It was close but no celebratory cigar for Phil Hellmuth in Las Vegas last night, the 17-time bracelet winner falling just short of number 18 with a 4th-place finish in the Mixed Omaha event.
Event #43: $1,500 Mixed Omaha (7-Handed)
Having watched Phil Ivey move into clear second last week in the all-time gold bracelet winner’s list with an 11th WSOP victory, Hellmuth found himself on a deep run as he chased his own 18th piece of WSOP jewellery.
Big Phil was among 23 players to return for day 2 of a tournament that involves rounds of Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, and Big O.
Sixth in chips at the start of play, and on his mother’s birthday, the WSOP legend saw rivals such as Shaun Deeb (16th) and day 1 chip leader Dylan Lambe (6th) fall.
But there was to be no gold bracelet celebration after Hellmuth got it all-in on the flop, with the nut flush draw against Magnus Edengren’s aces…
Magnus Edengren: A♥ A♣ K♣ 10♣
Phil Hellmuth: A♠ 9♦ 2♠ 2♦
Flop: J♥ J♠ 8♠
Adding a low draw on the turn…
Turn: 5♦
…unfortunately for Hellmuth the river bricked…
River: 8♥
…and it was 4th place and no gold bracelet.
Phil’s obvious disappointment was smoothed over by a visit from his great friend Steve Aoki and, of course, some more poker…
Hello @AriaLV! Feeling down after my 4th place finish, but, @steveaoki cheering me up rn! #POSITIVITY pic.twitter.com/7MjwEcnyfq
— phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth) June 19, 2024
The final three players return today to decide who takes down the win and the $196,970 top prize.
Top 3 Chip Counts
| 1 | Magnus Edengren | Sweden | 10,500,000 |
| 2 | James Juvancic | USA | 6,275,000 |
| 3 | Tim Seidensticker | USA | 5,010,000 |
With nine events in play at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas casinos, surprisingly there were no bracelets awarded yesterday at all, but as we’ve just seen that doesn’t mean there was a drop in the action.
Event #38: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Perhaps better known as a highstakes player, divisive Czech pro Martiin Kabrhel found himself topping the chip counts as the Monster Stack was whittled down yet again.
Only 55 players remain in the hunt for the $1,098,220 top prize, with EPT founder John Duthie, Brazilian star Joao Simao and former GPI Female Player of the Year Nadya Magnus all still in the hunt.
Just arrived in Vegas to the exciting news that John Duthie is in day four of the monster stack. He told me he was asleep at the table for most of yesterday which goes a long way to explaining how he’s made it so far.
— Barny Boatman (@barnyboatman) June 19, 2024
Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | ||
| 1 | Martin Kabrhel | Czech Rep. | 24,425,000 | ||
| 2 | Tim Reilly | USA | 24,000,000 | ||
| 3 | Wayne Harmon | USA | 20,000,000 | ||
| 4 | Jeremy Maher | USA | 15,975,000 | ||
| 5 | Joseph Alban | USA | 13,550,000 | ||
| 6 | Samuel Bifarella | France | 13,200,000 | ||
| 7 | Justin Zaki | USA | 12,575,000 | ||
| 8 | Ryan Sullivan | USA | 12,350,000 | ||
| 9 | Mathew Frankland | UK | 10,950,000 | ||
| 10 | Manuel Estol | Argentina | 10,700,000 | ||
Event #44: $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em
The 1561 entries have been whittled down to just 17 contenders for the $2k NLH crown, Spain’s Javier Gomez leading the way.
A host of bracelet winners busted towards the end of day’s play, England’s Jack Sinclair among them, but Barry Shulman is still in with a chance of gold #3 and the $410,359 top prize.
Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | |
| 1 | Javier Gomez | Spain | 4,870,000 | |
| 2 | Nicholas Massey | USA | 4,055,000 | |
| 3 | Yasheel Doddanavar | India | 3,850,000 | |
| 4 | Michael Berk | USA | 3,465,000 | |
| 5 | Huihan Wu | USA | 3,450,000 | |
| 6 | Damien Le Goff | UK | 3,445,000 | |
| 7 | Kavin Shah | USA | 3,350,000 | |
| 8 | Javier Zarco | Spain | 3,125,000 | |
| 9 | Yunkyu Song | USA | 2,800,000 | |
| 10 | Narcis Nedelcu | Romania | 2,700,000 |
Event #45: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship (8-Handed)
The $10k HORSE title is also down to its final 17 players, with Benny Glaser and Maria Ho among those chasing chip leader Christopher Chung for the bracelet and $399,988 first prize.
Ho has already had an interesting first three weeks at this year’s 55th Annual World Series of Poker…
Week 3 update from the World Series of #Poker:
1. Cashed 8/14 events 📉
2. Got the clock called on me after only taking 45 seconds to think in a four-bet pot 🤬
3. Misclicked twice in the same tournament* (I thought it was 400bb and three-bet to 2700, thinking the original…— Maria Ho (@MariaHo) June 17, 2024
Top 10 Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Christopher Chung | USA | 1,345,000 |
| 2 | Patrick Moulder | USA | 1,195,000 |
| 3 | Benny Glaser | UK | 1,125,000 |
| 4 | Greg Mascio | USA | 1,035,000 |
| 5 | Robert Wells | UK | 885,000 |
| 6 | Brandon Shack-Harris | USA | 850,000 |
| 7 | Dave Stann | USA | 810,000 |
| 8 | Maksim Pisarenko | Russia | 645,000 |
| 9 | Lawrence Brandt | USA | 565,000 |
| 10 | Maria Ho | USA | 420,000 |
Event #46: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship
Day 1a of the Seniors’ event saw almost 5000 players at the tables, with another starting flight scheduled for today. A prizepool of over $10million is a realistic possibility, and nobody under the age of 50 is eligible to win a cent of it!
Andy Black and Robert Campbell are amongst the big names who bagged a stack, but so far it is Brent Nelms out in front, with Mark Rubin on a top 10 stack.
Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | |
| 1 | Brent Nelms | USA | 525,000 | |
| 2 | Carlos Bermudez | USA | 468,000 | |
| 3 | Rafael Benami | Israel | 438,500 | |
| 4 | Brett Reichard | USA | 414,500 | |
| 5 | Steven Cohen | Canada | 400,500 | |
| 6 | Lawrence Lazar | USA | 377,000 | |
| 7 | Derek Ichilcik | Australia | 373,000 | |
| 8 | Kirk Stowell | USA | 372,000 | |
| 9 | Bryan Montgomery | USA | 368,500 | |
| 10 | Mark Rubin | USA | 343,000 |
Event #47: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
The big boys and girls (well, girl, Kathy Lehne the only female entrant so far) took to the felt with the biggest buy-in of the 2024 Series so far, otherwise SHR persona non grata Jake Schindler among the $100k buy-in crowd.
Day 1 numbers already exceeded last year’s total entry, and Daniel Negreanu was responsible for two bullets, though painfully both times ran into aces! However, it was a different problem that had him taking to X/Twitter to complain…
Dumbest ruling I’ve seen in a while and it happened to me
I limp 5k
Artur makes it 13k on the button
Both blinds fold he throws his hand into the muck
They rule the 5k stays but the other 8k he gets back
Makes literally no sense and it’s an open opportunity to angle
— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) June 18, 2024
Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | |
| 1 | Henrik Hecklen | Denmark | 3,505,000 | |
| 2 | Ben Tollerene | USA | 2,815,000 | |
| 3 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 2,700,000 | |
| 4 | Jared Bleznick | USA | 2,655,000 | |
| 5 | Chris Hunichen | USA | 2,215,000 | |
| 6 | Santhosh Suvarna | India | 2,135,000 | |
| 7 | Jeremy Ausmus | USA | 2,090,000 | |
| 8 | Brian Kim | USA | 2,015,000 | |
| 9 | Johannes Straver | Netherlands | 1,965,000 | |
| 10 | Justin Saliba | USA | 1,860,000 |
Event #48: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (8-Handed)
James Chen and Brian Hastings were both to the fore on day 1 of yet another record-breaking event, 2212 entries producing a $1,946,560 prizepool for this $1k buy-in, 4-card tournament.
Germany’s Grzegorz Derkowski leads the way in the hunt for the $262,734 top prize, with Phil Laak among a number of bracelet winners looking to add to their collection.
Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | |
| 1 | Grzegorz Derkowski | Germany | 1,177,000 | |
| 2 | Kharlin Sued | USA | 1,100,000 | |
| 3 | James Chen | USA | 1,017,000 | |
| 4 | Michael Rocco | USA | 859,000 | |
| 5 | Brian Hastings | USA | 793,000 | |
| 6 | Asher Neaman | Israel | 693,000 | |
| 7 | Jose Ferreira | Brazil | 668,000 | |
| 8 | Vincas Tamasauskas | Lithuania | 664,000 | |
| 9 | Tolga Demirel | Turkey | 655,000 | |
| 10 | Steven Sarmiento | USA | 634,000 |
Event #49: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em and Event #50: $10,000 Razz Championship both kick off today to add to the mass of poker being played out in Vegas. Of course, we’ll bring you all the very best of the action every day, so be sure to tune in!
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