Two bullets at $250k apiece wasn’t enough get Daniel Negreanu into a share of the money as poker’s big boys battled it out in Vegas last night. Phil Ivey, however, comes back today with a shot at the $5million+ first prize.
Event #55: $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
It’s been a lean 2024 at the World Series so far for DNegs and yesterday was no exception as he bust in 18th spot on his second bullet, short of the 12 paid spots…
Daniel Negreanu: J♥ J♠
Seth Gottlieb: A♥ 10♥
Flop: 8♥ Q♠ 3♥
Turn: 5♥
River: 3♦
Phil Ivey did rather better, sitting in 10th out of the 14 remaining players, but it will be a nervous bubble with more than $500,000 on the line for a min. cash. Up top, the number is more than 10x that sum, $5,415,152 going to the winner.
Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 16,250,000 |
| 2 | Santhosh Suvarna | India | 14,950,000 |
| 3 | Taylor von Kriegenbergh | USA | 12,050,000 |
| 4 | Sean Winter | USA | 9,725,000 |
| 5 | Matthias Eibinger | Austria | 8,600,000 |
| 6 | Jonathan Jaffe | USA | 8,075,000 |
| 7 | Ben Tollerene | USA | 7,375,000 |
| 8 | Charles Hook | USA | 7,350,000 |
| 9 | Chris Hunichen | USA | 6,400,000 |
| 10 | Phil Ivey | USA | 5,650,000 |
Day 26 at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos also witnessed Khang Pham scoop Event #46: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship, while Yuri Dzivielevski took down Event #53: $3,000 Nine Game Mixed (7-Handed).
Event #52: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em (6-Handed)
There was plenty of drama at the final table of the $5k NLH 6-handed event, Germany’s Max Kruse and Matthew McEwan suffering in a three-way all-in reminiscent of yesterday’s big SHR showdown.
Max Kruse: 4♦ 4♥
Krasimir Yankov: A♠ A♥
Matthew McEwan: Q♦ Q♥
The flop was the ridiculous…
Flop: A♦ 4♣ Q♠
Turn: K♥
River: J♦
Former pro footballer turned poker pro Kruse was out in 7th and McEwan on fumes following him in 6th spot. Australia’s Mostafa Haidary leads the way for the surviving quartet returning today to play for gold.
Final table chip counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Mostafa Haidary | Australia | 15,375,000 |
| 2 | Krasimir Yankov | Bulgaria | 12,825,000 |
| 3 | Bernd Gleissner | Germany | 8,575,000 |
| 4 | Brandon Schwartz | USA | 4,300,000 |
Event #54: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold’em
The second starting flight of the $1500 Milly Maker saw a number of big names enter, 2015 champ Joe Mckeehen and 2013 winner Ryan Riess joining yesterday’s Main Event victors Joe Cada (2009) and Martin Jacobson (2014).
Some 3721 entries brought the total to 6523, with day 1c still to come, and the chip leader is China’s Ye Yuan, ahead of day 1a chip leader, Austria’s Ori Elul. Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, Maria Ho, Kathy Liebert and Chris Moorman all bagged stacks for day 2.
Top 10 Chip Counts
| Position | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Ye Yuan | China | 875,000 |
| 2 | Ori Elul | Austria | 673,500 |
| 3 | Xiaoyun Li | China | 660,000 |
| 4 | Muaaz Gani | USA | 615,000 |
| 5 | Philip Verel | USA | 573,000 |
| 6 | Kyle Ho | Canada | 465,000 |
| 7 | Justin Belforti | USA | 453,500 |
| 8 | Timur Margolin | Israel | 398,000 |
| 9 | Jeremy Surinach | France | 385,000 |
| 10 | Brett Apter | USA | 373,500 |
Event #56: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball
A record-breaking 371 entries has been whittled down to 15 players over two days of play, with Shaun Deeb well in the mix as he seeks his 7th WSOP gold bracelet.
With 56 places paid, it was Dennis Kim who bubbled, joining the likes of Allen Kessler, Patrick Leonard and Maxx Coleman on the rail without a payday.
Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Patrick Moulder | USA | 1,820,000 |
| 2 | Amir Nematinia | USA | 1,560,000 |
| 3 | Yuebin Guo | USA | 1,530,000 |
| 4 | Shaun Deeb | USA | 1,270,000 |
| 5 | Oscar Johansson | Sweden | 1,125,000 |
| 6 | Ian Chan | Canada | 1,090,000 |
| 7 | Chad Eveslage | USA | 1,030,000 |
| 8 | Ryan Ko | USA | 1,020,000 |
| 9 | Anthony Hu | USA | 800,000 |
| 10 | Matthew Smith | USA | 465,000 |
Event #57: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em (8-Handed)
Scotland’s Ludovic Geilich has a tough hill to climb today when he returns as the shortest stack for the final table, but he did have the added satisfaction of ending defending champion Phil Hellmuth’s hunt for a 19th bracelet yesterday.
Rodriguez was all-in preflop…
Noel Rodriguez: J♦ 10♥
Phil Hellmuth: Q♣ 5♣
Ludovic Geilich: 8♦ 10♦
…and Hellmuth and Geilich’s chips were added on the flop….
Flop: 6♦ Q♦ A♣
Turn: 7♣
River: 2♦
That rivered flush sent Hellmuth crashing, his “Poker Brat” persona appearing once again with a typical rant: “The same f*****g guy from Scotland every time. F*****g idiot… 10-high, what the f**k?”
Final table Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Aliaksei Boika | Slovenia | 5,360,000 |
| 2 | Oliver Weis | Austria | 4,500,000 |
| 3 | Antoine Saout | France | 4,280,000 |
| 4 | Steve Buell | USA | 4,225,000 |
| 5 | Michael Rocco | USA | 3,140,000 |
| 6 | Frank Funaro | USA | 2,670,000 |
| 7 | Shota Nakanishi | Japan | 2,100,000 |
| 8 | Aaron Johnson | USA | 1,605,000 |
| 9 | Ludovic Geilich | Scotland | 1,250,000 |
That’s for day 26 at the 55th Annual World Series of Poker but we’ll be back again tomorrow with all the bracelet news and the best of the rest of the action, so be sure to check in!
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