2019 WSOP Day 19: Mash and De Silva Win Bracelets
Sunday served up a one-day online tournament, the end of the Seniors Championship, and a little controversy, all in a day’s work at the Rio.
On Sunday, June 16, this is what happened at the 50th Annual World Series of Poker.
Event 32: $1K Seniors NLHE – Final
Total entries: 5,917
Prize pool: $5,325,300
Players paid: 888
Final table payouts:
1st place: Howard Mash (USA) – $662,594
2nd place: Jean Fontaine (France) – $409,249
3rd place: James Mcnurlan (USA) – $303,705
4th place: Adam Richardson (USA) – $226,996
5th place: Donald Matusow (USA) – $170,887
6th place: Farhad Jamasi (USA) – $129,582
7th place: Samir Husaynue (USA) – $98,981
8th place: Mike Lisanti (Canada) – $76,165
9th place: Mansour Alipourfard (USA) – 59,044
Event 34: $1K Double Stack NLHE – Day 2 of 6
Total entries: 6,214
Prize pool: $5,592,600
Players paid: 933
Minimum payout: $1,499
Winner payout: $687,782
Day 2 players remaining: 359
Chip leader: Arianna Son (USA) – 2,363,000 chips
Day 3 starting time: 12noon
Event 35: $10K Dealer’s Choice 6-Handed – Day 3 of 4
Total entries: 122
Prize pool: $1,146,800
Players paid: 19
Minimum payout: $14,818
Winner payout: $312,417
Day 2 players remaining: 5
Final table chip counts:
Shaun Deeb (USA) – 2,601,000 chips
Adam Friedman (USA) – 1,898,000 chips
Matt Glantz (USA) – 1,401,000 chips
Michael McKenna (USA) – 1,038,000 chips
David Moskowitz (USA) – 382,000 chips
Final table payouts thus far:
6th place: Nick Schulman (USA) – $52,656
Day 4 starting time: 12noon
Event 36: $3K NLHE Shootout – Day 2 of 3
Total entries: 313
Prize pool: $845,100
Players paid: 40
Minimum payout: $6,099
Winner payout: $207,193
Day 2 players remaining: 10
Final table chip counts:
Jan Lakota (Slovenia) – 623,000 chips
Ben Farrell (UK) – 621,000 chips
David Lambard (USA) – 621,000 chips
Andrew Lichtenberger (USA) – 614,000 chips
Alexandru Papazian (Romania) – 609,000 chips
Adrien Delmas (France) – 609,000 chips
Martin Zamani (USA) – 601,000 chips
Weiyi Zhang (China) – 599,000 chips
Johan Guilbert (France) – 599,000 chips
Justin Bonomo (USA) – 591,000 chips
Day 3 starting time: 12noon
Event 37: $800 NLHE Deep Stack – Day 1 of 3
Total entries: 2,808
Prize pool: $1,999,296
Players paid: 422
Minimum payout: $1,185
Winner payout: $297,537
Day 1 players remaining: 671
Chip leader: Jose Brito (Portugal) – 776,000 chips
Day 2 starting time: 12noon
Event 38: $600 Online Knockout Bounty NLHE – Final
Total entries: 1,224
Prize pool: $550,800
Players paid: 207
Minimum payout: $661
Final table payouts:
1st place: Upeshka “gomezhamburg” de Silva (USA) – $98,262.72
2nd place: David “dave419” Nodes (USA) – $60,092.28
3rd place: “davidas777” (USA) – $42,962.40
4th place: “Pretabotones (Spain) – $31,065.12
5th place: “Turko” (Turkey) – $22,748.04
6th place: “p.bateman (USA) – $16,854.48
7th place: “johnsonck” (USA) – $12,668.40
8th place: “B3ndTheKnee (USA) – $9,583.92
9th place: “BoatyBoatz8A (USA) – $7,380.72
Notable Information
It approximately 11 hours, Event 38 started and finished online. And a familiar name was the last player standing, as Upeshka De Silva won his third WSOP bracelet (his first online). The Sri Lanka native and US resident already made a live WSOP final table this summer, but with the online win, he claimed his third career bracelet and close to $100K in cash.
The Seniors Championship was a massive event this year, and Event 32 played out yesterday with Howard Mash dominating through several days of play. The American financial advisor was the chip leader at the end of Day 2 and Day 3, and he used his years of poker experience to pull out the win against a tough French opponent during heads-up play.
Mash calls poker “a hobby…but a pretty serious hobby” and just barely made the age qualification for this tournament when he turned 50 last month.
The win came at a good time. “I had a bad year last year personally,” he said, “and this totally makes up for it. I’m in shock. It’s like a dream come true for me.”
Over in the $10K Dealer’s Choice Championship, there was controversy. The tournament played down to the final table of six and continued. When only five players remained, they went on a break thinking they would play on afterward to complete seven levels for the day.
However, WSOP Tournament Supervisor Dennis Jones spoke to WSOP VP Jack Effel, and they decided play would stop for the night. Adam Friedman and Michael McKenna both wanted that to happen, but Shaun Deeb and Matt Glantz were none too happy with the decision. The discussion became heated and players continued it on Twitter, but players stopped with five remaining.
It should be noted that Friedman is aiming to defend his title in this event on Monday, and Deeb is working to pick up his fifth career bracelet.
Well again @WSOPTD makes an awful ruling to fuck be over think both players abused the system to increase their own equity while we were outside after the proper ruling was made no one wants short day 3s and day 4s in small events that obvious from twitter
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) June 17, 2019
Can we all just agree that it's stupid to bag w 5 players left at 7pm on a Day 3 in a $10k event that's not going to be streamed anyway?
5 hrs of play today & stop because the structure sheet says 4 days.
Rules are the rules, but common sense needs to always override the rules.
— Matt Glantz (@MattGlantz) June 17, 2019
For the 2nd year in a row, there will be a day 4 in the 10k DC. I will try and finish the job.
— Ada❌ Fried❌an (@AdamFriedman119) June 17, 2019
