It’s past the halfway constituent of the World Series of Poker with 57 of the 100 scheduled unrecorded events completed and much to beryllium decided Wednesday night.
Several notable players person made their people frankincense far, including Spanish sensation Adrian Mateos, high-stakes pro Alex Foxen and two-time victor Naoya Kihara of Japan.
A fig of high-profile events stay connected the docket specified arsenic the $1,000 buy-in Ladies No-limit Hold’em Championship and $100,000 buy-in High Roller Pot-limit Omaha lawsuit earlier the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em World Championship Main Event opens July 2.
Here is what we’ve learned truthful acold astatine the 57th variation of the WSOP:
Anderson adds to resume
Calvin Anderson doesn’t get arsenic overmuch attraction arsenic different palmy pros, but his accomplishments can’t beryllium ignored.
The Oklahoma autochthonal captured back-to-back events past week, joining Kihara arsenic the lone players with aggregate titles truthful acold this summer.
Anderson won the $10,000 buy-in Razz Championship and followed that up days aboriginal by winning the $10,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. Championship for his seventh vocation WSOP bracelet, which are awarded for tourney victories. Only 1 of Anderson’s bracelets came successful No-limit Hold’em, which is portion of the crushed helium stays nether the radar.
The 38-year-old has won 5 bracelets since 2023, a feat matched lone by Poker Hall of Fame subordinate Nick Schulman.
Negreanu stuck six figures
It’s been a roller coaster summertime for Daniel Negreanu.
“Kid Poker” announced astatine the commencement of the bid that helium and woman Amanda are expecting their archetypal kid successful November. But Negreanu is besides down much than $725,000 this summer, according to his latest YouTube vlog released Wednesday.
Negreanu has cashed successful 7 events, with his champion effect an eighth-place decorativeness successful the $600 buy-in Mixed No-limit Hold’em / Pot-limit Omaha Deepstack event. He crashed retired of the prestigious $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship connected Monday good earlier the wealth and has 1 six-figure currency truthful far.
Negreanu inactive has plentifulness of chances to gain his eighth vocation WSOP bracelet, but helium volition request a heavy tally successful a precocious roller tourney oregon the Main Event to excavation retired of his hole.
Hellmuth battles COVID, markup police
Phil Hellmuth missed a bully information of the WSOP aft investigating affirmative for COVID but managed to support his sanction successful the headlines regardless. Say what you privation astir the “Poker Brat,” but the antheral is simply a selling genius.
His side stake with Shaun Deeb had radical debating for days what is an due markup terms for the Main Event and different tournaments. And each Hellmuth had to bash was hazard a specified $14,000 for each that escaped publicity.
Hellmuth’s quest for his grounds 18th WSOP bracelet hasn’t gone arsenic well. He was knocked retired of the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship aboriginal connected Day 4 Wednesday successful 14th spot and cashed successful 3 different events, including a seventh-place decorativeness successful the $10,000 buy-in Omaha High-Low 8 oregon Better Championship 7-Handed event.
Women marque their mark
Not lone did Kristen Foxen capture her sixth vocation bracelet by winning the $25,000 buy-in High Roller No-limit Hold’em event, she was joined successful the winner’s ellipse by different woman.
Michelle Chin took down the $1,500 buy-in Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw 6-Handed lawsuit Monday for her archetypal vocation bracelet. The triumph came 11 years aft Chin became the archetypal pistillate to triumph a WSOP Circuit Main Event.
In addition, the $500 buy-in Salute to Warriors No-limit Hold’em lawsuit that wrapped up connected Tuesday had 2 women scope the last array from a tract of 4,478 entrants.
Holly Foley, a Navy seasoned from Broomfield, Colorado, finished 5th for $57,020. Professional poker subordinate Lexy Gavin-Mather went retired successful seventh and cashed for $33,120.
Attendance numbers down
Longtime poker newsman Lance Bradley crunched the numbers from this year’s WSOP and recovered that attendance done the archetypal fractional of the bid is down from 2025.
Of the archetypal 47 events that besides appeared connected past year’s schedule, 26 saw a alteration successful tract size, according to Bradley’s research. The biggest dip came successful events with a buy-in of $1,500 oregon less, with 14 of the 24 tournaments having a year-over-year decline.
The smaller tract sizes and less recreational players could beryllium a effect of the slumping planetary economy. It remains to beryllium seen however that volition impact attendance for the Main Event and whether the tourney volition scope 10,000 entrants for the 3rd clip successful the past 4 years.
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