The 2024 World Sequence of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em important occasion is now down to simply 18 gamers from a file area of 10,112. The remaining contenders have now all locked up not less than $350,000 for making it so far, and at the moment are only one sleep away from the possibility to battle for a spot on the remaining desk of the most important WSOP important occasion ever held.
The chip chief following the conclusion of day 7 is Malo Latinois (pictured above) with 61,300,000. The French participant got here into this occasion with simply shy of $97,000 in complete prior reside event earnings, and is now simply 9 eliminations away from securing a seven-figure payday and one other eight knockouts from the championship bracelet and the highest prize of $10,000,000.
Scorching on Latinois’ heels is 2023 European Poker Tour Paris €10,300 excessive curler champion Diogo Coelho of Portugal with 51,500,000 and 2006 World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship runner-up Jason Sagle of Ontario, Canada.
On-line event poker famous person Niklas Astedt sits in fourth place heading into day 8 with 50,000,000. The Gothenburg, Sweden native, recognized to many by his display identify ‘Lena900’, has tens of tens of millions in on-line event earnings and one other $3.8 million in recorded reside cashes. Now he has an actual shot at changing into simply the second participant from his dwelling nation to take down poker’s world championship, following within the footsteps of 2014 important occasion winner Martin Jacobson. Astedt solely must outlast one opponent on day 8 with a view to safe a brand new prime reside rating, with seventeenth place being good for $450,400 and his prior prime money sitting at $390,572.
4-time bracelet winner Kristen Foxen additionally has her sights set on making historical past. Because the final feminine participant remaining on this occasion, she alone has the possibility to be the primary girl to make the primary occasion remaining desk since Barbara Enright completed fifth again in 1995. 4 ladies have fallen simply wanting the ultimate desk in tenth place, with the newest being Gaelle Baumann in 2012.
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Foxen was practically despatched to the rail in twenty second place. She was all-in for her final 5 massive blinds with A-5 suited trailing the pocket queens of Gabriel Moura and was all the way down to needing an ace on the river with a view to stay within the occasion. The A
rolled off on the top, giving Foxen the double up and kickstarting a late-night surge that noticed her end the evening in fifth chip place. Foxen is now effectively located so as to add to her $8.4 million in profession event earnings in a serious method, with an opportunity to increase his file because the all-time main feminine bracelet winner.
Along with Foxen, are three extra bracelet winners sitting inside the highest ten in Joe Serock (46,300,000), Jason James (46,300,000), and Brian Kim (42,400,000).
Foxen was joined by one different feminine participant among the many 59 gamers that made it to day 7. Shundan Xiao entered the day in second chip place, however had a tricky go of it throughout the center of the day. The 36-year-old software program engineer hails from China and is now primarily based out of San Jose, California. She solely picked up poker two years in the past, and has been inspired in her pursuit of the sport by her spouse Yongqing Yuan, who completed 18th on this 12 months’s women occasion. Regardless of being a relative newcomer to poker, Xiao navigated her method by this huge area to finally end in twenty eighth place for $300,000.
Xiao was considered one of 41 gamers to be eradicated throughout day 7 motion. Becoming a member of her on that record have been bracelet winners Stephen Music (57th) and Alex Keating (fifty fifth), 2022 WSOP important occasion sixth-place finisher Russell Rosenblum (forty sixth), bracelet winner Nick Jivkov (forty third), two-time bracelet winner Brandon Cantu (thirty ninth), 2023 PokerStars Gamers No-Restrict Maintain’em Championship winner Aliaksandr Shylko (thirty sixth), 2022 WSOP Circuit Laborious Rock Tulsa important occasion champion Arthur Morris (thirty fourth), WPT champion Orson Younger (twenty sixth), and six-time bracelet winner and Poker Corridor of Famer member Brian Rast (twenty fourth).
Rast’s run on this occasion got here to an finish when his A-Q bumped into the pocket kings of Jonathan Tamayo, a longtime poker participant with greater than $2.3 million in event earnings beneath his belt. Rast picked up the nut flush draw on the flip to go together with his overcard to Tamayo’s pocket pair, however the river introduced a king to enhance Tamayo to kings full. Rast earned $350,000 for his deep run, rising his lifetime complete to greater than $27.3 million. Tamayo bagged up 18,400,000 on the finish of the day, which is sweet for 14th chip place.
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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) July 14, 2024
The ultimate 18 gamers will return at midday native time on Sunday, July 14 with blinds of 400,000-800,000 and an enormous blind ante of 800,000 for stage 36. The common stack of 33,706,667 will characterize simply over 42 massive blinds when play resumes, with the plan being to play to a remaining desk of 9 earlier than the event takes a one-day hiatus forward of the ultimate desk.
Here’s a have a look at the whole chip counts heading into day 8:
Rank
Participant
Chips
1
Malo Latinois
61,300,000
2
Diogo Coelho
51,500,000
3
Jason Sagle
51,400,000
4
Niklas Astedt
50,000,000
5
Kristen Foxen
47,400,000
6
Joe Serock
46,300,000
7
Malcolm Franchi
45,900,000
8
Jason James
45,800,000
9
Brian Kim
42,400,000
10
Jessie Bryant
27,600,000
11
Gabriel Moura
24,600,000
12
Guillermo Sanchez Otero
24,500,000
13
Yegor Moroz
24,500,000
14
Jonathan Tamayo
18,400,000
15
Andres Gonzalez
14,900,000
16
Gerardo Hernandez
13,400,000
17
Boris Angelov
8,300,000
18
Jordan Griff
8,300,000
Remaining payouts up for grabs within the 2024 WSOP important 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
$350,000
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