WSOP 2024 Day 38 – Ensan and Aldemir survive but Raymer falls

Another day and another first hand bustout at the World Series of Poker Main Event, Tony Guglietti’s bucket list tick ending in a very early bath. Greg Raymer also fell but things went rather better for his fellow former Main Event champions, Hossein Ensan and Koray Aldemir.

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Greg Raymer (courtesy of WSOP)

Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship

After Day 1a saw 2023 champ Daniel Weinman open the 55th Annual WSOP Main Event, today it was 2004 champ Greg Raymer’s turn to do the “shuffle up and deal” honours for Day 1b.

Raymer himself would fall late in the day with jacks against aces, but he did rather better than some. If the Day 1a opening hand caught two players in the trap, yesterday produced just one disaster, Canada’s Tony Guglietti lasting mere minutes…

Tony Guglietti: 9♦ 9♣

John Gutierrez: A♠ K♠

Flop: 5♠ 7♣ 6♠

Turn: 10♠

River: 8♥

Guglietti’s river shove was quickly called by Gutierrez with the nut flush and that’s all she wrote for the Canadian businessman.

831 entries added to the 916 of day 1a, among them 10-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel, 2019 Main Event champion Hossein Ensan and 2021 champ Koray Aldemir, who all safely bagged a stack.

Less fortunate were, as mentioned, 2004 champ Greg Raymer, who fell alongside Erick Lindgren, Juha Helppi and Josh Arieh.

Day 1b Top 10 Chip Counts

RankPlayerCountryChip Count
1George DolofanUSA314,000
2Matthew SabiaUSA297,400
3Patrick HagenlocherUSA270,300
4Vladas TamasauskasLithuania268,300
5Aaron WernerUSA246,900
6Junfeng WangAustralia223,300
7Frode AlfredsenNorway221,200
8Nicolaas ThielmanUSA217,300
9Florian RibouchonFrance215,400
10Daniel NeilsonAustralia214,900

Meanwhile, there were bracelets won by Giorgos Skarparis in Event #78: $1,000 Mini Main Event No-Limit Hold’em and Daniel Perkusic who scooped Event #79: $50,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha (8-Handed) for a monster $2,100,325.

Event #80: $800 Independence Day Celebration No-Limit Hold’em

The second and final starting flight saw almost 4000 entries whittled down to just over 200, who will join the 150 survivors from day 1a.

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John Riordan and Kenny Hallaert are the standout names but it’s day 1a chip leader Ivan Denev and his day 1b counterpart William Zaiss leading the way.

RankPlayerCountryChip Count
1William ZaissUSA2,280,000
2Nipun JavaIndia1,925,000
3Che Chun ChuChina1,880,000
4Yuchung ChangUSA1,825,000
5Juan AlfinesUSA1,730,000
6Joel DeutschUSA1,700,000
7Hamid IzadiUSA1,695,000
8Ging PangUnited Kingdom1,695,000
9Benjamin EctorUSA1,690,000
10Srikanth YadlapatiUSA1,680,000

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