The $1,000 buy-in WSOP Ladies Event brought in 1,245 entries this year, 50 fewer than last year. The prizepool stood at $1,095,600 and a $171,732 prize awaited the winner.
There were 6 players in the final day and they were led by American Jamie Kerstetter. Right behind her with the second largest stack was Japan's Shiina Okamoto, who finished second in this tournament last year despite going into the final day as the chipleader.
Neither of the finalists had a WSOP bracelet yet. Both of the aforementioned ladies also made it to the final heads-up. The winner here was Shiina Okamoto, who earned her coveted first bracelet after finishing second last year. Shiina has only been playing tournament poker since 2021, and in that time she has already managed to amass live tournament winnings worth almost $470,000. Last year, she took home $118,768 from the Ladies event.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shiina Okamoto | Japan | $171,732 |
| 2 | Jamie Kerstetter | United States | $114,479 |
| 3 | Ceci Liao | United States | $81,573 |
| 4 | Linda Durden | United States | $58,910 |
| 5 | Mor Kamber | Israel | $43,125 |
| 6 | Cecile Ticherfatine | France | $32,007 |
| 7 | Susan Bluer | United States | $24,090 |
| 8 | Haruna Fujita | Japan | $18,390 |
| 9 | Andrea Sager | United States | $14,242 |
Brian Rast on his way to a seventh bracelet
Event number 73 is the $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha (8-Handed), which brought in 476 entries and a prizepool of $11,186,000. A prize of $2,246,728 awaits the winner here.
The top 5 players will battle it out for that amount tonight. They are led by David Eldridge with a stack of up to 23,400,000. However, WSOP Hall of Fame member Brian Rast will also be playing in the final table as he looks to claim his seventh bracelet. All of the finalists already have at least $524,911 in the bag.
| Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|
| Ethan Cahn | United States | 17,550,000 |
| Yang Wang | China | 12,250,000 |
| Brian Rast | United States | 9,450,000 |
| David Eldridge | United States | 23,400,000 |
| Juha Helppi | Finland | 8,775,000 |
Tony Dunst wins third bracelet
WPT Series commentator Tony Dunst played online bracelet event number 15 during the night, which was the $500 NLH Deepstack with 2,435 entries. A $134,887 prize awaited the winner here.
Tony played here under the nickname "Panoramic" and paid the tournament buy-in twice. The move paid off as he was the winner of this tournament, earning him his third WSOP bracelet. He won his first bracelet in 2016 in a live tournament and added a second in 2020 from an online tournament.
Stayed up late and secured bracelet number three in tonight's Online $500! pic.twitter.com/aOcQni2xXV
- TonyDunstTV (@tonydunsttv) July 1, 2024
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