WSOP 2022 Day 31: Ladies and Seniors Play On
Some people make light of the specialty events at the World Series of Poker. The Ladies Championship is often relegated to just “the girls” and the Super Seniors is often just a place for crotchety old folks. In reality, these are both tournaments that bring new players into the game in fun environments.
The Ladies Championship is sometimes the first taste of a WSOP event for female poker players. It is a tournament in which women tend to be welcoming and friendly. This year, several players offered free coaching to women playing the event for the first time, and other people in poker gifted seats to the tournament to women who wouldn’t be able to afford to play.
The Super Seniors gives players a chance to play with others who are 60 years of age and older. It is often a light-hearted atmosphere, free of younger players who are new to the game or not appreciative of the opportunity to play.
These two events were finding their way through their levels and to their final tables on Thursday.
Event 56: $50K Poker Players Championship 6-Handed
Five players started the six-handed final table with defending champion Dan Cates in the chip lead. Benny Glaser quickly took over, but Johannes Becker lost ground and became the first elimination, courtesy of Yuri Dzivielevski. Cates came roaring back, and he eventually put Glaser on a short stack. Naoya Kihara busted Glaser shortly thereafter.
Cates then busted Kihara in third place. Cates had nearly 26M chips for heads-up play, with Dzivielevski holding little more than 7.5M. They ended up playing their match for more than seven hours before Cates took it down for back-to-back PPC victories.
| Event 56: Day 5 of 5 | $50K buy-in | Poker Players Championship 6-Handed |
| Total entries: | 112 | (74 in 2019, 63 in 2021) |
| Total prize pool: | $5,362,000 | |
| Players paid: | 17 | |
| Minimum payout: | $83,738 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Dan Cates (USA) $1,449,103 |
| 2nd place: | Yuri Dzivielevski (Brazil) $895,614 | |
| 3rd place: | Naoya Kihara (Japan) $639,257 | |
| 4th place: | Benny Glaser (UK) $464,420 | |
| 5th place: | Johannes Becker (Germany) $343,531 | |
| 6th place: | Koray Aldemir (Germany) $258,812 |
Back-to-back! Dan "Jungleman" Cates defends his $50,000 Poker Players Championship title to earn $1,449,103 and his second WSOP bracelet.https://t.co/2hgKfx67M6
📸: Rachel Kay Miller pic.twitter.com/vqEe1oP2ff
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) July 1, 2022
Event 57: $600 NLHE Deepstack Championship
The final seven players returned for a final day of deepstack action, with Alex Jim as the chipleader and Tamas Lendvai as the shortest stack. But the latter chipped up and ousted Tsuf Saltsberg in seventh place and Abdullah Alshanti in sixth. Lendvai also busted Daniel Marcus in fifth. Jon Van Fleet took out Alex Jim in fourth, but Lendvai ousted Van Fleet in third.
Heads-up, it took Frank Reichel only a few moments to push his stack in, and Lendvai called for the win. His emotions overflowed, as he accepted the win. Lendvai said, “Since I’ve been playing poker, I’ve been dreaming about this moment, so what can I say. It means the world. It means everything and more for me and my family.”
| Event 57: Day 4 of 4 | $600 buy-in | NLHE Deepstack (1 RE) |
| Total entries: | 4,913 | (3916 in 2021) |
| Total prize pool: | $2,505,630 | |
| Players paid: | 737 | |
| Minimum payout: | $961 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Tamas Lendvai (Hungary) $299,464 |
| 2nd place: | Frank Reichel (Germany) $185,027 | |
| 3rd place: | Jon Van Fleet (USA) $138,149 | |
| 4th place: | Alex Jim (USA) $103,994 | |
| 5th place: | Daniel Marcus (USA) $78,793 | |
| 6th place: | Abdullah Alshanti (USA) $60,196 | |
| 7th place: | Tsuf Saltsberg (Israel) $46,347 | |
| 8th place: | Tamir Saidman (Israel) $35,964 | |
| 9th place: | John Ypma (USA) $28,129 |
Tamas Lendvai grabs his first bracelet and $299,464 in Event #57: $600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold'em!https://t.co/2for2YICdR
📸: Alec Rome pic.twitter.com/zHv6234O7y
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 30, 2022
Event 59: $1K NLHE Super Seniors
What started with 87 players moved along quickly toward the final table. After dinner, the ten remaining players gathered at one table with Massoud Eskandari as the dominant chipleader.
PT Hayes busted in tenth place to set the official final table, and Marc Walter was the next to go. Jennifer Gianera then busted Gary Fisher in eighth, and Sharri Crawford took out Eric Van Der Burg in seventh. After Eskandari took out Bruce Olson, play stopped with five players to pursue victory.
| Event 59: Day 3 of 4 | $1K buy-in | NLHE Super Seniors (1 RE) |
| Total entries: | 2,669 | (1893 in 2021) |
| Players remaining: | 5 | |
| Total prize pool: | $2,375,410 | |
| Players paid: | 401 | |
| Minimum payout: | $1,601 | |
| Winner payout: | $330,609 | |
| Final table counts: | #1 | Massoud Eskandari (USA) 19M |
| #2 | Jennifer Gianera (USA) 16.5M | |
| #3 | James Jewell (USA) 8.425M | |
| #4 | Peter Mylenki (USA) 4.2M | |
| #5 | Sharri Crawford (USA) 4.2M |
Event 60: $10K Short Deck NLHE
Five players returned on the final day with Shota Nakanishi in the lead. And it was he who started strong, eliminating Stephen Chidwick in fifth place and Sean Winter in fourth. He stayed aggressive and took out Brian Rast in third place, and he held 4.35M chips going into heads-up against the 2.25M of Ben Lamb.
Nakanishi stayed aggressive, but Lamb met him in that space and held on for quite a long time. Ultimately, Nakanishi won, with the support of his Japanese rail, and exclaimed, “I’m so happy! Very happy right now!”
| Event 60: Day 3 of 3 | $10K buy-in | Short Deck NLHE (1 RE) |
| Total entries: | 110 | (66 in 2021) |
| Total prize pool: | $1,025,750 | |
| Players paid: | 17 | |
| Minimum payout: | $16,449 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Shota Nakanishi (Japan) $277,212 |
| 2nd place: | Ben Lamb (USA) $171,331 | |
| 3rd place: | Brian Rast (USA) $121,718 | |
| 4th place: | Sean Winter (USA) $88,168 | |
| 5th place: | Stephen Chidwick (UK) $65,143 | |
| 6th place: | Scott Smile (USA) $49,113 |
Shota Nakanishi takes down the $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em for $277,212 and his first gold bracelet!https://t.co/AolDOXDezN
📸: Alec Rome pic.twitter.com/sqQZZWqDkU
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) July 1, 2022
Event 61: $1K NLHE Ladies Championship
Day 2 of this event started with 274 players but thinned the field to get into the money. As the night moved forward, players like Jessica Vierling and Katie Swift busted, as did Karina Jett and Molly Mossey. Play then stopped with 42 players.
| Event 61: Day 2 of 4 | $1K buy-in | Ladies NLHE Championship (1 RE) |
| Total entries: | 1,074 | (968 in 2019, 644 in 2021) |
| Players remaining: | 42 | |
| Total prize pool: | $955,660 | |
| Players paid: | 162 | |
| Minimum payout: | $1,600 | |
| Winner payout: | $166,975 | |
| Top chip counts: | #1 | Cherish Andrews (USA) 1,800,000 |
| #2 | Natalie Hof-Ramos (Germany) 1,100,000 | |
| #3 | Chenyi Liu (USA) 785,000 | |
| #4 | Marybeth Anderson (USA) 760,000 | |
| #5 | Christina Gollins (USA) 745,000 |
Event 62: $1,500 NLHE Super Turbo Bounty
It was a fast tournament but did play into a second day. The 20 players who started that day quickly moved to two tables, at which point players like Romain Guilbert, Mihai Manole, and Elvis Toomas left to collect their payouts. The final ten then took places at one table, but the tenth-place elimination of Shaun Colquhoun set the official final table.
Jan Bednar busted Ken Drewry to kick things off, and John Bredengerd sent Dimitre Dimitrov to the rail. Bednar was back up to bust Kevin Davis, at which point Dash Dudley scored a big double through Yuhei Sanada, who departed right after. Dudley busted the table’s original chipleader, Harpreet Padda, and David Sanchez dispatched Bednar.
Bredengerd was short bug doubled through Dudley and then Sanchez. Both of those players, however doubled back. Sanchez eventually busted Bredengerd and took a chip lead into heads-up. But Dudley applied the pressure and went on to win his third WSOP gold bracelet.
| Event 62: Day 2 of 2 | $1,500 buy-in | NLHE Super Turbo Bounty |
| Total entries: | 2,569 | (1867 in 2019, 1441 in 2021) |
| Total prize pool: | $2,145,115 | |
| Players paid: | 386 | |
| Minimum payout: | $1,502 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Dash Dudley (USA) $301,396 |
| 2nd place: | David Sanchez (USA) $186,258 | |
| 3rd place: | John Bredengerd (USA) $138,142 | |
| 4th place: | Jan Bednar (Czech Republic) $103,325 | |
| 5th place: | Harpreet Padda (Canada) $77,945 | |
| 6th place: | Yuhei Sanada (Japan) $59,306 | |
| 7th place: | Kevin Davis (USA) $45,517 | |
| 8th place: | Dimitre Dimitrov 9USA) $35,240 | |
| 9th place: | Ken Drewry (USA) $27,526 |
Dash Dudley collects third bracelet in $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em after outlasting 386 players!https://t.co/h8rOYsQj7U
📸: Danny Maxwell pic.twitter.com/JK81ocgpgY
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) July 1, 2022
Event 63: $10K PLO-8 Championship
The second day of this tournament set the field and played into the money. Dan Zack took a min-cash, as did Matt Livingston and Matthew Beinner. That left 20 players to continue on.
| Event 63: Day 2 of 4 | $10K buy-in | PLO-8 Championship |
| Total entries: | 284 | (193 in 2019, 208 in 2021) |
| Players remaining: | 20 | |
| Total prize pool: | $2,648,300 | |
| Players paid: | 43 | |
| Minimum payout: | $16,171 | |
| Winner payout: | $611,362 | |
| Top chip counts: | #1 | Chino Rheem (USA) 2,595,000 |
| #2 | Filippos Stavrakis (USA) 1,880,000 | |
| #3 | Seungjin Lee (S.Korea) 1,860,000 | |
| #4 | Damjan Radanov (USA) 1,275,000 | |
| #5 | Amnon Filippi (USA) 1,275,000 |
Event 64: $600 PLO Deepstack
The first day of this event generated 2,858 entries for a prize pool that stopped just short of $1.5M. When play stopped that evening, only 102 players remained.
| Event 64: Day 1 of 2 | $600 buy-in | PLO Deepstack (2 RE) |
| Total entries: | 2,858 | (2577 in 2019, 1571 in 2021) |
| Players remaining: | 102 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,458,580 | |
| Players paid: | 429 | |
| Minimum payout: | $961 | |
| Winner payout: | $199,466 | |
| Top chip counts: | #1 | Guillaume Soumier (France) 3,055,000 |
| #2 | Tommi Lankinen (Finland) 2,440,000 | |
| #3 | Geln Keogh (Ireland) 2,385,000 | |
| #4 | Xiaohui Yu (USA) 1,930,000 | |
| #5 | Stanislav Halatenko (UK) 1,780,000 |
Event 65: $3K NLHE Freezeout
There were more than 1300 players who wanted a single shot at this bracelet, as no reentries were allowed. They played down and very close to the money bubble before stopping with 226 players.
| Event 65: Day 1 of 3 | $3K buy-in | NLHE Freezeout |
| Total entries: | 1,359 | (720 in 2021) |
| Players remaining: | 226 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,458,580 | |
| Players paid: | 204 | |
| Minimum payout: | $4,818 | |
| Winner payout: | $598,173 | |
| Top chip counts: | #1 | Onur Unsal (Turkey) 1,244,000 |
| #2 | Joel Micka (USA) 829,000 | |
| #3 | Krasimir Yankov (Bulgaria) 784,000 | |
| #4 | Niko Koop (Germany) 741,000 | |
| #5 | Blake Bohn (USA) 738,000 |
Today’s Poker Menu
Event 59 plays to a Super Seniors winner.
Event 61 plays a third day of the Ladies Championship.
Event 63 plays to a PLO-8 Championship winner.
Event 64 plays to a PLO Deepstack winner.
Event 65 plays a second day of the NLHE Freezeout.
Event 66 kicks off the uber-popular Mini Main Event.
Event 67 starts a two-day Super Turbo Bounty with a $10K buy-in.
