WSOP Day 14: Gillis Wins

WSOP Event 19 Update – Gillis Beats Hennigan

The second $1,500 NLHE of the Series started with 2,086 players and a $2,816,100 prize pool.

Day 2 started with 233 players and reduced it to 12.

Day 3 then played to the final table and onward, ultimately putting John Hennigan up against Ted Gillis, the latter holding the chip lead going into heads-up play. It took less than 30 hands for Gillis to win it for a very substantial cash payout.

1^st place: Ted Gillis ($514,027)

2^nd place: John Hennigan ($319,993)

3^rd place: Dejan Divkovic ($222,429)

4^th place: Jacobo Fernandez ($160,193)

5^th place: Mustapha Kanit ($117,079)

6^th place: Jaime Kaplan ($86,609)

7^th place: Hiren Patel ($64,911)

8^th place: Edison Shields ($49,267)

9^th place: Dylan Thomassie ($37,834)

WSOP Event 20 Update – Long Final Table in Progress

The popular $3K NLHE Shootout started with 389 players and a $1,061,970 prize pool.

Day 2 took the 40 winnings players into the money and into four-handed action.

Day 3 seated the 10 winners at the final table, and with nearly even chip counts, play went on for quite a while without any eliminations. Later in the evening, Taylor Paur exited in seventh place and Phil Galfond in sixth. Play continued.

WSOP Event 21 Update – Still Seeking Final Table

The second $1K NLHE event of the Series brought in 2,043 players for a $1,838,700 prize pool.

Day 2 started with just 168 players remaining, all of whom were in the money. Later in the day, names like Erik Seidel, Jason Koon, David Williams, Mukul Pahuja, JC Tran, and Soi Nguyen departed. With only 21 players left and the clock nearing midnight, Jeff Gross was atop the leaderboard with 563K.

WSOP Event 22 Update – Dozens of Horses Remaining

The $10K HORSE Championship drew an even number of 200 players into action for a prize pool of $1,880,000.

Day 2 brought back 121 of them, and play moved toward the money bubble that would pay out the top 24 players. With only 32 left, Bill Chen held the lead close to midnight with 405K chips.

WSOP Event 23 Update – Turbo!

Players love Turbo tournaments, and this $1K buy-in attracted 1,473 of them to the tables at the Rio. The subsequent prize pool was $1,325,700, with which the top 171 players would be paid.

The money bubble burst about six hours into the day, and play continued as the field thinned very quickly. At the last break of the evening, only 28 players remained, and Doug Polk appeared to lead with 380K chips.