2018 WSOP Weekly Roundup – Updates, Results, Winners

Online legend Shaun Deeb ships the $25,000 PLO High Roller for $1,402,683

The $25,000 25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed High Roller was the absolute highlight of this year’s WSOP for all fans of the game with the four cards.

PLO is nowadays the preferred game of many top pros as it creates a lot of action and massive pots. That’s why it didn’t come as a surprise that 230 players registered and created a huge prize pool of $5,462,500.

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The final table was one of the strongest we have seen so far including Scotty Nguyen, Jason Koon, David Benyamine, Ben Yu and Shaun Deep.

The last two also made it to the Heads-Up and Yu not only had the chiplead, but also defeated Deeb last year in the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship. But not this time as Shaun got his revenge and won his second bracelet for a whopping $1,402,683.

Final Result and Payouts:

PlaceWinnerCountryPrize Money
1Shaun DeebUnited States$1,402,683
2Ben YuUnited States$866,924
3Scotty NguyenUnited States$592,875
4James CalderaroUnited States$414,134
5Jason KoonUnited States$295,606
6Ryan TosocUnited States$215,718
7David BenyamineFrance$161,020
8Bogdan CapitanRomania$123,004

Nicholas Seiken wins $10,000 2-7 Triple Draw Championship for $287,987

Next big highlight was the $10,000 2-7 Triple Draw Championship, which is also very popular among the best players in the world.

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Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, Calvin “cal42688” Anderson and Christopher apotheosis92” Kruk all had deep runs but slightly missed the final table.

At the big final No-Limit Hold’em specialist Nikolas Seiken from the USA surprisingly prevailed and was rewarded with a sweet $287,987.

Final Result and Payouts:

PositionPlayerCountryPrize
1Nicholas SeikenUnited States$287,987
2Randy OhelUnited States$177,992
3Kristijonas AndrulisLithuania$125,190
4Farzad BonyadiUnited States$89,078
5Matt GlantzUnited States$64,131
6Jason GrayAustralia$46,722

Loren Klein wins his third bracelet within three years in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship!

It was the week of Pot-Limit Omaha at the World Series of Poker with the two biggest PLO events both taking place within 4 days! 476 entries generated a prize pool of $4,474,400.

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And it ended with a bang!  On an extremely fierce final table Loren Klein came out on top winning his third bracelet within only three years together all of them in PLO, which secures him a seat in the olymp of the best Pot-Limit Omaha players of all time.

Final Result and Payouts:

PositionPlayerCountryPrize
1Loren KleinUnited States$1,018,336
2Rep PorterUnited States$629,378
3Brandon Shack-HarrisUnited States$433,259
4Jerry WongUnited States$303,491
5Ryan HughesUnited States$216,391
6Scott BohlmanUnited States$157,097
7Mike LeahCanada$116,166
8Alexey MakarovRussia$87,522

Vitor Rangel takes chiplead into MONSTER STACK final day

The Monster Stack always attracts massive starting fields and huge prize pools. It was no different this year with an incredible 6,260 players and  $8,451,000.

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Yesterday Day 4 took place and the field was reduced to the final 29. American Vitor Rangel is chipleader, but top pros James Carroll, Steve Billirakis, Shyam Srinivasan and Aditya Agarwal are all still in the hunt for the massive paycheck of $1,037,451.

Monster Stack Chips Counts after Day 4:

Vitor Rangel8,920,000
James Carroll8,165,000
Harald Sammer7,170,000
Rittie Chuaprasert5,785,000
Michael Benko5,250,000
Colin McHugh4,310,000
James Salmon4,210,000
Steve Billirakis4,145,000
Jimmy Chen4,000,000
Raul Lozano3,365,000
David Neiman3,255,000
Justin Quincannon3,255,000
Raj Singh2,900,000
Shyam Srinivasan2,750,000
Francis Rusnak2,645,000
Dean Zohar2,565,000
Frank Flowers2,500,000
Daniel Corbett2,420,000
Chad Eveslage2,250,000
Daniel Sprung2,040,000
Mstr Lynch1,925,000
Tommy Nguyen1,905,000
Aditya Agarwal1,680,000
Chris Chong1,620,000
Darryl Woodruff1,600,000
Jang Lee1,385,000
Jaspal Brar1,090,000
Ryan Moss890,000
David Cabrera Polop20,000

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