2019 WSOP Day 19: Mash and De Silva Win Bracelets

Written by Jennifer Newell

Last updated on June 17th, 2019

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Sunday served up a one-day online tournament, the end of the Seniors Championship, and a little controversy, all in a day’s work at the Rio. On Sunday, June 16, this is what happened at the 50^th Annual World Series of Poker.

Event 32:  $1K Seniors NLHE – Final

Total entries:  5,917 Prize pool:  $5,325,300 Players paid:  888 Final table payouts: 1^st place:  Howard Mash (USA) – $662,594 2^nd place:  Jean Fontaine (France) - $409,249 3^rd place:  James Mcnurlan (USA) - $303,705 4^th place:  Adam Richardson (USA) - $226,996 5^th place:  Donald Matusow (USA) - $170,887 6^th place:  Farhad Jamasi (USA) - $129,582 7^th place:  Samir Husaynue (USA) - $98,981 8^th place:  Mike Lisanti (Canada) - $76,165 9^th place:  Mansour Alipourfard (USA) – 59,044

Event 34:  $1K Double Stack NLHE – Day 2 of 6

Total entries:  6,214 Prize pool:  $5,592,600 Players paid:  933 Minimum payout:  $1,499 Winner payout:  $687,782 Day 2 players remaining:  359 Chip leader:  Arianna Son (USA) – 2,363,000 chips Day 3 starting time:  12noon

Event 35:  $10K Dealer’s Choice 6-Handed – Day 3 of 4

Total entries:  122 Prize pool:  $1,146,800 Players paid:  19 Minimum payout:  $14,818 Winner payout:  $312,417 Day 2 players remaining:  5 Final table chip counts: Shaun Deeb (USA) – 2,601,000 chips Adam Friedman (USA) – 1,898,000 chips Matt Glantz (USA) – 1,401,000 chips Michael McKenna (USA) – 1,038,000 chips David Moskowitz (USA) – 382,000 chips Final table payouts thus far: 6^th place:  Nick Schulman (USA) - $52,656 Day 4 starting time: 12noon

Event 36:  $3K NLHE Shootout – Day 2 of 3

Total entries:  313 Prize pool:  $845,100 Players paid:  40 Minimum payout:  $6,099 Winner payout:  $207,193 Day 2 players remaining:  10 Final table chip counts: Jan Lakota (Slovenia) – 623,000 chips Ben Farrell (UK) – 621,000 chips David Lambard (USA) – 621,000 chips Andrew Lichtenberger (USA) – 614,000 chips Alexandru Papazian (Romania) – 609,000 chips Adrien Delmas (France) – 609,000 chips Martin Zamani (USA) – 601,000 chips Weiyi Zhang (China) – 599,000 chips Johan Guilbert (France) – 599,000 chips Justin Bonomo (USA) – 591,000 chips Day 3 starting time:  12noon

Event 37:  $800 NLHE Deep Stack – Day 1 of 3

Total entries:  2,808 Prize pool:  $1,999,296 Players paid:  422 Minimum payout:  $1,185 Winner payout:  $297,537 Day 1 players remaining:  671 Chip leader:  Jose Brito (Portugal) – 776,000 chips Day 2 starting time:  12noon

Event 38:  $600 Online Knockout Bounty NLHE - Final

Total entries:  1,224 Prize pool:  $550,800 Players paid:  207 Minimum payout:  $661 Final table payouts: 1^st place:  Upeshka “gomezhamburg” de Silva (USA) - $98,262.72 2^nd place:  David “dave419” Nodes (USA) - $60,092.28 3^rd place:  “davidas777” (USA) - $42,962.40 4^th place:  “Pretabotones (Spain) - $31,065.12 5^th place:  “Turko” (Turkey) - $22,748.04 6^th place:  “p.bateman (USA) - $16,854.48 7^th place:  “johnsonck” (USA) - $12,668.40 8^th place:  “B3ndTheKnee (USA) - $9,583.92 9^th place:  “BoatyBoatz8A (USA) - $7,380.72

Notable Information

It approximately 11 hours, Event 38 started and finished online. And a familiar name was the last player standing, as Upeshka De Silva won his third WSOP bracelet (his first online). The Sri Lanka native and US resident already made a live WSOP final table this summer, but with the online win, he claimed his third career bracelet and close to $100K in cash. The Seniors Championship was a massive event this year, and Event 32 played out yesterday with Howard Mash dominating through several days of play. The American financial advisor was the chip leader at the end of Day 2 and Day 3, and he used his years of poker experience to pull out the win against a tough French opponent during heads-up play. Mash calls poker “a hobby…but a pretty serious hobby” and just barely made the age qualification for this tournament when he turned 50 last month. The win came at a good time. “I had a bad year last year personally,” he said, “and this totally makes up for it. I’m in shock. It’s like a dream come true for me.” Over in the $10K Dealer’s Choice Championship, there was controversy. The tournament played down to the final table of six and continued. When only five players remained, they went on a break thinking they would play on afterward to complete seven levels for the day. However, WSOP Tournament Supervisor Dennis Jones spoke to WSOP VP Jack Effel, and they decided play would stop for the night. Adam Friedman and Michael McKenna both wanted that to happen, but Shaun Deeb and Matt Glantz were none too happy with the decision. The discussion became heated and players continued it on Twitter, but players stopped with five remaining. It should be noted that Friedman is aiming to defend his title in this event on Monday, and Deeb is working to pick up his fifth career bracelet. https://twitter.com/shaundeeb/status/1140449930978312197 https://twitter.com/MattGlantz/status/1140486487814750208 https://twitter.com/AdamFriedman119/status/1140457152559009792