WSOP 2023 Day 24 Recap: Five Bracelets Won as Brian Rast Takes Sixth WSOP Title and Yuri Dzivielevski Claims Third

A huge day of action at the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) saw five bracelets won in style at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos on the Las Vegas Strip. With Brian Rast winning his sixth bracelet and third Poker Players Championship title, Yuri Dzivielevski winning his third WSOP bracelet and two first-time winners celebrating the moment of their poker lives, Day 24 of the 2023 World Series was one for the books.

 

Rast Completes Improbable ‘Treble’ PPC Win, Seals Sixth Bracelet

 

Brian Rast did what only Michael Mizrachi has done before in poker history by winning the third Poker Players Championship of his career. Winning the $50,000-entry ‘PPC’, Rast’s win not only cemented his place in poker history in this event but may also have gone a long way to boosting his chances of induction into the Poker Hall of Fame in this year’s ballot.

 

At a dramatic final table, the short stack left first on the final day as Kris Tong busted in fifth place for $303,071. He was followed from the felt by the Day 3 chip leader James Obst, with the Australian unable to get anything going on the day.

 

Three players remained, and two of them were the British pair Talal Shakerchi and Matt Ashton, but despite both those players starting well ahead of Rast in the counts at the start of play, the American got the better of his cross-Atlantic rivals and claimed the $1.3 million top prize in a thrilling denouement, which you can read more about in detail here.

 

Rast now sits equal at the top of the all-time PPC leaderboard with three victories in the one all poker players want to win.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #43 $50,000 Poker Players Championship Results:
Rank	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Brian Rast	United States	$1,324,747
2nd	Talal Shakerchi	United Kingdom	$818,756
3rd	Matthew Ashton	United Kingdom	$573,679
4th	James Obst	Australia	$411,824
5th	Kristopher Tong	United States	$303,071
6th	Phil Ivey	United States	$228,793
7th	Ray Dehkharghani	United States	$177,294

 

Yuri Dzivielevski Celebrates Third Bracelet with Rail of the Summer

 

Does anyone do a final table rail at the World Series that rivals Brazilians? South America’s poker powerhouse Brazil welcomed another winner in recent history as Yuri Dzivielevski, a former online world number one, claimed his third WSOP bracelet after a stunning victory in the $1,500-entry H.O.R.S.E. event in Las Vegas.

 

The final table was a tough one, with stars of the mixed game felt such as Serhii Popovych and Frankie O’Dell busting in 8^th and 4^th places respectively. After Nghia Le left in 3^rd place for $91,221, the Brazilian had to battle with Randy Ohel to take the crown, as both men fought over six-figure score.

 

In the end, Dzivielevski prevailed and celebrated in style with his Brazilian rail, at least 50 strong in the Thunderdome as the party got started.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #47 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. Results:
Rank	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Yuri Dzivielevski	Brazil	$207,678
2nd	Randy Ohel	United States	$128,536
3rd	Nghia Le	United States	$91,221
4th	Frankie O'Dell	United States	$65,782
5th	Stephen Savoy	United States	$48,146
6th	Thor William Morstoel	Norway	$35,772
7th	Denis Nesterenko	Russia	$26,987
8th	Serhii Popovych	United States	$20,677

 

Zhang Beats Oganyan in $3,000 NL

 

The final table of the $3,000-entry No Limit Hold’em Event #44 saw Chinese player Yang Zhang win the $717,879 top prize and in doing so capture his first-ever WSOP title. Zhang, who only returned to the WSOP fold this year following the COVID-19 pandemic has really made his mark in this year’s Series to date, cashing three times including this win, for a total profit of over $725,000.

 

Afterwards, he was struck by the impact of what he had done at the felt, saying: “I think it's a milestone of my poker life.” Admitting that he has always ‘loved the game from the beginning’, Zhang went on to say, “It's kind of a great achievement for me.”

 

No-one could doubt that on a day where quality players Jon Van Fleet (4^th for $238,546) and Shannon Shorr (7^th for $101,928) were both denied first bracelets by another first-time winner.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #44 $3,000 No Limit Hold'em Results:
Rank	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Yang Zhang	China	$717,879
2nd	Aram Oganyan	United States	$443,680
3rd	Alex Lynskey	Australia	$323,610
4th	Jon Van Fleet	United States	$238,546
5th	Frederic Normand	Canada	$177,732
6th	Aleks Dimitrov	Bulgaria	$133,862
7th	Shannon Shorr	United States	$101,928
8th	John Marino	United States	$78,475
9th	Levente Szabo	Hungary	$61,098

 

Wang the Man as Lococo Falls Short

 

The $1,500-entry Super Turbo Bounty Event #49 saw a frenetic finish wrap up the final table inside three hours in Las Vegas. Alejandro Lococo led the field with nine starting the action, but the PokerStars Ambassador couldn’t make the last six as the stacks changed hands fast.

 

Playing out more like an online event, the action was fast and friendly as Pengfei Wang triumphed against Will Linden in an all-American finale to win the $270,700 and his first-ever gold WSOP bracelet to rapturous applause from the rail. At the same time at the online felt, Stanislav 'ForlorarDu' Barshak won his first WSOP bracelet in Online Event #9, the $1,000-entry PLO Championship.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #49 $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty Results:
Rank	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Pengfei Wang	United States	$270,700
2nd	Will Linden	United States	$167,339
3rd	Chen An Lin	Taiwan	$123,198
4th	Kenneth Maurer	United States	$91,558
5th	Michael Burns	United States	$68,693
6th	Tony Gargano	United States	$52,034
7th	Alejandro Lococo	Argentina	$39,799
8th	Danny Scott	United States	$30,760
9th	Frank Lagodich	United States	$23,978

 

Workman Works Magic on Day 1b of Seniors Championship

 

Joseph Workman worked his magic on the second Day 1 flight of the $1,000-entry Seniors Championship. Topping the Day 1b half of 1,624 survivors to Day 2, Workman’s stack of 510,000 ended Day 1b ahead of Francisco Corrales (508,5000) by a three-bet and a smile, with others such as Dan Heimiller (221,000), Fred Berger (186,000), James Calderaro (172,000), and Men Nguyen (169,000) all part of the 8,180 total field who'll be pushing to win the $765,731 top prize.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #48 $1,000 Seniors Championship Leaderboard:
Rank	Player	Country	Chips
1st	Joseph Workman	United States	510,000
2nd	Francisco Corrales	United States	508,500
3rd	Amin Mostafavi	United States	391,000
4th	Osmin Dardon	United States	386,000
5th	Gary Herstein	United States	357,000
6th	Scott Dobbs	United States	351,000
7th	Clinton Hartshorn	United States	342,500
8th	Iliodoros Kamatakis	Greece	338,000
9th	David Palmer	United States	333,000
10th	Karen Sarkisyan	Russia	325,000

 

Danchev on Top in PLO Championship

 

Bulgarian player Dimitar Danchev (3,705,000) leads the final 42 players into the PLO Championship’s latter stages. Event #50 on the ticket saw Sam Soverel also bag big as the American’s 2,034,000 stack was second best on a day where Danchev bullied almost everyone else in the field, with only William Kopp (1,890,000) and Dylan Weisman (1,855,000) ending the day with over half the Bulgarian’s stack. 

 

A lot can happen in Pot-Limit Omaha so there is nothing guaranteed about Danchev and a march to victory. The Bulgarian is, however, in a tremendous position as he chases what would be a second WSOP bracelet and a top prize of $1.3 million.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #50 $10,000 PLO Championship Leaderboard:
Rank	Player	Country	Chips
1st	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	3,705,000
2nd	Sam Soverel	United States	2,034,000
3rd	William Kopp	United States	1,890,000
4th	Dylan Weisman	United States	1,855,000
5th	Elliott Kampen	United States	1,800,085

 

Tag Team Tournament Welcomes Record Turnout

 

Event #51 on the schedule, the $1,000-entry Tag Team event, welcomed 1,282 entries as 252 players/teams remain in the hunt for the massive $95,331 top prize.

 

With only 193 teams making the cut into the money places when tomorrow’s Day 2 kicks off, Mark Evangelista (562,000) was followed by two other ‘solo’ teams in Kenneth Gallo (382,000) and Richard Ali (325,500) in the chipcounts, but several stars teamed up to make the upper limits of the leaderboard too, with Julie Marriott and Dara O'Kearney (196,000) crushing it, with O’Kearney crediting his partner with doing most of the hard yards.

 

Poker power duo Jessica Teusl and Stefan Lehner (152,500) both excelled too and will hope to emulate another ‘poker couple’ in previous winners Igor Kurganov and Liv Boeree in winning gold.  

      

WSOP 2023 Event #51 $1,000 Tag Team Leaderboard:
Rank	Player	Country	Chips
1st	Mark Evangelista	United States	562,000
2nd	Kenneth Gallo	United States	382,000
3rd	Richard Ali	United States	325,500
4th	Amber Donatelli & Marcus Stein	United States	325,000
5th	Jeremy Palvini & Jean-Paul Pasqualini	France	305,000

 

Marco Johnson Leads Triple Draw Event in Front of Nacho Barbero

 

American player Marco Johnson (228,500) leads from Argentinian poker great Nacho Barbero (216,500) in the $2,500-entry Event #52, otherwise known as the Mixed Triple Draw event. With others such as Maxx Coleman (210,500), Bryan Micon (208,5000) and Joseph Wagganer (200,500) completing the top five, 145 players will return tomorrow from the 353 who started Day 1.

 

With a massive prizepool of $785,425, a top prize of $181,978 is up for grabs and only 53 players will reach the money places, a min-cash being worth $4,069 in this event.

 

WSOP 2023 Event #52 $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Leaderboard:
Rank	Player	Country	Chips
1st	Marco Johnson	United States	228,500
2nd	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	216,500
3rd	Maxx Coleman	United States	210,500
4th	Bryan Micon	Antigua and Berbuda	208,000
5th	Joseph Wagganer	United States	200,500

 

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