Day 1c of Millionaire Maker Kicks Off Shortly
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Today sees the start of Day 1c of Event #54: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em here at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. This is the final Day 1 flight of this five-day event.
Play starts at 10 a.m. local time, with late registration available until the end of Level 8 (until ~8:15 p.m.). A 20-minute break is scheduled after every two levels and a 75-minute dinner break will occur after Level 8. Play will continue for 11 blind levels of 60 minutes each.
Players are allowed one reentry per flight. Today will be their last chance to get their starting stack of 25,000 chips.
So far the event has 6,523 entries and a prize pool of $8,708,205. These numbers will grow significantly with today's action.
After Day 1b, Ye Yuan is the chip leader with a stack of 875,000. He leads a Day 2 field of 1,429 survivors. For Yuan and the rest of the surviving players, Day 2 resumes at 11 a.m. on Monday, June 24, and closes after another ten levels of play.
Millionaire Maker Top Ten Chip Counts After Day 1b
| Position | Player | Country | Chipstack | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ye Yuan | China | 875,000 | 350 |
| 2 | Ori Elul | Austria | 673,500 | 269 |
| 3 | Xiaoyun Li | China | 660,000 | 264 |
| 4 | Muaaz Gani | United States | 615,000 | 246 |
| 5 | Philip Verel | United States | 573,000 | 229 |
| 6 | Kyle Ho | Canada | 465,000 | 186 |
| 7 | Justin Belforti | United States | 453,500 | 181 |
| 8 | Timur Margolin | Israel | 398,000 | 159 |
| 9 | Jeremy Surinach | France | 385,000 | 154 |
| 10 | Brett Apter | United States | 373,500 | 149 |
Last Year's Champion
Last year’s event saw 10,429 entries, generating a prize pool of $13,905,360. The winner was Moldova's Pavel Plesuv, who defeated Florian Ribouchon heads up to win $1,201,564 and his first WSOP bracelet.
"It feels amazing...I had some deep runs at the WSOP but no bracelets. So, it’s really nice to win my first bracelet in such a big field, and for such a big amount, my best cash. It feels amazing." Plesuv told PokerNews after the triumph.
| Year | Entries | Winner | Country | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10,430 | Pavel Plesuv | Romania | $1,201,564 |
| 2022 | 7,961 | Yuliyan Kolev | Bulgaria | $1,125,141 |
| 2021 | 5,330 | Daniel Lazrus | United States | $1,000,000 |
| 2019 | 8,809 | John Gorsuch | United States | $1,344,930 |
| 2018 | 7,361 | Arne Kern | Germany | $1,173,223 |
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What Else is Happening at the WSOP?
- Check out the Day 25 recap for an overview of yesterday's action.
- Yuri Dzivielevski won his fifth bracelet in Event #53: $3,000 Nine Game Mixed (7-handed)
- The $250,000 High Roller saw several massive clashes between big names for high stakes.
- Poker legends Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu tangled in the $10,000 Razz Championship, with one of them sending the other to the rail — find out who won and who lost!