2023 World Series of Poker

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]

2023 World Series of Poker
Location	Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
Dates	May 30 – July 17
Champion
Daniel Weinman
← 2022 2024 →

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.

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.

External links

• Official website