| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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19,500 |
2024 World Series of Poker
Event #54: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
2024 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$14,603,565
Entries
10,939
Level
44
Blinds
2,000,000 / 4,000,000
Ante
4,000,000
Entries
3,721
Players Left
834
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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25,000
25,000
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25,000 |
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Busted
Table 192Seat 5
101,600
29,000
Tbl 207 seat 5
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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63,000
Table 440Seat 9
Flopped a flush but got beaten by a straight flush on the river. Raised a 6k bet on turn to 18k,
player utg did’t believe me and called with only 10k behind 😳
Busted
Table 25Seat 8
Ak vs KJ the other way
Earlier this year on an ordinary Monday afternoon, a bespectacled man walked into the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop on Las Vegas Blvd. Tucked under his arm was an uninteresting box that only he knew contained something rather interesting – a pair of gold watches dating back more than 40 years.
These were not your run-of-the-mill wristwear, but rather evidence of a unique and often overlooked time of poker history, a year when the World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet, now the game’s highest accolade, was replaced in favor of watches.
The man holding the box was David Sklansky, who in 1978 forever changed poker by advocating a mathematical approach to the game in his groundbreaking book The Theory of Poker. Nicknamed “The Mathematician,” he proved his prowess just four years later when he won two WSOP tournaments in five days.
First, he won the 1982 WSOP Event #7: $800 Mixed Doubles Limit Seven Card Stud, a tournament that paired one man with one woman, alongside Dani Kelly, and followed that up by taking down Event #12: $1,000 Limit 5-Card Draw High. A year later, the Binions reverted back to the beloved bracelets players know today, and Sklansky captured his third piece of WSOP hardware by winning Event #11: $1,000 Limit Omaha.
It was a remarkable accomplishment, and for more than four decades he’s kept safe the evidence of his victories, both of which still worked. So, why was Sklansky carrying his 1982 WSOP gold watches, two of only 15 ever awarded, into a pawn shop? Well, he was looking to sell them of course, but not to just any of the dozens of pawn shops spread across Las Vegas. Oh no, he was walking into arguably the most famous pawn shop in the world, the home to the wildly popular television show Pawn Stars, and he was there to do it with cameras rolling.
Read all about the 1982 WSOP watches here in our feature article!
135,900
34,300
Tbl 207 seat 5
145,800
9,900
Tbl 3 seat 5
Flopped a straight, lost to a full house on the turn