The record-breaking 2024 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Important Occasion in Las Vegas has reached its remaining 9 gamers, and every of them are assured a seven-figure payday with an opportunity to make poker historical past and stroll away with $10 million.
Main the way in which is Illinois native Jordan Griff, who had simply $47,192 in stay earnings heading into poker’s greatest occasion and has now locked up a minimal money that’s greater than 50 instances his earlier greatest rating of $18,104. Griff was all in on the primary hand of the day in opposition to a flopped set however managed to river a much bigger set in a miraculous shift of occasions that can virtually actually find yourself being price a number of million.
“It was a curler coaster of feelings, that hand,” Griff informed PokerNews on the finish of Day 8. “The very first hand of the day, I decide up queens. I am enthusiastic about it. There was a giant pay bounce, too, so I am just a little nervous. I get it in most of my stack pre-flop, assuming we’re simply dedicated … He beat me to the pot (on the flop) … I noticed the threes, and I used to be simply, like, in shock … After which, you understand, I heard the noises that one thing occurred. I look again, I see the queen, and I set free some type of noise. I do not keep in mind what it was, however simply pure emotion from it.”
Griff has an uphill battle as two of poker’s most completed gamers, American excessive curler common Brian Kim and Swedish on-line poker legend Niklas “Lena900” Astedt, each bagged spectacular stacks that can see them return to the ultimate desk with over 50 large blinds.
Astedt, who’s widely known as one of many biggest on-line gamers of all time, will look to clean his title from the “greatest with no bracelet” record, whereas Kim will search redemption after a Twenty third-place end within the 2022 Important Occasion and his second WSOP bracelet.
“I feel that run is the one purpose why I am right here right this moment,” Kim mentioned. “I by no means actually performed tournaments. I truly simply performed the Important as soon as yearly. So from that run, I acquired fascinated with tournaments and began doing plenty of work and taking part in them loads, and now I’ve fairly a little bit of expertise.”
Astedt could also be referred to as a web based participant, however make no mistake—he has not been fatigued by the lengthy hours within the stay area.
“(It is a) piece of cake in comparison with SCOOP,” laughed Astedt. “Individuals say it is a marathon; they need to attempt 23 tables for 40 days throughout SCOOP. That is what I say.”
One other participant in search of redemption is Boris Angelov, who earlier this 12 months completed runner-up within the EPT Monte Carlo Important Occasion for $663,565 in what he informed PokerNews felt like a disappointing end.
In the meantime, Joe Serock, New Mexico’s all-time cash chief and the one participant on the remaining desk with a bracelet aside from Kim, will search a second piece of WSOP {hardware} after profitable final 12 months’s on-line $500 PLO 8-Max and qualifying into the Important Occasion on GGPoker.
Day 7 chip chief Malo Latinois ended the evening towards the underside of the counts alongside Texan four-time Circuit ring winner Jonathan Tamayo (who completed twenty first within the 2009 Important Occasion) and Spain’s Andres Gonzalez, whereas Canada’s Jason Sagle rounds out the ultimate 9 as a middling stack.
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Foxen Falls Forward of Closing Desk
It took only one hand for Griff to seek out himself all in with queens, and it was shaping to be his solely hand of the day as he was in opposition to Jessie Bryant’s flopped set of threes. However as luck would have it, the river introduced one in all two queens left within the deck, and Griff made a greater set to remain alive and make a run to the ultimate desk.
The ghillie-suit-wearing Southerner quickly after doubled up Angelov to be left brief to fall in seventeenth place after the elimination of Gerardo Hernandez in 18th place, who went out in painful trend as a double-paired board counterfeited his pocket sixes to lose to ace-high.
There was one other painful elimination after the primary break as Guillermo Sanchez Otero acquired it in with ace-queen to be in entrance of the offsuit nine-seven of his opponent. A double appeared imminent for Otero as his ace-high stayed forward till a seven landed on the river to ship him out in sixteenth place.
It was round this time that Foxen took the chip lead as she outflopped Diogo Coelho in a three-bet pot with ace-queen to the Portgeuese grinder’s Huge Slick.
Although it was an thrilling growth for the 1000’s of poker lovers hoping to see the primary lady Important Occasion champion topped, it was short-lived. As the sector acquired smaller with the exits of Jason James and the jovial Yegor Moroz, Foxen misplaced a large pot in opposition to Kim earlier than a hand that can seemingly be mentioned for the rest of the occasion.
After defending her large blind with king-queen in a heads-up pot in opposition to Serock, Foxen check-called on a board of A♥Okay♥Jâ™ earlier than check-jamming on the flip. Sadly for the four-time bracelet winner, Serock wasn’t going wherever with high two pair and “Krissyb” could not hit Broadway for a painful exit for the most effective lady gamers in poker historical past.
Foxen was consoled after her elimination by her husband, fellow crusher Alex Foxen, and people on the rail roared and applauded as she left the desk.
Motion picked up after dinner break, and it did not take lengthy for Brazil’s Gabriel Moura, who had one of many loudest and most enthusiastic rails of Day 8, to exit in eleventh place as his flopped center pair could not maintain up in opposition to the straight draw of Sagle, who binked the flip to go away the Brazilian drawing to a much bigger straight draw that did not hit.
Not lengthy after, France’s Malcolm Franchi acquired it in with ace-queen solely to seek out himself dominated by the ace-king of Griff to exit on the unofficial remaining desk bubble.
Griff’s spin-up solely continued from there as he hit quads earlier than the elimination of Portugal’s Diogo Coelho, who entered the ten-handed desk with crumbs and ran ace-jack into the ace-king of Astedt to mark the top of Day 8.
Closing Tablists Get a Day Off
After bagging their chips, posing for photographs, and doing media interviews, the 9 gamers left the Horseshoe Occasion Heart to additional put together for his or her quest for eight figures.
The gamers could have a time without work on Monday, July 15, earlier than returning for Day 10 on Tuesday, July 16 at 1:30 p.m. native time. Motion will decide again up with 51:20 left in Stage 39 with blinds of 800,000/1,600,000/1,600,000. The plan for Day 10 is to play right down to 4 gamers with TV breaks all through play and no prolonged breaks.
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