Joshua Payne Leads After Day 6 of The 2023 World Series of Poker Main EventJust 49 Players Remain With A Shot At The $12.1 Million Top Prize and The Championship Bracelet |
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There are now just 49 players remaining in the 2023 World Series of Poker no-limit hold’em main event from the record turnout of 10,043. The largest field in the five-decade-plus history of this tournament has been narrowed down to six tables. Those still in contention have now locked up six figures, but are surely envisioning themselves walking away with the championship bracelet and the massive $12.1 million top prize in just a matter of days.
The leader at the end of day 6 is Joshua Payne with 47,950,000. The 23-year-old engineering student from Atlanta, Georgia told Card Player that he has only been playing poker for 3-4 years, and has participated in just a handful of live tournaments prior to making a run in this event. He did cash in this same tournament last year, finishing 553rd for $25,500.
“I normally play high stakes cash, like $50-$100,” said Payne. When asked how he rose to those types of stakes just a few years after taking up the game, Payne responded, “I got good… well, I’m not really good, but I got good enough to beat the games that I was in and then got backed for bigger games.”
“I’m just three-betting a lot. These guys are really scared to lose their stacks,” Payne said on the final break of the night when asked about how he had climbed the leaderboard.
Spanish poker player Juan Maceiras Lapido bagged up the second-largest stack with 40,500,000, with Daniel Weinman (24,375,000) not too far behind. Weinman, a two-time World Poker Tour champion and bracelet winner, won a massive side pot with pocket kings besting the pocket jacks of Brian Davis. Alexander Villa won the main pot with pocket aces.
Other notables moving on to day 7 include 2008 WSOP heads-up championship runner-up Alec Torelli (21,075,000), European Poker Tour champion and 2018 Aussie Millions main event winner Toby Lewis (15,250,000),bracelet winner Jan-Peter Jachtmann (14,975,000), WPT champion and bracelet winner Ryan Tosoc (9,450,000), EPT and WPT champion Andrey Pateychuk (8,050,000), bracelet winner Sam Stein (7,875,000), 15-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Maurice Hawkins (4,475,000), WPT champion Matthew Wantman (4,425,000), bracelet winner Raj Vohra (4,300,000), Japanese YouTube sensation Masato Yokosawa (3,175,00), and bracelet winner Mitch Halverson (1,150,00).
There were two female players left in contention when day 6 began. Both were eliminated before the day concluded. Bracelet winner Nikita Luther finished 96th for $78,900 when her A-K was outrun by the A-Q of Andrew Hulme. Luther’s departure left Estelle Cohuet as the last woman in the field. She eventually finished 68th ($130,300) when her K-10 was unable to come from behind against the A-Q suited of bracelet winner Raj Vohra.
Other notable players to hit the rail included crowed favorite Nicholas Rigby (131st – $67,700), bracelet winner Chris Lee (108th – $67,700), 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas winner Christian Harder (107th – $67,700), two-time bracelet winner Sean Troha (104th – $67,700), John Duthie (72nd – $109,400), World Poker Tour champion and bracelet winner Tony Dunst (66th – $130,300), Amit Makhija (57th – $156,100), and bracelet winner John Racener (53rd- $156,100), who finished second in this event back in 2010.
Political analyst, writer, and founder of FiveThirtyEight Nate Silver’s run in this event came to a brutal end, with all of his chips getting after the flop with middle set of sixes up against the top set of sevens held by Henry Chan. Silver was unable to hit his one outer and was sent to the rail in 87th place ($92,600). He now has more than $787,000 in lifetime tournament cashes to his name.
Check out a replay of the hand below via a clip from PokerGO’s exclusive live-streaming coverage.
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The final 49 contenders will reconvene at noon local time with blinds of 125,000-250,000 and a big blind ante of 250,000 for level 31. The average stack of 12,297,551 will represent just over 49 big blinds when cards get back in the air. All remaining players have locked up at least $188,400 for their efforts.
Here is a look at the complete chip counts heading into day 7:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Joshua Payne | 47,950,000 |
| 2 | Juan Maceiras Lapido | 40,500,000 |
| 3 | Daniel Weinman | 24,375,000 |
| 4 | Richard Ryder | 22,650,000 |
| 5 | Tim Van Loo | 21,700,000 |
| 6 | Alec Torelli | 21,075,000 |
| 7 | Daniel Scroggins | 20,800,000 |
| 8 | Ryan Tamanini | 19,200,000 |
| 9 | Pierpaola Lamanna | 18,875,000 |
| 10 | Nicholas Gerrity | 18,075,000 |
| 11 | Daniel Vampan | 17,000,000 |
| 12 | Henry Chan | 16,675,000 |
| 13 | Christopher Kimmel | 15,900,000 |
| 14 | Toby Lewis | 15,250,000 |
| 15 | Jan-Peter Jachtmann | 14,975,000 |
| 16 | Jose Aguilera | 14,950,000 |
| 17 | Ruslan Prydryk | 14,150,000 |
| 18 | Anirban Das | 13,375,000 |
| 19 | Sachin Joshi | 13,350,000 |
| 20 | Cong Pham | 13,200,000 |
| 21 | Adam Walton | 12,225,000 |
| 22 | Jack O’Neill | 11,825,000 |
| 23 | Andrew Hulme | 11,725,000 |
| 24 | Alexander Villa | 11,725,000 |
| 25 | Carlos Henrique Da Silva | 10,975,000 |
| 26 | Dean Hutchison | 10,800,000 |
| 27 | Bryan Obregon | 10,425,000 |
| 28 | Gabi Livshitz | 10,300,000 |
| 29 | Ryan Tosoc | 9,450,000 |
| 30 | Mark Teltscher | 9,300,000 |
| 31 | Joe Ghio | 8,725,000 |
| 32 | Andrey Pateychuk | 8,050,000 |
| 33 | Sam Stein | 7,875,000 |
| 34 | Diego D’Aquilio | 7,800,000 |
| 35 | Frank Bonacci | 6,450,000 |
| 36 | Steven Jones | 6,250,000 |
| 37 | Eric Schneider | 6,025,000 |
| 38 | Michael Berk | 5,875,000 |
| 39 | Logan Hoover | 4,950,000 |
| 40 | Maurice Hawkins | 4,475,000 |
| 41 | Matthew Wantman | 4,425,000 |
| 42 | Raj Vohra | 4,300,000 |
| 43 | Scott Berko | 3,900,000 |
| 44 | Yaroslav Ohulchanskyi | 3,250,000 |
| 45 | Masato Yokosawa | 3,175,000 |
| 46 | Pavel Dyachenko | 2,575,000 |
| 47 | Daniel Holzner | 2,050,000 |
| 48 | Harsheel Kothari | 1,600,000 |
| 49 | Mitchell Halverson | 1,150,000 |
Remaining payouts up for grabs in the 2023 WSOP main event:
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $12,100,000 |
| 2 | $6,500,000 |
| 3 | $4,000,000 |
| 4 | $3,000,000 |
| 5 | $2,400,000 |
| 6 | $1,850,000 |
| 7 | $1,425,000 |
| 8 | $1,125,000 |
| 9 | $900,000 |
| 10 – 11 | $700,000 |
| 12 – 13 | $535,000 |
| 14 – 17 | $430,200 |
| 18 – 26 | $345,000 |
| 27 – 35 | $280,100 |
| 36 – 44 | $229,000 |
| 45 – 53 | $188,400 |
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