Till late registration closed on Day 2 of Occasion #81: $10,000 WSOP Primary Occasion World Championship, everybody within the poker neighborhood was calling the match the second-largest WSOP Primary Occasion in historical past. Nevertheless, after all of the entry slips had been counted, and because of 562 gamers deciding to purchase into the Primary Occasion on Day 2nd, the 2024 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Primary Occasion is the largest ever.
Some 10,112 entries have created a $94,041,600 prize pool that the highest 1,517 finishers will obtain. Reaching that determine might take a while as a result of 2,068 gamers made it by means of Day 2nd unscathed. Mixed with the 1,549 Day 2abc survivors, this provides us 3,617 returning gamers for Day 3 on July 9.
Alex Livingston (750,500) is the person bestowed with the honour of being known as Day 2nd chip chief. Livingston completed thirteenth within the 2013 WSOP Primary Occasion and walked away with $451,398. Six years later, he went deep once more, falling in third for a cool $4,000,000. Now Livingston has a giant stack at his disposal; it could take a courageous particular person to guess towards him placing collectively one other super-deep run.
5-time bracelet winner and blended sport aficionado Adam Friedman (581,000) and Stephen Tune (577,000) bagged up prime 5 Day 2nd stacks. Friedman instructed PokerNews shortly after bagging his substantial stack that he is relying on a deep Primary Occasion run to avoid wasting his summer season; it has been a irritating 2024 WSOP for the poker nice.
Ending within the prime 10% of Day 2nd was none apart from reigning champion Daniel Weinman (229,500). After a difficult Day 2, Weinman completed with 55,600 chips. The 2023 WSOP Primary Occasion winner loved a extra fruitful Day 2nd, ending with 4 instances as many chips as he began with.
Weinman’s progress within the 2024 WSOP Primary Occasion just isn’t too dissimilar to his 2023 run, the place he completed Day 1d with 80,000 chips and constructed that to 362,000 on Day 2. The Atlanta, Georgia native may have his fingers crossed that his upward trajectory continues from this level onwards, and historical past repeats itself over the subsequent eight days.
The reigning champion was not the one Primary Occasion champ to punch their Day 3 tickets right now. Joe McKeehen (309,500) completed above Weinman within the in a single day chip counts, whereas Scotty Nguyen (206,000), Martin Jacobson (154,000), Espen Jorstad (133,000), and Ryan Riess (103,500) completed just under. Not because the late Stu Ungar received the WSOP Primary Occasion for the third time in 1997 has a participant captured two Primary Occasion titles.
With over 1,700 gamers progressing from Day 2nd, we recommend you head to PokerNews’ chip rely web page and seek for your favourite participant’s title.
A number of the different superstars who saved the Primary Occasion dream alive included Loni Hui (544,000), Brian Hastings (438,500), Aram Zobian (401,500), Ari Engel (334,500), the legendary Phil Ivey (283,5000, Brian Rast (229,000), and Kristen Foxen (181,000).
Play 3 begins at 12:00 p.m. native time on July 9 with 3,617 gamers planning to make it by means of one other 5 two-hour-long ranges. In the event that they weren’t already, issues are getting critical within the Primary Occasion, so be sure to tune into PokerNews for all of the Primary Occasion motion you’ll be able to deal with.
Occasion #81: $10,000 WSOP Primary Occasion World Championship Day 2nd Prime 10 Chip Counts
Racener Leads Last Seven within the $1,500 8-Recreation
Solely seven gamers stay in Occasion #83: $1,500 Eight Recreation Combine because the match heads into its remaining day. Two-time WSOP bracelet winner John Racener (3,929,000) leads the ultimate seven again into battle however is not going to have issues his personal approach.
Racener captured his second bracelet this 12 months within the $10,000 Restrict Maintain’em Championship. Though he is in pole place going into Day 3, the chasing pack has 12 bracelets and tens of millions of {dollars} in cashes between them.
Josh Arieh (2,732,000) returns second in chips, adopted by Maxx Coleman (1,893,000). There’s little to separate Marco Johnson (1,228,000) or Garth Yettick (1,217,000) earlier than a niche opens in entrance of Xiaochuan Zhang (740,000) and the legendary “Miami” John Cernuto (640,000).
These seven mixed-game heroes return to the motion from 2:00 p.m. native time to play for the all-important bracelet and the $131,061 prime prize.
Occasion #83: $1,500 Eight Recreation Combine Chip Counts
Enormous Turnout For Day 1b of the $600 Extremely Stack
Day 1b of Occasion #84: $600 Extremely Stack No-Restrict Maintain’em noticed one other 4,038 gamers enter the combo however solely 504 of these starters had chips requiring bagging and tagging on the finish of 20 half-hour ranges.
Argentina’s Andres Korn (520,000) might not be one of many greatest stacks left within the discipline however he is without doubt one of the most expertise gamers. Korn has over $3.3 million in dwell poker match cashes and a WOP bracelet to point out for his unwavering dedication to the sport.
PokerNews will confirm the chip rely of the in a single day chip chief Rohit Hukmani, who, in keeping with the WSOP, crammed 4,125,000 chips into his in a single day chip bag. Hukmani would have virtually twice as many chips as anybody else within the discipline if that’s the case.
A number of the different gamers to look out for on Day 2 from this flight embody Jaka Teaching scholar Casey Glick (1,645,000), and bracelet winners Anthony Denove (685,000), Patrick Moulder (445,000), Harrison Gimbel (355,000), and Dan Heimiller (270,000).
Day 2 kicks off at 1:00 p.m. native time on July 9, with 788 gamers returning to their seats to play 17 extra ranges or till solely 5 gamers stay.
Occasion #84: $600 Extremely Stack No-Restrict Maintain’em Day 1b Prime 10 Chip Counts
Solely 136 Gained Their Flips on Day 1 of the $1K Flip & Go
Occasion #85: $1,000 Flip & Go No-Restrict Maintain’em Introduced by GGPoker drew in 1,088 entrants for its flip stage, with 136 of these flippers progressed to Day 2, the place the occasion continues as a conventional No-Restrict Maintain’em match.
The occasion is common not solely due to its enjoyable, distinctive format, but additionally as a result of it primarily bypasses grinding out a Day 1; all Day 1 survivors return to their seats with a min-cash locked in.
Unsurprisingly, this occasion attracted a few of poker’s greatest names. Jason Wheeler, Likelihood Kornuth, Patrick Leonard, Scott Seiver, Chris Hunichen, and Shannon Shorr are only a handful of stellar names to look out for when PokerNews’ protection of this occasion begins on July 9.
If you wish to see who wins this occasion, return to PokerNews from 11:00 a.m. native time on July 9 as a result of that is when the playing cards are again within the air. Play will proceed till just one participant stays.
What to Count on on Day 43 of the 2024 WSOP
Day 43 of the 2024 WSOP sees the Primary Occasion proceed whittling down its monster-sized discipline. Some 3,617 gamers will return to the Horseshoe and Paris, packing out all obtainable area. We can’t see the bubble burst on Day 3 of the Large Dance, but it surely’s probably we will get someplace close to.
Whereas the Primary Occasion is in motion, Occasion #83: $1,500 Eight Recreation Combine will crown its champion, with Occasion #85: $1,000 Flip & Go No-Restrict Maintain’em introduced by GGPoker doing the identical.
Occasion #84: $600 Extremely Stack No-Restrict Maintain’em sees its Day 2 happen. The plan is to play 17 ranges or down to 5 gamers, whichever occurs first. With 788 gamers nonetheless within the hunt, we might wager on the previous.
Two new occasions start on July 9. At 10:00 a.m. native time, Occasion #86: $1,000 Thriller Bounty No-Restrict Maintain’em, a brand-new occasion for 2024, shuffles up and offers. Two hours later, Occasion #87: $5,000 8-Handed No-Restrict Maintain’em commences. Alex Keating is the reigning champion, having navigated his approach by means of 812 opponents to seize the occasion’s bracelet and $701,688 prime prize.
