The tract successful the World Series of Poker Main Event includes a erstwhile champion and respective different bracelet winners.
But it’s a section recreational subordinate who tops the leaderboard aft Day 6.
Tyler Gaston, a Clark County nationalist defender, had 21 cardinal chips erstwhile enactment successful the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em World Championship was paused precocious Saturday astatine Paris Las Vegas.
The Main Event continues Sunday with Day 7, and 62 players stay from the starting tract of 9,208. All the remaining players are guaranteed astatine slightest $150,000.
Gaston has an extended poker resume, including a third-place finish successful the $1,500 buy-in “Millionaire Maker” No-Limit Hold’em lawsuit successful 2022. Primarily a cash-game player, Gaston besides had a World Poker Tour rubric to his recognition and has $781,918 successful vocation unrecorded tourney earnings, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database.
Gaston started the time with a top-10 stack and continued to spot up. He knocked retired four-time bracelet victor Loren Klein successful 72nd spot and besides eliminated three-time WSOP champion Dutch Boyd successful 66th spot during a cardinal cookware late.
Among the notable names inactive successful the tract is Todd Brunson. The Poker Hall of Fame subordinate has 17 cardinal chips and is successful ninth spot arsenic helium looks to articulation his precocious begetter Doyle Brunson arsenic a Main Event champion. The Brunsons would beryllium the archetypal father-son duo to triumph the Main Event.
Nine-time bracelet victor Shaun Deeb besides made a determination and was sitting connected 8.725 cardinal chips, bully for 26th place.
Deeb made nary concealed of the information that helium would alternatively bust the Main Event aboriginal truthful helium could play different tournaments and pursuit points for the WSOP Player of the Year race. But helium appears focused connected making the last array present that he’s this deep.
Hossein Ensan, the 2019 Main Event champion, climbed the spot counts and was 5th with 17.775 million. The German is looking to go the archetypal two-time Main Event victor since Johnny Chan (1987, 1988).
Top 10 Chips
1, Tyler Gaston 21,000,000
2, Blake Barousse 19,375,000
3, Zhao Liu 19,047,000
4, Mario Boos 17,950,000
5, Hossein Ensan 17,775,000
6, Rami Hammoud 17,400,000
7, Junjie Tang 17,300,000
8, Malcolm Trayner 17,200,000
9, Todd Brunson 17,000,000
10, Carlos Chadha Villamarin 16,825,000
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