The 2024 WSOP continued and on Sunday night, Sean Troha won his third bracelet with a victory in Event #24 $10,000 PLO 8 Championship. He has now won a bracelet in three straight summers and took down a second PLO8 Championship since 2022. A pair of pros secured their second-career bracelets at the end of last week. Dylan Weisman binked Event #18 $1,500 PLO for a $294K payday, and John Racener rallied from behind to win Event #19 $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship for a $308K score.
The 2024 WSOP rewarded gold bracelets to several first-time winners over the last few days on the Las Vegas Strip., but three players padded their collection with additional hardware. Any time a player wins a bracelet, it's a huge milestone in their poker career. A second bracelet is a reassurance that the first one isn't a fluke. And getting the bling three times? That's no joke, bruh. And in the case of Sean Troha, he reached peak performance during the summer in Sin City for a third WSOP in a row.
Event #24 $10,000 PLO 8 Championship drew a crowd of 259 hopefuls and a prize pool worth a smidge more than $2.4 million. Only the top 39 places earned a cut of the cheesecake, with $536,713 set aside to the winner. Sean Troha bagged his third-career bracelet and stepped into the winner's circle for a third consecutive summer in a PLO8 or PLO event. In 2022, Troha snagged his first bracelet in the same event. That year, 683 players were in the mix and he won his biggest score to date worth $1.2 million. Last summer, Troha was the last player standing in $1,500 PLO. He won his second bracelet for a score worth $298K.
At the Paris/Horseshoe Casino this year, Troha outgunned the final table in the PLO8 Championship that included Tyler Brown, Joao Simao, Yuri Dzivielevski, Robert Tanita, Tsz Shing, Brad Ruben, Luis Velador, and Joshua Thibodaux. Among the few who went deep and cashed included Sean Winter, Viktor Blom, Tom Koral, James Obst, Phil Ivey, Scott Seiver, Allan Le, Nick Schulman, and Jeff Madsen.
Event #18 $1,500 PLO attracted 1,469 runners and a prize pool worth $1.96 million. Only the top 221 places paid out. Dylan Weisman edged out Chino Rheem for the bracelet and $294K in cash. Also at the final table were Steve Z, Grzegorz Derkowski, John Zable, Jhojan Rivera, Abdul Al-Magableh, and Leslie Roussell. Dan Zack nearly missed the final table. Other noteworthy names who went deep include Richard Ashby, Mike Dentale, Erick Lindgren, Brent Roberts, Rob Hollink, Ryan Laplante, Phil Ivey, Tony Cousineau, Jeff Madsen, Brock Parker, and Brandon Cantu.
Event #19 $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship attracted 104 runners to this vintage event that paid out only 20 places. The prize pool was $967 with $309,930 set aside to the champion. John Racener won his second bracelet when he rallied at the final table and picked off Chad Eveslage in second place. The stacked final table also included Marco Johnson, Anthony Marsico, Shyamsundar Challa, Justin Kusumowidagdo, Ronnie Bardah, and Andrew Kelsall. Among the few lucky souls who cashed were Maxx Coleman, Juha Helppi, Nick Schulman, Dan Shak, Maria Ho, and Dustin Dirksen.
Event #15 $1,500 PLO8 attracted 1,277 runners and a prize pool worth $1.7 million. Caleb Furth banked $265,361 for the victory when he outlasted a final table that included Jiyang Gan, Walter Chambers, Andreas Frohli, Michael Machugh, Andrew Paterson, Tom Koral, Mathias Bayer, and Jason Daly. The top 192 places paid out. Noteworthy names who went deep and cashed in Event #15 include Christian Harder, Yuval Bronshtein, Shannon Shorr, Nathan Gambler, Adam Friedman, Leif Force, Amnon Filippi, Adam Owen, Maria Ho, Dan SHak, Carol Fuchs, Loni Harwood, Robert Cowen, Connor Drinan, ODB Baker, Ben Yu, Yu Zhu, Jim Collopy, Mel Judah, and Scott Clements.
Event #16 $5,000 NLHE attracted 660 players and a prize pool over $3 million. The top 124 places paid out with $660K set aside to the champ. Brent Hart won his first bracelet when he outgunned a final table that included Eddie Ochana, Alex Queen, Kartik Ved, Shant Marashlian, Daniyal Gheba, and Taylor Black. Among the familiar faces who went deep included Nate Silver, Erik Seidel, Brian Rast, Sam Soverel, Ivan Deyra, Mitch Halverson, Alexandre Reard, Punnat Punsri, Kenny Hallaert, John Juanda, Ryan Riess, Chris Moorman, Jake Scwartz, Nick Schulman, Koray Aldemir, Taylor Paur, Sergio Aido, Espen Jorstad, Sean Winter, John Racener, Sean Winter, Paul Neweyy, Dan SMith, Alex Keating, Patrick Leonard, Alex Foxen, Stephen Chidwick, and Jen Harman.
Event #17 $800 NLHE DeepStack attracted 4,732 runners and a prize pool worth $3.3 million. The top 710 places paid out with $368,977 set aside to the winner. TJ Murphy defeated a final table that included Raymond Mancini, Tao Chu, Vernon Barruga, Hai Nguyen, Dimitre Dimitrov, Yuvaraj Rai, Michael Wills, and Harry Lodge.
Event #21 WSOP $25,000 NLHE High Roller attracted 272 entrants who generated a prize pool worth $6.4 million. Brek Schutten banked $1.4 million for besting a sick field in the $25K High Roller. He outlasted a final table that included Tyler Stafman, Michael Rocco, Taylor von Kriegenbergh, Brandon Wilson, and Masashi Oya. The top 41 places paid out and among those who cashed included Kevin Rabichow, Justin Saliba, Shawn Daniels, Alex Foxen, Andrew Lichtenberger Erik Seidel, Rainer Kempe, Chris Brewer, Nick Maimone. Chance Kornuth, Jim Collopy, and Nick Petraangelo.
Event #22 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw attracted a field of 574 runners. The prize pool was $766K and the top 87 places paid out. Aaron Cummings was the last player standing and he bagged his first bracelet and $146K in cash. The final table included Yuichi Kanai, Alexander Wilkinson, Heather Alcorn, Sean Yu, Anthony Lazar, and Danny Wong. Among those who cashed in this event included Billy Baxter, Brian Yoon, ODB Baker, David Bakes Baker, Miami John, Amnon Fillipi, Michael Noori, Rob Hollink, Yu Zhu, Carol Fuchs and Naoya Kihara.
Event #23 $1,500 SHOOTOUT NLHE attracted 1,534 entrants who generated a prize pool north of $2 million. The top 160 places paid out. The final nine included Daniel Sepiol, Robert Natividad, James Davidson, Jeremy Ausmus, Daniel Strelitz, Richard Dixon, Sean Ragozzini, Scott Ball, and Aaron Pinson. Sepiol was the last player standing in the shootout, and he won $305,849 and his first bracelet.
