The 2024 World Sequence of Poker $10,k000 no-limit maintain’em fundamental occasion set the file as the biggest ever held, drawing 10,112 entries to create a prize pool of $94,041,600. After 4 beginning flights, two day 2s, and 6 consecutive days of combined-field play, there are actually simply 9 gamers remaining with a shot on the championship bracelet and the highest prize of $10,000,000.
The entire last 9 are actually assured a minimum of $1,000,000 for making it this far, and could have a day without work on Monday, July 15 earlier than returning at 1:30 PM native time on Tuesday, July Sixteenth to choose up the motion.
The highest stack heading into the ultimate desk is 30-year-old knowledge and analytics provide chain supervisor Jordan Griff. The Scottsdale, Arizona resident bagged up 143,700,000, which represents roughly 24 % of the overall chips in play and is sweet for 90 massive blinds.
Griff initially hails from New Metropolis, New York. He’s been taking part in poker for 9 years, and primarily focuses on money video games, with curiosity in variants outdoors of no-limit maintain’em, together with pot-limit Omaha and restrict maintain’em.
“I play in some fairly massive money video games, however for me it’s a pastime. I do it for enjoyable. I take pleasure in taking part in the sport,” mentioned Griff, who’s taking part in in his third fundamental occasion. “I’ve love for the sport.”
Griff was almost knocked out early on throughout day 8. He received all-in with pocket queens as an overpair to the board and was referred to as by a protecting stack who had flopped a set of threes.
“I’m a numbers man and all I used to be pondering there on that river is ‘I’ve 4 % to avoid wasting my life right here.’ And it’s like, ’I’m going to be out, or I’m going to proceed on with this dream.’ And I wasn’t even watching it. I couldn’t even… it was painful. After which I heard the gasps, I flip round and see the queen… it was simply pure emotion,” mentioned Griff. “I couldn’t management myself. It was the most important spot of my life… I’m simply excited to be right here and excited to nonetheless be taking part in and I stay up for what Tuesday and Wednesday carry, if I make it.”
Not solely did Griff spike that queen to double up early within the day. He additionally gained an enormous pot throughout 10-handed play, rivering quads to beat the flopped nut straight of bracelet winner Joe Serock, who fired out a large worth wager on the tip.
“Seeing the wager in entrance of me… in that second I knew I used to be chip chief and I knew there’d be the likelihood, going nine-handed, I’d be chip chief. It’s a dream come true.”
Brian Kim is the second-largest stack with 94,600,000 (59 massive blinds). The 34-year-old poker participant almost achieved the dream of creating the primary occasion last desk again in 2022, making it right down to day 7 as one of many chip leaders however finally ending twenty third.
“After the 2022 fundamental occasion run, I began having an enormous curiosity in tournaments and I wished to get higher at them. So since that event, really, I’ve been doing lots of work and I positively suppose it helped me so much,” Kim advised Card Participant.
Kim got here into this yr’s fundamental occasion with almost $7.5 million in profession event earnings, with greater than $5.2 million coming from his success on the excessive curler Triton tour. He’s one in every of simply two gamers on the last desk with a bracelet win underneath his belt, having taken down the WSOP On-line $5,300 excessive curler again in 2022.
Niklas Astedt rounds out the highest three with 94,200,000 (59 massive blinds). The Swedish poker professional has almost $3.8 million in recorded dwell earnings, with tens of hundreds of thousands in on-line winnings as properly. The person identified to many by the display screen title ‘Lena900’ will likely be trying to develop into simply the second Swedish participant to win the primary occasion, following within the footsteps of 2014 champion Martin Jacobson.
Joe Serock took an enormous hit in that hand in opposition to Griff, however stays one of many largest stacks left within the discipline. The 2012 World Poker Tour participant of the yr is the one participant apart from Kim with a previous win on the sequence, having taken down the 2023 WSOP On-line $500 pot-limit Omaha occasion. Serock has 83,600,000 in chips and will likely be wanting so as to add to his $5,540,655 in profession event earnings in a significant manner at this last desk.
Canada’s Jason Sagle is tied with Brian Kim for the second-highest end in the primary occasion among the many remaining gamers, having positioned twenty third again in 2004 for $120,000. He has roughly $1.5 million in whole earnings, together with $600,646 from a runner-up end within the 2005 World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship. Sagle sits in the course of the pack with 67,300,000 (42 massive blinds).
Boris Angelov ended day 8 with 52,900,000 (33 massive blinds). The Bulgarian has $1.2 million in prior scores to his title, with greater than half of that coming from his runner-up end on this yr’s European Poker Tour Monte Carlo fundamental occasion for $670,140.
The seventh-ranked participant on the last desk is Jonathan Tamayo with 26,700,000 (17 massive blinds). Tamayo has greater than $2.3 million in prior event earnings accrued throughout 187 in-the-money finishes, along with his earlier prime rating being the $352,832 he earned for a Twenty first-place end within the 2009 WSOP fundamental occasion.
France’s Malo Latinois will enter the ultimate desk with 25,500,000 (16 massive blinds), whereas Spain’s Andres Gonzalez would be the quick stack with 18,300,000 (11 massive blinds). Malinois’ prime rating forward of his outcome on this occasion is the $53,019 he was awarded for ending Sixteenth within the 2023 EPT Paris fundamental occasion. Gonzalez has $757,376 in profession earnings, with nearly all of that coming from a pair of third-place finishes this summer time. The primary was within the $1,500 freezout on the sequence for $201,518. A few weeks after that he logged the identical ending spot within the $3,500 buy-in occasion on the Wynn Summer time Traditional to earn $500,602.
Setting The Closing Desk
Day 8 started with 18 gamers, which meant that 9 knockouts have been recorded on the street to last desk. The primary noticed Mexico’s Gerardo Hernandez (18th – $350,000) lose a preflop flip with pocket sixes in opposition to the A-Okay suited of Andres Gonzalez. He was quickly joined on the rail by five-time WSOP Circuit gold ring winner Jessie Bryant (seventeenth – $450,400), who ran Q-J into one other A-Okay suited, this time within the arms of Spain’s Guillermo Sanchez Otero. Otero flopped an ace and held from there to slim the sphere to 16.
Regardless of scoring that knockout, Otero was finally the following to fall, along with his A
Q being outrun by the 9
7
of Sagle. Otero earned $450,400 because the Sixteenth-place finisher after a seven on the river gave Sagle a successful pair.
A traditional cooler spelled the tip of Yegor Moroz’s run on this occasion. The Florida resident four-bet shoved all-in with pocket jacks excessive of Kim’s three-bet and located himself up in opposition to pocket kings. Neither participant related with the board and Moroz was eradicated in fifteenth place ($450,400). This was the biggest event rating but for Moroz, coming in at almost 10x the dimensions of his earlier prime payday of $45,900 he earned for a Twenty sixth-place end in final yr’s WSOP ‘Monster Stack’.
2024 WSOP tag crew occasion winner Jason James misplaced a regular preflop race to complete 14th. His 1010
was unable to outrun the AQ of Serock. James was making an attempt to observe within the footsteps of Espen Jorstad, who gained the 2022 tag crew occasion earlier than taking down the primary occasion later that very same yr. Sadly for James, Serock flopped aces up and held from there to ship James to the payout desk. The poker professional from Mississauga, Ontario earned $450,400, bringing his profession haul to just about $1.7 million within the course of.
4-time bracelet winner Kristen Foxen got here into the day with an opportunity to develop into simply the second feminine participant to ever make a WSOP fundamental occasion last desk, becoming a member of 1995 world championship fifth-place finisher Barbara Enright. A number of girls have come shut, together with the 4 that completed tenth since Enright’s deep run: Barbara Samuelson (1994), Susie Isaacs (1998), Annie Duke (2000), and Gaelle Baumann (2012).
Foxen seemed on observe to realize this historic purpose within the early going, and she or he even managed to overhaul the chip lead halfway by means of the day. The 37-year-old poker professional from St. Catherine’s, Ontario later discovered herself sliding down the leaderboard because the night wore on, although.
Simply earlier than the scheduled dinner break, she received concerned in an enormous pot in opposition to Serock. He min-raised t0 2,400,000 from underneath the gun with AOkay and Foxen referred to as from the massive blind with OkayQ. The flop got here down AOkayJ and Foxen check-called a 4,000,000 continuation wager along with her center pair and gutshot straight draw. The flip introduced the 5 and Serock wager 11,000,000 along with his prime two pair when checked to. Foxen then check-raised all-in for 36,900,000. Serock made the decision and the 6 on the river ended Foxen’s run in thirteenth place.
The $600,000 she earned for her spectacular exhibiting on this occasion elevated her profession event earnings to $9,014,048, the second-highest whole of any feminine participant behind solely Vanessa Selbst ($10,899,027).
Brazil’s Gabriel Moura bowed out in twelfth place ($600,000) after a battle of the blinds. Sagle successfully put him all-in from the small blind with 6-5 and Moura referred to as with Q-9. Moura flopped center pair, however Sagle turned a nine-high straight and held from there.
Malcolm Franchi ran AQ into the AOkay of Griff to complete eleventh ($800,000). Ace-king excessive performed by the river to go away simply ten gamers remaining.
The unofficial last desk lasted roughly 40 minutes, with the spotlight being when Griff gained his massive pot with quads to take the lead. The ultimate hand of the evening noticed Portugal’s Diogo Coelho commit nearly all of his stack preflop with AJ. He was up in opposition to AOkay for Astedt. The remainder of the chips went in on a OkayQ6 flop. Coelho was in want of a ten or operating jacks. The Q flip and eight river burst the ultimate desk bubble, sending Coelho dwelling with $800,000. This was the second-largest rating of his profession, trailing solely the $867,235 he earned for successful a excessive curler finally yr’s EPT Paris pageant.
Play will resume with 51:20 remaining in stage 39, which options blinds of 800,000-1,600,000 with an enormous blind ante of 1,600,000. The common stack of 67,413,333 is sweet for simply over 42 massive blinds when play resumes at 1:30 PM on Tuesday, July 16 with the purpose of taking part in to the ultimate three.
Here’s a have a look at the chip counts heading into the ultimate desk:
Rank
Participant
Chips
1
Jordan Griff
143,700,000
2
Brian Kim
94,600,000
3
Niklas Astedt
94,200,000
4
Joe Serock
83,600,000
5
Jason Sagle
67,300,000
6
Boris Angelov
52,900,000
7
Jonathan Tamayo
26,700,000
8
Malo Latinois
25,500,000
9
Andres Gonzalez
18,300,000
Remaining payouts up for grabs within the 2024 WSOP fundamental 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
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