Returning from the dinner break, the remaining players discovered the payout for this $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack WSOP Event displayed on the screen.
The 3,773 entrants generated a prize pool of $2,656,192. A total of 566 players will share this money, with a min-cash of $1,282.
The last eight players will earn a minimum of $42,445 tomorrow. But the prize everyone wants is the first-place prize. The winner of this event will go back home with $339,033 and the WSOP Champion bracelet.
$800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack Final Table Payout
Everybody folded to Vadim Baranovsky in the cutoff, who moved all in for 96,000 chips. The button folded, as did the small blind. But when Jorge Hou looked at his cards in the big blind, he had no choice but to call.
Vadim Baranovsky: Q♠10♠
Jorge Hou: J♣J♦
Baranovsky tried to take the blinds but found Hou in his way. However, Baranovsky hit a pair of queens on A♣3♠2♥Q♣6♣. He is good for a double up and now has more than 200,000 chips. At the same time, Hou is down to 14 blinds.
Conrad Coetzer bet 40,000 from the cutoff on a board of A♣2♥2♦J♦ and Phillip Guillen reraised all in from the small blind for 112,000. Coetzer snapped it off.
Conrad Coetzer: A♦2♠
Philip Guillen: K♠J♠
Coetzer had the flopped full house. An inconsequential 4♥ came on the river and Coetzer took down the pot.
"Please be kind to me when you write this up," requested Guillen.
Poker Hall of Famer Jennifer Harman has seen the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in all of its iterations. Harman won two bracelets when the World Series played at Binion's Horseshoe in downtown Las Vegas and made several final tables after the transition to Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in the mid-2000s.
Now, 27 years after her first WSOP final table in 1996, Harman finds herself at yet another World Series rendition at the rebranded Horseshoe Casino on the Strip. And while the golden U-shaped emblem outside the hotel is by and large the same, Harman said the modern venue doesn't compare to the WSOP's original home.
"It was such a cool atmosphere playing at Binion's; it's just nothing like that," Harman told PokerNews. "Now it's just like, you know, poker blew up and it's more ... it's still a really cool atmosphere, but it's just different. It's not a small room, musty, that kind of stuff. But it's still really cool. Poker's still really popular, so that's a pretty awesome thing."
PokerNews caught up with Harman last week as she played Day 1 of Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship at the 2023 WSOP to ask about her summer schedule, pick for the Poker Hall of Fame and her memories with the late Doyle Brunson.