2022 WSOP Day 36: Clarke Leads Main Event; Glantz Banks a Milly
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Day 36 of the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at Bally's and Paris Las Vegas saw three tournaments progress, including the ever-growing Main Event. One tournament crowned its champion, while another paid out a $1 million bounty, a prize larger than what first place awards!
The only bracelet of Day 36 went to Sean Troha who triumphed in Event #69: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship. Only five of the record-breaking 683 field made it through to the final day's action, and it was Troha who was the last man standing. Troha defeated start-of-the-day chip leader Shiva Dudani heads up to capture his first bracelet and $1,246,770 in prize money.
Matt Glantz was the lucky bounty event player who got his hands on the $1 million top bounty prize. Glantz said swapping 10% with both Shaun Deeb and Paul Volpe was the main reason he was fortunate enough to reveal the seven-figure prize.
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Patrick Clarke Tops Main Event Day 1c Counts and Lead Overall
Ireland's Patrick Clarke finished Day 1c of Event #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event with 397,200 chips, which not only resulted in him finishing the flight as the chip leader but he leads the Main Event overall with only one Day 1 remaining.
Clarke is extremely well-known in his native Ireland, not least because he won the 2014 Irish Open Main Event. He came close to becoming a European Poker Tour champion two years later when he finished fourth in the EPT Dublin Main Event, and then narrowly missed out on a WSOP bracelet in 2019 when he fell in sixth place in the $888 Crazy Eights event.
Day 1c attracted 1,800 players and 1,376 of those progressed to Day 2abc.
Xuan Liu enjoyed herself on Day 1c, bagging up 268,200 chips when the fifth level concluded. The former 888poker ambassador is one to watch as the Main Event progresses.
Others who bagged up chips at the close of play included Jesse Sylvia (229,400), Nick Yunis (196,900), two-time bracelet winner Timur Margolin (188,500), Tristan Wade (160,900), Humberto Brenes (153,400), Brian Hastings (136,900), Dan Smith (118,400), Maria Ho (116,700), and Jason Koon (114,600).
Joe McKeehen (95,000) and Joe Cada (53,700) were the two previous Main Event champions who punched their Day 2 tickets after Scott Blumstein, Greg Raymer, and Hossein Ensan crashed out at various stages of Day 1C.
Among those who faltered on the third Main Event flight were Matt Berkey, Brandon Steven, Martin Kabrhel, Daniel Negreanu, Vivian Saliba, and Shaun Deeb.
Day 1d commences at 11:00 a.m. on July 6 and everything points towards it being massive, so much so that we could see more than 8,773 total entrants, the current record set in 2006.
Event #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event Day 1c Top 10 Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick Clarke | Ireland | 397,200 | 497 |
| 2 | Marcus Stein | United States | 336,800 | 421 |
| 3 | David Eldridge | United States | 308,000 | 385 |
| 4 | Xuan Liu | Canada | 268,200 | 335 |
| 5 | Eric Salazar | United States | 267,100 | 334 |
| 6 | Mearl Wisehart | United States | 266,800 | 333 |
| 7 | Jose Lopez | United States | 263,600 | 330 |
| 8 | Quentin Roussey | France | 256,500 | 321 |
| 9 | Chris Fraser | United Kingdom | 256,400 | 321 |
| 10 | Jordyn Miller | United States | 248,700 | 311 |
Hof Flying High In The $1,000 Bounty Event
Natalie Hof (37,200,000) returns to the action in Event #68: $1,000 Million Dollar Bounty second in chips and with a very real chance of becoming a WSOP champion. Only 32 players stand between Hof and poker glory.
Fresh from an eighth place finish in the recent Ladies Championship, Hof is full of confidence and it showed on Day 2 of the Million Dollar Bounty event as she navigated her way to the chip count's summit. Only Canada's Michael Smith (50,300,000) has more chips than her going into Day 3.
With blinds and antes set at 400,000/800,000/800,000a when play resumes on July 6, the stacks are rather shallow, which means nobody is out of the running. Look out for such luminaries as Florian Duta (26,700,000), Charlie Combes (24,300,000), Wojciech Barzantny (9,700,000) and brother Daniel (17,300,000) and Caio De Almeida (6,300,000) on Day 3.
Event #68: $1,000 Million Dollar Bounty Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Smith | Canada | 50,300,000 | 63 |
| 2 | Natalie Hof | Germany | 37,200,000 | 47 |
| 3 | Paul Chauderson | United States | 31,900,000 | 40 |
| 4 | David Timmons | United States | 31,000,000 | 39 |
| 5 | Jorge Juri | Cuba | 29,600,000 | 37 |
| 6 | Quincy Borland | United States | 27,000,000 | 34 |
| 7 | Florian Duta | Romania | 26,700,000 | 33 |
| 8 | Charlie Combes | United Kingdom | 24,300,000 | 30 |
| 9 | Adam Grandmaison | United States | 20,900,000 | 26 |
| 10 | Mykhailo Lendel | United States | 20,200,000 | 25 |
In this Series
- 1 2022 WSOP Day 1: Hellmuth Noticeable Absentee as WSOP Kicks Off
- 2 2022 WSOP Day 2: First Bracelet Awarded; Ivey Records a Cash
- 3 2022 WSOP Day 3: Peters Wins Gold; Seiver Hunting For Bracelet #4
- 4 2022 WSOP Day 4: Scott Seiver & Brad Ruben Win Bracelet #4
- 5 2022 WSOP Day 5: Smith Bags 25k Heads-Up Title; Housewarming Surpasses Guarantee
- 6 2022 WSOP Day 6: Szecsi Reels in His Third Bracelet; O8 Event Needs Extra Time
- 7 2022 WSOP Day 7: Dan Smith Flying High in the $50K High Roller
- 8 2022 WSOP Day 8: Schutten Leads $50K High Roller Final Six
- 9 2022 WSOP Day 9: Diebold, Schindler, and Moncek Strike Gold
- 10 2022 WSOP Day 10: Bronshtein and Foxen On Course For Bracelets
- 11 2022 WSOP Day 11: Three New Bracelet Winners Crowned, "ElkY" and Ivey Lead $10K Stud
- 12 2022 WSOP Day 12: Two More Bracelets Won; Friedman on Fire in the $10K Stud
- 13 2022 WSOP Day 13: Friedman Makes It Five; Two Other Champs Crowned
- 14 2022 WSOP Day 14: Three New Champions; Big Names Turn Out In Force
- 15 2022 WSOP Day 15: Karakitkov On Course for $50K PLO High Roller Title
- 16 2022 WSOP Day 16: The Busiest Day Yet For Bracelets as Four Awarded
- 17 2022 WSOP Day 17: Hastings Secures His Sixth WSOP Bracelet
- 18 2022 WSOP Day 18: MILLIONAIRE MAKER Draws Thousands of Runners
- 19 2022 WSOP Day 19: Hellmuth Flying High in $10K Deuce-to-Seven
- 20 2022 WSOP Day 20: Bromfman, Stovall, and 'PmpknHead' Secure Bracelets
- 21 2022 WSOP Day 21: Ivey Denied His 11th WSOP Bracelet
- 22 2022 WSOP Day 22: $10K Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Championship Finally Concludes!
- 23 2022 WSOP Day 23: Six Events in Play, One Champion Crowned
- 24 2022 WSOP Day 24: Ivey Bags a Big Stack in the $250K Super High Roller
- 25 2022 WSOP Day 25: Foxen Leads $250k Super High Roller, First Bracelet for Cyprus
- 26 2022 WSOP Day 26: HOF Nominee Liebert's Still Got It, How Foxen Won First Bracelet
- 27 2022 WSOP Day 27: Four Bracelets Awarded as $50K PPC Kicks Off
- 28 2022 WSOP Day 28: Kenney Leads the $50,000 PPC Event
- 29 2022 WSOP Day 29: Dzivielevski Leads the $50K PPC; Three Bracelets Awarded
- 30 2022 WSOP Day 30: The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
- 31 2022 WSOP Day 31: Cates Crowned PPC Champ on a Crazy Day of Action
- 32 2022 WSOP Day 32: Eli Elezra Wins Again, Hellmuth Chasing a Bracelet
- 33 2022 WSOP Day 33: Phil Hellmuth Denied 17th Bracelet; Jackson, Barbero & Teusl Victorious
- 34 2022 WSOP Day 34: The Main Event Shuffles Up and Deals!
- 35 2022 WSOP Day 35: Another Huge Day of Main Event Action
- 36 2022 WSOP Day 36: Clarke Leads Main Event; Glantz Banks a Milly
- 37 2022 WSOP Day 37: Vaughn Kicks Off Huge Main Event Flight
- 38 2022 WSOP Day 38: Gavin Munroe Leads After Day 2abc of the Main Event
- 39 2022 WSOP Day 39: Bryn Kenney Among Top Stacks After Day 2d of Main Event
- 40 2022 WSOP Day 40: Main Event Enters the Money, Six Former Champs Still In
- 41 2022 WSOP Day 41: Taylor von Kriegenbergh Leads the Main Event Into Day 5
- 42 2022 WSOP Day 42: Audacious Bluff Puts Lococo Over 10M in the Main Event
- 43 2022 WSOP Day 43: Main Event Field Reduced to Only 35
- 44 2022 WSOP Day 44: Main Event Reaches Its Final Table
- 45 2022 WSOP Day 45: Colpoys Claims Chip Lead in the $50K High Roller
- 46 2022 WSOP Day 46: Jorstad Leads the Main Event Final Three; Vieira Claims Second Bracelet
- 47 2022 WSOP Day 47: Jorstad Crowned Main Event Champion as 2022 WSOP Nears End
- 48 2022 WSOP Day 48: Series Begins Wrapping Up; Five Champions Crowned
- 49 2022 WSOP Day 49: Cowen Leads the Tournament of Champions
- 50 2022 WSOP Day 50: Woof Leads Final 16 in the Tournament of Champions
