All the Stud Hi-Lo Action You Can Handle Starts at 2 p.m.
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Today will see the start of Event #69: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better at 2 p.m. local time here at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas, with starting stacks of 25,000 chips. Registration will remain open until the start of Level 10 at about 8:45 p.m. No reentries are allowed.
Day 1 is slated to play 15 levels of 40 minutes each, with 15-minute breaks every three levels. There will not be a dinner break.
On Day 2, Thursday, June 26, at 1 p.m., there will be another 10 levels before bagging, but this time, the levels will last 60 minutes with breaks after every two and there will be a 60-minute dinner break starting at about 7:30 p.m. following Level 21. Day 3 will play until a winner is determined.
Last year, Nikolay Fal battled his way to victory in this event and collected $153,730 in the process. He bested a field of 611 entrants to secure the gold bracelet.
2024 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikolay Fal | Russia | $153,730 |
| 2 | Christian Roberts | Venezuela | $102,492 |
| 3 | Joseph Hertzog | United States | $70,288 |
| 4 | Kenneth Kemple | United States | $49,127 |
| 5 | Dekel Balas | United States | $35,006 |
| 6 | Yuval Bronshtein | Israel | $25,442 |
| 7 | Nikolay Ponomarev | United Kingdom | $18,866 |
| 8 | Jon Turner | United States | $14,280 |
| 9 | Joey Couden | United States | $11,038 |
Winner's Reaction
"I'm very happy to win a bracelet in Stud Hi-Lo," said Fal, before specifying that stud "is my favorite game."
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