On Day 49 of the 2022 World Series of Poker, the last of the 88-tournament schedule played to its last two winners.
There were more events, such as the WSOP Online tournaments, which we’ll recap separately. There is the Tournament of Champions, which will recap in its entirety when it plays to a winner on Wednesday of this week.
As this all happens, the WSOP staff is busy folding tables, stacking chairs, and racking chips. Most players have packed up and gone home…or to another tournament series elsewhere.
This will be the last daily tournament update for this series, for this year. There will be WSOP Circuit events happening going forward, and the WSOP Europe will host its bracelet events in a few months in the Czech Republic. For now, let’s see who won the last bracelet events in Las Vegas.
Event 85: $1,500 Closer
The final day of this tournament brought 17 players with Minh Nguyen at the top of the leaderboard. Play started with some quick eliminations of short stacks. Among them were Chris Moorman, out in 14th place, and then Vincent Lam in tenth place.
The official final table then began with Nguyen still dominating the action. Michael Liang busted Zach Johnson and Rudy Cervantes in a single hand, as Madelyn Carr took out Samuel Brown in seventh place. Ahmed Harrim sent Daniel Tabello to pick up a sixth-place cash, and Nguyen sent Manuel Herrera Garcia after him. Nguyen then took out Liang and Carr in a single hand.
Nguyen had 72M chips going into heads-up play, just 4M fewer than Karrim. While the latter started the battle strong, Nguyen chipped back up quickly and won the tournament. He told PokerNews that he had been on a 1.5-year downswing prior to this win.
Six players returned to Bally’s to play the final six-handed table of this championship-level event. Pavel Plesuv led the pack with a sizeable chip stack, with Gregory Jensen in second and Ali Eslami in third.
Jensen started aggressively and busted Brock Wilson in sixth place. Eslami then eliminated Barak Wisbrod in fifth, but Jensen stepped in to eliminate Eslami in a big hand, one that sent Jensen to the chip lead. Jensen then took some of Plesuv’s chips and busted Lucas Foster in third place.
Plesuv had only 5.75M chips for heads-up play against the 17.89M of Jensen. Plesuv doubled quickly and started to mount a comeback…until Jensen busted him. Jensen credited good luck and expressed gratitude for an “incredible run.”
All bracelet winners from the 2022 WSOP in Las Vegas and all WSOP Circuit winners from the 2021-2022 season will continue playing the Tournament of Champions.
