Michael Addamo usually disappears from the dwell match scene for stretches, however the four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner invariably pops again up and reminds the poker neighborhood that he is among the high gamers within the sport. In retaining with that development, Addamo has recorded solely 4 dwell cashes to date in 2024, however is now in pole place to take down one of many largest occasions of the yr with 2025 lower than two weeks away.
The 2024 World Series of Poker Paradise $25,000 no-limit maintain’em tremendous primary occasion drew 1978 whole entries, narrowly lacking the $50 million assure. After the 4 dwell beginning days and several other on-line flights, and a pair extra days of combined-field motion, there at the moment are simply 9 contenders remaining with a shot on the championship bracelet and the huge $6 million first-place prize.
Addamo, who has almost $27.4 million in profession cashes to his title, bagged up the most important stack heading into the ultimate desk with 196,800,000. He is joined by a number of extremely achieved gamers, together with Italy’s second main match earner Mustapha Kanit (141,200,000), bracelet winner and European Poker Tour primary occasion champion Liv Boeree (111,400,000), and three-time bracelet winner Justin Bonomo (63,400,000).
Bonomo is presently ranked second on poker’s all-time cash record with $66.4 million in profession cashes, which trails solely Bryn Kenney ($74 million) in lifetime cashes.
The remaining 9 are all now assured not less than $750,000 for making it this far, with the highest eight all set to money for seven figures.
Day 4 started with 36 gamers remaining. Plenty of notables have been eradicated on the the best way to the ultimate desk, together with Super High Roller Bowl winners Christoph Vogelsang (thirty second) and Rainer Kempe (thirty first), two-time bracelet winner Chris Klodnicki (twenty sixth), bracelet winner Roland Rokita (twenty second), bracelet winner Nick Maimone (18th), Sorel Mizzi (sixteenth), Card Player Player of the Year contender Ren Lin (eleventh), and 2003 WSOP primary occasion champion Chris Moneymaker (tenth).
Moneymaker bubbled the ultimate desk when his pocket nines have been unable to return from behind towards the pocket jacks of Boeree. Neither participant related with the eight-high runout and Moneymaker was eradicated in tenth place ($500,000). This was the fourth-largest rating of the Poker Hall of Famer’s profession. He now has greater than $7.5 million in lifetime earnings.
Hall of Famer Chris Moneymaker with the valiant efficiency, ending tenth and bagging $500K within the Super Main Event!!! What a Run!!! #GG #wsopPARADISE pic.twitter.com/mubVOSNEHB
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) December 19, 2024
The remaining desk is about to renew at midday native time on Thursday, Dec. 19. Blinds can be at 1,500,000-3,000,000 with a giant blind ante of three,000,000 when play resumes.
Here is a take a look at the chip counts heading into the ultimate desk:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Michael Addamo | 196,800,000 |
| 2 | Christopher Nguyen | 143,100,000 |
| 3 | Mustapha Kanit | 141,200,000 |
| 4 | Liv Boeree | 111,400,000 |
| 5 | Marcelo Aziz | 105,500,000 |
| 6 | Yinan Zhou | 88,000,000 |
| 7 | Vadzim Lipauka | 66,300,000 |
| 8 | Justin Bonomo | 63,400,000 |
| 9 | Georg Lehmann | 48,400,000 |
The remaining payouts up for grabs are as follows:
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $6,000,000 |
| 2 | $4,600,000 |
| 3 | $3,600,000 |
| 4 | $2,800,000 |
| 5 | $2,100,000 |
| 6 | $1,650,000 |
| 7 | $1,300,000 |
| 8 | $1,000,000 |
| 9 | $750,000 |
Photos by way of WSOP livestream and from WSOP X account.
