2024 World Series of Poker

Event #87: $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2024 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
77
Prize
$785,486
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$4,793,200
Entries
1,042
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000
Players Info - Day 1
Entries
1,041
Players Left
88

Event #87: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed Starts at 2 PM

Alex Keating
Alex Keating

Welcome back to PokerNews, the official media partner of the 2024 World Series of Poker and home of live updates from all bracelet events.

Today sees the start of Event #87: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed here at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

Last year’s event attracted 813 entries generating a prize pool of $3,739,800. The winner was Alex Keating who defeated Guoliang Wei heads up to win $701,688 and his first WSOP bracelet.

YearEntriesWinnerCountryPayout
2023813Alex KeatingUnited States$701,688
2022573Michael WangUnited States$541,604
2021531Boris KolevBulgaria$511,184
2019608Carl ShawUnited Kingdom$606,526
2018518Jeremy WienUnited States$537,710

This two-day event gets underway at 2 p.m. local time with late registration open for 12 levels (~8:45 p.m.). This event allows for one reentry and there will be 15-minute breaks every four levels.

The starting stack is 50,000 chips with the plan for Day 1 to play 20 30-minute levels. For the surviving players, Day 2 resumes at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, July 10, and plays down to a winner.

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