2023 World Series of Poker

2023 World Series of Poker
LocationHorseshoe Las Vegas and
Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
DatesMay 30 – July 17
Champion
Daniel Weinman

The 2023 World Series of Poker was the 54th edition of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), a series of poker tournaments. It took place from May 30 – July 17 at the Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada.[1]

The series featured 95 bracelet events, plus another 20 online bracelet events. Events included the $1,000 Mystery Millions beginning on May 31, with mystery bounties of up to $1 million. There were also Badugi and Big O events for the first time, as well as a $300 Gladiators of Poker event. The Tournament of Champions also returned, this time near the beginning of the series.[2]

The $10,000 Main Event began on July 3 with the first of four starting flights. The final table was held over two days on July 16–17.

Event Schedule

Key: (bracelets won in 2023/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 1,015 Peter Thai (1/1) $75,535 James Urbanic Results
2 $25,000 High Roller Six Handed No-Limit Hold'em 207 Alexandre Vuilleumier (1/1) $1,215,864 Chance Kornuth (0/3) Results
3 $1,000 Mystery Millions No-Limit Hold'em 18,188 Tyler Brown (1/1) $1,000,000 Guang Chen Results
4 WSOP Tournament of Champions 741 Ronnie Day (1/1) $200,000 Brent Gregory Results
5 $1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed 456 Chad Eveslage (1/2) $131,879 Andrew Kelsall (0/1) Results
6 $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha 568 Michael Moncek (1/2) $534,499 Fernando Habegger Results
7 $1,500 Limit Hold'em 527 Vadim Shlez (1/1) $146,835 Rostyslav Sabishchenko Results
o1 $333 No-Limit Hold'em Triple Treys Summer Tip Off 1,330 Cody Bell (1/1) $87,665 Douglas May
8 $25,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship 64 Chanracy Khun (1/1) $507,020 Doug Polk (0/3) Results
9 $1,500 Seven Card Stud 360 Nick Schulman (1/4) $110,800 Andrew Hasdal Results
10 $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship 130 Chad Eveslage (2/3) $311,428 Dutch Boyd (0/3) Results
11 $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 6,085 Kenneth O'Donnell (1/1) $351,098 Jefferson Guerrero Results
12 $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed 735 Jeremy Eyer (1/1) $649,550 Felipe Ramos Results
o2 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Bankroll Builder 1,253 Ian Matakis (1/1) $120,686 Baruch Forst
o3 $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 688 Ryan Hughes (1/3) $145,059 Shaun Deeb (0/5)
13 $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 3,200 Joseph Altomonte (1/1) $217,102 Michael Holmes Results
14 $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship 130 Brian Yoon (1/5) $311,433 Dan Shak Results
15 $1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em 2,454 Rafael Reis (1/1) $465,501 Daniel Barriocanal Results
16 $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed 301 Isaac Haxton (1/1) $1,698,215 Ryan O'Donnell Results
17 $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better 1,143 Jim Collopy (1/3) $262,542 Nick Kost (0/1) Results
o4 $600 No-Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack 1,656 Danny Wong (1/1) $130,648 Eshaan Bhalla
18 $300 Gladiators of Poker No-Limit Hold'em 23,088 Jason Simon (1/1) $499,852 Eric Trexler Results
19 $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 1,139 Valentino Konakchiev (1/1) $435,924 Andres Korn (0/1) Results
20 $1,500 Badugi 516 Michael Rodrigues (1/1) $144,678 Yingui Li Results
21 $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed 2,017 Stephen Nahm (1/1) $267,991 Kevin Rand Results
22 $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship 134 Josh Arieh (1/5) $316,226 Dan Idema (0/3) Results
23 $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 124 Leon Sturm (1/1) $1,546,024 Bill Klein Results
24 $1,500 Razz 556 David "ODB" Baker (1/3) $152,991 Justin Liberto (0/1) Results
25 $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship 212 Ben Lamb (1/2) $492,795 James Chen Results
26 $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 4,747 Renji Mao (1/1) $402,588 Matthew Elsby (0/1) Results
27 $1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed 789 Shaun Deeb (1/6) $198,854 Aloísio Dourado Results
o5 $400 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Max 1,488 Gary Belyalovsky (1/1) $121,854 Joseph Hebert
28 $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 2,046 Benjamin Ector (1/1) $406,403 Adam Swan Results
29 $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 93 Jans Arends (1/2) $2,576,729 Cary Katz Results
30 $1,500 Limit 2–7 Lowball Triple Draw 522 John Monnette (1/5) $145,846 Christopher Chung Results
31 $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 2,759 Scott Dulaney (1/1) $194,155 Sridhar Sangannagari Results
32 $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em 1,241 Mark Ioli (1/1) $558,266 Johann Ibanez Results
33 $10,000 Razz Championship 123 Jerry Wong (1/1) $298,682 Carlos Chadha Results
34 $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 1,355 Sean Troha (1/2) $298,192 Ryan Coon Results
35 $10,000 Secret Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 568 Chris Klodnicki (1/2) $733,317 Aram Oganyan Results
36 $3,000 Nine Game Mix 361 Ryutaro Suzuki (1/1) $221,124 Walter Chambers Results
37 $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em 1,962 Yuan Li (1/1) $524,777 Jonathan Camara Results
38 $10,000 Limit 2–7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship 130 Benny Glaser (1/5) $311,428 Oscar Johansson Results
39 $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em 8,317 Braxton Dunaway (1/1) $1,162,681 Colin Robinson Results
40 $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 69 Chris Brewer (1/1) $5,293,556 Artur Martirosian Results
41 $1,500 Big 0 1,458 Scott Abrams (1/1) $315,203 Robert Williamson III (0/1) Results
42 $800 8-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 3,773 Qiang Xu (1/1) $339,377 Jason Johnson Results
43 $50,000 Poker Players Championship 99 Brian Rast (1/6) $1,324,747 Talal Shakerchi Results
o6 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo 1,879 Harley Brooks (1/1) $134,527 Will Collins
o7 $500 PLO 8-Max 608 Joe Serock (1/1) $93,911 Millard Hale
44 $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 1,735 Yang Zhang (1/1) $717,879 Aram Oganyan Results
45 $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo 1,091 William Leffingwell (1/1) $253,651 Zhen Cai Results
46 $500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 5,342 Jay Lockett (1/1) $262,526 Jie Fu Results
47 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. 836 Yuri Dzivielevski (1/3) $207,688 Randy Ohel (0/1) Results
o8 $3,200 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller 321 Jeremy Ausmus (1/6) $360,036 Christopher Castiglia (0/1)
48 $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship 8,180 Lonnie Hallett (1/1) $765,731 Billy Baxter (0/7) Results
49 $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 2,226 Pengfei Wang (1/1) $270,700 Will Linden Results
50 $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship 731 Lou Garza (1/1) $1,309,232 Arthur Morris Results
51 $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em 1,282 Michael Savakinas (1/1)
Satoshi Tanaka (1/1)
$190,662 Vincent Moscati
Tanner Bibat (0/2)
Results
52 $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball 353 Nick Pupillo (1/1) $181,978 Ryan Moriarty Results
o9 $1,000 PLO Championship 383 Stanislav Barshak (1/1) $128,841 Chris DeMaci
53 $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em 10,416 Pavel Plesuv (1/1) $1,201,564 Florian Ribouchon Results
54 $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship 185 Mike Gorodinsky (1/3) $422,747 Alex Livingston (0/1) Results
55 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better 566 Marcin Horecki (1/1) $155,275 Mike Matusow (0/4) Results
56 $500 Salute to Warriors No-Limit Hold'em 4,303 Steven Genovese (1/1) $217,921 Kelly Gall Results
57 $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha 449 Ka Kwan Lau (1/1) $2,294,756 Sergio Martinez Gonzalez Results
58 $3,000 6-Handed Limit Hold'em 263 Jason Daly (1/1) $165,250 Brent Mutter Results
o10 $400 No-Limit Ultra Deepstack 2,901 Ryan Eriquezzo (1/3) $145,374 Richard West
59 $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 1,598 Robert Schulz (1/1) $675,275 Julien Sitbon Results
60 $1,500 No-Limit 2–7 Lowball Draw 548 Jason Mercier (1/6) $151,276 Mike Watson Results
61 $1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold'em 3,121 Klaus Ilk (1/1) $371,603 Ronald Lane Results
62 $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha 2,076 David Simon (1/1) $410,659 David Prociak (0/1) Results
63 $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship 141 Ryan Miller (1/1) $344,677 Bryn Kenney (0/1) Results
o11 $888 No-Limit Hold'em Crazy 8's 1,679 Robert Como (1/1) $227,001 Gytis Lazauninkas
64 $600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold'em 4,303 David Guay (1/1) $270,972 John Taylor Results
65 $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em 1,199 Weiran Pu (1/1) $938,244 Norbert Szecsi (0/3) Results
66 $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better 1,125 William Kopp (1/1) $259,549 Michael Rodrigues (1/1) Results
67 $10,000/$1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship 1,295 Tamar Abraham (1/1) $192,167 Shiina Okamoto Results
68 $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 2,824 Gabriel Schroeder (1/1) $228,632 Joel Wertheimer Results
69 $10,000 No-Limit 2–7 Lowball Draw Championship 154 Chris Brewer (2/2) $367,599 Alex Livingston (0/1) Results
70 $400 Colossus No-Limit Hold'em 15,894 Moshe Refaelowitz (1/1) $501,120 Dae Woong Song Results
71 $50,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha 200 Jesse Lonis (1/2) $2,303,017 Tyler Smith (0/1) Results
72 $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 642 Phil Hellmuth (1/17) $803,818 Justin Zaki Results
73 $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event 377 Julio Belluscio (1/1) $190,240 Federico Quevedo Results
74 $1,000 Mini Main Event No-Limit Hold'em 5,257 Bradley Gafford (1/1) $549,555 Joshua Reichard Results
75 $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship 277 Hassan Kamel (1/1) $598,613 Ryan Hoenig Results
o12 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 1,754 Thomas Hall (1/1) $176,920 Daniel Marin
76 $10,000 Main Event No-Limit Hold'em 10,043 Daniel Weinman (1/2) $12,100,000 Steven Jones Results
o13 * $5,300 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Championship * 408 Sam Soverel (1/2) $393,516 Gergely Kulcsár
o14 $400 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo 1,767 Zachary Grech (1/1) $107,504 Amit Makhija
77 $777 Lucky 7's No-Limit Hold'em 7,300 Shawn Daniels (1/1) $777,777 Julien Montois Results
o15 $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship 1,365 Blaze Gaspari (1/1) $224,816 Matthew Gillingham
o16 $600 Online Deepstack Championship 2,157 Vitor Dzivielevski (1/1) $185,316 Michael Baldwin
78 $1,500 Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha 1,214 Thomas Skaggs (1/1) $171,742 David Hu Results
79 $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em 2,068 Samuel Bernabeu (1/1) $682,436 James Anderson (0/1) Results
80 $25,000 High Roller H.O.R.S.E. 112 Josh Arieh (2/6) $711,313 Dan Heimiller (0/2) Results
81 $600 Ultra Stack No-Limit Hold'em 7,207 Joseph Roh (1/1) $401,250 Denny Lee Results
82 $3,000 6-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha 1,013 Matthew Parry (1/1) $480,122 Dustin Goldklang Results
o17 $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max Championship 1,170 Tom Marchese (1/1) $195,963 Besmir Hodaj
83 $1,500 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em 363 Thai Ha (1/1) $111,170 David Prociak (0/1) Results
84 $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 176 Alex Kulev (1/1) $2,087,073 Gergely Kulcsár Results
85 $1,500 Shootout No-Limit Hold'em 987 Faraz Jaka (1/1) $237,367 Michael Finstein Results
86 $1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 1,417 Diego Ventura (1/1) $402,054 Thomas Kysar Results
87 $2,500 Mixed 460 Bradley Smith (1/1) $221,733 Nghia Le Results
88 $1,500 The Closer No-Limit Hold'em 3,531 Pierre Shum (1/1) $606,810 Peter Nigh Results
89 $1,000 Flip & Go No-Limit Hold'em 1,024 Dong Meng (1/1) $160,490 Wesley Fei Results
90 $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship 550 Alexandre Reard (1/2) $1,057,663 Stephen Chidwick (0/1) Results
91 $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. 331 Ryan Miller (2/2) $208,460 Leonard August Results
o18 $2,000 Freezeout Championship 551 Julien Sitbon (1/1) $176,348 Ashish Ahuja
92 $1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 1,710 Kang Hyun Lee (1/1) $236,741 Eric Mizrachi Results
93 $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em 106 Martin Nielsen (1/1) $270,160 Hong Wei Yu Results
o19 $500 NL Hold'em Summer Saver 1,301 Christian Roberts (1/1) $154,359 Michael Haberman
o20 $777 No-Limit Hold'em Lucky 7's 954 Nipun Java (1/3) $195,151 Michael Jozoff
94 $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold'em 813 Alex Keating (1/1) $701,688 Guoliang Wei (0/1) Results
95 $1,000 Super Turbo No-Limit Hold'em 1,482 Paul Berger (1/1) $212,645 Yuri Dzivielevski (1/3) Results

* Online tournament, but final table held as in-person event.

Michigan Online

# Event Entrants Winner Prize Runner-up
o1 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Bankroll Builder 132 Todd Estes (1/2) $18,623 Imari Love
o2 $400 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Max 215 Morgan Magee (1/1) $17,447 Alec Magdan
o3 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo 193 Rudy Gavaldon (1/1) $20,193 Roger Khoury
o4 $400 No-Limit Ultra Deepstack 208 David Ferus (1/1) $17,898 Shivprasad Nomula
o5 $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 125 Kyle Goodman (1/1) $22,850 Peter Hotaling
o6 $300 No-Limit Hold'em 207 Joe Midena (1/1) $17,884 Sung Cho
o7 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Summer Saver 178 Nicolai Morris (1/1) $26,231 Randy Bullen

Pennsylvania Online

# Event Entrants Winner Prize Runner-up
o1 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Bankroll Builder 153 Andrew Kershaw (1/1) $16,965 Derek Duckett
o2 $400 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Max 234 Joshua Dempsey (1/1) $20,100 Samuel Monks
o3 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo 195 Justin Vaysman (1/1) $20,402 Max Pinnola
o4 $400 No-Limit Ultra Deepstack 217 Christopher Nunez (1/1) $20,311 Clinton Branchen
o5 $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 134 Michael Mayer (1/1) $25,110 Michael Wolf
o6 $300 No-Limit Hold'em 122 Aleksey Levin (1/1) $19,776 Keith McCarroll
o7 $500 No-Limit Hold'em Summer Saver 156 Elias Garney (1/1) $23,306 Justin Koniuk

Player of the Year

Final standings as of July 18 (note: does not include events from the 2023 WSOP Online series, 2023 WSOP Europe series, or the 2023 WSOP Paradise series):

Standings[3]
Rank Name Points Bracelets
1 Ian Matakis 5,203.89 1
2 Shaun Deeb 4,276.12 1
3 Chris Brewer 4,127.61 2
4 Josh Arieh 3,938.62 2
5 Jesse Lonis 3,865.70 1
6 Michael Rodrigues 3,513.21 1
7 Chad Eveslage 3,447.63 2
8 Yuri Dzivielevski 3,382.33 1
9 Ben Yu 3.128.08 0
10 Phil Hellmuth 3,072.14 1

Main Event

The $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 3 with the first of four starting flights. The final table took place on July 16–17.

The Main Event attracted 10,043 players, making it the largest Main Event field in history.[4] The top 1,507 players finished in the money, with the champion earning $12,100,000, a new Main Event record.[5]

Performance of past champions

Name Championship
Year(s)
Day of
Elimination
Tom McEvoy 1983 3
Johnny Chan 1987, 1988 4 (1067th)*
Phil Hellmuth 1989 2D
Jim Bechtel 1993 3
Scotty Nguyen 1998 2D
Chris Moneymaker 2003 5 (403rd)*
Greg Raymer 2004 2ABC
Joe Hachem 2005 5 (402nd)*
Jamie Gold 2006 4 (1082nd)*
Joe Cada 2009 4 (1358th)*
Greg Merson 2012 1C
Ryan Riess 2013 3
Martin Jacobson 2014 3
Joe McKeehen 2015 3
Qui Nguyen 2016 2D
Scott Blumstein 2017 4 (782nd)*
John Cynn 2018 3
Hossein Ensan 2019 1D
Damian Salas 2020 3
Koray Aldemir 2021 1C
Espen Jørstad 2022 2ABC

*- 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
11th Alec Torelli $700,000
32nd Mark Teltscher $280,100
46th Sam Stein $188,400
53rd John Racener $188,400
66th Tony Dunst $130,300
72nd John Duthie $109,400
87th Nate Silver $92,600

Final Table

Name Number of chips
(percentage of total)
WSOP
Bracelets
WSOP
Cashes*
WSOP
Earnings*
Adam Walton 143,800,000 (23.9%) 0 20 $265,147
Steven Jones 90,300,000 (15.0%) 0 23 $130,751
Daniel Weinman 81,700,000 (13.6%) 1 69 $1,298,605
Jan-Peter Jachtmann 74,600,000 (12.4%) 1 17 $923,980
Juan Maceiras 68,000,000 (11.3%) 0 2 $5,483
Ruslan Prydryk 50,700,000 (8.4%) 0 1 $6,207
Dean Hutchison 41,700,000 (6.9%) 0 17 $130,239
Daniel Holzner 31,900,000 (5.3%) 0 1 $4,070
Toby Lewis 19,800,000 (3.3%) 0 48 $874,216

*Career statistics prior to the Main Event

Final Table results

Place Name Prize
1st Daniel Weinman $12,100,000
2nd Steven Jones $6,500,000
3rd Adam Walton $4,000,000
4th Jan-Peter Jachtmann $3,000,000
5th Ruslan Prydryk $2,400,000
6th Dean Hutchison $1,850,000
7th Toby Lewis $1,425,000
8th Juan Maceiras $1,125,000
9th Daniel Holzner $900,000

References

  1. ^ "Caesars Entertainment's World Series of Poker® Returns for its 54th Annual Tournament May 30 – July 18". Caesars Entertainment. December 12, 2022. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
  2. ^ Holloway, Chad (February 2, 2023). "Here's Full Schedule for 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP); Win Main Event for Life!". PokerNews.com. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
  3. ^ "WSOP Player of the Year standings". WSOP.com.
  4. ^ Fast, Erik (July 8, 2023). "Largest World Series of Poker Main Event In History Smashes Record With 10,043 Entries – Poker News". CardPlayer. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  5. ^ Schlachter, Thomas (2023-07-18). "Daniel Weinman wins record-breaking $12.1M prize in World Series of Poker". CNN. Retrieved 2024-11-12.