WSOP 2023 Day 32 Recap: Bracelet Bonanza as Bryn Kenney Denied After Stunning Ryan Miller Comeback

An amazing day of action at the World Series of Poker saw more tournaments in progress than at any point in recent memory. An incredible 11 events either completed or continued at the Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris casinos. With several new bracelet winners crowned, big names were denied as David Prociak, Andy Black and in particular Bryn Kenney were denied when close to titles.

 

Bryn Kenney Beaten to Bracelet After Losing Massive Heads-Up Lead

 

The drama went to the last card in Event #63 as All-Time Money List challenger Bryn Kenney lost with a great chip lead to lose out on gold in the Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship.

The action started six-handed, but it didn’t stay that way for long, as Eddie Blumenthal busted on the first hand. The opening level of action wasn’t over before Chino Rheem joined him on the rail, getting so close to a bracelet but failing to make the final four.

 

Andres Korn came into play full of hope it might be his turn for glory, but two hands decimated his stack, and he missed the podium places. Max Schindler’s exit in third only seemed to confirm that Kenney was going to win. Holding the lead, the Long Islander was unable to close it out, however, and Miller ground himself back into contention before taking the lead and eventually seeing it out.

 

"Once I reached heads up, I said, 'You know what, anything could happen.'” Miller told reporters after the event gave him his first WSOP bracelet. “I won a big pot pretty quickly, and at that point I thought I could do it. I've waited a long time and I wasn't sure if it would ever come but I'm super excited to get one. I feel like I put a lot of time in poker and was deserving of one, and now it finally came and it's great to get it in a Championship event.”

 

Miller’s joy was mirrored by Kenney’s disappointent to have come so close to his second bracelet. It was ‘Miller Time’ on Friday night. Ryan can’t stop smiling.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #63 $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship:
Rank	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Ryan Miller	United States	$344,677
2nd	Bryn Kenney	United States	$213,027
3rd	Maximilian Schindler	United States	$149,981
4th	Andres Korn	Argentina	$107,824
5th	Chino Rheem	United States	$79,189
6th	Eddie Blumenthal	United States	$59,441
7th	Yong Wang	China	$45,624
8th	Joao Vieira	Portugal	$35,826

 

Klaus Ilk Takes Super Seniors Title

 

Austrian player Klaus Ilk took down the Event #61 title, as he won the $1,000 Super Seniors beating Ronald Lane to the WSOP bracelet and top prize of $371,603. The final table of the record-breaking event saw former chip leader Farhad Davoudzadeh, who led on Day 2, finish in third place for a score of $172,058 as he came close to glory.

 

The overnight chip leader in this event, Rassoul Malboubi, came in eighth for $45,213 as he fell just short of glory but made the final table.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #61 $1,000 Super Seniors Results:
Rank	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Klaus Ilk	Austria	$371,603
2nd	Ronald Lane	United States	$229,685
3rd	Farhad Davoudzadeh	Iran	$172,058
4th	Ronald Swain	United States	$129,812
5th	Kevin Danko	United States	$98,644
6th	Federico Trujillo	Argentina	$75,503
7th	Arnon Graham	United States	$58,213
8th	Rassoul Malboubi	United States	$45,213

 

Battle of Two Davids Ends with Victory for Simon

 

An entertaining final day of action in the $1,500-entry Event #62, the Mixed NLHE/PLO event, saw David Simon beat David Prociak to the title and top prize of $410,659. With close results for former chip leader Eran Carmi (4^th for $137,058) and Eric Pfenning (3^rd for $185,630), there was also a close run for Tsuf Saltsberg as he came fifth for $102,173.

 

The final day saw the two Israeli players begin as short stacks and they left first before Pfenning’s exit. That exit gave Prociak a 2:1 chip lead ahead of the final duel, but David Simon came back to win despite admitting that he felt he beat the better player.

 

"I think that, honestly, David Prociak is a better player than I am," said Simon after winning the bracelet. “He's a better PLO player than I am, for sure. I didn't really want to try to mix it up with him in PLO too much. Obviously, once we're heads up then that's out the window. I was thinking that I was going to try to make him uncomfortable by playing bigger pots than he would probably want to.”

 

The strategy clearly worked for the player who hails from the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

 

“I've just gained so much confidence throughout this tournament.” Simon went on. “To have a result like this definitely just increases my confidence level and makes me so thankful for all my friends and family who have been so into everything that I've been doing.”

 

Everyone will want to know what David Simon is playing next after the result of his poker career so far. 

Watch a full replay of this event right now on PokerGO.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #62 $1,500 Mixed NLHE/PLO Results:
Rank	Player	Country	Prize
1st	David Simon	United States	$410,659
2nd	David Prociak	United States	$253,821
3rd	Eric Pfenning	United States	$185,630
4th	Eran Carmi	Israel	$137,058
5th	Tsuf Saltsberg	Israel	$102,173
6th	Robert Mizrachi	United States	$76,910
7th	Upeshka De Silva	United States	$58,464
8th	Guofeng Wang	China	$44,884

 

Kopp Wins One Year After Sister’s Success

 

Michael Kopp followed on from his sister Katie’s 2022 bracelet success by claiming his maiden bracelet in Event #66, the $1,500 PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better event. Beating Portuguese player Michael Rodrigues heads-up, he denied his opponent the chance to become only the second player this WSOP to win two bracelets following Chad Eveslage’s incredible record of two wins in the opening 10 events.

 

The final table was a dramatic one and feature many well-known players, with Loni Hui (6^th for $44,391), Joseph McCarthy (5^th for $59,953) and Mike Linster (3^rd for $113,991). Heads-up, Kopp was the underdog both experience-wise and holding fewer chips, but he came back to take the lead and made a Broadway straight in the final hand for a momentous victory.

 

“It feels really good, especially since my best friend won a bracelet this year and my sister won one last year,” Kopp said after winning his first bracelet. “When we were growing up we were always about poker. We're pretty close, me, my sister, and my mom. We all talk poker and help make each other better.”

 

Family matters, and for the Kopp family, it’s another priceless victory. If Ma Kopp turns up in next year’s World Series, be worried.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #66 $1,500 PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better Results:
Rank	Player	Country	Prize
1st	William Kopp	United States	$259,549
2nd	Michael Rodrigues	Portugal	$160,418
3rd	Mike Linster	United States	$113,991
4th	Sterling Savill	United States	$82,104
5th	Joseph McCarthy	United States	$59,953
6th	Loni Hui	United States	$44,391
7th	John Goyette	United States	$33,335
8th	Anthony Zinno	United States	$25,394
9th	Aaron Wallace	United States	$19,627

 

Andy Black Denied Late as Schroeder Goes Wire to Wire

 

Irishman Andy Black just missed out on his first-ever WSOP bracelet as he lost in third place on the way to Brazilian Gabriel Schroeder became the latest Brazilian WSOP champion. Black started low in the counts on the hastily rescheduled extra day of play in Event #69, the super Turbo event. Initially, an incredible comeback for Black looked on as he recovered from starting play with one of the shortest stacks to surge up the leaderboard.

 

Others fell away, with Ryan Goidoo (9^th for $21,340) and Daniel Lowery (6^th for 45,741) missing out on the final five. Black’s elimination in third place came after he took the lead in the event only for his ace-king to be eclipsed by Schroeder’s king-jack, a jack on the flop destroying the former WSOP Main Event final table player’s bracelet dream. After that slice of luck, Schroeder beat American Joel Wertheimer heads-up to claim gold and a first-ever WSOP bracelet, as well as the $228,632 top prize.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #69 $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty Results:
Rank	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Gabriel Schroeder	Brazil	$228,632
2nd	Joel Wertheimer	United States	$141,298
3rd	Andy Black	Ireland	$105,337
4th	Elson Lima	United States	$79,142
5th	Jordan Jayne	United States	$59,929
6th	Daniel Lowery	United States	$45,741
7th	Jose Brito	Portugal	$35,191
8th	Jonathan Akiba	United States	$27,293
9th	Ryan Goindoo	Trinidad & Tobago	$21,340

 

Foxen in Charge on Day 1 of PLO High Roller

 

Alex Foxen bagged the chip lead in Event #71’s opening day of PLO High Roller action. Costing $50,000 to play, the experienced bracelet winner and former GPI world number one Foxen built an impressive lead, piling up 2.8 million chips by the close of Day 1, with Krasimir Yankov (1,786,000) and Jesse Lonis (1,460,000) his nearest challengers.

 

Others to fly high included Jeremy Ausmus (1,291,000), Adam Hendrix (1,266,000), Chance Kornuth (970,000), Freddy Deeb (873,000), and Brian Rast (601,000), with Ben Lamb (298,000) and Benny Glaser (167,000) a little lower down the pecking order.

 

Late registration ends at the start of Day 2, so busted players such as 2023 bracelet winner Josh Arieh, and Isaac Haxton, along with Jason Koon and the $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha champion Ka Kwan Lau can try again tomorrow. The field of 167 is already a record, having surpassed last year’s total of 106 entries in the corresponding 2022 event.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #71 $50,000 PLO High Roller Leaderboard:
Rank	Player	Country	Chips
1st	Alex Foxen	United States	2,868,000
2nd	Krasimir Yankov	Bulgaria	1,786,000
3rd	Jesse Lonis	United States	1,460,000
4th	Zeki Soyirgaz	Turkey	1,400,000
5th	Michael Heritsch	United States	1,400,000
6th	Anthony Marsico	United States	1,378,000
7th	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	1,291,000
8th	Adam Hendrix	United States	1,266,000
9th	Michael Moncek	United States	1,236,000
10th	Robert Cowen	United Kingdom	1,187,000

 

Taylor in the Lead as Deepstack Extended for Another Day  

 

John Taylor leads the final three players who decided to return on another day in Event #64, the $600-entry Deepstack Championship. Taylor’s lead with a day to go is a slim one, with his stack of 48,225,000 ahead of Canadian player David Guay (46,000,000) and Steven Stoltzenfeld (35,200,000).

 

Earlier at the final table, Gaetan Balleur (6^th for $54,199), Romain Kowalczyk (5^th for $71,018) and Jonathan Fhima (4^th for $93,795) all busted in a row for three consecutive exits by French players in the final six, an odd quirk to a truly bizarre delayed final day.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #64 $600 NLHE Deepstack Championship:
Rank	Player	Country	Chips
1st	John Taylor	United States	48,225,000
2nd	David Guay	Canada	46,000,000
3rd	Steven Stolzenfeld	United States	35,200,000

 

Szecsi Ahead, Rich Closing in on Six-Max Glory

 

Over 60 events into the 2023 World Series of Poker, we have not had a female winner of an event yet. While the Ladies Championship will obviously produce a female winner, the best chance of an open WSOP event being won by a female player looks to be Event #66, the $5,000-entry NLHE Six-Max event. That’s because while Norbert Szecsi from Hungary leads the final six into the last day of action with 18.6 million chips, Angelina Rich from Australia goes into the action second in chips with 14 million herself.

 

Rich is an accomplished player and has almost $700,000 in live tournament winnings. The top prize in this event is $938,244 and Rich, appearing at her first WSOP final table, would double her career earnings if she takes the title. She has some superb players in her way, and not just the chip leader. Elsewhere in the counts, Weiran Pu of China has 10.4 million chips, with Tyler Cornell (7,472,500), Vitor Dzivielevski (5,850,000) and Pedro Garagnani (4,725,000) all vying for glory too.

You'll be able to watch the final table of this event tonight, live on PokerGO.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #66 $5,000 NLHE Six-Max Leaderboard:
Rank	Player	Country	Chips
1st	Norbert Szecsi	Hungary	18,600,000
2nd	Angelina Rich	Australia	14,000,000
3rd	Weiran Pu	China	10,475,000
4th	Tyler Cornell	United States	7,472,500
5th	Vitor Dzivielevski	Brazil	5,850,000
6th	Pedro Garagnani	Brazil	4,725,000

 

Dvorkin Leads Ladies Championship

 

There are only 47 players left in the $1,000-entry Ladies Championship Event #67, with Mary Dvorkin (1,420,000) top of the leaderboard. Of the remaining players, only one has a bracelet win in their career, and that lady is Jessica Teusl, the defending champion and 2022 Ladies Championship winner, who bagged up 785,000 on her way to a full recovery from starting the ‘money bubble’ day short stacked.

 

Teusl rightly gets the headlines for her victory last year, but other superstars lurk lower in the counts. Patty Landis, also known as Daniel Negreanu’s assistant for many years, totalled 450,000 by the close of play, with tough pros Maria Lampropulos (330,000) and Samantha Abernathy (325,000) not far behind.  

 

WSOP 2023 Event #67 $1,000 Ladies Championship Leaderboard:
Rank	Player	Country	Chips
1st	Mary Dvorkin	United Kingdom	1,420,000
2nd	Eunji Park	Canada	1,400,000
3rd	Shiina Okamoto	Japan	1,225,000
4th	Talia Fligelman	United States	1,190,000
5th	Bernice Mclennan	Canada	980,000

 

Dzivielevski Leads Event #69, Negreanu Chasing

 

Brazilian professional Yuri Dzivielevski leads the final 19 players in Event #69, the $10,000-entry No Limit 2-7 Single Draw Championship, but there are sharks all over the rest of the leaderboard with a top prize of $367,599 and a priceless bracelet on the line.

 

The Brazilian’s lead is a slim one with his stack of 1,288,000 ahead of both Young Ko (1,197,000) and Alex Livingston (1,137,000) in the top three. Legends line up behind the podium places, with Ryan Riess (792,000), Daniel Negreanu (595,000) and Eli Elezra (484,000) all featuring in the top half of the leaderboard.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #69 $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw Championship:
Rank	Player	Country	Chips
1st	Yuri Dzivielevski	Brazil	1,288,000
2nd	Young Ko	United States	1,197,000
3rd	Alex Livingston	Canada	1,137,000
4th	Ryan Riess	United States	792,000
5th	James Chen	United States	640,000

 

Colossal Field Sees 965 Survive Day 1a of Colossus 

 

It costs $400 to enter and the top prize could change your life. The ‘weekend warriors’ were out in force to play the Colossus, Event #70 on this year’s schedule, as an awesome 7,705 entries played down to 965 survived the opening Day 1a flight.

 

With Day 1b to come tomorrow, Chengtzu Lai (1,456,000) bagged the chip lead, but loads of great players also fell into line lower down, with  Alex Goulder (956,000), JJ Liu (905,000), Will Kassouf (800,000), Jason Wheeler (762,000) and Melanie Weisner (719,000) inside the top 55 players in pursuit of the WSOP gold bracelet.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #70 $400 NLHE Colossus Leaderboard:
Rank	Player	Country	Chips
1st	Chengtzu Lai	United States	1,456,000
2nd	Alessandro Minasi	Italy	1,415,000
3rd	Abraham Serrano	Spain	1,337,000
4th	Alan Chute	United States	1,326,000
5th	Yanfeng Wang	United States	1,250,000

 

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