WSOP 2022 Day 20: Bromfman Binks for Brazil
There are quite a lot of fast tournaments in this year’s World Series of Poker schedule. Some of the No Limit Hold’em events offer a faster schedule than usual, one that allows the tournament to play out in just two days.
Day 20 offered the fastest one of the series, a NLHE freezeout with a $1K buy-in and a single-day structure. They call it a super turbo bounty because that’s exactly how it plays. Event 41 started and ended in the same 24-hour period.
Meanwhile, the Millionaire Maker has a much longer structure, as does the $100K NHLE High Roller. Both will go on for a couple more days.
Event 37: $1,500 NLHE Millionaire Maker
From 1700 players, the Millionaire Maker played down into the money to pay the top 1193 of them and continue on. Play ended with just 232 players eligible to make more than $1M for playing this tournament.
| Event 37: Day 2 of 4 | $1,500 buy-in | NLHE Millionaire Maker (1 RE/Flight) |
| Total entries: | 7,961 | (8809 in 2019, 5326 in 2021) |
| Players remaining: | 232 | |
| Total prize pool: | $10,627,935 | |
| Players paid: | 1,193 | |
| Minimum payout: | $2,400 | |
| Winner payout: | $1,125,141 | ($1M GTD) |
| Top chip counts: | #1 | Tom Thomas (USA) 2,875,000 |
| #2 | Paul Ahn (USA) 2,650,000 | |
| #3 | Seamus Cahill (Ireland) 2,560,000 | |
| #4 | Raul Martinez (Spain) 2,370,000 | |
| #5 | Maxime Chilaud (France) 2,200,000 |
Event 38: $10K NL 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship
This one started with 14 players on its final day. David Lombard was the first player to exit, though. A bit later, Jerry Wong busted in 11th place, followed by Dan Shak and Phil Hellmuth. The final eight took seats at one table, with Alex Livingston, Pedro Bromfman, and Scott Seiver vying for the chip lead. But Bromfman promptly took a massive pot to jump into a solid lead.
Andrew Kelsall busted in eighth place to set the official final table of seven. Seiver busted Eli Elezra in seventh place, and Bromfman eliminated Farzad Bonyadi. Seiver sent one of the two Brazilians out, as Yuri Dzivielevski accepted fifth place, and Seiver also sent Livingston out in fourth.
Cary Katz lost a big one to Seiver when the former misread his hand, and Seiver busted him a few hands later. Bromfman had a two-to-one lead going into heads-up, and he quickly dispatched Seiver. The Brazilian Bromfman collected the first bracelet for Brazil this year.
Bromfman was emotional after his win. He said that he is not a professional poker player, but it was a dream to win it.
| Event 38: Day 3 of 3 | $10K buy-in | NL 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship (1 RE) |
| Total entries: | 121 | (91 in 2019, 122 in 2021) |
| Total prize pool: | $1,128,325 | |
| Players paid: | 19 | |
| Minimum payout: | $16,000 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Pedro Bromfman (Brazil) $294,616 |
| 2nd place: | Scott Seiver (USA) $182,086 | |
| 3rd place: | Cary Katz (USA) $131,362 | |
| 4th place: | Alex Livingston (Canada) $96,104 | |
| 5th place: | Yuri Dzivielevski (Brazil) $71,315 | |
| 6th place: | Farzad Bonyadi (USA) $53,687 | |
| 7th place: | Eli Elezra (Israel) $41,011 |
With his third-ever WSOP cash, Pedro Bromfman struck gold in Event #38: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship. His first bracelet also came with a payday of nearly $300,000.
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Event 39: $3K PLO 6-Handed
This tournament set the field and played down from 156 to 16 players on Day 2. Familiar names like Jason DeWitt and Jan-Peter Jachtmann are still in the mix, but Leonid Yanovski is stacks above the rest of the survivors.
| Event 39: Day 2 of 4 | $3K buy-in | PLO 6-Handed (2 RE) |
| Total entries: | 719 | (835 in 2019, 496 in 2021) |
| Players remaining: | 16 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,919,730 | |
| Players paid: | 108 | |
| Minimum payout: | $4,834 | |
| Winner payout: | $371,358 | |
| Top chip counts: | #1 | Leonid Yanovski (Israel) 5,000,000 |
| #2 | Jamey Hendrickson (USA) 3,660,000 | |
| #3 | Jason Stockfish (USA) 3,320,000 | |
| #4 | Andriy Lyubovetskiy (Ukraine) 3,180,000 | |
| #5 | Sean Winter (USA) 2,590,000 |
Event 40: $10K Stud-8 Championship
A long day for Stud championship-level players brought the field down to just 15. Daniel Negreanu remains in but on a short stack, and John Monnette hangs in as well. Brian Hastings is looking for a seventh bracelet, and Dan Zack is looking for his third – both wanting to be the first to capture two bracelets this year. But they’ll have to get past Chad Eveslage and Shaun Deeb at the top of the leaderboard to do it.
| Event 40: Day 2 of 3 | $10K buy-in | Seven-Card Stud-8 Championship |
| Total entries: | 137 | (151 in 2019, 144 in 2021) |
| Players remaining: | 15 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,277,525 | |
| Players paid: | 21 | |
| Minimum payout: | $16,358 | |
| Winner payout: | $324,174 | |
| Top chip counts: | #1 | Chad Eveslage (USA) 1,131,000 |
| #2 | Shaun Deeb (USA) 1,017,000 | |
| #3 | Eric Kurtzman (USA) 873,000 | |
| #4 | David Funkhouser (USA) 805,000 | |
| #5 | Long Tran (USA) 720,000 |
Event 41: $1K NLHE Bounty Super Turbo
One and done. A one-day tournament is rare at the World Series of Poker, but this is one all wrapped up in a single day with no reentries, $300 bounties, and a simple $1K buy-in for a super turbo structure. There were 2,227 players who wanted to try it, but about 15 hours later, only one remained. Ramsey Stovall won his first piece of WSOP gold, with a substantial rail cheering him on and a boss who had told him to take the day off to play.
| Event 41: Day 1 of 1 | $1K buy-in | NLHE Super Turbo Bounty |
| Total entries: | 2,227 | (2452 in 2019, 1441 in 2021) |
| Total prize pool: | $1,313,930 | |
| Players paid: | 335 | |
| Minimum payout: | $1,061 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Ramsey Stovall (USA) $191,268 |
| 2nd place: | Timothy Heng (USA) $118,213 | |
| 3rd place: | Steve Frakes (USA) $87,047 | |
| 4th place: | Wing Yam (USA) $64,702 | |
| 5th place: | Larry Carillo (USA) $48,551 | |
| 6th place: | Rafael Lebron (USA) $36,782 | |
| 7th place: | Ed Chang (USA) $28,136 | |
| 8th place: | Louise Francoeur (Canada) $21,733 | |
| 9th place: | Wen Ni (USA) $16,953 |
Racing to his first gold bracelet in less than 24 hours was Ramsey Stovall who outlasted 2,226 opponents in Event #41: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Super Turbo Bounty.
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— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 20, 2022
Event 42: $100K NLHE High Roller
The security guards were out for this one, as you know there were some players who bought in with cash. Not only did this one require $100K to enter, it offered one reentry per player. Only one table started the event, but a few more contenders joined throughout the day. The end of the night registered 52 entries, but registration does remain open until the start of Day 2. Late registrants will join the 23 players from Day 2 to play for big, big money.
| Event 42: Day 1 of 3 | $100K buy-in | NLHE High Roller (1 RE) |
| Total entries: | 52 (not final) | (99 in 2019, 64 in 2021) |
| Players remaining: | 23 | |
| Total prize pool: | TBD | |
| Players paid: | TBD | |
| Minimum payout: | TBD | |
| Winner payout: | TBD | |
| Top chip counts: | #1 | Masashi Oya (Japan) 2,765,000 |
| #2 | Aleksejs Ponakovs (Latvia) 2,490,000 | |
| #3 | Koray Aldemir (Germany) 2,390,000 | |
| #4 | Ben Heath (UK) 2,275,000 | |
| #5 | Jason Koon (USA) 2,230,000 |
Today’s Poker Menu
Event 37 plays down the Millionaire Maker in the hopes of finding a final table.
Event 39 tries to play to the six-handed PLO final table…or five players for the next day’s livestream.
Event 40 plays to a winner, though there is a chance they will require another day.
Event 42 plays the second of four $100K High Roller days.
Event 43 offers a cheap, two-day $500 NLHE Freezeout.
Event 44 starts the four-day $10K HORSE Championship.
Congrats to @neymarjr in the money at WSOP – Event #41: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty and playing next to 2021 Main Event Champion @kooraay90 pic.twitter.com/zoE75SXVOa
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 20, 2022
