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Event #54: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1b Completed
2024 World Series of Poker
Event #54: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
Event Info
2024 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$14,603,565
Total Entries
10,939
Level
44
Blinds
2,000,000 / 4,000,000
Ante
4,000,000
Entries
3,721
Players Left
834
Players Left 1 / 10,939
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Day 1b of Event #54: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em garnered 3,721 entries bringing the total for the event up to 6,523.
This puts the current prize pool at $8,708,205. There is only more Day 1 flight left to play out in this five-day event, so Day 1c will have to be even bigger than today, if it is to beat last year's record-setting turnout of 10,430 entries. Expectations are high!
Ye Yuan (875,000) is the new chip leader, replacing Day 1a chip leader Ori Elul (673,500) at the top of the leaderboard. Elul was only bumped one spot to second place.
The pair head up a running total of 1,429 survivors who have a bag for Day 2.
Some more notables joined that roster for Day 2 today, among them were Brian Yoon (231,500 ), Max Neugebauer (227,500), Natural8 ambassador Kannapong Thanarattrakul (207,500), Chris Moorman (189,000), 2015 Main Event champion Joe McKeehen (163,000), Maria Ho (140,500), Kenny Hallaert (114,000), Kathy Liebert (85,000), Mike Matusow (41,500), Ryan Riess (30,000).
Millionaire Maker Top Ten Chip Counts
| Position | Player | Country | Chipstack | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ye Yuan | China | 875,000 | 350 |
| 2 | Ori Elul | Austria | 673,500 | 269 |
| 3 | Xiaoyun Li | China | 660,000 | 264 |
| 4 | Muaaz Gani | United States | 615,000 | 246 |
| 5 | Philip Verel | United States | 573,000 | 229 |
| 6 | Kyle Ho | Canada | 465,000 | 186 |
| 7 | Justin Belforti | United States | 453,500 | 181 |
| 8 | Timur Margolin | Israel | 398,000 | 159 |
| 9 | Jeremy Surinach | France | 385,000 | 154 |
| 10 | Brett Apter | United States | 373,500 | 149 |
Day 1c will kick off at 10 a.m. local time on Sunday, June 23. Play will continue for 11 levels of 60 minutes each. There will be a 20-minute break after every two levels and 75-minute dinner break after Level 8 (around 7 p.m.).
The survivors of all three Day 1 flights will return for Day 2 at 11 a.m. local time on Monday, June 24, when PokerNews will pick up its traditional live coverage. Blinds will be 1,000/2,500 with a 2,500 big blind ante.
940,000
845,000
Table 42Seat 5
Life Outside Poker is a new podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.
In the eighth episode, Connor speaks with legendary UFC ring announcer Bruce Buffer in an exclusive in-depth interview after Buffer's deep run in the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $50,000 High Roller. Buffer, a longtime poker player, finished in eighth place for a career-best $212,423 after kicking off Day 3 with his trademark "it's time" introduction.
Buffer talked about finding his long-lost half-brother, Michael Buffer, and becoming his manager, the early days of the UFC, the similarities between poker and martial arts, his relationships with Joe Rogan and Dana White, playing poker with Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio and the time he injured himself in a poker tournament before announcing the biggest UFC fight in history.
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145,800
9,900
Tbl 3 seat 5
135,900
34,300
Tbl 207 seat 5
Earlier this year on an ordinary Monday afternoon, a bespectacled man walked into the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop on Las Vegas Blvd. Tucked under his arm was an uninteresting box that only he knew contained something rather interesting – a pair of gold watches dating back more than 40 years.
These were not your run-of-the-mill wristwear, but rather evidence of a unique and often overlooked time of poker history, a year when the World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet, now the game’s highest accolade, was replaced in favor of watches.
The man holding the box was David Sklansky, who in 1978 forever changed poker by advocating a mathematical approach to the game in his groundbreaking book The Theory of Poker. Nicknamed “The Mathematician,” he proved his prowess just four years later when he won two WSOP tournaments in five days.
First, he won the 1982 WSOP Event #7: $800 Mixed Doubles Limit Seven Card Stud, a tournament that paired one man with one woman, alongside Dani Kelly, and followed that up by taking down Event #12: $1,000 Limit 5-Card Draw High. A year later, the Binions reverted back to the beloved bracelets players know today, and Sklansky captured his third piece of WSOP hardware by winning Event #11: $1,000 Limit Omaha.
It was a remarkable accomplishment, and for more than four decades he’s kept safe the evidence of his victories, both of which still worked. So, why was Sklansky carrying his 1982 WSOP gold watches, two of only 15 ever awarded, into a pawn shop? Well, he was looking to sell them of course, but not to just any of the dozens of pawn shops spread across Las Vegas. Oh no, he was walking into arguably the most famous pawn shop in the world, the home to the wildly popular television show Pawn Stars, and he was there to do it with cameras rolling.
Read all about the 1982 WSOP watches here in our feature article!
Busted
Table 25Seat 8
Ak vs KJ the other way
63,000
Table 440Seat 9
Flopped a flush but got beaten by a straight flush on the river. Raised a 6k bet on turn to 18k,
player utg did’t believe me and called with only 10k behind 😳
Goodnight. See you Monday!