WSOP Day 10: Fashakin Leads Final 7 in BIG 50; Millionaire Maker Begins
Table Of Contents
- Event #3: BIG 50 - $500 No-Limit Hold'em
- Event #3: BIG 50 - $500 No-Limit Hold'em Final Table Seat Draw
- Event #3: BIG 50 - $500 No-Limit Hold'em Final Table Payouts
- Event #14: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.
- Event #16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed
- Event #17: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
- Event #18: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship
- Event #19: Millionaire Maker - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
- Previous Millionaire Maker Winners
- Event #20: $1,500 Seven Card Stud
- 2019 WSOP Video of the Day
- 2019 WSOP Bracelet Winners
Yesterday's Day 9 of the World Series of Poker featured eight events with two more players winning their first bracelets.
American Daniel Strelitz won the first bracelet of the day after besting a field of 400 entries in Event #11: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em to win the $442,385 top prize. A few hours later, Yuval Bronshtein outlasted a field of 296 entrants to win the $96,278 top prize in Event #13: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw.
Meanwhile, Event #15: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship is taking a day off with a live stream scheduled at PokerGO on Saturday, June 8 with three-time WSOP bracelet winner Ben Yu, two-time bracelet winner Keith Lehr, bracelet winner Cord Garcia, and Sean Swingruber playing the semi-finals and finals for the $186,356 top prize.
In addition to the five continuing events on Day 10, two new events make their debuts, including the much-anticipated Millionaire Maker and the first of five Stud events, to provide another day full of action at the Rio Convention Center.
Here's what's on tap today, in the daily What to Watch For on PokerNews, sponsored by 888poker.
Event #3: BIG 50 - $500 No-Limit Hold'em
The BIG 50 will go down in poker history books as the largest poker tournament in history with 28,371 runners generating a $13,509,435 prize pool.
The tournament began on May 30 and is finally coming to a close today as yesterday witnessed the remaining field of 126 entrants dwindle down to just seven after the eliminations of American David Rasmussen (ninth - $109,922) and Singapore's Morten Christensen (eighth - $141,126) at the unofficial final table. Also not surviving the day was five-time WSOP bracelet winner Allen Cunningham who bowed out in 47th place for $22,383.
Each of the seven remaining players will be battling it out for their first WSOP bracelet. A pair of Americans lead the way heading into today's action with Femi Fashakin (314 million, lead photo) and Walter Atwood (297 million) holding a gap on the rest of the table, with over 1.8 billion (!) chips in play.
Israel's Rafi Elharar (227.5 million), Canada's Daniel Ghobrial (101 million), and Americans Paul Cullen (191.5 million), Nicholas Chow (170 million), and Adrian Curry (126 million) are also all still in contention.
Event #3: BIG 50 - $500 No-Limit Hold'em Final Table Seat Draw
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Femi Fashakin | United States | 314,000,000 |
| 2 | Paul Cullen | United States | 191,500,000 |
| 3 | Adrian Curry | United States | 126,000,000 |
| 4 | Daniel Ghobrial | Canada | 101,000,000 |
| 5 | Walter Atwood | United States | 297,000,000 |
| 6 | Rafi Elharar | Israel | 227,500,000 |
| 7 | Nicholas Chow | United States | 170,000,000 |
Event #3: BIG 50 - $500 No-Limit Hold'em Final Table Payouts
Each of the remaining seven players is guaranteed a huge return on his $500 buy-in with seventh place awarding $182,192. The prizes move quickly up from there with the eventual bracelet winner taking home a $1,147,449 top prize.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $1,147,449 | ||
| 2 | $709,183 | ||
| 3 | $534,574 | ||
| 4 | $405,132 | ||
| 5 | $308,701 | ||
| 6 | $236,508 | ||
| 7 | $182,192 | ||
| 8 | Morten Christensen | Singapore | $141,126 |
| 9 | David Rasmussen | United States | $109,922 |
Today's action kicks off at noon PST with PokerGO hosting a live stream around the world starting at 1 p.m. PST. Of course, PokerNews will be on hand to report the final day hand-by-hand until the winner is crowned.
Follow PokerNews as our Live Reporting team will be covering the event from start to finish with live updates, beginning with today's final day of action at noon PST. Live updates can be found here.
Event #14: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.
The H.O.R.S.E. event attracts limit mixed game enthusiasts battling it out in a rotation of games including Limit Hold'em, Limit Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or Better, Razz, Seven Card Stud, and Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better.
- Limit Hold'em
- Razz
- Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better
- Seven Card Stud
- Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
After two days of play, the field of 751 players was trimmed down to a more tidy field of 28 with a pair of Jasons on top of the leaderboard; Jason Acosta (754,000) and Jason Stockfish (646,000). Rounding out the top five are Sergey Altbregin (485,000), Danny Woolard (434,000), and twelve-time WSOP gold ring winner Valentin Vornicu (421,000).
Several WSOP bracelet winners are among the final 28 with Chris Klodnicki, Phillip Hui, Yueqi Zhu, Ron Ware, Andre Akkari, and two-time winner Tony Ma all hoping to add another piece of hardware to their collection.
Today's action will commence at noon PST and continue until there are just six players remaining. The final six will each be guaranteed a payout of $33,822 with Saturday's winner walking away with a much larger prize of $207,003.
Follow PokerNews as our Live Reporting team will be covering the event from start to finish with live updates, beginning with today's Day 3 action at noon PST. Live updates can be found here.
Event #16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed
Yesterday's penultimate day featured 289 players out of the original 1,852 entrants battling it out for 10 hour-long blind levels with 21 players eventually bagging chips.
Today's final day of action kicks off at 2 p.m. PST with each player guaranteed at least a 21st place payout of $16,643. The action will continue until a player wins the bracelet along with the $407,739 top prize. It will be the first bracelet for whoever wins as none of the remaining players have yet found WSOP gold in their careers.
France's Romain Nussmann is in the pole position entering the final day with a chip leading stack of 8,095,000. He is closely followed by Singapore's Ong Dingxiang with 7,080,000. There is a more than 2 million chip gap after that with American Pierce Mckellar sitting on a stack of 4,990,000. Mckellar is 2 million chips ahead of his nearest followers with Kai McCue-Unciano entering the final day with 2,760,000 followed by France's Nicolas Careme with 2,400,000. United Kingdom's Richard Hasnip, who entered Day 2 with the chip lead, is also still in contention with 1,615,000.
The action begins at 2 p.m. PST with blinds at 20,000/40,000 with a big blind ante of 40,000. Like yesterday, blinds will increase every hour.
Follow PokerNews as our Live Reporting team will be covering the event from start to finish with live updates, beginning with today's final day of action at 2 p.m. PST. Live updates can be found here.
Event #17: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
The goal of this event is to be the last survivor of each table before advancing to compete the following day at a new table against other table winners.
Yesterday's Day 1 attracted 917 runners for a small increase over the 908 that battled it out last year when American Preston Lee claimed his first WSOP bracelet along with the $236,498 top prize.
A total of 100 table winners emerged from Day 1 to battle it out on a fresh table today starting at noon PST in hopes of making the final table of ten on Saturday, June 8.
Players will bring forth their stack from yesterday and begin the action with blinds at 1,000/2,000 with a big blind ante of 2,000 and levels of 40 minutes each.
The final 100 is a star-studded field headlined by many former WSOP bracelet winners including Eric Seidel (eight bracelets), 2009 WSOP Main Event champion Joe Cada (four bracelets), Greg Mueller (two bracelets), Loni Harwood (two bracelets), Upeshka De Silva (two bracelets), Athanasios Polychronopoulos (two bracelets), 2016 WSOP Main Event champion Qui Nguyen (one bracelet), Denis Timofeev (one bracelet), and Jennifer Tilly (one bracelet).
Other big names to advance to Day 2 included Cary Katz, Nicholas Manion, Bill Klein, and Kane Kalas.
Follow PokerNews as our Live Reporting team will be covering the event from start to finish with live updates, beginning with today's Day 2 action at noon PST. Live updates can be found here.
Event #18: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship
Day 1 of this four-day event attracted 173 entrants. This is the largest in five years when Brock Parker defeated a 178-player field and won his third bracelet in 2014 to collect the top prize of $443,407. The record field in this event was 212 players when back in 2010 three-time bracelet winner Sammy Farha triumphed for $488,241.
The event still has a chance to grow bigger than in 2014 with late-registration open to the start of today's Day 2 action at 2 p.m. PST. Those that join in the action late will receive 50,000 in starting chips and blinds starting at 2,000/4,000 with limits of 4,000/8,000.
They will join the ninety Day 1 survivors for seven blind levels of 90 minutes each with surviving players battling it out for two more days until a winner is crowned with the final table live streamed at CBS All Access in the United States, Canada, and Australia, and at PokerGO in the rest of the world.
Yarron Bendor heads into today's action in the chip lead with 378,000 in chips followed by WSOP bracelet winner David Benyamine (291,500), four-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb (263,000), and Delmiro Toledo (258,000).
Derek McMaster, who already won a bracelet this series after outlasting a field of 853 runners in Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better for $228,228, is in a decent position to become the first two-time winner at the 2019 WSOP heading into Day 2 with a fifth-place stack of 240,000.
Many other WSOP bracelet winners bag chips into today's action including David "Bakes" Baker, Tom Koral, Sam Higgs, Mike Wattel, John Racener, Perry Friedman, Mike Matusow, Owais Ahmed, Nick Schulman, John Monnette, James Obst, Ben Lamb, Dan Zack, Chris Vitch, Ray Dehkharghani, Chris Ferguson, Brandon Shack-Harris, and defending champion Paul Volpe.
Follow PokerNews as our Live Reporting team will be covering the event from start to finish with live updates, beginning with today's Day 2 action at 2 p.m. PST. Live updates can be found here.
Event #19: Millionaire Maker - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Since its inception in 2013, the Millionaire Maker is one the most popular events on the schedule with first place guaranteed at least a $1 million payout for just a $1,500 buy-in.
Whether or not the BIG 50 or other smaller buy-in events takes away any of the luster of this event remains to be seen but big numbers are expected to come out for each of the two opening flights starting with today's Day 1a at 10 a.m. PST.
Players will start off with 25,000 in chips, a sizeable increase of the 7,500 from last year's event. Each opening flight allows for one re-entry and players will bag chips after eleven hour-long blind levels of play. Surviving players will compete for four more days until a winner is crowned on live stream at PokerGO on June 12.
Previous Millionaire Maker Winners
The event began with Benny Chen outlasting a field of 6,343 to collect the $1,199,104 top prize in 2013. The following year attracted the biggest field of 7,977 entrants when Jonathan Dimmig shipped the event for $1,319,587.
The first four years featured Americans winning the event with Adrian Buckley banking the $1,277,193 top prize in 2015 followed by Jason DeWitt collecting $1,065,403 in 2016. The last two years, the bracelet left the country with Canada's Pablo Mariz claiming the title in 2017 for $1,221,407 and Germany's Arne Kern outlasting a field of 7,361 entrants to win the $1,173,223 last year.
| Year | Winner | Country | First prize | Entries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Benny?Chen | United States | $1,199,104 | 6,343 |
| 2014 | Jonathan?Dimmig | United States | $1,319,587 | 7,977 |
| 2015 | Adrian?Buckley | United States | $1,277,193 | 7,275 |
| 2016 | Jason?DeWitt | United States | $1,065,403 | 7,190 |
| 2017 | Pablo?Mariz | Canada | $1,221,407 | 7,761 |
| 2018 | Arne Kern | Germany | $1,173,223 | 7,361 |
Follow PokerNews as our Live Reporting team will be covering the event from start to finish with live updates, beginning with today's Day 1a action at 10 a.m. PST. Live updates can be found here.
Event #20: $1,500 Seven Card Stud
The first Seven Card Stud event kicks off today at 3 p.m. PST and will feature four action-packed days and will play down to a winner on June 10. Today's opening day will feature ten blinds levels of an hour each with players starting with 10,000 in chips.
Four other Stud events litter the schedule giving seven-card poker fans plenty of chances to win a WSOP bracelet.
- June 7 - Event #20: $1,500 Seven Card Stud
- June 10 - Event #27: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better
- June 17 - Event #41: $10,000 Seven Card Stud
- June 30 - Event #67: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better
American musician and producer Steven Albini won his first bracelet in this event in 2018 after outlasting a field of 310 entrants to win the top prize of $418,500.
Follow PokerNews as our Live Reporting team will be covering the event from start to finish with live updates, beginning with today's Day 1 action at 3 p.m. PST. Live updates can be found here.
2019 WSOP Video of the Day
2019 WSOP Bracelet Winners
The American dominance yesterday continued with Daniel Strelitz shipping his first WSOP bracelet, but a new country also witnessed its flag raised for the tenth time in WSOP history after Israel's Yuval Bronshtein found gold for the first time.
Americans have shipped ten of the first twelve bracelets with one player each from the United Kingdom and Israel also winning WSOP events in 2019. Here's a look at all of the bracelet winners:
| Event | Entrants | Prize Pool | Winner | Country | Top Prize | WSOP Bracelets | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1: | $500 Casino Employees Event | 686 | $297,975 | Nicholas Haynes | United States | $62,345 | 1 |
| #2: | $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Super Turbo Bounty | 204 | $1,917,600 | Brian Green | United States | $345,669 | 1 |
| #4: | $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better | 853 | $1,151,550 | Derek McMaster | United States | $228,228 | 1 |
| #5: | 50th Annual High Roller - $50,000 No-Limit Hold'em | 110 | $5,280,000 | Ben Heath | United Kingdom | $1,484,085 | 1 |
| #6: | $2,500 Limit Mixed Triple Draw | 296 | $666,000 | Dan Zack | United States | $160,447 | 1 |
| #7: | $400 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold'em | 2,825 | $1,017,000 | Yong "LuckySpewy1" Kwon | United States | $165,263 | 1 |
| #8: | $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em | 114 | $1,071,600 | Alex Epstein | United States | $296,227 | 1 |
| #9: | $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack | 6,151 | $3,229,275 | Jeremy Pekarek | United States | $398,281 | 1 |
| #10: | $1,500 Dealers Choice | 470 | $634,500 | Scott Clements | United States | $144,957 | 3 |
| #11: | $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em | 400 | $1,860,000 | Daniel Strelitz | United States | $442,385 | 1 |
| #12: | $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Super Turbo Bounty | 2,451 | $1,471,200 | Daniel Park | United States | $226,243 | 1 |
| #13: | $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw | 296 | $399,600 | Yuval Bronshtein | Israel | $96,278 | 1 |
In this Series
- 1 WSOP Day 1: 50th Annual WSOP Begins with Casino Employees Championship and $10K Super Turbo Bounty
- 2 WSOP Day 2: Daniel Negreanu Hunts Bracelet Number 7 at $10K Bounty Final Table
- 3 WSOP Day 3: WSOP's Own Isaac Hanson Leads Casino Employees FT, $50K Gets Underway
- 4 WSOP Day 4: Ali Imsirovic Leads the $50,000 High Roller
- 5 WSOP Day 5: Ben Heath Leads High Roller; John Esposito Leads Omaha Hi-Lo Final Table
- 6 WSOP Day 6: Gabe Patgorski Leads Modest $10K Short Deck Event
- 7 WSOP Day 7: Chance Kornuth Leads $10K Short Deck Final Seven
- 8 WSOP Day 8: Benny Glaser Leads Dealer's Choice Heading into Final Day
- 9 WSOP Day 9: Cunningham in the Hunt for Bracelet #6 in the BIG 50; Shorr Leads $5K NLHE
- 10 WSOP Day 10: Fashakin Leads Final 7 in BIG 50; Millionaire Maker Begins
- 11 WSOP Day 11: Four Bracelets to be Awarded Today; Lehr, Baron, and Katz in the Hunt
- 12 WSOP Day 12: Robert Mizrachi Hunting for Fifth Bracelet in $10K Omaha Hi-Lo Championship
- 13 WSOP Day 13: Eli Elezra and Anthony Zinno Lead $1,500 Stud Final Table
- 14 WSOP Day 14: Jean-Robert Bellande Leads the Final Seven in the $10K 2-7 Championship
- 15 WSOP Day 15: Kazuki Ikeuchi Leads Final Six in the Millionaire Maker
- 16 WSOP Day 16: Michael Mizrachi Hunts For Fifth Bracelet With the Final Table Lead in the $1,500 Stud Hi/Lo
- 17 WSOP Day 17: Can Dario Sammartino Parlay a Massive Lead Into His First Bracelet?
- 18 WSOP Day 18: Hanh Tran and Benny Glaser Aim for Repeat Bracelets in the $1,500 2-7 TD
- 19 WSOP Day 19: Will Adam Friedman Win Back-to-Back Championships in the $10K Dealers Choice?
- 20 WSOP Day 20: Deeb Leads $10K Dealer's Choice Final Five; Bonomo at Shootout Final Table
- 21 WSOP Day 21: Scott Seiver Leads the $10K Stud Championship
- 22 WSOP Day 22: Can Daniel Negreanu Win His 7th Bracelet in the $10K Stud Championship?
- 23 WSOP Day 23: Will Rainer Kempe Win His First Bracelet?
- 24 WSOP Day 24: Tsang Leads Record-Breaking $25K PLO; Monster Stack Kicks Off
- 25 WSOP Day 25: Chidwick in Prime Position for His First Bracelet in the $25K PLO High Roller
- 26 WSOP Day 26: Ben Lamb Bags Big in $10K Pot Limit Omaha Championship
- 27 WSOP Day 27: Alaei Leads $10K PLO Championship; $50K Poker Players Championship Begins
- 28 WSOP Day 28: Jennifer Tilly Looking for Bracelet #2 in $1,500 Razz
- 29 WSOP Day 29: Benjamin Ector Leads the Final Six in the Monster Stack
- 30 WSOP Day 30: Akkari Leads $10,000 Razz, Givens Looking for Second Bracelet in $600 Deepstack
- 31 WSOP Day 31: Seidel Hunting For Ninth Bracelet at $1,500 PLO8 Final Table
- 32 WSOP Day 32: Seiver Leads Heads-up in the $10,000 Razz Championship
- 33 WSOP Day 33: Can Yueqi Zhu Win Back-to-Back Bracelets in the $1,500 Omaha Mix?
- 34 WSOP Day 34: Nick Schulman Leads the Final Seven in the $10K PLO8 Championship
- 35 WSOP Day 35: 888poker Ambassador Vivian Saliba Bags Big in the Crazy Eights
- 36 WSOP Day 36: Main Event Begins; Saliba Makes Final Day of Crazy Eights
- 37 WSOP Day 37: Day 1b of Main Event Begins; Vieira Leads Final Six of $5k 6-Max
- 38 WSOP Day 38: Day 1c of the Main Event Begins; Carroll Leads SALUTE TO WARRIORS
- 39 WSOP Day 39: Campanello Leads Main Event; Little One for One Drop Begins
- 40 WSOP Day 40: November Niner Cannuli Among Day 2c Big Stacks in the Main Event
- 41 WSOP Day 41: $50,000 Final Fifty High Roller Begins
- 42 WSOP Day 42: Stefan Ivanov Leads the Little One for One Drop; Main Event and Final Fifty Resume
- 43 WSOP Day 43: Shaun Deeb Leads Little One for One Drop
- 44 WSOP Day 44: Dentale Leads Little One for One Drop; Nemeth Leads $3K NLHE
- 45 WSOP Day 45: Tommy Nguyen Leads Final Eight in the Bracelet Winners Only Event
- 46 WSOP Day 46: Ayaz Mahmood Hunting For His Second Bracelet
- 47 WSOP Day 47: Shaun Deeb Bags Big in the Closer; Main Event Final Table Begins
- 48 WSOP Day 48: Brian Hastings Hunting for Back-to-Back Titles in the $3K H.O.R.S.E.
- 49 WSOP Day 49: Hellmuth Aiming for 16th Bracelet in $5,000 Event
