The WSOP's record-breaking $10,000 Main Event, with 10,043 entries and a prizepool of more than $93 million, where $12.1 million awaits the winner, moves into its seventh day of play tonight. Before that, though, we'll take a brief look at the action on Day 6.
149 players entered the sixth day of play, of which 100 players heard the seat-open and 49 players will look to Day 7 to fight fo the title. The chipleader here is Joshua Payne with a stack of 47,950,000 and he will be accompanied by the likes of Tim Van Loo (21,700,000), Jan-Peter Jachtmann (14,975,000) and Maurice Hawkins (4,475,000), all of whom have at least $188,400 in the bag. Play will start tonight in the blinds at 125k/250k/250k.
John Racener (53rd - $188,400), Tony Dunst (66th - $130,300), Ludovic Geilich (76th - $109,400), Nate Silver (87th - $92,600) and Nicholas Rigby ($67,700) were all eliminated during the last night.
.@GTO_Diaper’s @WSOP Main Event run comes to a crushing end on the river in Day 6, with JJ cracked by a rivered straight to send Rigby home.
— PokerNews (@PokerNews) July 12, 2023
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Even last night wasn't short of brutal hands on the TV table, where you could see, for example, such a set vs set clash!
A brutal end for @NateSilver538 who goes set under set against Henry Chan to be eliminated from the 2023 @WSOP Main Event.
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) July 13, 2023
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Finally, we have one more interesting news. Josh Arieh won his sixth bracelet of the night and he did it in the H.O.R.S.E. HR with a buy-in of $25,000, a prizepool of $2,632,000 and 112 entries. In the final table, he had to contend with names like Joao Vieira, Mike Matusow, John Hannigan and Scott Seiver. Josh Arieh was able to hold his own against them and won his second bracelet during this WSOP, adding $711,313 to his account here.
Source: Pokernews, WSOP, Twitter
