The cash bubble has formally burst within the largest World Sequence of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em principal occasion ever held. A report subject of 10,112 entries turned out this 12 months, leading to an enormous $94,041,600 prize pool. By the top of day 4, simply 464 contenders stay with a shot on the championship bracelet and the $10,000,000 first-place prize.
Day 4 started with simply 1,529 gamers remaining, which meant that 12 eliminations had been required to make the cash. Hand-to-hand play started roughly 45 minutes into the day. It took roughly one other hour for the bubble to burst, with two gamers knocked out concurrently at separate tables. Jack Effel, Vice President of the World Sequence of Poker, bounced between tables saying the motion from the varied all-ins across the room. He was, as all the time, adopted by a swarm of media and gamers trying to seize a shot of the hand that burst the bubble.
The primary of the 2 bubble gamers was Lucas Reeves (pictured on the prime of the web page), who seven-bet shoved with Ok
Ok
and located himself up in opposition to the A
A
of Marcelo Tadeu Aziz Junior. Neither participant linked with a queen-high runout and Reeves was eradicated. Moments later, Christian Stratmeyer was within the highlight, along with his AOk dealing with the 83 of poker media member Terence Reid in a preflop confrontation. Reid flopped journey eights after which backdoored a flush to ship Stratmeyer packing.
Reeves and Stratmeyer cut up the $15,000 in prize cash that may have gone to the primary participant bust inside the cash, taking dwelling $7,500 every. They then high-carded for a free seat into subsequent 12 months’s principal occasion, with Stratmeyer pulling a jack to greatest the deuce of Reeves. With that, the remaining 1,516 may breath a sigh of aid, having not less than locked up $15,000.
By the top of the evening, the 464 that remained had been all assured $37,500. Sitting on the prime of the chip counts heading into day 5 is bracelet winner and 2022 WPT Prime Championship winner Stephen Tune with 4,745,000 (190 large blinds). He gained a giant pot late on day 4 with quad threes to assist propel him into the highest spot. Tune has greater than $6.5 million in prior match earnings, with almost $1.6 million in cashes in WSOP occasions.
Tune is way from the one highly-accomplished participant close to the highest of the chip counts, although. Sitting in second chip place is four-time bracelet winner Adrian Mateos with 4,500,000 (180 large blinds). Rounding out the remainder of the highest 5 is Will Berry(4,465,000), Aloisio Dourado (4,335,000), and Biao Ding (4,265,000).
Different notables with large stacks embody World Poker Tour champion Veerab Zakarian (3,625,000), two-time bracelet winner Boris Kolev (3,045,000), two-time bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs (2,935,000), eight-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Matt Stout (2,910,000), two-time bracelet winner David Prociak (2,880,000), WPT champion and 15-time WSOPC ring winner Joshua Reichard (2,540,000), and two-time bracelet winner Jesse Lonis (2,520,000).
Full chip counts for the remaining 464 contenders may be discovered by clicking HERE.
Poker Corridor of Famer Phil Ivey can also be nonetheless in rivalry, having ended day 4 with 650,000. The 11-time bracelet winner was on one in all PokerGO’s featured tables in the course of the day, and gained a giant pot whereas on the printed by way of probably the most brutal preflop cooler within the recreation: pocket aces over pocket kings. Try the hand beneath.
Aces vs Kings.
All In.
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Among the many 1,065 gamers that had been eradicated on day 4 had been seven-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu (1,468th), reigning WSOP girls occasion champion Shiina Okamoto (1,407th), 10-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (1,369th), and bracelet winner Matt Waxman (1,157th).
5 former principal occasion champions made it to day 4, with all of them being knocked out earlier than the top of play. That implies that a brand new world champion will probably be topped in 2024. 2022 champion Espen Jorstad’s run resulted in 1,393th, whereas 2023 champion Daniel Weinman completed 1,357th, 2017 champion Scott Blumstein positioned 1,137th. 2021 champion Koray Aldemir and 2015 champion Joe McKeehen additionally cashed, however their official ending spots haven’t but been posted.
The ultimate 464 gamers will return for day 5 at midday on Thursday, July 11 with blinds of 10,000-25,000 with a 25,0000 large blind ante for stage 22. The common stack of 1,307,586 will characterize simply over 52 large blinds when motion resumes.
Here’s a take a look at the highest ten chip stacks heading into day 5:
Rank
Participant
Chips
1
Stephen Tune
4,745,000
2
Adrian Mateos
4,500,000
3
Will Berry
4,465,000
4
Aloisio Dourado
4,335,000
5
Biao Ding
4,265,000
6
Malo Latinois
4,130,000
7
Luis Vazquez
4,055,000
8
Nazar Buhaiov
3,875,000
9
Kevin Theodore
3,760,000
10
Ryan Hoenig
3,665,000
Remaining payouts up for grabs within the 2024 WSOP principal 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
