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In what turned out to be a frantic day at the 50th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP), there were four bracelets given away with several other events running in tandem. The event of interest for Team India was Event #19: Millionaire Maker – $1,500 No-Limit Hold ’em that saw an even larger Indian participation on its second and final starting flight as compared to Day 1A. Nine of our Indian challengers made it through Day 1B taking the total Team India Day 2 tally to 14 players where leading the way is Young Gun Abhinav Iyer (Day 1B) with 299,900 in chips.
Team India Chip Counts For Day 2 (Millionaire Maker)
Player Flight Chip Counts
Abhinav Iyer Day 1B 299,900
Ashish Ahuja Day 1A 238,900
Deepak Bothra Day 1B 233,800
Sriharsha Doddapaneni Day 1B 211,500
Neel Joshi Day 1A 195,900
Abhishek Goindi Day 1A 165,200
Raghav Bansal Day 1B 117,800
Romit Advani Day 1A 117,300
Aditya Sushant Day 1B 116,700
Vinod Megalmani Day 1B 110,000
Prashray Rai Day 1B 97,000
Nipun Java Day 1B 96,700
Muskan Sethi Day 1B 78,500
Vivek Rughani Day 1A 65,100
The four gold bracelet winners were Murilo Souza (Event #14: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. – $207,003), Sean Swingruber (Event #15:$10,000 Heads-up NLHE – $186,356), Isaac Baron (Event #16:$1,500 6-Handed – $407,739), and Brett Apter (Event #17: $1,500 NLHE Shootout – $228,824).
Event #14: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.
Event #14: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. crowned Brazil`s Murilo Souza as the champion after an unplanned Day 4 was added to the event. Souza had entered the event with zero WSOP scores to his name, but he claimed his first score in style. He overcame a 751-strong field on Saturday defeating USA`s Jason Stockfish to win his first bracelet and $207,003. Indian-origin Ashish Gupta finished 11th for $11,415 (~₹7.92 Lakhs).
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Event #15: $10,000 Heads-up NLHE
Event #15: $10,000 Heads-up NLHE was down to the semi-finals on June 6 with only four players in the running. A day’s break later, the semi-finals got going where Ben Yu beat Keith Lehr, and Sean Swingruber took down Cord Garcia.
The championship match between Yu and Swingruber saw the latter emerge victorious and take home the bracelet for $186,356 in prize money.
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Event #16: $1,500 NLHE 6-Handed
A large field of 1,832 entries in Event #16:$1,500 6-Handed was down to heads-up play at the end of Day 3. The prolonged heads-up match that reportedly went on for over 100 hands necessitated the need of an additional fourth day. Ultimately, USA`s Isaac Baron proved dominant over his Singaporean opponent Ong Dingxiang to claim the WSOP title and $407,739 in prize money.
Four Indian challengers, namely, Nipun Java (78th for $4,290 – ₹2.98 Lakhs), PokerGuru Ambassador Ashish Ahuja (142nd for $2,742 – ₹1.90 Lakhs), Siddharth Mundada (236th for $2,265 – ₹1.57 Lakhs), and Sriharsha Doddapaneni (239th place for $2,265 – ₹1.57 Lakhs) finished in the money.
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Event #17: $1,500 NLHE Shootout
The field was trimmed down fast in Event #17: $1,500 No-Limit Hold ‘em Shootout had opened on June 7 with 917 runners and only 100 of them made it to Day 2 (Round 2). The final Day 3 (Round 3) began with 10 players and topping them all was USA`s Brett Apter who defeated Russia’s Anatolii Zyrin heads-up to win the bracelet and $228,824 in prize money.
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Event #18: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 Or Better
The penultimate day began with 23 returning players from a starting field of 183 runners. After five 90-minute levels, play was down to the six-handed final table where leading the way is Robert Mizrachi (3,905,000) a reasonable distance ahead of the next two big stacks, Nick Guagenti (2,000,000), and Owais Ahmed (1,850,000).
Event #19: $1,500 NLHE – Millionaire Maker
The second and final flight in Event #19: $1,500 NLHE Millionaire Maker turned out to be a much bigger hit than the first. With 4,887 entries coming in, the total field size touched 8,817 entries (Day 1A- 3,930), a personal best for this event that was introduced at the WSOP six years ago! As expected there was a sizeable Indian contingent in attendance, and an incredible nine among them made it past Day 1B bringing the total tally of Indians returning for Day 2 play at 14.
Young Gun and APT 2019 Vietnam Main Event Champion Abhinav Iyer leads the group with a stack of 299,900.
The others making it further from Day 1B include Deepak Bothra (233,800), Sriharsha Doddapaneni (211,500), Raghav Bansal (117,800), India’s first WSOP bracelet champion Aditya Sushant (116,700), Vinod Megalmani (110,000), Prashray Rai (97,000), 2-time WSOP bracelet winner Nipun Java (96,700), and PokerStars India Team pro Muskan Sethi (78,500).
USA`s Noam Schwartz from Day 1B leads the 2,281 survivors for Day 2. He’s also the only one in the field with over 1 million in chips – 1,100,300 to be exact. Following Schwartz are Erasmus Morfe (Day 1B – 666,000), and Day 1A chip leader Garrett Greer (570,600).
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Event #20: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud
From a starting field of 285 players, only 103 had made it through to Day 2. On Saturday, they played down to 10 players and leading the way with a stack of 733,000 is USA`s Anthony Zinno followed by Joshua Mountain (445,000), and Valentin Vornicu (409,000).
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