On Monday, Dec. 9, the primary bracelet of the 2024 World Sequence of Poker Paradise competition shall be awarded. Together with it would come $12,070,000 in prize cash, the most important poker match high prize to this point this 12 months. The $500,000 buy-in Triton Million occasion drew 96 entries at Atlantis Paradise Island within the Bahamas, making a $44,603,000 prize pool. Now, simply 14 gamers stay heading into the ultimate day of play, with these nonetheless in having locked up a minimum of $792,000 for making it this far.
Two-time bracelet winner Michael Moncek (pictured above, left) is the chip chief heading into day 3 with 12,500,000. The frequent high-stakes money sport participant, identified to many as ‘Texas Mike’, is certainly one of three gamers who bagged up an eight-figure stack.
Moncek is joined by fellow two-time bracelet winner Daniel Dvoress (12,350,000) and 2021 WSOP foremost occasion seventh-place finisher Alejandro Lococo (10,775,000).
The subsequent two largest stacks belong to 2 of essentially the most completed match gamers within the sport. 4-time bracelet winner and present Card Participant Participant of the 12 months race chief Adrian Mateos will open play with 9,825,000. The 30-year-old (pictured above, heart) has greater than $52 million in prior earnings, with greater than $11 million of that coming from his 21 final-table finishes already recorded in 2024.
Subsequent up within the chip counts is bracelet winner and two-time POY Stephen Chidwick with8,650,000. With over $61 million in profession earnings, Chidwick (pictured above, proper) already sits in third place on poker’s all-time cash record (Mateos is eighth). Had been Chidwick to win this occasion, he would transfer into second place with over $73.1 million, and would path present chief Bryn Kenney ($74 million) by simply $903,418.
The highest 17 finishers will earn payouts on this occasion. The bubble burst late on day 2, with Hustler On line casino Stay proprietor Ryan Feldman getting all-in with flush and straight attracts towards the center pair and gutshot of Lococo, which held to see Feldman felted in 18th place. Mikita Badziakouski (seventeenth – $755,000) was the primary to fall inside the cash, shedding a flip with A-Q towards the pocket jacks of Chidwick, which made quads by the river. Excessive-stakes Thai poker professional Punnat Punsri (sixteenth – $755,000) quickly adopted when his A-4 suited was unable to come back from behind towards A-J for Lococo.
ACR Poker’s CEO Phil Nagy was the ultimate participant to fall on day 2, along with his Okay-10 making two pair however arising quick towards the A-J of bracelet winner Ben Heath, who confirmed down broadway. Nagy earned a career-high rating of $792,000 because the Fifteenth-place finisher.
There are a number of multi-time WSOP champions nonetheless in rivalry, together with two-time bracelet winner Alex Foxen (4,600,000), four-time bracelet winner Likelihood Kornuth (3,850,000), and two-time bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs (3,575,000).
David Einhorn was eradicated on the very first hand of this occasion, operating A-Okay into the pocket aces of Jared Bleznick. The hedge fund founder managed to do higher on his second buy-in, although, bagging up 3,075,000 on the finish of day 2.
Day 3 begins at midday native time, with organizers intending for play to proceed till a champion is determined. Gamers will return to blinds of 125,000-250,000 with a giant blind ante of 250,000.
Here’s a have a look at the chip counts for the ultimate 14:
Rank
Participant
Chips
1
Michael Moncek
12,500,000
2
Daniel Dvoress
12,350,000
3
Alejandro Lococo
10,775,000
4
Adrian Mateos
9,825,000
5
Stephen Chidwick
8,650,000
6
Sosia Jiang
7,925,000
7
Sinan Unlu
7,200,000
8
Benjamin Heath
5,450,000
9
Elias Talvitie
4,925,000
10
Alex Foxen
4,600,000
11
Likelihood Kornuth
3,850,000
12
Aleksejs Ponakovs
3,575,000
13
David Einhorn
3,075,000
14
Esti Wang
1,000,000
And listed here are the payouts for this match:
Place
Prize
1
$12,070,000
2
$8,160,000
3
$5,304,000
4
$4,390,000
5
$3,542,000
6
$2,795,000
7
$2,140,000
8
$1,605,000
9
$1,200,000
10-11
$985,000
12-13
$865,000
14-15
$792,000
16-17
$755,000
This match is certainly one of 15 bracelet occasions taking part in out on the WSOP Paradise from Dec. 6-19, with $68.5 million in assured prize cash to be paid out alongside the way in which. There are many excessive stakes affairs on the schedule, together with $100,000 and $50,000 buy-ins in each no-limit maintain’em and pot-limit Omaha, in addition to a $25,000 buy-in vendor’s alternative occasion and the $25,000 buy-in $50,000,000 assured ‘tremendous foremost occasion.’
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