Just a few days ago, we informed you that the smooth running of the WSOP is beginning to be disrupted by the growing incidence of COVID, which has already taken down several professionals, led by Phil Hellmuth. Because of this threat the spectators and fans were not happy about the legendary Doyle Brunson, who, despite his age (88 years), grinded a few events last year and had the same plan this year. However, since he has a long-term sick wife at home and also protects his own health, he has decided not to participate in WSOP 2022 due to growing numbers (at least not yet).
looks like covid is everywhere at the WSOP. I'm gonna have to miss some tournaments I wanted to play but there are 2 unvaccinated in my house.
— Doyle Brunson (@TexDolly) June 11, 2022
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Let's move on, many of you remember the curious case three years ago, when a drunken player showed up at the WSOP Main Event, blindly put down his pants after all-in, then threw his shoes on the table and finally danced naked on the dice table. The current year has not seen such a thing yet, but Canadian professional Alex Livingston took care of an equally interesting story.
After a dominant performance in the ninth event ($1,500 Seven Card Stud), he received his first bracelet, allong which he also collected a bonus of $103,292. There would be nothing special about it if Alex didn't lose his bracelet just minutes after receiving it.
Lost my bracelet within 20 minutes of receiving it. Do I wish this was a joke? Yes. Is this a joke? No. Have o8 day 2 restart now, lmk if anyone finds it. Possibly at the coffee place at Paris entrance
— Alex Livingston (@rumnchess) June 8, 2022
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As you can see, Alex lost the bracelet somewhere along the way in the hurry for the next event, and asked everyone for help and also promised a financial reward. Fortunately, the story turned out well, the security guards found the bracelet and returned it to the lucky winner.
Just a few days ago, Scott Seiver became the champion in the third event ($2,500 NLH Freezout), improving his resume with fourth bracelet and $320,059 bonus. This success obviously got him going and so on the 24th event he showed something unseen - he paid the entry fee to the tournament 43 times! The unique format of the Flip & Go tournament takes place in a way where each player is dealt three cards, all of whom must automatically wait for flop and discard one of their cards. Then the turn and river are shown and in the showdown the winner advances to the ITM, where the tournament is already played in the classic way. All losers can re-enter and try their luck again, which was exactly what Seiver tried 43 times. So the result? He never managed to advance to ITM!
As for the other bracelets handed out, perhaps the most resounding name of the past days has been Adam Friedman, whom you can remember from last year when he struck Phil Hellmuth's record 17th bracelet in the final heads-up of the $10k Dealer Choice event. This year, Friedman starred in the 22nd Event, which was the $10k Seven Card Stud Championship, where he found no conqueror among the 96 players and took home $248,254 and the fifth bracelet to bring him into the group of only thirty players who have at least 5 of these braceletes on their resume.
In the end, we can't forget abot the result of the 23rd event, which was $3,000 Limit Hold'em. The three-day battle of 213 entries gradually crowned its champion, who became home player Jeremy Ausmus. Thanks to this triumph, he improved his winnings by $142,147 allong with a fourth bracelet, thanks to which he became one of the elite 64 lucky four-bracelet owners.
Source: WSOP.com, PokerStrategy.com, PokerNews.com
