2022 World Series of Poker

2022 World Series of Poker
LocationBally's Las Vegas and
Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
DatesMay 31 – July 20
Champion
Espen Jørstad

The 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was the 53rd edition of the event and run from May 31-July 20. After being held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino since 2005, the event moved to Bally's Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas for the first time.[1]

There were 88 bracelet events on the schedule, including the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event beginning on July 3. The series culminated with the Tournament of Champions, a freeroll with a $1 million prize pool open to the year's bracelet and circuit ring winners.[2]

Event schedule

Source: [3]

Key: (bracelets won in 2022/bracelets won in career)

High stakes event ($10,000+ buy-in).
No points awarded towards Player of the Year.
Online event.
# Event Entrants Winner Prize Runner-up Results
1 $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em 832 Kate Kopp (1/1) $65,168 Wyatt Frost Results
2 $100,000 High Roller Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 46 David Peters (1/4) $1,166,810 Chance Kornuth (0/3) Results
3 $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 752 Scott Seiver (1/4) $320,059 Alexander Farahi Results
4 $1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed 430 Brad Ruben (1/4) $126,288 Jaswinder Lally (0/1) Results
5 $500 The Housewarming No-Limit Hold'em 20,080 Henrieto Acain (1/1) $701,215 Jared Kingery Results
6 $25,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship 64 Dan Smith (1/1) $509,717 Christoph Vogelsang Results
7 $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better 1,086 Amnon Filippi (1/1) $252,718 Matt Vengrin Results
8 $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 251 Chad Eveslage (1/1) $1,415,610 Jake Schindler Results
9 $1,500 Seven Card Stud 329 Alex Livingston (1/1) $103,282 Daniel Weinman Results
10 $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship 123 Ben Diebold (1/1) $299,488 Mike Gorodinsky (0/2) Results
o1 $5,300 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Freezeout 218 Norbert Szecsi (1/3) $288,850 Tony Dunst (0/2)
o2 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Big $500 1,213 Manig Löser (1/2) $127,153 Brian Battistone
11 $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 5,715 Raj Vohra (1/1) $335,286 Qing Liu Results
12 $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 101 Jake Schindler (1/1) $1,328,068 Brek Schutten Results
13 $1,500 Limit Hold'em 522 Michael Moncek (1/1) $145,856 Ben Ross Results
14 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed 2,392 Leo Soma (1/1) $456,889 Thomas Schultz Results
15 $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship 196 Daniel Zack (1/2) $440,757 Dustin Dirksen Results
16 $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 1,240 Stefan Lehner (1/1) $558,616 Toby Boas Results
17 $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball 309 Dominick Sarle (1/1) $164,243 Jerry Wong Results
18 $1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 2,663 Bryan Schultz (1/1) $330,057 Young Sik Eum Results
19 $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha 264 Tong Li (1/1) $1,467,739 Fabian Brandes Results
20 $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw 350 Denis Nesterenko (1/1) $108,250 Von Altizer Results
21 $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em 6,501 Mike Jukich (1/1) $966,577 Mateusz Moolhuizen Results
22 $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship 95 Adam Friedman (1/5) $248,254 Jean Gaspard (0/1) Results
23 $3,000 Limit Hold'em 6-Handed 213 Jeremy Ausmus (1/4) $142,147 Michael Rocco (0/1) Results
24 $1,000 FLIP & GO No-Limit Hold'em 1,329 Christopher Chatman (1/1) $187,770 Rafi Elharar Results
25 $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 4,062 Rajaee Wazwaz (1/1) $358,346 Robert Crow Results
26 $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship 92 Jonathan Cohen (1/1) $245,678 Kyle Dilschneider Results
o3 $400 No-Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack 1,641 Brian Altman (1/1) $110,662 Eric Salazar
27 $1,500 Shootout No-Limit Hold'em 1,000 Michael Simhai (1/1) $240,480 David Dowdy Results
28 $50,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha 106 Robert Cowen (1/2) $1,393,816 Dash Dudley (0/2) Results
29 $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw 437 Maxx Coleman (1/1) $127,809 Thomas Newton Results
30 $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed 1,891 Daniel Weinman (1/1) $255,359 Jamey Hendrikson Results
31 $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship 118 Brian Hastings (1/6) $292,146 Eric Wasserson Results
32 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. 773 Steve Albini (1/2) $196,089 James Morgan Results
33 $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed 1,348 Nino Ullmann (1/1) $594,079 Timothy Flank Results
34 $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 1,774 Justin Pechie (1/2) $364,899 Samuel Bifarella Results
35 $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event 281 Lok Chan (1/1) $144,338 Drew Scott Results
36 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better 471 Ali Eslami (1/1) $135,260 Chris Papastratis Results
37 $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em 7,961 Yuliyan Kolev (1/2) $1,125,189 Oren Rosen Results
38 $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship 121 Pedro Bromfman (1/1) $294,616 Scott Seiver (1/4) Results
39 $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed 719 Fabian Brandes (1/1) $371,358 Leonid Yanovski Results
40 $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship 137 Daniel Zack (2/3) $324,174 David Funkhouser Results
41 $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 2,227 Ramsey Stovall (1/1) $191,223 Timothy Heng Results
42 $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 62 Aleksejs Ponakovs (1/2) $1,897,363 Phil Ivey (0/10) Results
o4 $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max 470 Matt Szymaszek (1/1) $141,705 Greg Koutelidakis
43 $500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 4,786 David Perry (1/1) $241,729 Chris Moorman (0/2) Results
44 $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship 192 Andrew Yeh (1/1) $487,129 Craig Chait Results
45 $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 1,437 Phil Hui (1/3) $311,782 Daniel Tordjman Results
46 $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed 920 Jonathan Pastore (1/1) $771,765 Stephen Song (0/1) Results
47 $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship 7,188 Eric Smidinger (1/1) $694,909 Ben Sarnoff Results
48 $1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed 695 Menikos Panagiotou (1/1) $180,783 Nick Yunis Results
49 $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em 1,977 Simeon Spasov (1/1) $527,944 Mike Watson Results
50 $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 56 Alex Foxen (1/1) $4,563,700 Brandon Steven Results
51 $400 Colossus No-Limit Hold'em 13,565 Paul Hizer (1/1) $414,490 Sam Laskowitz Results
52 $2,500 Nine Game Mix 6-Handed 456 Kijoon Park (1/1) $219,799 André Akkari (0/1) Results
53 $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha 788 João Simão (1/2) $686,242 Marius Gierse Results
54 $500 Salute to Warriors No-Limit Hold'em 3,209 James Todd (1/1) $161,256 Brett Coltman Results
55 $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em 913 Espen Jørstad (1/1)
Patrick Leonard (1/1)
$74,042 Jamie Kerstetter
Corey Paggeot
Results
56 $50,000 Poker Players Championship 112 Daniel Cates (1/2) $1,449,103 Yuri Dzivielevski (0/2) Results
o5 $600 Online Deepstack Championship 1,248 William Corvino (1/1) $149,319 Pavel Plesuv
57 $600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold'em 4,913 Tamas Lendvai (1/1) $299,464 Frank Reichel Results
58 $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better 1,303 Lawrence Brandt (1/1) $289,610 Corey Wade Results
59 $1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold'em 2,668 Massoud Eskandari (1/1) $330,609 Jennifer Gianera Results
60 $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em 110 Shota Nakanishi (1/1) $277,212 Ben Lamb (0/1) Results
o6 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo Deepstack 1,746 Martin Stoyanov (1/1) $132,783 Arkadiy Tsinis (0/1)
61 $10,000/$1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship 1,074 Jessica Teusl (1/1) $166,975 Julie Le Results
62 $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 2,569 Dash Dudley (1/3) $301,396 David Sanchez Results
63 $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship 284 Eli Elezra (1/5) $611,362 Chino Rheem Results
64 $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 2,858 Konstantin Angelov (1/1) $199,466 Gregg Merkow Results
65 $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 1,359 David Jackson (1/2) $598,173 Phil Hellmuth (0/16) Results
66 $1,000 Mini Main Event No-Limit Hold'em 5,832 Young Sik Eum (1/1) $594,189 Cosmin Joldis Results
67 $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 419 Nacho Barbero (1/1) $587,520 Fabiano Kovalski Results
68 $1,000 Million Dollar Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 14,112 Quincy Borland (1/1) $750,120 Kevin Hong Results
69 $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship 683 Sean Troha (1/1) $1,246,770 Shiva Dudani Results
70 $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event 8,663 Espen Jørstad (2/2) $10,000,000 Adrian Attenborough Results
o7 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 2,161 Sane Chung (1/1) $149,729 Dylan Smith
71 $1,111 One More for One Drop No-Limit Hold'em 5,702 Mike Allis (1/1) $535,610 Ryan Riess (0/1) Results
72 $1,500 Mixed Omaha 771 Bradley Anderson (1/1) $195,565 Scott Abrams Results
73 $1,500 Razz 383 Daniel Strelitz (1/2) $115,723 Lynda Tran Results
74 $1,500 Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha 1,390 Pei Li (1/1) $190,219 Nolan King Results
75 $777 Lucky 7's No-Limit Hold'em 6,891 Gregory Teboul (1/1) $777,777 Rodney Turvin Results
76 $1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 865 Hong Jin-ho (1/1) $276,067 Punnat Punsri Results
o8 $7,777 Lucky 7's No-Limit Hold'em High Roller 161 Harry Lodge (1/1) $396,366 Andrew Robl
o9 $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Online Championship 994 Yevgeniy Minakrin (1/1) $238,315 Dragos Trofimov
77 $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha 1,234 Sandeep Pulusani (1/2) $277,949 Esther Taylor-Brady Results
78 $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em 1,364 Sebastien Aube (1/1) $499,636 Julien Loire Results
79 $10,000 Razz Championship 125 Julien Martini (1/4) $328,906 Hal Rotholz Results
o10 $3,200 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller 8-Max 340 Julien Perouse (1/1) $324,767 Calvin Anderson (0/2)
80 $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 2,107 Romans Voitovs (1/1) $158,609 Michael Dobbs Results
81 $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed 756 Mo Arani (1/1) $665,459 Johannes Straver Results
82 $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 8-Handed 2,812 Richard Alsup (1/1) $272,065 Gary Whitehead Results
83 $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 97 João Vieira (1/2) $1,384,413 Lander Lijo Results
84 $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. 327 Lawrence Brandt (2/2) $205,139 Roberto Marin Results
85 $1,500 The Closer No-Limit Hold'em 2,968 Minh Nguyen (1/1) $536,280 Ahmed Karrim Results
86 $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship 394 Gregory Jensen (1/1) $824,649 Pavel Plesuv Results
87 $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed 573 Michael Wang (1/2) $541,604 Farid Jattin Results
o11 $777 No-Limit Hold'em Lucky 7's Second Chance 781 Fred Li (1/1) $159,060 Zach Okin
88 $1,000 Super Turbo No-Limit Hold'em 1,282 Jaspal Brar (1/1) $190,731 Jesse Lonis Results
o12 $5,300 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Freezeout Encore 245 Gianluca Speranza (1/1) $324,625 Paul Scaturro
o13 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Summer Saver 1,189 Shaun O'Donnell (1/1) $125,330 Benjamin Chung
89 WSOP Tournament of Champions 470 Benjamin Kaupp (1/1) $250,000 Raul Garza Results

Michigan Online

# Event Entrants Winner Prize Runner-up
o1 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Big 500 242 Brett Blackwood (1/1) $35,559 Andrew Rosen
o2 $400 No-Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack 275 Todd Estes (1/1) $27,896 Corey Paggeot
o3 $500 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max 141 John Macleod (1/1) $21,387 Timothy Mulroy
o4 $600 Online Deepstack Championship 176 Adam Kittle (1/1) $30,420 Marcus Norman
o5 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 180 Freddie Kirkland (1/1) $26,038 Christopher Hando
o6 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Online Bracelet Championship 108 Cade Lautenbacher (1/1) $28,829 Robert Gincott
o7 $777 No-Limit Hold'em Lucky 7's 98 Ryan Hiller (1/1) $21,947 Joseph Cervo
o8 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Summer Saver 179 Matthew Garza (1/1) $27,824 Germandio Andoni

Pennsylvania Online

# Event Entrants Winner Prize Runner-up
o1 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Big 500 204 Joseph Kuczewski (1/1) $30,970 Michael Duffy
o2 $400 No-Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack 218 Christopher Perkins (1/1) $24,960 Kyle Lorenz
o3 $500 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max 90 Mark Dellavecchio (1/1) $17,292 Robert Lavin
o4 $600 Online Deepstack Championship 153 Stephen Jarrett (1/1) $26,979 Joshua Berardi
o5 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 136 Jonas Wexler (1/1) $19,615 Anthony Garofalo
o6 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Online Bracelet Championship 94 Alex Schwint (1/1) $27,055 Jonas Wexler (1/1)
o7 $777 No-Limit Hold'em Lucky 7's 89 Peter Williamson (1/1) $20,519 Ryan Messick
o8 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Summer Saver 166 Ryan Messick (1/1) $24,300 Michael McNeil

Player of the Year

Final standings as of July 19 (note: does not include events from the 2022 WSOP Online series or the 2022 WSOP Europe series):

Standings[4]
Rank Name Points Bracelets
1 Daniel Zack 4,530.64 2
2 Daniel Weinman 4,040.20 1
3 Koray Aldemir 3,275.02 0
4 Shaun Deeb 3,197.65 0
5 David Peters 2,982.08 1
6 Yueqi Zhu 2,766.27 0
7 João Vieira 2,752.88 1
8 João Simão 2,735.76 1
9 Alex Foxen 2,548.47 1
10 Brian Rast 2,520.06 0

Main Event

The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 3. The event had 8,663 entries, which marked the second-largest Main Event field in WSOP history, only behind 2006.[5]

Performance of past champions

Name Championship
Year(s)
Day of
Elimination
Johnny Chan 1987, 1988 2D
Phil Hellmuth 1989 2ABC
Scotty Nguyen 1998 3
Chris Moneymaker 2003 4 (1198th)*
Greg Raymer 2004 1C
Joe Hachem 2005 2D
Joe Cada 2009 2ABC
Greg Merson 2012 4 (610th)*
Ryan Riess 2013 4 (1182nd)*
Martin Jacobson 2014 2ABC
Joe McKeehen 2015 3
Qui Nguyen 2016 2ABC
John Cynn 2018 4 (550th)*
Hossein Ensan 2019 1C
Damian Salas 2020 7 (27th)*
Koray Aldemir 2021 6 (75th)*

*- Denotes player who finished in the money

Other notable high finishes

NB: This list is restricted to top 100 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Place Name Prize
17th Kenny Tran $410,000
27th Damian Salas $262,300
35th Marco Johnson $262,300
75th Koray Aldemir $101,700

Final Table

Name Number of chips
(percentage of total)
WSOP
Bracelets
WSOP
Cashes*
WSOP
Earnings*
Matthew Su 80,800,000 (15.5%) 0 0 0
Matija Dobric 78,950,000 (15.2%) 0 11 $235,513
Espen Jørstad 68,400,000 (13.2%) 1 22 $810,052
Michael Duek 65,075,000 (12.5%) 0 4 $608,839
Jeffrey Farnes 56,150,000 (10.8%) 0 6 $27,509
Aaron Duczak 55,400,000 (10.7%) 0 35 $144,269
John Eames 54,950,000 (10.6%) 0 18 $273,286
Adrian Attenborough 44,200,000 (8.5%) 0 5 $27,659
Philippe Souki 15,900,000 (3.1%) 0 7 $39,067

*Career statistics prior to the Main Event

Final Table results

Place Name Prize
1st Espen Jørstad $10,000,000
2nd Adrian Attenborough $6,000,000
3rd Michael Duek $4,000,000
4th John Eames $3,000,000
5th Matija Dobric $2,250,000
6th Jeffrey Farnes $1,750,000
7th Aaron Duczak $1,350,000
8th Philippe Souki $1,075,000
9th Matthew Su $850,675

References

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  4. ^ "WSOP Player of the Year standings". WSOP.com.
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