The cash bubble has formally burst within the largest World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em major occasion ever held. A report area of 10,112 entries turned out this 12 months, leading to a large $94,041,600 prize pool. By the top of day 4, simply 464 contenders stay with a shot on the championship bracelet and the $10,000,000 first-place prize.
Day 4 started with simply 1,529 gamers remaining, which meant that 12 eliminations had been required to make the cash. Hand-to-hand play started roughly 45 minutes into the day. It took roughly one other hour for the bubble to burst, with two gamers knocked out concurrently at separate tables. Jack Effel, Vice President of the World Series of Poker, bounced between tables asserting the motion from the assorted all-ins across the room. He was, as at all times, adopted by a swarm of media and gamers trying to seize a shot of the hand that burst the bubble.
The first of the 2 bubble gamers was Lucas Reeves (pictured on the prime of the web page), who seven-bet shoved with Ok
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and located himself up towards the A
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of Marcelo Tadeu Aziz Junior. Neither participant linked with a queen-high runout and Reeves was eradicated. Moments later, Christian Stratmeyer was within the highlight, along with his AOk dealing with the 83 of poker media member Terence Reid in a preflop confrontation. Reid flopped journey eights after which backdoored a flush to ship Stratmeyer packing.
Reeves and Stratmeyer cut up the $15,000 in prize cash that will have gone to the primary participant bust inside the cash, taking dwelling $7,500 every. They then high-carded for a free seat into subsequent 12 months’s major occasion, with Stratmeyer pulling a jack to finest the deuce of Reeves. With that, the remaining 1,516 may breath a sigh of aid, having at the very least locked up $15,000.
By the top of the evening, the 464 that remained had been all assured $37,500. Sitting on the prime of the chip counts heading into day 5 is bracelet winner and 2022 WPT Prime Championship winner Stephen Song with 4,745,000 (190 massive blinds). He received an enormous pot late on day 4 with quad threes to assist propel him into the highest spot. Song has greater than $6.5 million in prior event earnings, with almost $1.6 million in cashes in WSOP occasions.
(*4*)Song is much from the one highly-accomplished participant close to the highest of the chip counts, although. Sitting in second chip place is four-time bracelet winner Adrian Mateos with 4,500,000 (180 massive blinds). Rounding out the remaining of the highest 5 is Will Berry(4,465,000), Aloisio Dourado (4,335,000), and Biao Ding (4,265,000).
Other notables with massive stacks embrace World Poker Tour champion Veerab Zakarian (3,625,000), two-time bracelet winner Boris Kolev (3,045,000), two-time bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs (2,935,000), eight-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Matt Stout (2,910,000), two-time bracelet winner David Prociak (2,880,000), WPT champion and 15-time WSOPC ring winner Joshua Reichard (2,540,000), and two-time bracelet winner Jesse Lonis (2,520,000).
Full chip counts for the remaining 464 contenders can be found by clicking HERE.
Poker Hall of Famer Phil Ivey can be nonetheless in rivalry, having ended day 4 with 650,000. The 11-time bracelet winner was on one of PokerGO’s featured tables throughout the day, and received an enormous pot whereas on the published by way of probably the most brutal preflop cooler within the sport: pocket aces over pocket kings. Check out the hand beneath.
Aces vs Kings.
All In.
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Among the 1,065 gamers that had been eradicated on day 4 had been seven-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu (1,468th), reigning WSOP girls occasion champion Shiina Okamoto (1,407th), 10-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (1,369th), and bracelet winner Matt Waxman (1,157th).
Five former major occasion champions made it to day 4, with all of them being knocked out earlier than the top of play. That implies that a brand new world champion can be topped in 2024. 2022 champion Espen Jorstad’s run led to 1,393th, whereas 2023 champion Daniel Weinman completed 1,357th, 2017 champion Scott Blumstein positioned 1,137th. 2021 champion Koray Aldemir and 2015 champion Joe McKeehen additionally cashed, however their official ending spots haven’t but been posted.
The remaining 464 gamers will return for day 5 at midday on Thursday, July 11 with blinds of 10,000-25,000 with a 25,0000 massive blind ante for degree 22. The common stack of 1,307,586 will symbolize simply over 52 massive blinds when motion resumes.
Here is a take a look at the highest ten chip stacks heading into day 5:
| Rank | Player | Chips |
| 1 | Stephen Song | 4,745,000 |
| 2 | Adrian Mateos | 4,500,000 |
| 3 | Will Berry | 4,465,000 |
| 4 | Aloisio Dourado | 4,335,000 |
| 5 | Biao Ding | 4,265,000 |
| 6 | Malo Latinois | 4,130,000 |
| 7 | Luis Vazquez | 4,055,000 |
| 8 | Nazar Buhaiov | 3,875,000 |
| 9 | Kevin Theodore | 3,760,000 |
| 10 | Ryan Hoenig | 3,665,000 |
Remaining payouts up for grabs within the 2024 WSOP major occasion:
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $10,000,000 |
| 2 | $6,000,000 |
| 3 | $4,000,000 |
| 4 | $3,000,000 |
| 5 | $2,500,000 |
| 6 | $2,000,000 |
| 7 | $1,500,000 |
| 8 | $1,250,000 |
| 9 | $1,000,000 |
| 10 – 11 | $800,000 |
| 12 – 13 | $600,000 |
| 14 – 17 | $450,400 |
| 18 – 26 | $350,000 |
| 27 – 35 | $300,000 |
| 36 – 44 | $250,000 |
| 45 – 53 | $200,000 |
| 54 – 62 | $160,000 |
| 63 – 71 | $140,000 |
| 72 – 80 | $120,000 |
| 81 – 125 | $100,000 |
| 126 – 134 | $85,000 |
| 135 – 162 | $70,000 |
| 163 – 224 | $60,000 |
| 225 – 287 | $50,000 |
| 288 – 311 | $45,000 |
| 312 – 350 | $45,000 |
| 351 – 413 | $40,000 |
| 414 – 476 | $37,500 |
