Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2017

The Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2017 was the main tournament of the 48th edition of the Poker World Championship in Las Vegas . It was played from July 8-22, 2017.

Tournament structure

The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas

Registration for the main tournament of the World Series of Poker in the No Limit Hold'em variant was spread over the three days from July 8th to 10th, 2017. Then the game was played until the seventh day of the tournament on July 17th, after which only nine players remained. The final table was played from July 20-22, 2017. The entire tournament was played at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas . The total of 7221 participants had to pay a buy-in of 10,000 US dollars each, and there were 1084 paid places for them. The best woman was the Canadian Yuan Li, who finished 105th for more than $ 50,000. Michael Ruane , who had sat at the final table the previous year , finished tenth.

transmission

The US TV broadcaster ESPN and the paid website PokerGO , in cooperation with Poker Central, broadcast several hours of the tournament every day. The event was moderated by Kara Scott , Maria Ho , David Williams and Doug Polk and commentated by Lon McEachern , Norman Chad and Antonio Esfandiari .

German-speaking participants

Dominik Nitsche (195.- $ 46,096)

Marvin Rettenmaier (420.- $ 27,743)

Christoph Vogelsang (444.- $ 27,743)

Mario Basler (789.- $ 17,243)

With Robin Hegele, a German led the event after the fifth day of the tournament. The following German-speaking participants were able to place themselves in the money:

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $ )
0024		Florian Löhnert	263,532
0027		Robin Hegele
0057		Robert Schulz	121,188
0080		Martin Finger	085,482
0121		Hans Joachim Hein	053,247
0131		Sönke Jahn
0164		Tobias Hariefeld	046.096
0195		Dominik Nitsche
0220		Johannes Becker
0254		Oliver Wulf	040.181
0304		Ismael Bojang	035,267
0357		Stefan Huber	031,170
0420		Marvin Rettenmaier	027,743
0444		Christoph Vogelsang
0465		Slobodan Stanculovic
0492		Gregor Waltermann	024,867
0512		Dieter Good
0574		Harald Sammer	022,449
0602		Jerome Evans
0704		Sascha Walter	018,693
0753		Niko co-op
0789		Mario Basler	017,243
0799		Christoph Haller
0811		Alexander Debus
0846		Philippe Bretan
0910		Christian Rudolph	016,024
0936		Jost Beifuhs
0949		Friedrich Meyer
0953		Raphael Wimmer
0962		Dren ukella
1016		Helmut Hoflehner	015,000
1018		Christian Nilles

Final table

The final table was played from July 20-22, 2017. For Ben Lamb (as early as 2011 ) and Antoine Saout (as early as 2009 ) it was the second final table at the WSOP main event. With Bryan Piccioli one sat bracelet winner at the table. The final table was set for three days: the first day was to be played down to six, on the second day to three players.

On day one, Lamb was eliminated with A ♥ 9 ♥ against Sinclair's A ♣ Q ♥ . After Hesp had briefly taken over the chip lead, double Blumstein with A ♦ A ♠ against Hesps A ♥ 10 ♥ on the board A ♣ 7 ♦ 5 ♥ 10 ♠ 3 ♣ around half of all the chips in play are and had from then on. A little later Sinclair left the table after running A ♠ A ♦ with K ♠ J ♠ in Picciolis . After five and a half hours, the first day was over and the seven remaining players had a payout of $ 1.425 million guaranteed.

On the second day of the final, Salas was eliminated after getting it with A ♣ 10 ♥ on the flop A ♥ 3 ♥ 2 ♦ against Otts 4 ♦ 4 ♠, who made a straight with the 5 ♠ on the river. Later, Ott also took Piccioli out of the tournament with K ♠ K ♣ , who had pushed A ♣ 7 ♥ in the Battle of the Blinds . Then Saout and Blumstein were involved in a hand: Blumstein put Saout on the River All-In, the Frenchman made the call after careful consideration with K ♣ J ♦ on J ♣ 7 ♦ 6 ♣ 4 ♣ J ♥ and Blum stone was 5 ♠ 3 ♠ inferior . The day ended with the departure of Hesp, who ran 9 ♣ 7 ♣ in A ♦ J ♠ from Pollak and received no help from the board. This left only Pollak, Ott and Blumstein, with the latter already owning over 60 percent of all chips in the game.

On the last day, Pollak was the first to leave the table: he had put all-in on the button Q ♣ 10 ♦ and, after a re-push from Ott with K ♣ 9 ♦ , received the call from Blumstein's A ♥ Q ♠ . Blumstein was the chip leader at the time and would have been world champion if he had won. The board came K ♦ J ♠ 3 ♦ 4 ♣ 6 ♠ , so that Ott more than doubled his stack, but still went into the decisive heads-up with only around 35 percent of the chips . There Blumstein secured the title and won the final hand with A ♥ 2 ♦ against Otts A ♦ 8 ♦ after hitting a 3-outer on the river.

Scott Blumstein (2017)

space	origin	player	Age *	Prize money (in $ )
1		Scott Blumstein	25th	8,150,000
2		Daniel Ott	26th	4,700,000
3		Benjamin Pollak	33	3,500,000
4th		John Hesp	64	2,600,000
5		Antoine Saout	33	2,000,000
6th		Bryan Piccioli	28	1,675,000
7th		Damian Salas	42	1,425,000
8th		Jack Sinclair	26th	1,200,000
9		Ben Lamb	32	1,000,000

^* Age at the start of the final table

Web links

• Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2017 in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• World Series of Poker 2017 Main Event on the World Series of Poker website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tournament Schedule on the World Series of Poker website, accessed January 26, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Event # 73: $ 10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event - World Championship on the World Series of Poker website, accessed July 11, 2017.
3. ↑ PokerCentral Partners with ESPN for WSOP; No More November Nine on pocketfives.com from May 15, 2017, accessed on May 15, 2017 (English).
4. ↑ Meet the 2017 Non-November Nine: WSOP Main Event Final Table Bios on pokerlistings.com on July 18, 2017, accessed on July 18, 2017.