It’s no big secret that we love a big giveaway at PokerListings. We love our readers and their passion for poker and want to give them the most meaningful prizes possible. We have a massive World Series of Poker giveaway that could be parlayed into a huge payday.  

After not being on UK shores since 2010, the WSOP is returning to London in a huge way. After collaborating with GGPoker, the WSOP has launched the Super Circuit Series, which is taking place at the JW Marriott Grosvenor Hotel from July 27 to August 13, giving away £7 million in guaranteed prize pools throughout. 

The biggest eye-catcher on the tournament schedule is a £560 buy-in £1 million guaranteed Mystery Million ring event, a mystery bounty where one knockout could have you winning a six-figure score.  

How to Win a World Series of Poker Circuit Ring with PokerListings 

Want to be the one to open that envelope and get the biggest mystery bounty prize of the event? We are placing one of our poker lovers into this colossal event, putting someone in the £1 million guaranteed mystery bounty, and seeing if they can spin their stack to a huge bankroll boosting cash prize and even a World Series of Poker Circuit ring. 

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Getting your seat can take seconds, and before you know it, you could be sitting in the JW Marriott ballroom, running up a stack, and sizing up your ring finger.  

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In a matter of days, you could be in the WSOP Super Circuit Mystery Millions from July 27 to July 30 and be battling for a WSOP ring on August 1.  

How This Giveaway Could Put You In Las Vegas for WSOP 2024 

The World Series of Poker always has the biggest prizes and the grandest allure in poker. It has the best stories ever told, whether you look at Chris Moneymaker spinning a satellite into $2.5 million in 2004, Jamie Gold table-talking his way to $12 million in 2006, or Espen Jorstad capturing a bracelet for $10 million in 2022.  

If you win the WSOP circuit ring through our giveaway, you actually guarantee yourself a seat at the WSOP 2024 Tournament of Champions in Las Vegas next summer. In this $1 million guaranteed freeroll, you will be seated with some of the biggest names in poker. Think about the huge parlay this could be, going from a simple social media giveaway into a WSOP ring, bracelet, and comfortably over half a million in winnings. How could you miss out? 

The Biggest Events at the London WSOP Super Circuit 

One thing you could even do is spin a big bounty prize or deep run into more events. The WSOP is bringing some mammoth events that we rarely see in Europe, so it would not be a bad idea to reinvest your winnings into some juicy events like these: 

• The £1,1000 Main Event, which has a £1 million guaranteed prize pool and runs from August 8 to 13.  
• The £450 Colossus, which boasts a £200,000 guaranteed prize pool and runs from July 31 to August 2. 
• The £770 Monster Stack, which has £200,000 guaranteed in the prize pool and runs on Aug 3. 
• The Flip & Go, a famous staple of the WSOP schedule, and now available for just £230 on Aug 7. 

A range of exciting and juicy events are running throughout the WSOP Super Circuit Series in London, and you will not want to miss out.  

Take a look at the full WSOP Super Circuit Series schedule here. 

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Best of luck with the giveaway!  

The WSOPC London is Cashless – Be Smart and Open a Free LuxonPay Account 

The World Series of Poker Super Circuit series will be a cashless event, meaning you will be aimlessly carrying money around if you try to buy in for cash at this event.  

There are three ways you can buy into this event, and I’ve listed them below:  

• You can go to the Dusk Till Dawn poker club and deposit funds at the Cash Desk. 
• You can get a free account on LuxonPay and deposit your tournament funds on the app. 

• You can make a bank transfer by contacting [email protected] and following their instructions. 

We recommend using LuxonPay, as it requires a few minutes of your time and requires no unnecessary travel or headache. 

The 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is now complete, and it was a massive one. Records were being broken right from the beginning of the series with events breaking attendance records almost from the opening day. In total, more than 210,000 entries were recorded throughout the various events in this year’s WSOP combining for more than $405 million in total prizes awarded from the live game component of the WSOP. The big record, of course, came when the 2006 record for Main Event entries was smashed a day before entries closed, and in the end crushed the previous record.

There were four players who won more than one bracelet this year, with Chad Eveslage starting things off early by winning both the Dealers Choice events in the opening week of play. He was joined by three others, including Josh Arieh who picked up #5 and #6 this year.

Representatives of 24 different nations managed to pick up bracelets in this series, including at least a couple of first-timers with Peru and the Faroe Islands recording their first-ever bracelets this series. Six of the 24 nations with bracelets managed to win more than one through the course of the 2023 Series.

Records Broken in 2023

The main takeaway from the 2023 WSOP when the dust settles and the analysis begins will almost certainly be “Holy, that was a big one!” The 2023 edition of the series was the biggest ever with multiple events breaking their previous attendance and prize pool records, not least of which was the Main Event itself.

But the massive fields started long before the Main Event was even a twinkle in the players’ eyes. The third event of the series was the wildly popular new Mystery Bounty format, and when the dust settled there were more than 18,000 entries in the game for one of the biggest fields on record for the WSOP. There was more than $16 million to play for in this one, with the winner set to get $1 million. The game originally had a guarantee of a $1 million Mystery Bounty as well going into the action, but by the time the massive field was set, there was enough money in the pot to add a second $1 million bounty to the barrel. Shant Marashlian and Patrick Liang both bagged $1 million from the bounty barrel, while Tyler Brown took the $1 million win.

There were five different games that ended up with 10,000 total entries or more, including the biggest Main Event ever, but one game even blew past 20,000 entries. Over four opening flights, the Gladiators of Poker event (#18) saw an astonishing 23,102 entries for the biggest field of the series and more than $9 million in prizes for a $300 entry. The Mystery Millions (#3), the Colossus (#70), and the Millionaire Maker (#53) were the other games that, along with the Main Event, pushed into five-digit field sizes.

There were six games in the series that played for $10 million or more in the total prize pool. Of course, the top of the list was the Main Event with an astonishing $93 million in prizes, the biggest Main Event prize pool ever by about $11 million, but the Mystery Millions, the Milly, and the Monster joined a couple of High Roller games with eight-digit prize pools.

Monster Main Event

The jewel in the WSOP crown is always the Main Event and this year proved no exception. With four starting days, and entries open for two levels on Day 2, the stage was set for the biggest Main Event ever, and the Big Show went ahead with no hitches. When the dust settled on entries, not only did this year’s event break the 2006 record of 8,773 entries, it smashed it with more than 10,000 total entries. That put the Main Event prizes this year at $93,399,900, almost $11 million ahead of the $82,512,162 from 2006.

Jamie Gold won that 2006 Main Event for a prize of $12 million, also a record at the time. That record has now been eclipsed with the $12.1 million winner’s prize from the 2023 event, won by Daniel Weinman. Casual fans may wonder why the 2023 top prize was only $100k more than Gold’s big win in 2006 when the total prizes are $11 million more – the answer comes from changes to MTT payout structures over the years that take more money out of the top spots to add to the bottom, reducing the size of the winner’s paycheck but increasing the number of players who walk away with some cash.

In 2006, the tournament paid out 10% of the field for a total of 873 paid spots and the minimum cash set at just $10,616, barely the buy-in back. By contrast, 2023 had 15% of the field paid for a total of 1,507 paid spots with the min-cash set at $15,000. Given those differences, it’s easy to see why the extra $11 million in total prizes only amounted to an extra $100k for this year’s winner.

Among the feel-good stories of the series was Cody Daniels. Daniels is terminally ill after a lifetime of medical problems and was living his dream by getting a shot at the WSOP Main Event. The colorful player collapsed on the way back to his seat after a break as the bubble approached, causing a short stoppage of play while medical staff checked him over. He was deemed fit to continue playing as he had just over-exerted himself trying to get back to his seat before play began again. He was able to recover and went on to book a pretty decent cash worth $30,000 for 635th place.

Throughout the tournament, Daniels was using his “pet rock” as a card protector, and when he busted, he passed it on to the player who busted him, requesting that it continue to be passed on until the final table. Sure enough, when the final hands were being played, Daniels’ pet rock was still in action, protecting the cards of the eventual winner Weinman.

That feeling when i realize my pet rock has more final tables and bracelets then me 😂🪨 pic.twitter.com/oCu6syw51D

— Cody Daniels (@CodyDaniels88) July 20, 2023

Player of the Year – Ian Matakis

In the end, there wasn’t much of a race for the Player of the Year this year. Oftentimes, the PoY race comes down to the final few events with several players in close contention for the win depending on results in a few final games. This year, however, it was clear fairly early on that Ian Matakis was running away with the race. In the earliest looks at the race, Chad Eveslage took the early lead with two bracelets in the opening week, but Matakis quickly came on with a steady, consistent performance throughout the series.

The fact that Matakis only won a single bracelet this year, and it was in an early online event, produced some inevitable controversy from “old-school” players who view online bracelets as lower value than live bracelets with players like Mike Matusow and Allen Kessler taking to Twitter to question the formula used to calculate PoY as a result of Matakis’ win. Interestingly, runner-up and perennial PoY candidate Shaun Deeb played defense for Matakis in the threads and noting that his second-place results, along with many of his previous strong finishes in the race, were also on the back of many online cashes.

You do understand chance and brewer also had a lot of cashes online and a ft or two right

— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) July 19, 2023

Wherever you land on the live versus online debate, under the current PoY formula, Matakis didn’t just win the title this year, but fully crushed it. On the strength of 22 total cashes including a bracelet and six top-nine finishes he ended the series with 5,203.89 points in the PoY race. That was almost 1,000 points ahead of runner-up Deeb who posted 4,276.12 points from 24 cashes and four top-nine finishes including one bracelet. For Deeb, 11 of those results came from online events, while Matakis booked nine online cashes in his point total. Chris Brewer was third in the points race, about 100 behind Deeb with 12 cashes that included two bracelets and one online cash.

While the debate about online bracelets and results is unlikely to be settled any time soon, both of the top two players in the PoY race scored more live cashes in this series than the double-bracelet winner Brewer in 3rd and more than double the total cahses when online results are considered. See below for a look at the top-ten players from this year’s Player of the Year race.

Place	Player	Points
1	Ian Matakis	5,203.89
2	Shaun Deeb	4,276.12
3	Christopher Brewer	4,127.61
4	Josh Arieh	3,938.62
5	Jesse Lonis	3,865.70
6	Michael Rodrigues Pires Santos	3,513.21
7	Chad Eveslage	3,447.63
8	Yuri Dzivielevski	3,382.33
9	Ben Yu	3,128.08
10	Phil Hellmuth	3,072.14

Multiple Winners and Top Bracelets

There were four players this year to win two bracelets during the series. The first one happened in the first week of the series when Chad Eveslage crushed both of the early Dealers Choice events for his second and third bracelets. Josh Arieh was next up, taking his first one down early in the series in Event #22 and bagging his second later on in the $25k HORSE.

Chris Brewer, who was third in the Player of the Year race behind Shaun Deeb and Ian Matakis, also won two and he did it at completely different ends of the poker spectrum. His first bracelet this year came in the Super High Roller event around mid-series, while his second came in the $10k Single Draw. The final double-bracelet winner this year came late in the series when Ryan Miller turned up the heat by first winning the $10k Stud8 Championship and following that up with a win in the $3k HORSE.

One interesting story to come out of Arieh’s double-win this year was the friendly rivalry he has with Shaun Deeb. After Arieh won his fifth bracelet, Deeb made a friendly wager that he’d get his sixth before Arieh. He made good on that promise a few days later, scoring his sixth lifetime win at the WSOP with his only bracelet this year in the $1,500 8-Game Mix. Not to be outdone, however, Arieh then stepped it up again to bag his second of the series and pull level with his friend once again.

Rast Takes Third PPC Title and Earns HoF Nod

One of the other big bracelet stories of the series came from Brian Rast. He went into the Poker Players Championship this year with two previous wins, and he was one of a few players looking for their third win this year. One of the others in that camp was two-time defending champion Daniel “Jungleman” Cates, who arrived for the game in full Terminator cosplay, but ended up terminated himself before the money spots, bringing his attempt at three on the trot to an end.

Rast, on the other hand, was still alive on his quest to join Michael Mizrachi as the only three-time winner of the prestigious event and he was able to make good on the quest and joined The Grinder in the three-timers club. That also cemented the prevailing wisdom of the year that the Hall of Fame nod would also go Rast’s way this year.

While the PPC win likely didn’t play a huge part in the final analysis, it was a reminder of just how good a poker player Rast has been over his career. After winning his second bracelet this year, Josh Arieh was asked about his own HoF chances, and he was characteristically humble but pointed directly to Rast as the player who deserved the nod this year.

White Magic for #17

Phil Hellmuth is running out of fingers and toes to count all his bracelets on after winning his record-breaking 17th bracelet this year. It’s hard to even know where to start when talking about The Poker Brat’s WSOP performance over the decades, as 7 bracelets more than his closest competitors is just the beginning of his accomplishments at the annual poker festival.

The players he is close to lapping in the bracelet race are among the greatest names in the game – Chan, Brunson, Ivey – so it’s not like he’s crushing fields of nobodies either. Since his inaugural win in the 1989 Main when he famously stopped Johnny Chan’s run for three in a row, Hellmuth has managed to book at least two bracelets in each of the last four decades with #17 marking his second this decade.

While he is still looking for his second Vegas Main Event title some 34 years after he won his first, he is the only player in the history of the game to win both versions of the Main Event. While the WSOP was strictly a Las Vegas affair for the earliest years of its existence, as the poker boom spread across the world following Chris Moneymaker’s epic 2003 win, the WSOP expanded its horizons with an international series that alternated between Europe and Asia, including its own version of the Main Event. In 2012, 23 years after he won the Vegas Main, Hellmuth bagged the Main Event in the World Series of Poker Europe and he is still the only player with both those titles to his name.

While he started his career as a hold’em specialist, it’s worth noting that Hellmuth has expanded his poker horizons through the years, and lately is seen winning bracelets in games like razz and deuce as often as hold’em. His latest bracelet took him back to his roots though, and perhaps surprisingly, came in a bigger-field turbo bounty format.

Perhaps most terrifying for the players sitting on ten bracelets or less looking at Hellmuth’s ass in the distance, he shows no signs of slowing down in his late 50s with two bracelets already in his fifth decade at the top of the game. While it’s always dangerous to predict “unbeatable” records in any activity, the widening gap between Hellmuth and his very tough competition is hard to ignore, especially so since he apparently still seems to be going as strong as ever.

National Bracelet Results

When the WSOP comes to Las Vegas, there is rarely any drama at the top of the bracelet counts as host country USA always crushes the totals. 2023 was no different with American players bagging 59 of the 95 available live bracelets this year. But even with the US far out in front, there is almost always a tight race for second place in the national bracelet standings.

This year, the battle for second was between Canada and China with the two countries running neck-to-neck through most of the series. In the end, Canada came on strong with two bracelets in the final week of the series to just nip ahead of China at the wire for second place with six total bracelets to the Asian behemoth’s five. Brazil (3), Bulgaria (2), and Germany (2) also bagged more than one bracelet this year leading a total of 24 nations with one bracelet or more. Both the Faroe Islands (Martin Nielsen in E93) and Peru (Diego Ventura in E86) bagged their first bracelets ever this year.

Country	Bracelets	1st Place Prize Totals
USA	59	$43,154,536
Canada	6	$2,270,188
China	5	$2,922,865
Brazil	3	$901,821
Bulgaria	2	$2,522,997
Germany	2	$2,221,299
Argentina	1	$190,240
Australia	1	$598,613
Austria	1	$371,603
Faroe Islands	1	$270,760
France	1	$1,057,663
Hong Kong	1	$2,294,756
Israel	1	$501,120
Japan	1	$221,124
Moldova	1	$1,201,564
Netherlands	1	$2,576,729
Peru	1	$402,054
Poland	1	$155,275
Portugal	1	$144,678
Spain	1	$682,436
Switzerland	1	$1,215,864
Ukraine	1	$164,835
United Kingdom	1	$311,428
Vietnam	1	$111,170

And We’re Out!

That brings the 2023 WSOP to a final close and what a year it was! Records were broken across the series with the biggest Main Event ever highlighting the show while players like Brian Rast, Phil Hellmuth, Ian Matakis, and Josh Arieh, among others, cemented their positiions at the top of the game in various ways. There were close calls from OG legends with Phil Ivey and Johnny Chan both sniffing at their 11th bracelets this year and others like Mike Matusow, Billy Baxter, and Barny Boatman (who had to contend with a practical joking Patrick Leonard pretending to be him in some games) all had shots at hardware this year.

No matter how you slice this pie, the 2023 WSOP will go down in the history books as the biggest and best series to date, but the post-pandemic boom only points to the game getting bigger in the coming years.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) and its partner, GGPoker, are capitalizing on a record-breaking summer in Las Vegas with a new festival offering over $50 million in prize money. WSOP Paradise, as it’s been called, will feature 15 bracelet events and provide players with the opportunity to escape the cold winter nights.

Why is it being hailed as the ideal winter warmer? Because 12 days of action get underway on December 3 in the exotic surroundings of Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas. With daily temperatures topping 80°F in December, WSOP Paradise will certainly live up to its billing based on the weather.

However, the organizers aren’t relying on that alone to pique the interests of poker players around the world. Indeed, with the WPT World Championship and PokerStars Caribbean Adventure also taking place between December and January, players will be faced with tough choices.

WSOP and GGPoker Pulling Out All the Stops in Paradise

The WSOP and GGPoker are aiming to win over players with a total guaranteed prize pool of $50 million. This, combined with the fact 15 WSOP bracelets are up for grabs, should be a huge incentive for pros. In line with this, there will be poker tournaments with buy-ins aimed specifically at those with big bankrolls and even bigger aspirations.

The good news though is that WSOP Paradise won’t be an event solely for pros and rich amateurs. GGPoker, the WSOP’s official partner, will be hosting hundreds of satellites every month. The aim is to send at least 1,000 qualifiers to WSOP Paradise. Although the details are still being finalized, qualifiers will get a seat in the main event, as well as flights, accommodation, and other prizes.

“GGPoker is delighted to launch WSOP Paradise and welcome hundreds of players from all over the world to Atlantis Paradise Island this December. It’s going to be an absolutely amazing experience at one of the world’s most luxurious resorts,” said GGPoker ambassador Daniel Negreanu.

WSOP Paradise Schedule is Full of Popular Events

The full WSOP Paradise schedule is being put together as we speak, but the tentpole tournaments were announced on Tuesday. As well as a $15 million guaranteed main event, there will be big money showdowns, mystery bounty action, and more.

The highlights announced so far are:

• $5,000 WSOP Paradise main event with a $15 million guarantee
• $1,500 WSOP Paradise mystery bounty event with a $5 million guarantee
• $100,000 WSOP Paradise super high roller event with a $5 million guarantee
• $50,000 WSOP Paradise high roller event with a $2 million guarantee
• $25,000 GGMillion$ signature event with a $10 million guarantee

Also on the WSOP Paradise schedule will be two Pot Limit Omaha events with seven-figure guarantees, plus additional side events catering to all bankrolls and preferences.

Overall, WSOP Paradise looks to be another interesting addition to the annual tournament calendar. If the WSOP and GGPoker can replicate what they achieved in Las Vegas this summer, the new series will certainly be a ray of sunshine for poker players this winter. 

And that’s a wrap, folks! The 2023 World Series of Poker is now officially complete with 95 live and 20 online events. Ian Matakis took down the Player of the Year title on the back of 22 cashes throughout the series and he trounced perennial candidate Shaun Deeb by almost 1,000 points. Ryan Miller bagged his first two bracelets this year in the final weeks of the series, joining Chad Eveslage and two others in the double-bracelet club this year. And finally, while the USA was way out in front with 59 bracelets this year, Canada came second in the counts with 6, coming on strong in the final few days of the series with two bracelets to take the lead from China, who ended on 5 wins.

Of course, this year also featured some of the biggest crowds ever at the WSOP, with the Main Event smashing the previous attendance and prize pool records. It was hardly the only record field as well, with many other events through the series crushing their previous records. It may have been 20 years since Chris Moneymaker sparked the poker boom, and 17 since the 2006 event set the previous record, but the WSOP results this year prove that live poker is alive and well post-pandemic, and frankly, doing better than it ever has before.

Event #91: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.

The WSOP is drawing to a close and Ryan Miller picked up one of the final bracelets to be awarded in 2023 for his second hardware of the year. He previously took down the $10k Stud8 Championship so MIller is showing his chops in the mixed game side of the series this year. To get the biggest piece of the $883,770 prize pie Miller had to navigate through a big field of 331 original entries and there were 50 players to be served a slice of HORSE pie.

As was something of a theme this year, the HORSE race needed an extra length to decide a winner. Miller and runner-up Leonard August bagged up their chips late Monday night after the eliminations of Barbara Enright and Calvin Anderson. Miller came to the final day with the most chips by almost 3:1 but August came back early on Day 4 to take the lead early, but Miller came storming back in stud. There were only 20 big bets in play on Day 2, so every decision mattered.

Miller was able to wear August down with the short-stack play and it was eventually all in on a limit hold’em hand with Miller dominating and the game was over. This second bracelet for Miller brings his lifetime earnings to just under $900k and was his second-best score after he bagged $344k for his first bracelet earlier this year.

Event #93: $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em

Short deck specialist Martin Nielsen took down one of the final bracelets in 2023 when he bested a pretty stellar field of 106 entries to take down his first bracelet. He pocketed $270,160 for the win, the biggest share of a prize pool of $985,800 that was split 16 ways.

Nielsen was in tough against some of the best in the game, including Eric Wasserson, John Juanda, Chris Brewer, Sam Soverel, Martin Zamani, Adam Friedman, Mikita Badziakouski, Shota Nakanishi, and Felip Ramos, who all cashed out in this one while Ryan Riess, Patrick Leonard, Nick Schulman, Ben Yu, David Williams, and Alex Epstein were among the players to fall before the money spots.

This win brings Nielsen’s lifetime earnings to just over $600k but he said in his winner’s interview that he is mostly an online player. “I am a full-time short-deck cash player, but I mostly play online on GG,” he said after his first-ever live win. While this was the first time Nielsen was in the live winner’s circle, it seems pretty clear he’ll be back for more short-deck action next year for the 2024 series.

Event #94: $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em

The second-last bracelet of the series was awarded on Tuesday night and Alex Keating from California was the player wearing it at the end of the action. He made it through a starting field of 813 entries to take down the big piece of the $3,739,800 total prize pool, but he shared those prizes with a total of 122 players.

Christian Harder and Massoud Eskandari were among the players Keating had to get through in this one. They cashed in seventh and ninth respectively, and were joined at the cash cage before the end of the game by Punnat Punsri, Felipe Ketzer, Pat Lyons, David Peters, Ryan Tosoc, Matt Vengrin, and Phil Laak with only Laak and Vengrin cashing out for less than $20k.

There were 60 players to return for Day 2 action on Tuesday with Peters in the lead. The eventual winner, Keating, came to the day eighth in chips with 1.06 million, almost 500k behind the leader, but he was able to chip it back up to take the win by the end. After he win, Keating admitted he was a bit stunned and unsure what to do next. When asked how he was feeling about the win, his reply was “Good… yeah, not bad actually … I’m thinking about what I’m supposed to do right now.”

Event #95: $1,000 Super Turbo No-Limit Hold’em

The 2023 World Series of Poker is now officially complete with the final bracelet awarded early Wednesday morning in an increasingly empty poker room. Event #95 was a one-day turbo affair that topped out at 1,482 entries for a prize pool of $1.318,980. There were a total of 223 players who grabbed a piece of the prizes with the earliest cashers pocketing $1,601 and the winner slated for more than $212k.

When the dust settled, it was Paul Berger from Boca Raton, Florida who was sitting with all the chips and the final bracelet of the 2023 series. This was his third cash this year, bur easily his best after what amounted to minimum cashes in Events #3 and #19. He had just shy of $80k in earnings from the WSOP and only about $150k in total earnings on Hendon Mob going into this event, so this win clearly represented his biggest score ever, by quite a margin. His previous best, according to Hendon, was about $32k from a 2017 WSOP event, so this one was more than 6 times bigger than his previous best.

He was facing down Brazilian great Yuri Dzivielevski for the bracelet in the endgame stages. The Brazilian pocketed $131,408 for second place while Canadian Santiago Plante picked up third-place money worth $95,195. As this was the final shot at a bracelet this year, the field was pretty stacked, and Gabriel Schroeder, Bryan Piccioli, Robbie Jade Lew, Eric Froehlich, Ben Yu, and Rafael Reis were all among the top-50 finishers in this one for $4,271 or more.

2023 WSOP is In the Books!

That final bracelet brings the 2023 World Series of Poker to a close with 95 live and 20 online bracelets awarded in the Vegas series. There were four double bracelet winners this year with Chad Eveslage starting things off by winning the first two Dealers Choice events. Josh Arieh, Chris Brewer, and Ryan Miller joined him in the double-winners club this year while Brian Rast earned his Hall of Fame induction with his third win in the PPC this year for his sixth bracelet and Phil Hellmuth extended his monster lead in the bracelet race with his 17th bit of wrist hardware.

Meanwhile, Ian Matakis ran away with the Player of the Year title this year, ending his series with one bracelet (Online Event #2: $500 No-Limit Hold’em Bankroll Builder for $120,686) and 22 total cashes through the series. Nine of those cashes came from online games while the other 13 came on the live felt and his biggest score of the year came from 3rd place in Event #82 for $205,696. That meant he ended up nearly 1,000 up on runner-up Shaun Deeb, who is in contention for the title nearly every year. Deeb had a solid series of his own with one bracelet and more than 20 cashes between the live and online games while Chris Brewer’s double-bracelet series netted him 3rd place in the PoY list.

Finally, Canada bagged a few honors this year. Not only did the Maple Leaf grab second place (behind host USA) in the bracelet counts, but Brampton, Ontario’s Jason Clarke also bagged the big prize of 30 years of free Main Event entries in celebration of the record field size in this year’s big show. Canada came on strong in the final few days of the series to nip ahead of China for second in the national standings with the Asian behemoth ending the series on 5 wins while Canada bagged 6.