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The WSOP Main Event continued with flight 1B, with former champions also advancing
Triple Crown winner back in the game
Do you still remember the name Jake Cody? He's the player who in 2011 became the youngest person to win the Triple Crown, a title he won at the EPT, WPT and WSOP. But he wasn't just the youngest, he was also the fastest, taking just one year, 4 months and 11 days to get there. Cody went on to win the EPT Deauville, the WPT London Poker Classic and the WSOP $25,000 Heads-Up Championship.
2018 is the last year he played a WSOP tournament and specifically it was the Main Event back then. Now Cody is back after all these years, straight on his 36th birthday, to play the Main Event once again. As Cody himself put it, he rarely plays tournaments anymore and only focuses on cash games, mainly in Florida and Macau. Cody's live tournament winnings are worth more than $4.5 million.
Another player lasted just one hand in the Main Event
The $10,000 buy-in WSOP Main Event played its Flight 1B yesterday, with WSOP Vice President Jack Effel once again opening the event. He also welcomed former 2004 Main Event winner Greg Raymer to the opening ceremony. Greg was the one who announced "Shuffle up and deal" to the players in this flighter .
The very first level brought more than 570 players into play and after five levels the entries counter read 831, down from Flighty 1A, of which 616 players made it through to the next day, including names such as Erik Seidel, Niko Koop, Hossein Ensan, Niklas Astedt, Dan Shak, Koray Aldemir, Anthony Zinno, Jake Cody, Patrick Leonard, Armin Rezaei, and Rainer Kempe.
First cashout and straight win
The $50,000 PLO High Roller with 187 entries and a prizepool of $8,929,250 had its final day on the schedule yesterday. Of the total prizepool, $2,100,325 was waiting for the winner. There were 5 players who advanced to the final day and only one of them was without a gold bracelet. That was Germany's Daniel Perkusic, who entered the final table from 3rd place with a stack of 12,150,000. The chipleader was Danny Tang with a stack of 20,725,000. The smallest stack here was Santhosh Suvarna (4,850,000).
And it was Santhosh who was the first to bust out of the final table. He took home $503,085. Daniel Perkusic and Danny Tang made it to the final heads-up where Perkusic was the chipleader. However, the chiplead lost after a while, but after several small wins, Perkusic gradually regained the lead. In the final hand, the German player hit a full house on the board to become the new WSOP champion. The win earned him his first bracelet and $2,100,325 in prize money, the highest payday of his career and the first WSOP cashout.
On a final note, WSOP Hall of Fame member Brian Rast also made the final table, but he didn't make it to the final day as he finished in 8th place.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Perkusic | Germany | $2,100,325 |
| 2 | Danny Tang | Hong Kong | $1,400,217 |
| 3 | Jim Collopy | United States | $973,882 |
| 4 | Ronald Keijzer | Netherlands | $692,232 |
| 5 | Santhosh Suvarna | India | $503,085 |
| 6 | Gabriel Andrade | Ecuador | $374,020 |
| 7 | David Benyamine | France | $284,604 |
| 8 | Brian Rast | United States | $221,778 |
Source - wsop.com, pokernews