Tournament action continues at the Alantis Resort in the Bahamas and two well-known high rollers added bracelets to their collection! Alex Foxen shipped 2024 WSOP Paradise Event #7 $100,000 Triton Main Event for $3,850,000. Meawhile, Stephen Chidwick took down Event #8 $50,000 PLO Championship for a score worth $1,357,080. Other bracelet winners in the Bahamas include Mike Gorodinsky, Lei Yu, Eric Wasserson, Lautaro Guerra, Jeffrey Hakim, and Alejandro Lococo.
Ship it to Chidwick! No one has won more money in England playing tournaments that Stephen Chidwick. He first made a name for himself as a teenager when he binked multiple WSOP Main Event prize packages by dominating the satellites. He was too young to play in Las Vegas at the time, but the legend was born. If though Chidwick is a high-rolling GOAT, he had only won one bracelet before he arrived in the Bahamas.
Chidwick stepped into the WSOP winner's circle for the first time in 2019 when he won the $25K PLO High Roller. He added a second PLO bracelet to his collection when he was the last player standing in WSOP Paradise Event #8 $50,000 PLO. The event attracted 122 entries and a prize pool worth over $6.1 million. Only the top 18 places paid out. Some of the money winners included Phil Hellmuth, Scott Seiver, Ronald Keijzer, Artur Martirosian, Joao Simao, Samuli Sipila and Philip Sternheimer.
Chidwick outgunned a stacked final nine that included Mike Watson, Nick Schulman, Dylan Weisman, Benny Glasser, Sam Greenwood, Yang Wang, Ben Tolerene, and Pascal LeFrancois. Schulman was picked off in fourth place, and Tollerene busted in third place which set up the heads-up battle between the UK and China. Wang and Chidwick jousted for the bracelet but Wang was knocked out in second place. Wang won a smidge more than a cool million, and Chidwick banked $1.35 million and secured a second bracelet.
Event #7 $100,000 Triton Main Event attracted 182 runners and a prize pool worth $18.2 million. The top 31 places paid out with most of the cheesecake set aside to the champion. Among those who cashed included Mikita Badziakouski, Stephen Chidwick, Thomas Muehloecker, Daniel Dvoress, Jason Koon, Chris Brwer, Eelis Parssinen, Michael Addamo, Justin Bonomo, Orpen Kisacikoglu, Sorel Mizzi, Matthias Eibinger, Philip Sternheimer, Tim Adams, Artur Martirosian, and Stephen Song.
Alex Foxen bested a final nine that included Joao Vieira, Fedor Holz, Alexandr Zubov, Samuel Mullur, David Coleman, Ossi Ketola, Dimitar Danchev, and Seth Davies. Holz hit the bricks in third place, which set up a heads-up battle between Portugal and the USA. Vieira busted in second place, which paid out almost $2.6 million. Not too shabby, eh! Foxen locked up a third bracelet and banked $3.85 million.
Over the weekend, Mike Gorodinsky joined the four-timer club when he took down Event #10 $10,000 Paradise PLO for a score worth $393K. Th enter attracted 200 entries and a prize pool worth $2 million. The top 30 places paid out. Daniel Negreanu went deep but busted in eighth place. Dan Zack and Gorodinsky were the final two. Both had won three bracelets and were battling out heads-up for a fourth piece of hardware. Alas, Zack settled on second and Gorodinsky emerged the victory to join the 4x Club.
Lei Yu rallied back to win Event #6 $5,000 Deepstack NLHE. Yu banked $293,050 for outlasting a field of 363 runners.
Eric Wasserson took down Event #5 $25,000 Dealers Choice Championship and won $353,340. He snagged his first bracelet and denied Josh Arieh a shot at #7. Mike Gorodinsky was knocked out in third and the final table also included Dan Zack, John Racener, Benny Glasser, and Nacho Barbero.
Lautaro Guerra won Event #3 $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Super High Roller for $2,126,770. He outlasted a final table that included Ben Tollerene, Jared Bleznick, Veselin Karakitukov, Jason Koon, Pascal Lefrancois, Sorel Mizzi, and Patrik Antonius.
Last week, rapper Alejandro 'Papo MC' Lococo from Argentina shipped the largest prize pool in 2024 with a $12.07 million score.
