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Home › News › Caesars Outage Delays All on Day 7 of WSOP 2021

Caesars Outage Delays All on Day 7 of WSOP 2021

Written by Jennifer Newell
Last updated on October 8th, 2021
WSOP 2021 Day 7 Poker information and WSOP social media guru Kevin Mathers decided to take a day off after nearly a week straight of long hours. He started work before the World Series of Poker even began. So, he planned to take Wednesday for himself…and everything conspired against him to keep that from happening. The entirety of the Caesars computer system – apparently nationwide – kept Caesars employees from doing anything. They couldn’t verify anyone’s vaccine compliance, register anyone for tournaments, or create seat assignments. It took hours to fix. Eventually, everything returned to working order, but some of the daily tournaments had already been cancelled and the start of bracelet events delayed. Let’s see what all happened when the action did get underway.

Event 8: $600 NLHE Deepstack

Five players started the day, and little more than an hour later, Zhi Wu of Massachusetts won. With friends by his side, Wu celebrated his first WSOP victory and biggest poker score of his career thus far. He talked briefly via a translator to PokerNews:
“I am not a professional, but I have some experience. I am going to play the Millionaire Maker, Main Event, and a few others. We plan to party a little bit but stick to the schedule.”
Event 8: Day 3 of 3 $600 buy-in NLHE Deepstack (1 RE)
Total entries: 4,527
Total prize pool: $2,309,280
Players paid: 680
Minimum payout: $960
Final table results: 1st place:  Zhi Wu (USA) $281,604
2nd place: Ari Mezrich (USA) $173,998
3rd place: Chrishan Sivasundaram (Canada) $131,675
4th place: Ryan Chan (USA) $100,330
5th place: Nicholas Zautra (USA) $76,974
6th place: Alexander Tafesh (USA) $59,466
7th place: Amalim Onyia (USA) $46,262
8th place: Hannes Jeschka (France) $36,243
9th place: Daniel Lowery (USA) $28,596
  https://twitter.com/WSOP/status/1445935274672852992?s=20

Event 9: $10K Omaha Hi-Lo 8-or-Better Championship

He’s doing it again. Phil Hellmuth is at another final table. Within the first nine events alone, he took sixth place in Event 2 and 18th place in Event 7. And he may be very short-stacked at this Event 9 final table, but he’s hungry for that 16th bracelet. However, Ari Engel has a significant chip lead and wants his second piece of WSOP gold. He’s the man to watch. Andrew Yeh may not have a bracelet yet, but he was the chip leader going into Wednesday’s play and made the final table, so he is closely eyeing his first bracelet. All five players want it. Stay tuned to the live updates over on PokerNews to see how it plays out. (This is not scheduled to be a PokerGO livestream event, but Hellmuth says it will be.)
Event 9: Day 3 of 4 $10K buy-in Omaha Hi-Lo 8-or-Better Championship
Total entries: 134
Registration still open? no
Total prize pool: $1,193,600
Players paid: 21
Minimum payout: $16,000
Winner payout: $317,076
Chip leader: Ari Engel Ari Engel = 3,485,000 chips
Players remaining: 5 Zachary Milchman = 1,660,000 chips
Restart: 4pm Thursday Eddie Blumenthal = 1,405,000 chips
Andrew Yeh = 1,105,000 chips
Phil Hellmuth = 390K chips
  https://twitter.com/phil_hellmuth/status/1446037960311250951?s=20

Event 11: $25K Heads-Up Championship

The immediate goal was to play the Round of 16 and emerge with eight players. Cary Katz was the last of that group to bust, which opened up the payouts and kicked off the quarter-finals. Jason Koon wasted no time eliminating Jake Daniels, but the others took their time to play out. Eventually, Henri Puustinen busted Benjamin Reason, Daniel Zack did the same to Bin Weng, and Gabor Szabo outlasted Mikita Badziakouski. Those who had to leave did so with $36,280 for their troubles. Each of the Final Four will start with 2.4M chips (200 big blinds).
Event 11: Day 2 of 3 $25K buy-in NLHE Heads-Up Championship
Total entries: 57
Registration still open? no
Total prize pool: $721,625
Players paid: 8
Minimum payout: $36,820
Winner payout: $243,981
Chip leader: n/a Jason Koon v Henri Puustinen
Players remaining: 4 Daniel Zack v Gabor Szabo
Restart: 4pm Thursday
 

Event 12: $1,500 Limit Hold’em

Limit poker only plays so fast, so the action ended with 16 players still in the running. Multiple bracelet winners like Marco Johnson and Rep Porter just missed their opportunity for another day of play. However, Yuval Bronshtein will return to try to win a second bracelet, as will Jorden Fox. Anh Van Nguyen will try to take home another piece of gold for Canada.
Event 12: Day 2 of 3 $1,500 buy-in Limit Hold'em
Total entries: 422
Registration still open? no
Total prize pool: $563,370
Players paid: 64
Minimum payout: $2,406
Winner payout: $124,374
Chip leader: Kevin Erickson
Players remaining: 16
Restart: 2pm Thursday
 

Event 13: $3K NLHE Freezeout

A diverse field showed up for the single buy-in hold’em action early in the series. But by the end of the night, little more than 100 players remained in contention. And when Silvio Costa busted in 109th place, that burst the money bubble and stopped play for the night. With everyone in the money on Thursday, play will likely start quickly and not slow until later in the afternoon or evening.
Event 13: Day 1 of 3 $3K buy-in NLHE Freezeout
Total entries: 720
Registration still open? no
Total prize pool: $1,922,400
Players paid: 108
Minimum payout: $4,840
Winner payout: $371,914
Chip leader: Andrew Jeong
Players remaining: 108
Restart: 12pm Thursday
 

Event 14: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud

The 2019 WSOP corresponding stud event delivered 285 entries, and this year’s nearly hit that mark with 261. Defending champion Eli Elezra didn’t make it through the first day this year, but Dan Heimiller and David Williams both made the top ten chip counts at the end of the night.
Event 14: Day 1 of 3 $1,500 buy-in Seven-Card Stud
Total entries: 261
Registration still open? no
Total prize pool: $348,435
Players paid: 39
Minimum payout: $2,457
Winner payout: $82,262
Chip leader: Elias Hourani
Players remaining: 75
Restart: 2pm Thursday
 

Highlight of the Day

At the end of the second online bracelet event of this series, one that was open to players in Nevada and New Jersey, reports did not display the real names of the players. It turned out that the winner of OB #2 was Mark Herm, and that was his second gold bracelet in 2021. Further, Martin Zamani, who won the first one last weekend, claimed his second bracelet with that win. So, there are now two double bracelet winners in 2021. https://twitter.com/Kevmath/status/1445831615444242433?s=20    

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