WSOP 2023 Day 19 Recap: Kornuth on Top in Super High Roller, Glaser Looking for Bracelet #5

Day 19 of the World Series of Poker saw a light day of play at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos in Las Vegas on Saturday, as only five events played out with one bracelet awarded. Event #37: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em reached it's conclusion with China's Yuan Li taking home a gold, while the $250,000 Super High Roller roared past the bubble to a final table of nine. In the $10,000 2-7 Triple Draw Championship, an extra day of play was added with Benny Glaser leading in heads-up play.

Yuan Li Stays the Course and Captures First Bracelet in $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em

It was Yuan Li who started Day 3 of Event #37: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em with the chip lead, and it was Li who also walked away with all the chips. Twenty eight players began the day, but after a flurry of eliminations that included Ludovic Geilich, Ankush Mandavia, and Antonie Saout, the final table was set. 

It was Jeremy Joseph who held the lead as player started on the livestreamed final table on PokerGO. But the leaderboard remain fairly constant after the short stacked Frank Weigel was eliminated in 9th place.

Two-time bracelet winner Mark Seif made a push for his third when he eliminated Yuriy Boyko in 8th to move to the middle of the pack. James Kraetz would head to the rail shortly after that in 7th place, at the hands of Patrick Truong. It took some time, but Seif headed to the rail next when his top pair ran into the overpair of Joseph. 

It was then that Li made his push back into the chip lead. He eliminated Truong in a massive clash between big stacks with aces against ace-king, then Joseph when he rivered a flush to crack pocket queens. Jonathan Kamara moved his way to second in chips and eliminated Pavels Spirins in 3rd. 

That left Li and Kamara heads-up for the title. Kamara took over the lead for some time, but with pots being exchanged back and forth it was close the whole way. Eventually, all the chips got in with Kamara holding pocket eights and Li holding pocket jacks. Li held for the monster pot, and Kamara was left with just 25,000. Li finished him off the very next hand and he claimed his first WSOP bracelet in the process. 

Read our full recap of this final table here.

Kornuth Bags the Lead in $250,000 Super High Roller While Ivey Bubbles

An exciting day of play took place in the $250,000 Super High Roller which saw all of the stars return for action on Day 2 of play with all of the action being streamed live on the PokerGO YouTube Channel. Superstars Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, and Phil Ivey all returned for action on Day 2, but each of them met a cruel fate as they were eliminated before the paying position of 11th place. 

Negreanu was the first of the big three to fall when he ran his top pair, top kicker into the trips of Alex Kulev. Hellmuth was not far behind him. With pocket eights on a jack-seven-seven flop, Hellmuth called Kabrhel's check-raise, then called a shove on a three turn. Kabrhel had the goods with seven-five and a steamed-up Hellmuth was sent to the rail. 

It was Phil Ivey who lasted the longest of the three though, but even he was not able to find a cash as he was eliminated late in the night on the stone bubble. In his final hand, Ivey ran his ace-three suited into the pocket queens of Kabrhel and without any help, he was eliminated, guaruanteeing the final 11 players a payout of at least $411,490. 

Other players who were eliminated on Day 2 included Kristen Foxen, Stephen Chidwick, Brian Kim, Brynn Kenney, Leon Strum, Sam Soverel, and two former Main Event Champions in Koray Aldemir and Espen Jorstad. Jorstad was done in by Kornuth when he three-bet jammed ace-four suited into Kornuth's ace-queen. Kornuth held and there was no looking back from there as he eventually bagged the chip lead. 

The final table of this event will play out on PokerGO starting at 8PM ET / 5PM PT. 

Glaser and Johansson Take an Extra Day in 2-7 Triple Draw Championship

Ten players returned for the start of action on Day 3 of the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship, and at the end of the day, two were left standing. Benny Glaser bagged the chip lead against Sweden's Oscar Johansson but with nearly 40 big bets still in play, it's anyone's game. Glaser looks to capture his fifth World Series of Poker braclet with a win, while Johansson is looking for his first title. 

Short stacks George Alexander, and Alexander Wilkinson were eliminated quickly at the start of the day with Jason Papastavrou heading to the rail next. From there, Glaser began to build an immense lead over the rest of the field after the eliminations of Joao Vieira and David "Bakes" Baker.

Glaser would bust Julien Martini in 5th, Sampo Ryynanen in 4th, and Michael Rodrigues in 3rd to bring himself into heads-up play. From there, Glaser and Johansson would bag in tag for the night with the plan to play out to a winner on Sunday. The two are each guaranteed at least $192,479 with the winner taking home $311,428.

Liebert Bags Big in the Monster Stack

Day 1B of WSOP Event #39: $1,500 Monster Stack saw another staggering field of 4,375 entries locked and loaded, creating a total field size of 8,318. Among the notable names in the counts at the end of the night were Jeff Madsen (452,000), Joe Cada (72,000), Upeshka De Silva (454,500), Joey Weissman (286,500), Niall Farrell (261,500), and Leif Force (248,000) just to name a few. Near the very top of the counts for Day 1B was one Kathy Liebert who bagged a massive 575,000. 

The 1,473 survivors from Day 1B will join up with the 1,242 players from Day 1A on Sunday at 10 A.M. PT where players will likely play down through the money bubble and beyond. 

Engel Near the Top in $1,500 Big O

In the latest edition of "Why Does This Always Happen to Me," Ari Engel found himself as one of the chip leaders in the innagural $1,500 Big O event. The five-card split-pot game is the first of its kind at the World Series of Poker and drew out a total of 1,458 entries. 

Players whipped past the money bubble of 219 on Day 1 to secure a payday of at least $2,407. Among other's advancing to Day 2 include Jeff Lisandro (161,000), Johnny Chan (147,000), Dylan Weisman (99,000), Allen Kessler (68,000) and Nathan Gamble (324,000). 

Engel was able to amass a stack of 432,000 on Day 1 which was good enough for sixth place on the leaderboard. 

Players return to action on Sunday at 1 PM where they will play ten more levels. 

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