Big Names and Mixed Game Specialists Expected in $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship
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Today sees the start of Event #19: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship (8-Handed) here at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
This three-day event gets underway at 2 p.m. local time with late registration open for ten levels. There will be 15-minute breaks every two hours of play, with no dinner break scheduled on Day 1.
The starting stack is 60,000 chips with the plan for Day 1 to play nine levels. Levels 1-3 are 40 minutes and Levels 4-13 are 60 minutes. From Level 14 onwards, levels increase to 90 minutes in length. Day 2 resumes at 1 p.m. Thursday.
Last year's event saw 134 players generate a prize pool of $1,246,200. The winner was Josh Arieh, who defeated Daniel Idema heads-up. Arieh took home $316,226 and his fifth WSOP bracelet.
"Cards come and go, you have a hot streak and a cold streak, and I ran hotter than the fuckin' sun, which was nice," he told PokerNews. "Again, I think I am playing pretty good poker. I haven't been playing a lot but when I have been playing, I have been more emotionally invested and focusing harder."
"This is just another step that will give me a chance to maybe be inducted into the Hall of Fame," he told PokerNews. "Poker players were looked at as these backroom hustlers. Like, oh, you're a poker player, you're a bad person. You gamble for a living; how do you do that?
"I've said it before; it just gives it a little validity. And to be thought about, the names of people that are one, it would just be insane."
| Year | Entries | Winner | Country | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 134 | Josh Arieh | United States | $316,226 |
| 2022 | 92 | Jonathan Cohen | United States | $245,678 |
| 2021 | 92 | John Monnette | United States | $245,680 |
| 2019 | 118 | Juha Helppi | Finland | $306,622 |
| 2018 | 114 | Scott Seiver | United States | $296,222 |
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- Scott Seiver became a five-time WSOP bracelet winner and has surely staked a claim for a place in the Poker Hall of Fame.
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