2019 WSOP Day 28: Spain Takes First Win of Series

Last updated on June 26th, 2019

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On Tuesday, June 25, this is what happened at the 50^th Annual World Series of Poker.

Event 50: $1,500 NLHE Monster Stack – Day 4 of 5

Total entries: 6,035

Prize pool: $8,147,250

Players paid: 906

Minimum payout: $2,249

Winner payout: $1,008,850

Day 4 players remaining: 6

Final table chip counts:

Benjamin Ector (USA) – 84.3 million chips

Kainalu McCue-Unciano (USA) – 68.3 million chips

Gregory Katayama (Canada) – 55.1 million chips

Bart Hanson (USA) – 40.6 million chips

Vincent Chauve (France) – 36.7 million chips

Igor Yaroshevskyy (Ukraine) – 17 million chips

Final table payouts thus far:

7^th place: Bryan Kim (USA) – $149,247

8^th place: Andre Haneberg (Austria) – $114,694

9^th place: Javier Zarco (Spain) – $88,817

Day 5 starting time: 12noon

Event 52: $10K PLO 8-Handed Championship – Final

Total entries: 518

Prize pool: $4,869,200

Players paid: 78

Final table payouts:

1^st place: Dash Dudley (USA) – $1,086,967

2^nd place: James Park (UK) – $671,802

3^rd place: Joel Feldman (Australia) – $463,814

4^th place: Jeremy Ausmus (USA) – $325,693

5^th place: Kyle Montgomery (USA) – $232,680

6^th place: Eoghan O’Dea (Ireland) – $169,173

7^th place: Andrei Razov (Russia) – $125,215

8^th place: Will Jaffe (USA) – $94,380

Event 53: $800 NLHE 8-Handed Deep Stack – Final

Total entries: 3,759

Prize pool: $2,676,408

Players paid: 564

Final table payouts:

1^st place: Santiago Soriano (Spain) – $371,203

2^nd place: Amir Lehavot (Israel) – $229,410

3^rd place: Benjamin Underdwood (Canada) – $168,960

4^th place: Nick Blackburn (USA) – $125,432

5^th place: Joao Barrosovalli (Brazil) – $93,866

6^th place: Samuel Gagnon (Canada) – $70,813

7^th place: Daniele Dangelo (Germany) – $53,858

8^th place: Ori Hasson (Iceland) – $41,300

Event 54: $1,500 Razz – Final

Total entries: 363

Prize pool: $490,050

Players paid: 55

Final table payouts:

1^st place: Kevin Gerhart (USA) – $119,054

2^nd place: Sergio Braga (Brazil) – $73,577

3^rd place: Joseph Hoffman (USA) – $49,762

4^th place: Andres Norbe Korn (Argentina) – $34,352

5^th place: Jean Said (Senegal) – $24,216

6^th place: Scott Clements (USA) – $17,440

7^th place: Robert Campbell (Australia) – $12,837

8^th place: Grzegorz Wyraz (Poland) – $9,663

Event 57: $1K NLHE Tag Team – Day 2 of 4

Total entries: 976 teams

Prize pool: $878,400

Players paid: 147 teams

Minimum payout: $1,498/team

Winner payout: $168,395/team

Day 2 players remaining: 35 teams

Chip leader: Ohad Gieger / Daniel Dayan / Barak Wisbrod – 1.34 million chips

Day 3 starting time: 1pm

Event 58: $50K Poker Players Championship – Day 2 of 5

Total entries: 74

Prize pool: $3,552,000

Players paid: 12

Minimum payout: $72,078

Winner payout: $1,099,311

Day 2 players remaining: 38

Chip leader: Phil Ivey (USA) – 1,254,000 chips

Day 3 starting time: 2pm

Event 59: $600 NLHE Deep Stack Championship – Day 1 of 3

Event 59: $600 No-Limit Deepstack Championship starts at 11am today.

The winner receives a $10,000 WSOP Main Event Seat, ADDED to the prize pool.

Registration and a single re-entry open for the first 12 40-minute levels.

75-minute dinner break after Level 9. pic.twitter.com/b2ib8IlpKp

— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 25, 2019

Total entries: 6,140

Prize pool: $3,223,500

Players paid: 921

Minimum payout: $875

Winner payout: $397,903

Day 1 players remaining: 919

Chip leader: Dan Matsuzuki (USA) – 868,000 chips

Day 2 starting time: 2pm

Event 60: $1,500 PLO Hi-Lo 8-or-Better – Day 1 of 3

The #WSOP50 schedule hits the 2/3rd mark with Event 60: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Eight or Better.

Registration and one re-entry open for the first eight levels.

Play starts after a short delay with 350 players.

Reporting at https://t.co/2Xm717y5qT pic.twitter.com/ed7FfwYB6h

— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 25, 2019

Total entries: 1,117

Prize pool: $1,507,950

Players paid: 168

Minimum payout: $2,249

Winner payout: $279,920

Day 1 players remaining: 417

Chip leader: Ray Medlin (USA) – 240,100 chips

Day 2 starting time: 2pm

Notable Information

The first bracelet of the day on Tuesday went to Dash Dudley, a Michigan native whose support on the rail included his mother and fiancée. The $10K PLO Championship win came with more than $1 million in prize money.

Dudley credited his mother for introducing him to poker in his early teens, a passion he carried into college in 2002, and he has since become a PLO cash game specialist. He prepared for the final table the night before, but years of practice came into play, as well as the support at the Rio and home in Michigan. “It definitely feels good when I am sure to have all those people behind me,” he said.

Lansing, Michigan's Dash Dudley wins Event #52 at the 2019 @WSOP, $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed. @DashDudley, a PLO specialist, collects his first bracelet and a whopping $1,086,967 payday. https://t.co/eSRXGj3UZk pic.twitter.com/8Y9s448EQQ

— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 26, 2019

Next up on Tuesday was the $800 NLHE Deep Stack, which produced the first 2019 WSOP champion from Spain. Santiago Soriano became the first Spaniard to claim gold this summer, and it was his first career bracelet as well. “It feels amazing,” he said. “I started leading with ten left. I ran really good; I never lost an all-in. I felt comfortable, felt confident, didn’t see myself as an underdog.”

The pro poker player had taken a few months off before the WSOP but returned to the tables prepared. “I was ready to win.”

Spanish pro Santiago Soriano tops a 3,759-entry field to win Event #53 at the 2019 @WSOP, . Soriano, 32, collects #371,203 and his first career gold bracelet. https://t.co/psD2MoWyfk pic.twitter.com/vOuZeb6I3v

— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 26, 2019

Finally, it was the $1,500 Razz tournament, which everyone loves to hate, and Kevin Gerhart took the title and his first bracelet in that event. “First razz tournament, first bracelet,” he said. “I mean I’ve played a bunch of other tournaments with razz, but this is the first razz tournament.”

Gerhart had never made a WSOP final table, so that was his goal coming into the summer. And when it happened, he made that into a win. It was a tough final table, but he said he felt great throughout the action. “To win a poker tournament, you have to run hotter than the sun. I still can’t believe it’s over … I’m one of the elites now with a bracelet.”

Congrats to @KevinGerhart, winner of the $1,500 Razz event for his first WSOP bracelet and $119,054!https://t.co/PGhWholZHP pic.twitter.com/N1Vv1YeRDu

— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 26, 2019