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WSOP Main Event kicked off, a player in the first hand bumped into Quads and busted out
The WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas, with its traditional $10,000 buy-in, kicked off last night with a speech from WSOP Vice President Jack Effel and the proverbial "Shuffle up and deal" that players heard from last year's Main Event champion Daniel Weinman.
The very first level brought in over 540 entries and after five 120-minute levels, the Fligh 1A entry count stood at 916. More than 1,100 players qualified for the Main Event through various online qualifiers. If one of the qualifiers wins, the organizers will add an additional $1,000,000 to that achievement.
From the first flighter, 620 players will go on to compete, and among them are names such as Faraz Jaka, Greg Merson, Felipe Ramos, Qui Nguyen, Jonathan Little, Michael Mizrachi, Barny Boatman, Alexander Tkatschew, Leonard Maue, Jerry Yang, Aleksejs Ponakovs, Phil Galfond, Parker Talbot and Bin Weng.
Will they manage to break last year's record?
This is the question that every player, every media outlet and every member of the WSOP organizing team is currently asking themselves. Last year, a new record was finally set with 10,043 entries, representing a record prizepool of $93,399,900. The then-record $12,100,000 prize for the winner ended up in the hands of Daniel Weinman.
So far, most WSOP tournaments have surpassed their last year's numbers, so it's quite likely that this year's Main Event will attack the 11,000-entry mark. However, we won't know if we will see a new record until Day 2D, which will be the last day with possible late registration. This will still be possible for the first two levels of the day. However, Day 2D won't take place until July 8, so we'll have to wait for the final numbers.
This is definitely not what you want to experience at the WSOP Main Event
The Main Event is a pure freezeout, so you only have one chance to turn your one buy-in into a fabulous prize and worldwide fame. That's exactly why you definitely don't want to bust out on the first hand of the first hand. However, that's what happened to two players yesterday.
The first unlucky player is Travis Darroch, who has dreamed of playing this tournament since he was sixteen years old. Yesterday he finally made it but what happened to him was definitely not what he dreamed of. He hit a full house on the board on the very first hand, and got into an all-in call situation against David Williamson. However, David hit the board with his pocket eights and Travis was eliminated from the tournament.
We asked @TJDarroch how he busted in the VERY FIRST HAND 🤯 of the $10,000 @WSOP Main Event!!
- PokerNews (@PokerNews) July 3, 2024
Could you have found a way to survive here? Or are you always going bust!?? 👀 pic.twitter.com/05BIjO8ABZ
The other unlucky player was Craig Issod, who flopped a set of sixes. However, those weren't enough for Harlan Karnofsky's straight, which he hit after laying out a full board. Issod was the second player yesterday to bust on the first hand, and his journey through the Main Event came to an abrupt end.
You have a chance to win a WSOP bracelet
To get the coveted WSOP bracelet, you have to win one of the tournaments or buy the bracelet. And that's exactly what the WSOP Paradise Main Event winner Stanislav Zegal is now offering everyone.
Stanislav has decided to auction off his handmade 95 gram, 10 karat gold bracelet studded with 494 topaz stones on eBay. The starting bid is $17,500 and completely all of the proceeds from the sale will go to GiveDirectly, a charity that allows donors to send money directly to people in poverty without any restrictions. The auction ends on July 9.
Source - pokernews, poker.org, wsop, twitter