WSOP Day 36 Recap: Main Event Day 1c Sees 1,800 Entries, Sean Troha Wins PLO Championship

A total of 1,800 players took on the WSOP Main Event on Day 1c, with two more events also taking place on Day 36 of the 2022 World Series of Poker. In the Million Dollar Bounty event, the $1 million bounty prize was handed out, while in Event #69, Sean Troha came back to beat the overwhelming chip leader in the PLO Championship.

Day 1c of Main Event Sees 1,800 Entries on Thrilling Day of Action

The third Day 1 flight of the WSOP Main Event saw the biggest crowd yet, as 1,800 hopefuls paid the $10,000 entry and took their chances in the greatest poker tournament on Earth. After an incredible day at the felt, only 1,376 players survived the day, with that number joining the 1,265 survivors from Day 1a and Day 1b in an already swelled Day 2 with 2,642 in the Day 2 field so far. With further Day 1 flights to come, there is every chance that the 3,580 entries this 2022 WSOP Main Event has so far will run the record close.

Top of the leaderboard after Day 1c is also the player with the biggest stack in the tournament overall, with Patrick Clarke (397,200) followed by David Eldridge (308,800) and Xuan Liu (268,200) in the chipcounts. Other well-known players such as Eric Salazar (267,100), Rafael Moraes (172,800), Tristan Wade (160,900), Maria Ho (116,700) and the 2015 Main Event champion Joe McKeehen (95,000) all made profit on their starting stack of 60,000.

Players with big reputations busted the event on Day 1c, with six-time winner Daniel Negreanu, Vivian Saliba, Matt Berkey, Magnus Carlsen and Martin Kabrhel all left the action without chips and headed to the rail. Another star of the game to do so was Shaun Deeb, who called off his stack with pocket queens on a board of T-J-5-5-T, but was wrong to do so, with his opponent holding pocket fives.

After a thrilling day at the felt, the WSOP Main Event is only going to get bigger as it races towards the Day 2 flights that will give poker fans more clues as to who this year’s world champion might be.

Troha Triumphs over Dominant Dudani

A fantastic five-handed final table saw Sean Troha come back to beat Shiva Dudani to the title and $1.2 million top prize, one of the biggest wins of the series. The five-handed final kicked off with Dudani in total control with a huge chip lead. Troha came into the action with the second-shortest stack, but he rode out the early levels when Norwegian player Joachim Haraldstad (5^th for $289,630) and Tom Hu (4^th for $395,465) both crashed out.

Dudani had three-quarters of the chips in play, but Troha doubled through the leader with a double-suited ace-king against Dudani’s kings and after Duek was eliminated in third place Troha came back from a slim deficit heads-up to claim a stunning victory and the $1,246,770 top prize, with Dudani taking home $770,556 for finishing in second place.  

Matt Glantz Wins Million Dollar Bounty on Day 2, 33 Survive

Day 2 of the $1,000-entry Million Dollar Mystery Bounty WSOP event saw 825 players pitch up at the felt determined to be the person who drew the $1,000,000 bounty slip after eliminating a player. Playing down to just 33 survivors, it was Matt Glantz who drew that million-dollar bounty after a hand saw him win with pocket tens against pocket jacks and ace-king.

Glantz drew the ticket in a tantalizing reveal that eventually saw him leap into the air to celebrate, yelling: “Oh baby!” as he lived the perfect moment on Day 2. While winning that seven-figure prize was the tournament highlight, that wasn’t the end of the drama. Glantz would bust late in the day, but he has already won the biggest prize of the event, which will give out the top prize of $750,120 to the eventual winner.

After Day 2’s action, Michael Smith (50,300,000) leads the field, but German pro Natalie Hof Ramos isn’t far behind on 37,200,000 chips, with other big stacks such as Paul Chauderson (31,900,000) breathing down her neck.

With two other female players still present in Libby Wilson (11,900,000) and Nohjun Park (10,600,000), other big names such as brothers Daniel De Almeida (17,300,000) and Caio De Almeida (6,300,000). The latter will be hoping to pull some big numbers from the bounty chest after Daniel banked $125,000 from two envelopes.

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