Welcome to Day 8 of Event #76: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship at the 2023 World Series of Poker. Cards go in the air at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas at 2 p.m. local time for the final 15 hopefuls.
The largest-ever Main Event drew 10,043 players for a prize pool of $93,399,900 and a top prize of $12,100,000.
The spot at the top of the leaderboard belongs to Spain’s Juan Maceiras, who bagged over 100 million chips and a lead of 41 big blinds over his next closest competitor. That competitor is Adam Walton, thanks to a full house at the end of the night that eliminated Anirban Das and propelled Walton into second place.
Top Ten Counts After Day 7
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juan Maceiras | Spain | 108,000,000 | 135 |
| 2 | Adam Walton | United States | 75,475,000 | 94 |
| 3 | Jan-Peter Jachtmann | Germany | 70,775,000 | 88 |
| 4 | Steven Jones | United States | 67,900,000 | 85 |
| 5 | Toby Lewis | United Kingdom | 50,050,000 | 63 |
| 6 | Ruslan Prydryk | Ukraine | 45,750,000 | 57 |
| 7 | Jose Aguilera | Mexico | 37,600,000 | 47 |
| 8 | Joshua Payne | United States | 31,000,000 | 39 |
| 9 | Sachin Joshi | United Kingdom | 27,775,000 | 35 |
| 10 | Daniel Weinman | United States | 21,750,000 | 27 |
Hamburg’s Jan-Peter Jachtmann is in the third spot on the leaderboard and he returns with a shot at his second WSOP bracelet. His previous win and career-best score of $661,000 came in 2012 in his regular game of Pot-Limit Omaha.
The top five is rounded out by Steven Jones and English player Toby Lewis, who finished in the fifth spot after spinning it up after the three-table redraw.
Other returning players from the United Kingdom include Sachin Joshi, Dean Hutchison, and Jack O’Neill.
Another Pot-Limit Omaha bracelet winner, Daniel Weinman, remains in the mix – as well as Day 6 chip leader Joshua Payne, who will return in eighth place. Alec Torelli is also lurking outside the top ten after several late night doubles kept him in contention.
The rest of the contenders include Ruslan Prydryk, Jose Aguilera, Daniel Holzner, and Cong Pham.
Remaining Payouts
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $12,100,000 |
| 2 | $6,500,000 |
| 3 | $4,000,000 |
| 4 | $3,000,000 |
| 5 | $2,400,000 |
| 6 | $1,850,000 |
| 7 | $1,425,000 |
| 8 | $1,125,000 |
| 9 | $900,000 |
| 10-11 | $700,000 |
| 12-13 | $535,000 |
| 14-15 | $430,200 |
Everyone is guaranteed at least $430,200 and the first pay jump of Day 8 will come after the first two eliminations. Players will return to the Horseshoe Events Center at 2 p.m. to play down to a final table. Action picks up in Level 36 with blinds at 400,000/800,000 with a 800,000 ante. Levels continue to be 120-minutes long with a break after each of them. Tonight’s surviving players will enjoy a day off, then return on Sunday for the first day of the two-day final table.
Be sure to keep it with the PokerNews team all day long for updates live from the floor of the Main Event at the 2023 WSOP.
