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The 2024 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) on the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas in on its thirty ninth Day and the Fundamental Occasion is actually rolling now.
Day 1c of the Fundamental Occasion performed out immediately, with Phil Hellmuth becoming a member of (and dressed for) the battle. Hellmuth entered to Carl Douglas’s “Kung Fu Combating” with a black belt and keikogi thrown over his typical poker-brat attire. He additionally managed to bag up 66,700 in chips on the finish of the day, barely above the beginning stack.
The occasion noticed an enormous spike in turnout with round 2,500 extra gamers shopping for in, greater than Day 1a and 1b mixed.
In the meantime, Occasion #80: $800 Independence Day Celebration topped a winner (maybe it’s extra acceptable to say “elected” a winner?).
The occasion launched on July 4 (Independence Day within the U.S. but additionally within the Philippines), continued on July 5 (Algeria, Cape Verde, and Venezuela), and completed on July 6 (Comoros and Malawi) with Francis Anderson — fittingly, an American participant — successful the bracelet. Anderson beat Brent Lee heads as much as take house $501,040 together with the jewellery.
Large Turnout, Large Names at Day 1c of the 2024 $10,000 Fundamental Occasion
The large turnout immediately (roughly 2,500 gamers) on the Occasion #81: $10,000 WSOP Fundamental Occasion World Championship brings the overall variety of entrants to round 4,250 gamers.
This nonetheless places the sector a great distance off from final 12 months’s record-breaking turnout of 10,043 gamers and about 20% decrease than this identical level final 12 months.
Nevertheless, with yet another Day 1 flight and late registration working for 2 further ranges on each Day 2s, there may be nonetheless room for a ultimate rush to get the occasion over the restrict.
Among the many survivors, Daniel Negreanu received by to Day 2 with an inexpensive stack of 37,900 left in his stack.
Another gamers who received by, who can even have some catching as much as do on Day 2 have been Todd Brunson (48,900), 2024 Girls Occasion champion Shiina Okamoto (44,000), and Calvin Anderson (41,700).
On the high of the chip stacks is Robert Pardo with 441,000 in chips. This makes him the general chip chief, taking on from George Dolofan (314,000) who led the sector after Day 1b.
Amongst those that did end up on Day 1c, massive names have been plentiful.
Different gamers who bagged an above beginning stack included Arthur Morris (221,800), Justin Bonomo (174,100), Arden Cho (168,800), Chris Brewer (156,800), Adrian Mateos (143,100), Adam Hendrix (134,900), Ben Lamb (124,600), Isaac Haxton (124,900), Mike Matusow (121,500), and Maria Ho (79,600).
At this time was additionally an ideal day for earlier Fundamental Occasion champs. In addition to Hellmuth — the 1989 Fundamental Occasion champion — seven different earlier champs discovered a bag.
2002 Fundamental Occasion champion Robert Varkonyi (58,000), 2003 Fundamental Occasion champion Chris Moneymaker (64,300), 2005 Fundamental Occasion champion Joe Hachem (72,000), 2006 Fundamental Occasion champion Jamie Gold (111,100), 2017 Fundamental Occasion champion Scott Blumstein (53,800), 2020 Fundamental Occasion champion Damian Salas (50,800), and three-time ME champion Johnny Chan (45,000) all additionally made it to Day 2.
Not everybody did make it although. Solely round 2,094 of immediately’s entrants survived to see Day 2.
David Moses busted the primary hand of the day, the fourth participant to take action this collection. Dan Bilzerian did solely barely higher lasting simply two palms and failing to get a bluff by each occasions.
For individuals who did make it by, Day 1a, 1b, and 1c will mix on July 7 for Day 2abc. Earlier than that, Day 1d shuffles up and offers at 12 p.m. native time on July 6. The day will final for 5 ranges of two hours every. Then the remaining Day 1d gamers will then progress to Day second on July 8.
Occasion #81: $10,000 WSOP Fundamental Occasion World Championship Day 1c High 10 Chip Counts
What to Count on on Day 40 of the 2024 WSOP?
Day 40 of the WSOP falls on July 6 and will probably be all about Day 1d of the 2024 $10,000 WSOP Fundamental Occasion. This would be the final of the occasion’s Day 1 flights and it kicks off at 12 p.m. native time.
Day 1d of the Fundamental occasion is at all times the busiest of the 4 Day 1 flights. So count on excessive turnout and a ton of motion all of which you’ll be able to comply with right here on PokerNews.
Whereas the Fundamental Occasion will probably be dominating the Horseshoe and Paris, Occasion #82: $1,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em will probably be kicking off.
This two-day occasion is model new this 12 months, so whoever wins will probably be incomes the primary bracelet of its variety.
