Only Three New Events Remain This Summer: $1,500 The Closer is One of Them
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Today marks the start of Day 1a of Event #97: $1,500 The Closer No-Limit Hold'em, a two-day tournament that allows unlimited reentries. Day 1a starts at 10 a.m. local time on July 14. Players sit down armed with 50,000 chips and play 30-minute levels throughout. Twenty-minute breaks are scheduled every four levels and a 75-minute dinner break is pencilled in after the 12th level (around 4:40 p.m. local time). Late registration remains open until the end of the dinner break. Day 1b follows the same format, starting at 10 a.m. local time on Tuesday, July 15.
Payouts begin on each Day 1 when they get down to about 15 percent of the field, so all players returning for Day 2 will be in the money.
Day 2 gets going at 11 a.m. local time on July 16, and continues until only one player remains. Breaks will be every two hours and they'll take a dinner break before the final table begins.
Ching Da Wu, a software engineer, outlasted 3,214 opponents in the 2024 edition of this fast-paced event. The Taiwanese grinder banked $525,500 and his first WSOP bracelet.
2024 $1,500 The Closer No-Limit Hold'em Final Table Results
| Place | Player | County | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ching Da Wu | Taiwan | $525,500 |
| 2 | Mario Colavita | Italy | $350,370 |
| 3 | Bogdan Munteanu | Romania | $261,170 |
| 4 | John Racener | United States | $196,170 |
| 5 | Stanislav Zegal | Germany | $148,480 |
| 6 | Michael Baltierra | United States | $113,270 |
| 7 | David Cabrera Polop | Andorra | $87,080 |
| 8 | Chad Lipton | United States | $67,480 |
| 9 | Luis Yepez | Venezuela | $52,705 |
| 10 | Mike Matusow | United States | $41,500 |
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