Calvin Anderson Wins Eighth World Series Of Poker Bracelet

Eight World Series of Poker bracelets put a participant in really rarefied air. Calvin Anderson reached that historic milestone this week after conquering the WSOP Online $777 buy-in no-limit maintain’em Lucky 7’s occasion for his eighth profession bracelet. In doing so, he grew to become simply the twelfth participant in poker historical past to have secured as many bracelets. He is now tied with Daniel Negreanu and Nick Schulman, who every earned their eighth bracelets this summer time.

Anderson was additionally fairly profitable in Las Vegas this 12 months, incomes two titles on the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. He first took down the $10,000 razz championship to turn into the winningest razz participant in WSOP historical past, surpassing all-time bracelet chief Phil Hellmuth within the course of. Just 4 days later, Anderson emerged victorious within the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. championship, marking his fourth win in one of many championship occasions. In addition to this H.O.R.S.E. win and two victories in razz, he additionally took down the eight-game combine in 2024.

This newest win in a lower-stakes no-limit maintain’em occasion got here with $48,914 in prize cash. It was his third on-line bracelet triumph. Anderson now has greater than $9.4 million in profession cashes to his identify.

Hellmuth’s 17 WSOP wins maintain him on high of the all-time bracelet leaderboard. Phil Ivey additionally stands alone in second together with his 11 triumphs on the collection. Erik Seidel, Johnny Chan, and the late nice Doyle Brunson are all tied at 10 bracelets. Michael Mizrachi, Benny Glaser, Johnny Moss, and Shaun Deeb sit in a four-way tie at 9 wins apiece.

Anderson had loads of powerful competitors to take care of down the stretch on this occasion. Among these to affix him on the remaining desk had been Salvatore Dicarlo (ninth – $4,446), Nicholas Palma (seventh – $6,987), and Justin Vaysman (4th – $19,692). 

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