Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2018

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The Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2018 was the main tournament of the 49th edition of the Poker World Championship in Las Vegas . It was played from July 2 to 14, 2018.

Tournament structure

The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas

The 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 2-4, 2018. Then the game was played until the seventh day of the tournament on July 11th, after which only nine players remained. The final table was played from July 12-14, 2018. The entire tournament was played at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas . The total of 7,874 participants, including 301 women, had to pay a buy-in of 10,000 US dollars each, and there were 1182 paid places for them. As in 2015 , the best woman was Kelly Minkin , who took 50th place for more than 150,000 dollars.

In early April 2019, the tournament was named Event of the Year 2018 at the Global Poker Awards .

transmission

The US TV broadcaster ESPN and the paid streaming website PokerGO , in cooperation with Poker Central, broadcast several hours of the tournament every day.

German-speaking participants

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Manig Solver (539 .- $ 26,535)
Marvin Rettenmaier (1025.- $ 15,920)
Max Altergott (1111.- $ 15,000)

As in 2016 , no German-speaking player reached the seventh day of the tournament. The following German-speaking participants were able to place themselves in the money:

space origin player Prize money (in $ )
0048 AustriaAustria Artur Koren 156.265
0065 GermanyGermany Michael Feil 108,745
0067 AustriaAustria Mario Mosböck
0076 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Stefan Huber 091,610
0160 GermanyGermany Tobias Ziegler 057.010
0173 GermanyGermany Andreas Kniep 049,335
0176 GermanyGermany Christopher Ahrens
0184 AustriaAustria Roman Lanzerstorfer
0187 GermanyGermany Kilian Löffler
0266 GermanyGermany Oliver Weis 042,980
0279 GermanyGermany Stephan Sieber
0283 GermanyGermany Daniel Engels
0300 AustriaAustria Jürgen Wenigwieser 037,705
0313 GermanyGermany Paul Michaelis
0351 GermanyGermany Dennis Wilke
0441 GermanyGermany Fabian Gumz 029,625
0450 GermanyGermany Julius Malzanini
0483 GermanyGermany Johannes Becker 026,535
0500 GermanyGermany Rijad Hasani
0539 GermanyGermany Manig solver
0587 GermanyGermany Yannik Hofmann 023,940
0646 GermanyGermany Arne Ruge 021,750
0661 GermanyGermany David Leaning
0703 GermanyGermany Hans Joachim Hein 019,900
0704 GermanyGermany Peter Splettstößer
0782 GermanyGermany Khiem Nguyen 018,340
0870 GermanyGermany Uri Reichenstein
0892 AustriaAustria Wilfried Haselmayer 017,025
0919 GermanyGermany Daniel Peche
0929 GermanyGermany Andrea Klein
0930 GermanyGermany Dennis Kraus
0942 GermanyGermany Oliver Rusing
0951 GermanyGermany Dennis Martin
1025 GermanyGermany Marvin Rettenmaier 015,920
1046 GermanyGermany Julian Menhardt
1050 GermanyGermany Andreas Michelmann
1086 GermanyGermany Jan Schwippert 015,000
1111 GermanyGermany Max Altergott
1144 GermanyGermany Alan Widmann

Final table

The final table was reached after Chinese Yueqi Zhu put his stack of over 40 big blinds all-in with K ♠  K ♥ and got into a spot against Antoine Labats K ♦ K ♣ and Nicolas Manion's A ♠ A ♥ . Thus Labat was the short stack and Manion was the chip leader at the start of the final table on July 12, 2018. Joe Cada was the second time a player sat at the final table of the main event, he won the tournament in November 2009 .    

On the first day of the final table, the eighth day of the tournament, Labat was the first to vacate his seat. The French held K ♥  K ♦ again , but could not beat the Q ♥  Q ♣ of the Ukrainian Artem Metalidi with this hand . Nevertheless, it was Metalidi who took eighth place: He brought his stack with 5 ♦  5 ♣ against Aram Zobian's K ♦  Q ♦ in the middle of the table. On 6 ♦  5 ♥  2 ♦  K ♣  4 ♦ he was initially ahead with his set, but lost on the river to Zobian's flush . The day ended with the elimination of Australian Alex Lynskey . With 6 ♦  6 ♣ he could not hold against K ♠  Q ♠ from John Cynn , who had already taken eleventh place in the main event in 2016 . Thus, after the first day of the final, only six Americans remained in the field, all of whom had secured prize money of $ 1.8 million. The clear chip leader was Michael Dyer .

Day two of the final table began with the elimination of Aram Zobian. He pushed 8 ♦  6 ♦ in blind battle and was called and beaten by Dyers A ♥  8 ♣ . Then the former world champion Cada brought his chips into the middle with 10 ♠  10 ♥ and met A ♥  K ♣ from Tony Miles . The latter hit a king on the flop , eliminating Cada. After that, the remaining players played four to five hours and there were some shifts in the chip counts. Miles continued to build his stack and took the lead in chips after a hand against Dyer in which Miles had hit a full house with 3 ♥  3 ♦ . Eventually Cynn took K ♠ K ♣ Manion out of the tournament, who had all-in his remaining chips with A ♠ 10 ♦ . That ended the ninth day of the tournament. The remaining players Miles, Cynn and Dyer had a cash prize of $ 3.75 million. Miles owned around 60% of all chips in the tournament.   

On the final day, Cynn quickly took the lead in chips. Miles then took the short stack Dyer with A ♠  J ♥ , who had put A ♥  10 ♦ all-in, out of the tournament and took a small lead into the decisive heads-up . Cynn and Miles then played against each other for over ten hours, making the final table the longest in the history of the WSOP main event, with 442 hands played. In the final hand Miles bluffed with Q ♣  8 ♥ to K ♥  K ♦  5 ♥  8 ♦ . Cynn called with K ♣  J ♣ and secured a bracelet and a prize of 8.8 million dollars in addition to the world title .

John Cynn (2018)
space origin player Age * Prize money (in $ )
1 United StatesUnited States John Cynn 33 8,800,000
2 United StatesUnited States Tony Miles 32 5,000,000
3 United StatesUnited States Michael Dyer 32 3,750,000
4th United StatesUnited States Nicolas Manion 35 2,825,000
5 United StatesUnited States Joe Cada 30th 2,150,000
6th United StatesUnited States Aram Zobian 23 1,800,000
7th AustraliaAustralia Alex Lynskey 28 1,500,000
8th UkraineUkraine Artem Metalidi 29 1,250,000
9 FranceFrance Antoine Labat 29 1,000,000
* Age at the start of the final table

Web links

Commons : World Series of Poker 2018  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2018 WSOP Main Event Fun Facts and Demographics on pokernews.com on July 5, 2018, accessed on July 6, 2018.
  2. ↑ Tournament Schedule on the World Series of Poker website, accessed December 13, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Event # 65: $ 10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event - World Championship on the World Series of Poker website, accessed July 9, 2018.
  4. ↑ Global Poker Awards: Imsirovic named Breakout Player of the Year, Bonomo named Moment of the Year on pokernews.com on April 8, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ Everything You Need to Know About the 2018 WSOP Main Event! on pokernews.com July 1, 2018, accessed July 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ Yueqi Zhu Eliminated in 10th Place ($ 850,025) on pokernews.com on July 12, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2018.
  7. ^ Structure on the World Series of Poker website, accessed on July 5, 2018.
  8. ↑ 2018 Main Event Final Table Set With Joe Cada Gunning for Second Title on pokernews.com on July 12, 2018, accessed on July 12, 2018.
  9. ↑ Antoine Labat Eliminated in 9th Place ($ 1,000,000) on pokernews.com on July 13, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2018.
  10. ↑ Artem Metalidi Eliminated in 8th Place ($ 1,250,000) on pokernews.com on July 13, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2018.
  11. ↑ Alex Lynskey Eliminated in 7th Place ($ 1,500,000) on pokernews.com July 13, 2018, accessed July 13, 2018.
  12. ^ Michael Dyer Establishes Commanding Lead on Day 8; Joe Cada In Contention With Six Left on pokernews.com on July 13, 2018, accessed July 13, 2018.
  13. ↑ Aram Zobian Eliminated in 6th Place ($ 1,800,000) on pokernews.com, July 14, 2018, accessed July 14, 2018.
  14. ↑ Joe Cada Eliminated in 5th Place ($ 2,150,000) on pokernews.com July 14, 2018, accessed July 14, 2018.
  15. ↑ Hand # 120-121: Miles Takes Over the Chip Lead on pokernews.com on July 14, 2018, accessed on July 14, 2018.
  16. ↑ Nicolas Manion Eliminated in 4th Place ($ 2,825,000) on pokernews.com July 14, 2018, accessed July 14, 2018.
  17. ↑ Miles Busts Cada, Rises to Lead Over Cynn and Short-Stacked Dyer on pokernews.com on July 14, 2018, accessed on July 14, 2018.
  18. ↑ Hands # 239-242: Cynn Takes Over the Lead on pokernews.com July 15, 2018, accessed July 15, 2018.
  19. ↑ Michael Dyer Eliminated in 3rd Place ($ 3,750,000) on pokernews.com July 15, 2018, accessed July 15, 2018.
  20. ↑ Tony Miles Eliminated in 2nd Place ($ 5,000,000) on pokernews.com on July 15, 2018, accessed July 15, 2018.
  21. ↑ The 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table Starts at 5:30 pm on pokernews.com on July 12, 2018, accessed on July 12, 2018.