2024 World Series of Poker: Peter Park and Erlend Melsom Win Latest BraceletsA Look At The Results From The $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty and $3,000 Freezeout Events |
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The 2024 World Series of Poker has reached its halfway point. 50 of the 99 live bracelet events have already concluded, with $145.5 million in prize money awarded so far at the 55th annual WSOP. Below we will take a closer look at two of the latest tournaments to wrap up at the series.
2024 WSOP $1,500 NLH Super Turbo Bounty Freezeout
A total of 2,110 entries turned out for the ultra-fast-paced $1,500 no-limit hold’em super turbo bounty freezeout, resulting in a prize pool of $2,816,850. While 315 players lasted long enough to earn a piece of that pot, only one would walk away with the bracelet. That player was Peter Park, who earned $240,724 as the champion.
This tournament took a single day to play down from multiple thousands of entries to a champion. Several big names joined Park at the business-end of this event, including bracelet winner Allan Le (12th), two-time bracelet winner Quinn Do (11th), Joe Kuether (9th), and 2021 World Poker Tour Venetian champion Qing Liu (4th).
Mark Dube, who finished fourth in the $1,500 no-limit hold’em six max just a few weeks earlier for $112,362, ended up finishing second in this event for another $160,474. Dube now has more than $3.1 million in tournament earnings.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Peter Park | $240,724 | 1080 |
| 2 | Mark Dube | $160,474 | 900 |
| 3 | Adria Dalmau | $117,451 | 720 |
| 4 | Qing Liu | $86,821 | 540 |
| 5 | Jungyang Lin | $64,828 | 450 |
| 6 | Jose Rodriguez | $48,899 | 360 |
| 7 | Zhigang Yang | $37,264 | 270 |
| 8 | Julio Novo | $28,693 | 180 |
| 9 | Joe Kuether | $22,326 | 90 |
2024 WSOP $3,000 NLH Freezeout
Erlend Melsom topped a field of 1,252 players in the $3,000 no-limit hold’em freezeout, his first bracelet and the largest chunk of the $3,342,840 prize pool. Melsom walked away with $523,195, blowing away his previous top score of $64,758 earned for a sixth-place finish in the 2011 European Poker Tour Tallinn main event.
The Norwegian now has $604,323 in recorded tournament scores after this victory. He is just the eighth player from his home country to win a WSOP bracelet, with Thor Hansen and 2022 main event champion Espen Jorstad having both won two titles at the series to bring the nation’s total to 10.
Two-time bracelet winner Maxx Coleman finished sixth for $98,128, while recent $25,000 buy-in fourth-place finisher David Stamm earned $132,053 for a fifth-place showing in this event. Bulgaria’s Nikolay Yosifov was the runner-up, taking home a career-best payday of $348,784.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Erlend Melsom | $523,195 | 1440 |
| 2 | Nikolay Yosifov | $348,784 | 1200 |
| 3 | Ben Hoy | $249,005 | 960 |
| 4 | Jonathan Schwartz | $180,127 | 720 |
| 5 | David Stamm | $132,053 | 600 |
| 6 | Maxx Coleman | $98,128 | 480 |
| 7 | Joseph Carden | $73,925 | 360 |
| 8 | Uri Reichenstein | $56,472 | 240 |
| 9 | Morgan Petro | $43,751 | 120 |
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Photo credits: WSOP / Rachel Kay Winter, Spenser Sembrat.
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