The 2024 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em essential occasion is the most important ever held, with 10,112 entries leading to a file prize pool of $94,041,600. After the completion of day 3, the remaining subject of 1,524 gamers is painstakingly shut to creating the cash and locking up a share of that huge sum.
It will take simply seven extra eliminations on day 4 to make sure that the 1,517 remaining contenders will all earn at the very least $15,000 for his or her efforts on this historic occasion. Of course, they’ll all nonetheless have their eyes on the $10,000,000 prime prize and the championship bracelet.
The chip chief heading into day 4 is Francisco Perez Moreno of Spain with 2,187,000 (273 large blinds). He has almost $530,000 in profession cashes to his identify, together with his prime rating being a $140,584 payday for a third-place exhibiting in a $1,600 occasion eventually yr’s Venetian DeepStack Championship Poker Series.
Other large stacks embrace Justin Datloff (1,819,000), and 2019 WSOP essential occasion third place finisher Alex Livingston (1,808,000). The Canadian earned $4,000,000 for that deep run, and is now properly located for an additional sturdy exhibiting with 226 large blinds heading into day 4. He’ll be trying to earn his second gold bracelet, having received the WSOP $1,500 stud occasion again in 2022.
Other large names that bagged wholesome stacks embrace eight-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Matt Stout (1,670,000), current WSOP $800 Independence Day occasion champion Francis Anderson (1,655,000, and Ren Lin (1,570,000). Lin has almost $11.9 million in profession earnings, and is a prime Card Player Player of the Year contender in 2024, however has but to safe a victory on the WSOP.
Plenty of different notables bagged greater than one million heading into day 4, together with Will Failla (1,390,000), bracelet winner Alex Keating (1,376,000), JC Alvarado (1,360,000), 2019 WSOP Europe essential occasion champion Alex Kolonias (1,310,000) bracelet winner Nacho Barbero (1,289,000), two-time bracelet winner Jans Arends (1,189,000), and five-time bracelet winner Adam Friedman (forty third).
Several earlier champions of this match are nonetheless in with a shot at incomes a second essential occasion title, together with 2021 champion Koray Aldemir (443,000), 2015 champion Joe McKeehen (420,000), 2017 champion Scott Blumstein (299,000), 2022 champion Espen Jorstad (136,000), and reigning champion Daniel Weinman (82,000).
Card Player caught up with Weinman halfway via day 3 to debate defending his title.
Day 3 began with 3,617 gamers remaining. Among the over 2,000 that have been eradicated in the course of the course of play have been four-time bracelet winner Mike Matusow, 2012 essential occasion champion Greg Merson, five-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman, bracelet winner Andrew Lichtenberger, bracelet winner Mikita Badziakouski, and 2017 Super High Roller Bowl champion Christoph Vogelsang.
The last 1,524 gamers will return for day 4 at midday on Wednesday, July 10. Players will sit all the way down to blinds of 4,000-8,000 with an 8,000 large blind ante for degree 16. The common stack of 398,110 will characterize simply shy of 50 large blinds when motion resumes within the largest essential occasion ever held.
Here is a take a look at the highest ten chip stacks heading into day 4:
| Rank | Player | Chips |
| 1 | Francisco Perez Moreno | 2,187,000 |
| 2 | Justin Datloff | 1,819,000 |
| 3 | Alex Livingston | 1,808,000 |
| 4 | Marcelo Tadeu Aziz Junior | 1,697,000 |
| 5 | Matt Stout | 1,670,000 |
| 6 | Francis Anderson | 1,655,000 |
| 7 | Nazar Buhaiov | 1,631,000 |
| 8 | Diogo Coelho | 1,631,000 |
| 9 | Ren Lin | 1,570,000 |
| 10 | Clement Van Driessche | 1,552,000 |
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Payouts for the 2024 WSOP essential 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 |
| 477 – 539 | $35,000 |
| 540 – 602 | $32,500 |
| 603 – 665 | $30,000 |
| 666 – 764 | $27,500 |
| 765 – 863 | $25,000 |
| 864 – 950 | $22,500 |
| 951 – 1,008 | $20,000 |
| 1,009 – 1,250 | $17,500 |
| 1,251 – 1,517 | $15,000 |
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