The closing desk has been set in the largest World Series of Poker predominant occasion ever held.
The 2023 WSOP $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em championship drew a file subject of 10,043 entries, blowing away the earlier high turnout of 8,773 set again in 2006 to create a $93,399,900 prize pool. Now, simply 9 gamers stay with a shot at the championship bracelet and the file high prize of $12,100,000.
It took simply over 5 hours to slender the 15 gamers that returned to the Horseshoe Las Vegas Events Center right down to the official closing desk. Those nonetheless in rivalry have all locked up no less than $900,000 by making it so far, and are only one elimination away from the seven-figure payouts. A full itemizing of the remaining prize cash will be discovered at the backside of the web page.
When the mud settled, it was Adam Walton sitting atop the chip counts with 143,800,000, good for simply shy of 24 p.c of the complete chips in play.
“I simply clearly really feel extraordinarily lucky like that luck simply occurred to land on me for one thing like this. It’s sort of a surreal second. Nobody ever thinks that is gonna occur to them, and right here I’m. So yeah, it hasn’t actually sunk in, to be trustworthy.
The 40-year-old skilled poker participant from Seattle, Washington primarily performs money video games however has gotten extra into tournaments throughout the blossoming post-pandemic increase on the reside circuit. Walton has greater than $951,000 in prior match earnings, together with a Forty second-place end on this occasion simply two years in the past.
“I massively punted deep… or I don’t know if it was a massive punt, but it wasn’t a good play to go out and it was really frustrating and I did the exact same thing again this year, except I doubled. So, I guess the lesson of the story is: get there,” mentioned Walton on making a second deep run in the world’s greatest poker match.
The second-largest stack at the finish of the night time belonged to 35-year-old Phoenix, AZ actual property dealer Steven Jones (90,300,000). Hot on his heels is two-time World Poker Tour champion and WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Weinman with 81,700,000. The 35-year-old poker professional gained the wildest hand of the day, coming from behind in a three-way all-in conflict to surge up the chip counts.
Joshua Payne raised from early place with OkayOkay and Jose Aguilera three-bet with QQ from the button. Weinman regarded down at JJ and four-bet shoved for simply over 36 large blinds. Both gamers known as and the flop got here down A74. Payne had 83 p.c fairness after that flop, however the J on the flip shot Weinman from third place right into a commanding lead in the hand. The 3 on the river modified nothing and Weinman knocked out Payne in 14th place ($430,200).
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“As soon as Josh went with his hand, I knew I was dead there, but at least I had him covered. But as soon as Aguilera called, I know my hand is completely dead. And it’s like, ‘Alright, you know, it was a fun run. It’s over now,’ and then… everyone talks about their one time and I’ve never really used my one time, so I kind of internally had a little feeling that something might happen there,” mentioned Weinman when requested about the hand.
Weinman has greater than $3.7 million in match earnings heading into this closing desk, and will greater than double his lifetime complete by making it to the high three.
German bracelet winner Jan-Peter Jachtmann sits in fourth place with 74,600,000. The 55-year-old advertising CEO and severe poker participant has greater than $1.2 million in prior cashes, together with the $661,000 he earned for taking down the 2012 WSOP $10,000 pot-limit Omaha championship.
Juan Maceiras got here into the day as the chip chief, and spent a lot of the early motion on high of the counts earlier than dropping a large pot halfway by means of the day to Walton when he went for an ace-high hero name on a paired board solely to have Walton reveal A-Okay for high pair with a king kicker to associate with the pair of sevens amongst the group playing cards. The 39-year-old Spanish poker professional ended up in fifth chip place by the finish of day 8, with 68,000,000 to play with when the closing desk resumes.
50-year-old Ruslan Prydryk sits in sixth chip place with 50,700,000. The Ukrainian poker professional’s high rating, previous to this deep run, was a fifth-place displaying in the 2009 European Poker Tour Warsaw predominant occasion for $104,637.
Scotland’s Dean Hutchison ended with 41,700,000. The 36-year-old Glasgow resident has practically $687,000 in reside match earnings to his title already, together with a win in a UKIPT Edinburgh £1,100 occasion for $154,935.
Italy’s Daniel Holzner is the youngest participant nonetheless in rivalry at 30. He was the clear quick stack when ten-handed play started, however managed an important double up by means of Walton early to get out of the hazard zone. He ended with 31,900,000.
Rounding out the closing desk is the most achieved match participant nonetheless in rivalry: Toby Lewis. The 33-year-old British poker professional has greater than $8.4 million in lifetime earnings, together with wins in the 2010 EPT Vilamoura and the 2018 Aussie Millions predominant occasion. He is the solely participant remaining with a seven-figure rating to their title, a feat he achieved twice. He earned $1,235,204 as the third-place finisher in the 2021 Wynn Millions $10,000 buy-in championship, and one other $1,156,205 for his large win down underneath half a decade in the past.
Day 8 got here to a conclusion with the elimination of Jose Aguilera in tenth place ($700,000). The hand started with Jachtmann opening to only over a min-raise with A8 from early place. Aguilera three-bet to six,700,000 out of the hijack with AJ, leaving himself simply 2,500,000 behind. Jachtmann made the name and the flop got here down 654 and Jachtmann wager sufficient to place his opponent all-in. Aguilera made the name and was forward, however the 7 on the flip gave Jachtmann an eight-high straight. The 2 on the finish confirmed Aguilera’s elimination, setting the official closing desk.
In addition to Aguilera and Payne, Jack O’Neill (fifteenth – $430,200), Sachin Joshi (thirteenth – $535,000), Cong Pham (twelfth – $535,000), and Alec Torelli (eleventh – $700,000) had been eradicated throughout playdown.
The closing 9 will return at 2:00 PM native time on Sunday, July 16. The plan can be to play right down to the closing 4 that night, with the winner to be decided on Monday, July 17. Blinds will resume at 600,000/1,200,000 with a giant blind ante of 1,200,000 for the length of degree 38.
Here is a have a look at the chip counts heading into the closing desk:
Rank | Player | Chip Count |
1 | Adam Walton | 143,800,000 |
2 | Steven Jones | 90,300,000 |
3 | Daniel Weinman | 81,700,000 |
4 | Jan-Peter Jachtmann | 74,600,000 |
5 | Juan Maceiras | 68,000,000 |
6 | Ruslan Prydryk | 50,700,000 |
7 | Dean Hutchison | 41,700,000 |
8 | Daniel Holzner | 31,900,000 |
9 | Toby Lewis | 19,800,000 |
Remaining payouts up for grabs in the 2023 WSOP predominant occasion:
Place | Payout |
1 | $12,100,000 |
2 | $6,500,000 |
3 | $4,000,000 |
4 | $3,000,000 |
5 | $2,400,000 |
6 | $1,850,000 |
7 | $1,425,000 |
8 | $1,125,000 |
9 | $900,000 |
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