Michael Addamo usually disappears from the reside match scene for stretches, however the four-time World Collection of Poker bracelet winner invariably pops again up and reminds the poker neighborhood that he is without doubt one of the prime gamers within the recreation. In step with that development, Addamo has recorded solely 4 reside cashes thus far in 2024, however is now in pole place to take down one of many largest occasions of the yr with 2025 lower than two weeks away.
The 2024 World Collection of Poker Paradise $25,000 no-limit maintain’em tremendous foremost occasion drew 1978 whole entries, narrowly lacking the $50 million assure. After the 4 reside beginning days and several other on-line flights, and a pair extra days of combined-field motion, there at the moment are simply 9 contenders remaining with a shot on the championship bracelet and the large $6 million first-place prize.
Addamo, who has practically $27.4 million in profession cashes to his identify, bagged up the most important stack heading into the ultimate desk with 196,800,000. He’s joined by a number of extremely achieved gamers, together with Italy’s second main match earner Mustapha Kanit (141,200,000), bracelet winner and European Poker Tour foremost occasion champion Liv Boeree (111,400,000), and three-time bracelet winner Justin Bonomo (63,400,000).
Bonomo is at present ranked second on poker’s all-time cash checklist with $66.4 million in profession cashes, which trails solely Bryn Kenney ($74 million) in lifetime cashes.
The ultimate 9 are all now assured at the least $750,000 for making it this far, with the highest eight all set to money for seven figures.
Day 4 started with 36 gamers remaining. Loads of notables had been eradicated on the the way in which to the ultimate desk, together with Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl winners Christoph Vogelsang (thirty second) and Rainer Kempe (thirty first), two-time bracelet winner Chris Klodnicki (twenty sixth), bracelet winner Roland Rokita (twenty second), bracelet winner Nick Maimone (18th), Sorel Mizzi (sixteenth), Card Participant Participant of the 12 months contender Ren Lin (eleventh), and 2003 WSOP foremost occasion champion Chris Moneymaker (tenth).
Moneymaker bubbled the ultimate desk when his pocket nines had been unable to return from behind in opposition to the pocket jacks of Boeree. Neither participant related with the eight-high runout and Moneymaker was eradicated in tenth place ($500,000). This was the fourth-largest rating of the Poker Corridor of Famer’s profession. He now has greater than $7.5 million in lifetime earnings.
Corridor of Famer Chris Moneymaker with the valiant efficiency, ending tenth and bagging $500K within the Tremendous Principal Occasion!!! What a Run!!! #GG #wsopPARADISE pic.twitter.com/mubVOSNEHB
— WSOP – World Collection of Poker (@WSOP) December 19, 2024
The ultimate desk is about to renew at midday native time on Thursday, Dec. 19. Blinds might be at 1,500,000-3,000,000 with an enormous blind ante of three,000,000 when play resumes.
Here’s a take a look at the chip counts heading into the ultimate desk:
Rank
Participant
Chip Depend
1
Michael Addamo
196,800,000
2
Christopher Nguyen
143,100,000
3
Mustapha Kanit
141,200,000
4
Liv Boeree
111,400,000
5
Marcelo Aziz
105,500,000
6
Yinan Zhou
88,000,000
7
Vadzim Lipauka
66,300,000
8
Justin Bonomo
63,400,000
9
Georg Lehmann
48,400,000
The remaining payouts up for grabs are as follows:
Place
Payout
1
$6,000,000
2
$4,600,000
3
$3,600,000
4
$2,800,000
5
$2,100,000
6
$1,650,000
7
$1,300,000
8
$1,000,000
9
$750,000
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