WSOP Day 29 Recap: Colossus and Salute to Warriors Events Won, Yuri Dzivielevski Leads PPC

A busy day’s play in the 2022 World Series of Poker saw a mammoth nine tournaments take place as eight bracelet events and one online bracelet event took place at Bally’s, Paris and on WSOP.com. Three bracelets were won, and the other six events saw huge drama as the money bubble burst in the $50,000-entry Poker Players Championship, too.

Paul Hizer Stars in Colossus Comeback

The final day of action in Event #51, the $400-entry Colossus, saw Paul Hizer mount a  brilliant comeback to overtake the massive chip leader at the start of play, Sam Laskowitz as the New Yorker lost out to the Brit live on PokerGO. With just seven of the final nine returning to the felt for the final day, it was Laskowitz who started with a huge lead, but he was unable to hold on to it across a fun final table.

First to bust was Anthony Ruttler as he failed to spin up his short stack, before Luong Quach and James Scott’s exits sent play three-handed. Jordan Peon from France had been one of the dominant characters throughout the tournament, leading earlier in the event and always looking to finish strongly, but his elimination in third place saw Hizer and Laskowitz duke it out for the title on PokerGO, and it was Hizer who prevailed.

Watch all the action from an exciting final table right here.

Todd Wins Salute to Warriors for $161k

A dramatic final day of Event #54, the $500-entry Salute to Warriors event, saw James Todd the victor as he won his first WSOP bracelet and the top prize of $161,256. With 21 players starting the day, play was fast and soon reached the 10-handed finale, whereupon players such as Zyad Qasem (10^th for $13,059, Maximo Martinez (9^th for $16,433) and Elias Neto (8^th for $20,824 all busted.

Near the business end of the final table, Randy Levin was busted in fourth place, meaning he cashed for $57,554 but missed out on the podium places. By heads-up, Todd was dominating chip-wise and it took just three hands for him to claim victory, his ace-three trumping Brett Coltman’s king-seven as the winner flopped two pair and rode home to victory in style, leaving Coltman to collect the $99,676 runner-up prize.

Yuri Dzivielevski Leads Poker Players Championship After Thrilling Day 3

The latest day of action in the $50,000-entry Poker Players Championship saw Brazilian online poker legend Yuri Dzivielevski prove that its not just clicking buttons that he knows inside out. The Brazilian is a proven live professional too and with just 13 players remaining in the hunt for the $1.5 million top prize, he leads the field with 5.6 million chips. The Brazilian’s nearest challenger after three days of play is Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates, who won last year’s event and has embraced his love of fancy dress to ridiculous lengths in this year’s event. With a potential for two more days in the jungle, who knows what the American will come up with next.

Elsewhere in the top 10 chipcounts at the close of Day 3, there were bags to be filled for 2021 WSOP Main Event winner Koray Aldemir (3.2m), Daniel Weinman (1.8m) and British mixed game experts Matt Ashton (2.25m) and Benny Glaser (1.2m). With all the other three players well below a million chips, there’s likely to be early movement on the penultimate day’s play, with only five making the live final on PokerGO.   

Players to bust outside the money on Day 3 included Erik Seidel, Daniel Negreanu, Scott Seiver, Anthony Zinno and the overnight chip leader Bryn Kenney who went from leading the field to missing the money in 25^th place.

Kerstetter and Leonard’s Teams Make Final Day in Tag Team Event

Jamie Kerstetter may be well known as one of the best commentators in poker, but she will not fulfil her duties on the PokerGO stream tomorrow as she has made the final table of the $1,000-entry Tag Team Event #55 alongside her partner Corey Paggeot. The pair have 7,975,000 chips, representing a big lead over the Japanese pair of Yutaro Tsugaru & Taichi Ichikawa in second place with 4.9 million chips.

Elsewhere in the final five, Patrick Leonard and his partner Espen Jørstad have 2.2 million, but while they sit third in the chipcounts, that stack represents just 15 big blinds. Short stacks belong to both Franco Spitale and Martin Pochat (1.85m) as well as overnight chip leaders Mackenzie Kraemer and Jon Schiller, who have just eight big blinds to their names.

Marchington and Van Fleet Chasing Deepstack Title

Nick Marchington and Jon Van Fleet both sit in the top 10 of Event #57 as the $600-entry Deepstack event made the penultimate day with just 60 players remaining. It is John Ypma (6,660,000) who leads the field from John Ciccarelli (6,635,000) but Marchington (4,415,000) and Van Fleet (4,100,000) are both close to glory too.

With bracelet winners Jeremy Ausmus (2,850,000) and Craig McCorkell (2,430,000) both still in the field, the next day’s play will reduce the current field down to just five finalists. In what could be a pivotal day for the WSOP Player of the Year race in terms of Ausmus, everyone’s eyes will be on the latter stages and who can put themselves in a position to win gold on Thursday.  

Crooks Leads Final 14 PLO Players

Richard Crooks (6.4m) leads the remaining 14 players in Event #58, the $1,500-entry PLO event. With his stack being chased down by Peter Neff (6.1m), there is a big gap to the remaining dozen players, with everyone below Stuart Easton (4.3m) holding less than half of the chip leader’s stack.

With Jerry Odeen (1.9m) and Jacob Ferro (1.3m) still in contention, there is bound to be some exciting pots, but of the 14 players who are chasing the $289,610 top prize, only Odeen, Joey Coulden (2.6m) and short-stacked Jared Jaffee (875,000) have won bracelets before.

Super Seniors Sees Bumper Day 1 Field

A busy Day 1 took place in Event #59, the $1,000-entry Super Seniors event, for which players must be over the age of 60 to compete. There was a refreshing lack of vlogging equipment and cell phones at the table as 2,669 entries were reduced to just 727 survivors by the close of play, with a bumper prize pool of over $2.3 million being amassed.

With a top prize of $330,609 on offer, just 401 players will cash for a minimum of $1,600 and with Bally’s playing host to the Day 2 crowd, some big names to bag stacks to take to the party included reigning event winner Jean-Luc Adam (126,000) PT Hayes (280,300), Jeff Bond (110,000), Eric Vanderburg (145,000), Kent Buckingham (99,000), Everett Carlton (106,000), Dennis Phillips (79,400), Dan Shak (79,000) and Jack McClelland (37,000).

Short Deck Field Sees Long List of Survivors

Finally, Event 60 of the 2022 World Series of Poker saw 102 entries in the bank and 37 players survive a fun Day 1 in the $10,000 Short Deck Championship event. The 2017 PPC champion Elior Sion grabbed the chip lead shortly before the close of play with 372,000 chips. He is followed in the counts by some terrific poker pros, such as Stephen Chidwick (352,000), Ben Yu (314,100), Chance Kornuth (196,700) and Daniel Negreanu (97,500), while others such as Justin Bonomo, Shaun Deeb, Felipe Ramos, Dario Sammartino and Scott Seiver all failed to make the Day 2 seat draw.

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