the final three.

📺 – Watch live here: https://t.co/nAi7qdBuVj pic.twitter.com/3altEc2dmL

— PokerGO (@PokerGO) June 12, 2023

“It does feel amazing,” Sturm told after winning. “The bracelet is something special; it means more than just a trophy, I guess. Before, I was thinking that trophies and bracelets don’t mean much to me. But I think a bracelet is special, so that’s pretty cool. The competition was really tough, so that makes it better.”

The German is more of an online player and currently crushing on all sides, he just won last week the $10,000 buy-in GGPoker Super MILLION$ event for another $1,5M!

Event #24: $1,500 Razz

David “ODB” Baker started the day in 14th place, and climbed the ranks to finally grab the Razz trophy, winning $152,991 in the process. He’s now at three bracelets and 120 cashes, cementing his impressive record at the WSOP.

He overcame another bracelet winner in the heads-up in the name of Justin Liberto ($94k). Jeff Lisandro ended in 5th place, Dzmitry Urbanovich in 8th.

In progress

Event #18: $300 Gladiators of Poker No-limit Hold’em became the largest event at the moment with 23,088 entries and build a $5,6M prizepool. Eric Trexler is the leader of the 14 players still in the tournament. All will look to win their first bracelet.

Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship has 21 players remaining, lead by Jay Kerbel. Erik Seidel (3rd) will return today, as well as Ben Lamb (8th), John Hennigan (9th), James Obst (12th) and Sam Farha (20th). The event registered 212 entries, making the winning prize $492,795.

Here are the notable finishes in events 22 to 24:

Player	Place	Earnings	Event
🇺🇸 Josh Arieh	1st	$316,226	Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship
🇺🇸 Joe McKeehen	4th	$107,540	Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship
🇺🇸 Nick Schulman	7th	$48,298	Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship
🇺🇸 Alex Foxen	4th	$512,824	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Justin Bonomo	6th	$295,169	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Cary Katz	13th	$102,479	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Dan Smith	14th	$89,669	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
🇺🇸 Kevin Rabichow	15th	$89,669	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
🇪🇸 Adrian Mateos	17th	$89,669	Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
🇦🇺 Jeff Lisandro	5th	$34,752	Event #24: $1,500 Razz
🇵🇱 Dzmitry Urbanovich	8th	$14,805	Event #24: $1,500 Razz

See you tomorrow for more!

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Sorry for missing yesterday so we’ll cover both day 11 and 12 in this recap:

Buy-in	Event	Prizepool
$2,500	Event #19: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em	$2,529,825
$1,500	Event #20: $1,500 Badugi	$688,860
$1,000	Event #21: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed	$1,795,130

Event #19: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em

Valentino Konakchiev is the winner of event #19 and will take home a nice $435,924 home. A first bracelet for the Bulgarian who’s doubled his total live earnings with the trophy. He defeated the Argentinian Andres Korn in the heads-up, Alexandre Reard finishing third and start of day 3 chipleader Qiang Xu saw his dreams shattered and finished 9th.

“I’ve been dreaming about it since I’ve been watching poker when I was 15 on TV and I can’t believe it actually happened,” Konakchiev told in the interview.” It feels really, really good,” Konakchiev said with a wide smile. “They already have bracelets, so it was my time.”

Event #20: $1,500 Badugi

After 22 cashes at the World Series, Michael Rodrigues Pires Santos grabbed his first bracelet in this impressive 516 entries first Badugi event ever, and won the $144,678 top prize. Yingui Li of China couldn’t beat his opponent and finished second, ahead of bracelet winner Danny Tang who ended fifth.

Event #21: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed

Another large Pot-Limit Omaha this year with this 2,071 entries $1,000 event. Stephen Nahm came out on top after 15 beers for his first bracelet and 8th live registered prize ever, and will pocker $267,991.

“Every poker player, obviously, comes here – you dream of this shit, right? I kinda made my dream come true a little bit; I’m not going to lie.”

It is said that the player requested to be brought a new beer every 18 minutes, drinking more than twenty beers for day 2.

In progress

Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship has just 3 players remaining. Main Event winner Joe McKeehen fell fourth, so now remains Josh Arieh in third, Nozomu Shimizu in second and chip leader Daniel Idema who will chase a fourth bracelet later today. The bracelet will be accompagnied by a $316,226 paycheck.

Event #23: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em had 124 entries and day 2 ends with only 5 player lead by Alex Foxen. Here is the chip count:

1	Alex Foxen	United States	13,340,000	111BB
2	Jans Arends	Netherlands	10,300,000	86BB
3	Leon Sturm	Germany	4,850,000	40BB
4	Bill Klein	United States	4,675,000	39BB
5	Seth Davies	United States	3,940,000	33BB

All players secured $385k and the winner will take home $1,5M.

Event #24: $1,500 Razz stopped at 15 players left. William Burke will return with the biggest stack, followed by Jeff Lisandro (4th), Dzmitry Urbanovich (9th) and David “ODB” Baker in 14th place. They’ll play for the $152,991 top prize.

Here is an update for the most cashes at the moment after 21 events:

Name	Cashes	Total Earnings
🇺🇸 Jordan Spurlin	6	$42,646
🇺🇸 Ivan Starostin	6	$22,519
🇨🇦 Alex Livingston	5	$277,366
🇺🇸 Kevin Rand	4	$191,650
🇺🇸 Tyler Cornell	4	$119,318
🇺🇸 Ari Engel	4	$97,438

Thanks for the read, if you have any comment please let us know!

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

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