The 2024 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) is formally over, some 51 days after the primary of 99 reside bracelet-awarding occasions shuffled up and dealt on the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. The sequence has had all of it, from a number of bracelet winners, old fashioned heroes changing into champions once more, and a raft of continuous poker motion from begin to end.
July 17 was the 51st day of this superb sequence, the day that the ultimate 5 WSOP occasions topped their champions and introduced the curtain down on one other summer season of poker.
Occasion #81: $10,000 WSOP Essential Occasion World Championship
The primary activity of Day 51 was to crown poker’s world champion. Niklas Astedt, Jordan Griff, and Jonathan Tamayo returned to the desk having locked in $4 million however understanding they have been solely two eliminations away from changing into the 2024 WSOP Essential Occasion champion and successful $10 million.
Astedt was the primary of the trio to bow out earlier than Tamayo defeated Griff heads-up to immortalize himself in poker’s historical past e book.
PokerNews’ reside reporters have been on the bottom by way of the Essential Occasion, so try the entire Essential Occasion updates, or skip proper forward to the ultimate day’s recap.
Occasion #93: $777 Fortunate 7’s No-Restrict Maintain’em
Michael Liang triumphed in Occasion #93: $777 Fortunate 7’s No-Restrict Maintain’em, overturning a nine-to-one chip deficit to defeat Duc Nguyen. Liang, who had beforehand completed second, third, and fifth in bracelet occasions, lastly obtained the job completed and his palms on $777,777 and his first WSOP bracelet.
With this victory, Liang’s lifetime earnings from reside poker tournaments swelled to virtually $3.2 million.
Occasion #97: $3,000 6-Handed Pot-Restrict Omaha
Alex Livingston turned a two-time bracelet winner after beating Francisco Benitez heads-up in Occasion #97: $3,000 6-Handed Pot-Restrict Omaha. Livingston had racked up 11 cashes earlier than this occasion, however had fallen wanting a last desk look. Having defeated Uruguay’s Benitez and captured the $390,621 prime prize, Livingston stated the victory was a summer season saver for the Canadian.
This was Livingston’s third recorded victory. His first was within the $1,500 Seven Card Stud occasion on the 2022 WSOP, and his second got here in a $25,000 10-Sport Championship on the 2024 PokerGO Tour Blended Video games competition.
Occasion #98: $1,500 The Nearer
Occasion #98: $1,500 The Nearer was the penultimate reside bracelet-awarding occasion of the 2024 WSOP, and Taiwan’s Ching Da Wu claimed its bracelet. Da Wu outlasted 3,214 opponents on his approach to successful his first bracelet and $525,500 in prize cash.
Da Wu defeated Italy’s Mario Colavita to develop into solely the fourth Taiwanese participant to strike gold at a WSOP. Regardless of his success on this occasion, Da Wu plans to stay a software program engineer in California and proceed enjoying poker recreationally.
Occasion #99: $1,000 Tremendous Turbo No-Restrict Maintain’em
Some 1,544 hopefuls flicked in $1,000 for the ultimate probability to win some 2024 WSOP {hardware} in Occasion #99: $1,000 Tremendous Turbo No-Restrict Maintain’em. The 20-minute ranges and comparatively shallow beginning stacks, in comparison with different occasions, meant these 1,544 entrants have been decreased to just one in a single day.
Lithuania’s Aneris Adomkevicius was the only survivor on this occasion. He resigned two-time WSOP Essential Occasion ninth-place finisher Mark Newhouse to a runner-up end when his pocket sixes held towards jack-eight.
Adomkevicius netted $201,355 and his first gold bracelet.
That is a Wrap!
Those that have adopted our every day recaps for the previous seven or so weeks are used to seeing this part reserved for what’s occurring subsequent with the WSOP. We could as effectively proceed that custom though there are actually extra reside occasions scheduled.
Over the subsequent few days, PokerNews will recap the summer season’s motion, together with among the greatest tales, most enjoyable palms, and extra, all effectively celebrating our new world champion.
And let’s not neglect that though the 2025 WSOP in Las Vegas remains to be ten months away, the WSOP has simply launched particulars of the 2024 version of the WSOP Paradise, which runs December 6-19 in direct competitors with the WPT World Championship (December 3-23) and PokerStars EPT Prague (December 4-15).
Earlier than we flip off the lights on the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, we thank everybody who has tuned into our industry-leading reside updates, watched our movies and podcasts, and put themselves within the thick of the motion with MyStack. We do that for you.