WSOP 2024 Day 6 Recap: Bryce Yockey and Nick Guagenti Win Second Bracelets, Mystery Millions Field Tops 18,000 Entries

Day 6 of the WSOP in 2024 produced two bracelet winners, as Bryce Yockey and Nick Guagenti, who were previously single bracelet winners, finally made themselves double gold bracelet holders. In three other events, there was action in No Limit Hold'em, Omaha Hi-Lo and Badugi as the World Series of Poker welcomed over 10,000 players to the Horseshoe and Paris casinos. 

Bryce Yockey 

Bryce Yockey won the $5,000-entry PLO 8-Max Event #8 as he saw off a late challenge from Colombian professional Farid Jattin heads-up to take the title and $606,654 top prize. Claiming his second WSOP bracelet, Yockey admitted that part of his passion to win came from finding out that he was worth only $13 in the $25k Fantasy Draft that took place on the eve of the 2024 WSOP.

When play got underway on the final day of the event, 11 players remained, but after Gabriel Andrade (11th for $29,145), and Brian Rast (10th for $36,526) bowed out, the Japanese player Naoya Kihara busted in ninth place for $36,526 and the final eight of the event had been reached.

Making a jack-high straight to bust Paul Radcliffe in eighth and Joao Simao in seventh in the same hand, Yockey was immediately on the rise, and after Jattin took out Joao Vieira in sixth place, the stage looked set for a heads-up battle between the two, which was exactly how it played out. 

Yockey's control of the final duel was established by his elimination of Zach Schwartz in third place to start the heads-up battle for the bracelet with a 4-to-1 lead. Jattin got it in bad and fell behind Yockey pair of eights on the turn shortly after, and missing all his draws on the river, the Colombia Jattin's worse single pair meant he cashed for $404,430 in second place. 

Yockey - who declared his intention to push hard for WSOP Player of the Year in the aftermath of victory, banked an incredible $606,654 up top, one of the biggest scores so far in this summer's WSOP. 

Event #8: $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha 8-Max  Results

Nick Guagenti Wins Second Bracelet as Helppi Can't Find Help

Nick Guagenti also won his second bracelet of his career as he landed the $121,074 top prize in the $1,500 Limit Hold’em Event #9. 

Juha Helppi was the only other previous WSOP bracelet winner, and began well, winning with flush over flush to prompt Bradley Carter's exit in sixth place.  Guagenti took out Qinghai Pan in fifth, but if Helppi had hoped to trade eliminations of others before taking on Guagenti, those plans went awry as the Finn busted himself in fourth. 

George Chen’s pocket queens were no good as Guagenti's king-jack hit a jack on the flop and the turn just before the money went into the middle. That gave the eventual winner a chip lead of 7.7m to Joseph Brodsky’s 3.3m and when Brodsky moved all-in with eight-four of spades, Guagenti’s queen-eight call was rewarded with the pot and the title.

After the event, Guagenti told reporters, "I’m only here to win bracelets!" as he admitted he'll be making a run at the WSOP Player of the Year title too.  

Event #9: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Results

Superstars Pack Final Day Field of 26 in Omaha Hi-Lo Championship

Event #10, the $10,000-entry Omaha Hi-Lo Championship saw just 26 players bag up chips on its penultimate day, with Sami Saad El-Dein (1,350,000) bagging the chip lead ahead of WSOP legends Scott Seiver (1,055,000), Calvin Anderson (810,000) and Shaun Deeb (610,000), with all those players inside the top seven.

A top prize of $426,744 and the world-famous WSOP bracelet will be up for grabs tomorrow, with Jared Bleznick (1,200,000) hoping he can run his second-placed stack at present into his first-ever WSOP title. Dangerous professionals lurk around every corner in the remaining field, however, with Jake Schwartz (485,000) and John Racener (365,000) both still in with a chance of proving their skills added to final day experience could count for a golden reward. 

Event #10: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship Chip Counts

Badugi Event Sees Big Names Make Day 2

This summer's first WSOP Badugi event saw 139 players make Day 2 as a field of 487 were whittled down over the first day of action. Costing $1,500 to play, Event #11 will award a $129,676 top prize and the close of Day 1 saw Joseph Wagganer (268,500) bag a good chip lead with Swedish player Oscar Johansson (218,000) and American Mark Roland (217,500) closest to the leader.

Poker legends Hanh Tran (203,500), Jerry Wong (191,000) and Frank Kassela (175,000) all finished inside the top 10, with Alex Livingston (148,000), Andrew Yeh (132,000), Heather Alcorn (125,000), Dan Zack (120,000) and Chris Brewer (103,000) close by.

Last year’s event winner Michael Rodrigues crashed out on Day 1 this time around, with the 10-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey, Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow, Poker Hall of Famer Eli Elezra, Allen ‘Chainsaw’ Kessler, and ‘Barstool Nate’ Silver all busting too. 

Event #11: $1,500 Badugi Day 1 Chip Counts

Puccio Grabs Mystery Millions Lead After Epic Final Day 1 Flight

The fourth and final Day 1 flight of Event #5, the $1,000 Mystery Millions saw over 7,600 entries bump the overall field past 18,000 players as the world-famous event that features a million-dollar bounty that can only be won from Day 2 onwards concluded its Day flights in style. 

Just under 2,000 players will bid to win that million without needing to win the event itself to do so and topping Day 1d, Adrian Puccio (3,360,000) grabbed the overall lead in the event.

Elsewhere in the upper limits of the leaderboard, Romanian Mircea Ionescu (2,595,000) and Chinese player Dong Chen (2,2215,000) represented their countries with pride while American poker heroes Scott Ball (1,745,000), Justin Liberto (1,685,000), James Carroll (1,530,000), John Riordan (1,290,000) and Ismael Bojang (1,275,000), will all be hoping to add 'Won a WSOP bracelet' to their list of 2024 poker achievements.

Event #5: $1,000 Mystery Millions Day 1d Chip Counts

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