The WSOP Festival in Las Vegas has reached its halfway point. There are now just over 50 tournaments out of 99 total. We'll take a look at the results of the night's tournaments today.

Kabrhel chipleader in WSOP Monster Stack, Hellmuth battles for 18th bracelet

The100k High Roller has a winner
 

The $100,000 NLH High Roller produced 112 entries and a prizepool worth $10,932,750, with a prize of $2,838,389 awaiting the winner. Names such as Orpen Kisacikoglu, Nick Petrangelo, Andrew Lichtenberger, Justin Bonomo and Isaac Haxton entered the fray for that amount. However, none of them made it to the final day among the top 6 players.

However, there was no shortage of star names here either. The chipleader here was Viktor Blom, who was complemented by Chance Kornuth, Aleksejs Ponakovs, Justin Saliba, Jeremy Ausmus and Chris Hunichen. Of that lineup, only Viktor Blom and Chris Hunichen had no bracelet yet, but Viktor Blom was the closest to it.

Viktor was the 50k HR chipleader a few days ago and so was also close to a bracelet. However, back then he finished in third place with a prize of $951,727. It was no different during the night. Viktor took third place again, but now it was worth $1,311,091.

Chris Hunichen and Jeremy Ausmus were pitted against each other in the final heads-up. The final day was marked by two- and three-outers that tripped up Hunichen. Although it looked like Ausmus was going to be a clear winner, everything turned around in the end, and the winner was Hunichen, for whom it was the first bracelet and the biggest win of his career.

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Just to conclude on this tournament, Daniel Negreanu also played in it, and he missed two shots here, both of which unluckily ran into his opponent's AA.

In the 10k H.O.R.S.E. tournament, Benny Glaser fought for the bracelet

Event #45: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship (8-Handed) brought 181 entries and a prizepool of $1,683,300, with $399,988 awaiting the winner here. Benny Glaser came closest to that one and was nicely on his way to his sixth bracelet.

Only 5 players entered the third day of play here and it was Benny Glaser who led the way, with Steve Zolotow, Lawrence Brandt, Mike Leah and Maksim Pisarenko rounding out the field. Pisarenko was the only player here without a bracelet.

Quite unexpectedly, Benny was the first to bust out of this lineup, finishing in fifth place for $93,094. The tournament had to be suspended in heads-up play and will resume tonight. Maksim Pisarenko and Mike Leah (5,145,000) will meet for the bracelet, with Pisarenko the chipleader with a stack of 5,720,000.

Martin Kabrhel missed the chiplead

To conclude the article, we'll take a look at the $1,500 Monster Stack NLH with 8,703 entries and a prizepool of $11,619,840, where $1,098,220 awaited the winner and Martin Kabrhel was the chipleader on the fourth day of play here.

He had been building up his stack early in the day and was consolidating his position as chipleader, so it looked like we'd see him in the final table as well. However, poker is unforgiving and Martin ended up finishing in 26th place with a reward of $46,448. Even Joao Simao (22nd place) finished better than him, going into Day 4 with the second-fewest chips.

The top 7 players went into the final day. Their chipleader was Pedro Neves, who didn't let the chance to win his first bracelet slip away. He became the champion and put his prized WSOP bracelet on his hand. Of course, he also bagged the full amount for the winner.

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