The World Series of Poker Super Main Event stage and 2024 tournament event area at Atlantis Resort, … [+]
The World Series of Poker Paradise Super Main Event reached the payout stage late Monday night with 207 players remaining and In the Money of the big $50 million No-Limit Hold’em tournament. Those players, along with 90 online qualifyers, advanced to Day 3 Tuesday of the $25,000 entry event. As play concluded late Tuesday evening 36 players remained from the original 1,978 entries, leaving the Super Main Event prize pool just short of $50 million guarantee.
The last hand of Day 3 Tuesday night ended with a player busting with pocket Aces (AA) against a flopped set of queens (QQ). Another player minutes earlier busted with pocket Kings (KK) when he shoved all-in pre-flop for 11-times the big blind only to be called by the inital raiser, who called with A-J and flopped an Ace.
Phil Hellmuth Busts On The Bubble
Poker can be pretty tough sometimes, and even the best players often feel upset after a loss they feel was unfair, or when things don’t seem to be on their side. It can become more frustrating as the stakes and blinds rise in tournament poker. Even the pre-flop nuts of pocket Aces, or desired pocket Kings get taken out as noted above in key spots in the tournament.
But Phil Hellmuth busted on the stone bubble in 208th place Monday night as he grinded through the late stages of Day 2 nearing the money payouts. The all-time leading WSOP gold bracelet winner (17) had patiently waited for a premium holding while folding as the tournament director counted down the hand-for-hand stage starting with 217 players remaining.
Just a few hands from the big blind and having his remaining chips at risk, Hellmuth went all-in for his last 200,000 to a player on his right raise to 200,000 and the big blind call. Hellmuth had A-K with the King of clubs and the flop brought three clubs (Q-5-2), turn 10 of hearts and river 7 of diamonds. Hellmuth failed to improve and was eliminated in 208th place on the stone bubble as the raiser rivered a 7 for a pair holding 6-7 hearts with the big blind 3-4.
Phil Hellmuth, standing in black clothes, talks to World Series of Poker reporter and commentator … [+]
End of Day 3 Chip Counts
Just 36 players remain in the Super Main Event and return to start Day 4 Wednesday at 12 p.m. ET. It’s now Level 27 with blinds 400,000/800,000 and an 800,000 big blind ante and the blinds going up every hour. The 36 remaining players have all secured at least $140,900 in prize money, and will play down to the final table starting Thursday.
The top-10 chip counts are currently led by Australian Michael Addamo, who won the biggest pot of the night on the final level late Tuesday. Addamo flopped the nut flush on an all diamond board. The pre-flop raiser had pocket Aces (AA) and flopped top set. He jammed $37 million chips all-in on the flop, and Addamo called and his flush held to win a monster pot.
Addamo will start Day 4 with more than 85 million chips (107 big blinds).
- Michael Addamo (Australia) – 85,350,000 chips
- Marcelo Aziz (Brazil) – 60,000,000
- Pablo Melogno (Uruguay) – 54,325,000
- Christopher Nguyen (Austria) – 49,350,000
- Yinan Zhou (China) – 49,000,000
- Sirzat Hissou (Germany) – 39,275,000
- Ren Lin (China) – 37,850,000
- Joonhee Yea (South Korea) – 36,400,000
- Sebastian Toro (Columbia) – 36,250,000
- Chris Moneymaker (United States) – 34,000,000
Other notable players and pros remaining with chip counts include U.S. players Chris Klodnicki (30,625,000), Justin Bonomo (22,450,000), Lou Garza (13,125,000), along with Matthias Eibinger (25,350,000), Sorel Mizzi (14,225,000), Liv Boeree (11,875000), Mustapha Kanit (9,400,000), this summer’s heads-up champion Darius Samual (8,700,000), Christoph Vogelsang (8,400,000) and Rainer Kempe (7,200,000).
Other Poker News live reporting and notable players who busted on Day 3 included Scott Seiver (286th), Felipe Ramos (244th), Santhosh Suvarna (240th), Timoth Adams (233rd), Triton Million winner Alejandro Lococo (225th), Kristen Foxen (210th), Nacho Barbero (204th), chess streamer Alexandra Botez (187th), John Juanda (171st), GGPoker ambassador and vlogger Daniel Negreanu (170th), Erik Seidel (161st), David Peters (158th), Alex Foxen (135th), defending WSOP Super Main Event champion Stanislav Zegal (127th), Chris Brewer (109th), and Adrian Mateos (103rd). Poker commentator Nick Schulman (92nd), Stephen chidwick (86th), Chris Hunichen (84th), and Darren Elias (58th) finished inside the top-100 with six-figure scores starting top-75.
Chris Moneymaker, facing black shirt, at Day 3 of the 2024 WSOP Super Main Event in Atlantis … [+]
Moneymaker Effect
Just last summer, the WSOP in Las Vegas marked the 20-year anniversary of the Moneymaker Effect. The 2003 WSOP Main Event was won by an unlikely amateur named Chris Moneymaker, and the poker boom was created. Now Chris Moneymaker is in the top-10 chip counts of the WSOP Super Main Event, and leading all U.S. players in chip stacks into Day 4.
Final Table
You can follow WSOP.com and Poker News for live updates throughout the Super Main Event and WSOP Paradise with Final Table updates in this WSOP Paradise tracker for the Super Main Event. The winner will receive $6 million plus a specially designed gold bracelet by Jostens. Eight players will take home at least $1 million.
The featured table(s) of the WSOP Paradise Super Main Event are on the underwater themed main stage and will be televised for the Final Table on Thursday, Dec. 19.
The WSOP Paradise event at the world class Atlantis Resort has been most popular in its second year. It’s a dream destination for high stakes players as GGPoker and the new ownership group of WSOP raise the brands profile globally.
You can bet on it.
MORE FROM FORBES