2019 WSOP Day 19: Mash and De Silva Win Bracelets

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.

Well again @WSOPTD makes an awful ruling to fuck be over think both players abused the system to increase their own equity while we were outside after the proper ruling was made no one wants short day 3s and day 4s in small events that obvious from twitter

— slovesthepoy (@shaundeeb) June 17, 2019

Can we all just agree that it's stupid to bag w 5 players left at 7pm on a Day 3 in a $10k event that's not going to be streamed anyway?

5 hrs of play today & stop because the structure sheet says 4 days.

Rules are the rules, but common sense needs to always override the rules.

— Matt Glantz (@MattGlantz) June 17, 2019

For the 2nd year in a row, there will be a day 4 in the 10k DC. I will try and finish the job.

— Ada❌ Fried❌an (@AdamFriedman119) June 17, 2019