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2019 WSOP Day 7: Big 50 Makes History

Written by Jennifer Newell
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The numbers have been revealed. The Big 50 did, in fact, make history. It had the most total number of tournament entries at 28,371. It had 17,970 unique entries, setting a new WSOP record by beating the 2017 Colossus by 17%. It had the largest prize pool ever for a $500 buy-in tournament at $13,509,435. It had the most places paid for said tournament at 4,258. The Big 50 also exceeded the average percentage of women in a typical poker tournament. The average is typically between 3% and 5% of a tournament field, but the Big 50 showed 7.02% female in the total number of entries, with 7.3% from the total number of unique buy-ins. Other interesting numbers:Total number of player entries:
--One entry:  11,555--Two entries:  3,969--Three entries:  1,473--Four entries:  599--Five entries:  244--Six entries:  92--Seven entries:  28--Eight Entries:  10
Average age of entrants:  44 years oldOldest entrant:  91Number of countries reflected in buy-ins:  89Number of dealers required:  1,208Number of card decks used:  4,912https://twitter.com/WSOP/status/1136004538945511424 Now, back to the basics. On Tuesday, June 4, this is what happened.

Event 3:  $500 Big 50 NLHE – Day 2D

Entries:  28,371 (17,970 unique players)Prize pool:  $13,509,435Players paid:  4,258Minimum payout:  $750Winner payout:  $1,150,500 (estimated)Players remaining:  1,597Day 2A chip leader:  Mikhail Vilkov (Russian Federation) – 3,475,000 chipsDay 2B chip leader:  Jerald Willilamson (USA) – 4,105,000 chipsDay 2C chip leader:  Saya Ono (USA) – 3,810,000 chipsDay 2D chip leader:  Zachary Ackley (USA) – 2,925,000 chipsDay 3 starting time:  11am today

Event 8:  $10K Short Deck NLHE – Final

Total entries:  114Prize pool:  $1,071,600Players paid:  18Final table payouts:1st place:  Alex Epstein (USA) - $296,2272nd place:  Thai Ha (USA) - $183,0813rd place:  Anson Tsang (Hong Kong) - $130,4824th place:  Chance Kornuth (USA) - $93,5935th place:  Rene van Krevelen (Netherlands) - $67,5666th place:  Yong Wang (China) - $49,095

Event 9:  $600 NLHE Deep Stack – Day 2 of 3

Total entries: 6,151 Prize pool:  $3,229,275Players paid:  923Minimum payout:  $874Winner payout:  $398,281Day 2 players remaining: 9 Final table chip counts:Paul Jain (USA) – 41.7 millionJeremy Pekarek (USA) – 21.8 millionDavid Elet (USA) – 21.3 millionNoomis Jones (USA) – 21.1 millionJuan Magana (Mexico) – 19.5 millionTan Nguyen (USA) – 18.4 millionBenjamin Underwood (Canada) – 17.6 millionDan Kuntzman (USA) – 11.6 millionJohn Skrovan (USA) – 11.6 millionDay 3 starting time:  3pm

Event 10:  $1,500 Dealer’s Choice 6-Handed – Day 2 of 3

Total entries:  470Prize pool:  $634,500Players paid:  71Minimum payout:  $2,250Winner payout:  $144,957Day 2 players remaining:  21Chip leader:  Benny Glaser (UK) – 489,500 chipsDay 3 starting time:  2pm

Event 11:  $5K NLHE – Day 2 of 4

Total entries:  400Prize pool:  $1,860,000Players paid:  60Minimum payout:  $7,476Winner payout:  $442,385Day 2 players remaining: 27 Chip leader:  Pauli Ayras (Finland) – 1 million chipsDay 3 starting time:  2pm

Event 12:  $1K NLHE Super Turbo Bounty – Final

https://twitter.com/WSOP/status/1135966636651847680
Total entries:  2,452Prize pool:  $1,471,200Players paid:  368Minimum payout:  $1,000Final table payouts:1st place:  Daniel Park (USA) - $226,2432nd place:  Erik Cajelais (Canada) - $139,7313rd place:  Jennifer Dennis (USA) - $102,0104th place:  Emil Tiller (USA) - $75,1495th place:  Marcelo Giordano Mendes (Brazil) - $55,8696th place:  John Yelaney (USA) - $41,9207th place:  Travis Sargent (USA) - $31,7488th place:  Lian Liu (USA) - $24,2719th place:  Ferit Bulutoglu (USA) - $18,731

Event 13:  $1,500 NL 2-7 Lowball Draw – Day 1 of 3

https://twitter.com/WSOP/status/1136028432226107392
Total entries:  296Prize pool:  $399,600Players paid:  45Minimum payout:  $2,242Winner payout:  $96,278Day 1 players remaining:  63Chip leader:  Steven Tabb (USA) – 185,400 chipsDay 2 starting time:  2pm

Notable Information

Alex Epstein won his first WSOP bracelet in the inaugural Short Deck tournament. He had been honing his short deck skills of late, refocusing his time from PLO. His decision to play Event 8 was to go with a higher variance event than his PLO cash games, and his plan worked. “Walking to the Rio today, I was thinking that I just wanted to enjoy the experience,” he told PokerNews. “I knew that the other good players at the final table were short stacks, so I had a very good chance if things broke my way.” https://twitter.com/WSOP/status/1136117490340077568 Daniel Park also took down his first WSOP event, something he called a dream. “I can’t believe it right now,” he said. “It’s so unreal.” He played only one day to capture the title in a turbo structure, and the native of South Korea will now take some of the profit and play the Main Event later in the series. https://twitter.com/WSOP/status/1136230990127308802

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