The 2024 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em foremost occasion is now down to only 18 gamers from a report subject of 10,112. The remaining contenders have now all locked up no less than $350,000 for making it up to now, and are actually only one sleep away from the prospect to battle for a spot on the ultimate desk of the most important WSOP foremost occasion ever held.
The chip chief following the conclusion of day 7 is Malo Latinois (pictured above) with 61,300,000. The French participant got here into this occasion with simply shy of $97,000 in complete prior dwell match earnings, and is now simply 9 eliminations away from securing a seven-figure payday and one other eight knockouts from the championship bracelet and the highest prize of $10,000,000.
Hot on Latinois’ heels is 2023 European Poker Tour Paris €10,300 excessive curler champion Diogo Coelho of Portugal with 51,500,000 and 2006 World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship runner-up Jason Sagle of Ontario, Canada.
Online match poker famous person Niklas Astedt sits in fourth place heading into day 8 with 50,000,000. The Gothenburg, Sweden native, identified to many by his display title ‘Lena900’, has tens of hundreds of thousands in on-line match earnings and one other $3.8 million in recorded dwell cashes. Now he has an actual shot at changing into simply the second participant from his dwelling nation to take down poker’s world championship, following within the footsteps of 2014 foremost occasion winner Martin Jacobson. Astedt solely must outlast one opponent on day 8 with a view to safe a brand new high dwell rating, with seventeenth place being good for $450,400 and his prior high money sitting at $390,572.
Four-time bracelet winner Kristen Foxen additionally has her sights set on making historical past. As the final feminine participant remaining on this occasion, she alone has the prospect to be the primary girl to make the principle occasion ultimate desk since Barbara Enright completed fifth again in 1995. Four ladies have fallen simply brief of the ultimate desk in tenth place, with the latest being Gaelle Baumann in 2012.
Foxen was almost despatched to the rail in twenty second place. She was all-in for her final 5 massive blinds with A-5 suited trailing the pocket queens of Gabriel Moura and was right down to needing an ace on the river with a view to stay within the occasion. The A
rolled off on the top, giving Foxen the double up and kickstarting a late-night surge that noticed her end the evening in fifth chip place. Foxen is now effectively located so as to add to her $8.4 million in profession match earnings in a serious means, with an opportunity to increase his report because the all-time main feminine bracelet winner.
In addition to Foxen, are three extra bracelet winners sitting inside the highest ten in Joe Serock (46,300,000), Jason James (46,300,000), and Brian Kim (42,400,000).
Foxen was joined by one different feminine participant among the many 59 gamers that made it to day 7. Shundan Xiao entered the day in second chip place, however had a tricky go of it through the center of the day. The 36-year-old software program engineer hails from China and is now based mostly out of San Jose, California. She solely picked up poker two years in the past, and has been inspired in her pursuit of the sport by her spouse Yongqing Yuan, who completed 18th on this yr’s women occasion. Despite being a relative newcomer to poker, Xiao navigated her means via this large subject to finally end in twenty eighth place for $300,000.
Xiao was one of 41 gamers to be eradicated throughout day 7 motion. Joining her on that checklist have been bracelet winners Stephen Song (57th) and Alex Keating (fifty fifth), 2022 WSOP foremost occasion sixth-place finisher Russell Rosenblum (forty sixth), bracelet winner Nick Jivkov (forty third), two-time bracelet winner Brandon Cantu (thirty ninth), 2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship winner Aliaksandr Shylko (thirty sixth), 2022 WSOP Circuit Hard Rock Tulsa foremost occasion champion Arthur Morris (thirty fourth), WPT champion Orson Young (twenty sixth), and six-time bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Famer member Brian Rast (twenty fourth).
Rast’s run on this occasion got here to an finish when his A-Q bumped into the pocket kings of Jonathan Tamayo, a longtime poker participant with greater than $2.3 million in match earnings underneath his belt. Rast picked up the nut flush draw on the flip to go along with his overcard to Tamayo’s pocket pair, however the river introduced a king to enhance Tamayo to kings full. Rast earned $350,000 for his deep run, rising his lifetime complete to greater than $27.3 million. Tamayo bagged up 18,400,000 on the finish of the day, which is nice for 14th chip place.
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The ultimate 18 gamers will return at midday native time on Sunday, July 14 with blinds of 400,000-800,000 and an enormous blind ante of 800,000 for degree 36. The common stack of 33,706,667 will characterize simply over 42 massive blinds when play resumes, with the plan being to play to a ultimate desk of 9 earlier than the match takes a one-day hiatus forward of the ultimate desk.
Here is a have a look at the whole chip counts heading into day 8:
| Rank | Player | Chips |
| 1 | Malo Latinois | 61,300,000 |
| 2 | Diogo Coelho | 51,500,000 |
| 3 | Jason Sagle | 51,400,000 |
| 4 | Niklas Astedt | 50,000,000 |
| 5 | Kristen Foxen | 47,400,000 |
| 6 | Joe Serock | 46,300,000 |
| 7 | Malcolm Franchi | 45,900,000 |
| 8 | Jason James | 45,800,000 |
| 9 | Brian Kim | 42,400,000 |
| 10 | Jessie Bryant | 27,600,000 |
| 11 | Gabriel Moura | 24,600,000 |
| 12 | Guillermo Sanchez Otero | 24,500,000 |
| 13 | Yegor Moroz | 24,500,000 |
| 14 | Jonathan Tamayo | 18,400,000 |
| 15 | Andres Gonzalez | 14,900,000 |
| 16 | Gerardo Hernandez | 13,400,000 |
| 17 | Boris Angelov | 8,300,000 |
| 18 | Jordan Griff | 8,300,000 |
Remaining payouts up for grabs within the 2024 WSOP foremost 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 | $350,000 |
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