Jazayeri, Boi, Funkhouser, and Moen Latest Bracelet Winners At 2024 World Series of PokerA Look At Four New WSOP Champions Crowned On A Busy Thursday At The 55th Annual WSOP |
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A total of six bracelets were awarded at the 2024 World Series of Poker on Thursday, June 27. The top headline was Daniel Negreanu earning his seventh bracelet by taking down the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. In another big story, Franco Spitale topped a field of 10,939 entries in the Millionaire Maker event to earn $1,250,125. Below we will take a close look at the exciting results from the remaining four events that wrapped up during one of the most action-packed nights of the summer.
Event 59 – $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super Seniors
The first event that came to a close was the $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em super seniors. The tournament, which required players to be at least 60 years of age, had drawn 3,362 entries to create a prize pool of $2,958,560.
The top 505 finishers made the money, with the largest chunk going to eventual champion Sean Jazayeri. This was the first bracelet win for the Irvine, California resident. The $368,025 top prize was the second-largest score of his poker career, trailing only the $1,370,240 he earned as the champion of the 2012 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic main event. Jazayeri now has more than $2.4 million in career earnings.
Kevin Song, the winner of the 1997 $2,000 limit hold’em event at the series, finished eighth in this event for $46,281. He now has more than $4.8 million total cashes to his name.
Place | Player | Earnings |
1 | Sean Jazayeri | $368,025 |
2 | Yucel Eminoglu | $238,748 |
3 | Paul Runge | $178,250 |
4 | Manelic Minaya | $134,075 |
5 | Gary Fisher | $101,606 |
6 | Felix Barriga | $77,584 |
7 | Michael Minetti | $59,693 |
8 | Kevin Song | $46,281 |
9 | Christopher Bucceri | $36,161 |
Event 60 – $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em
While 1,773 entered the $3,000 no-limit hold’em event, only one left with the bracleet and the top prize of $676,990. That player was Italy’s Paolo Boi, who secured the six-figure payday and the hardware as the champion.
This win was roughly 10x the size if Boi’s previous top score of $68,063 which he earned for a seventh-place finish in a €2,200 buy-in event at last year’s European Poker Tour Monte Carlo festival.
The top 266 finishers in this event earned a share of the $4,733,910 prize pool. Notables that ran deep included 2020 WSOP Online main event champion Stoyan Madanzhiev (25th), bracelet winner Kyle Julius (19th), two-time bracelet winner Chris Klodnicki (12th), Vanessa Kade (8th), and recent WSOP $25,000 high roller event runner-up Noel Rodriguez (2nd).
Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
1 | Paolo Boi | $676,990 | 1620 |
2 | Noel Rodriguez | $451,299 | 1350 |
3 | Juan Duenas | $326,883 | 1080 |
4 | Brandon Mitchell | $239,451 | 810 |
5 | Justin Belforti | $177,416 | 675 |
6 | Marc Foggin | $132,978 | 540 |
7 | Victor Paredes | $100,840 | 405 |
8 | Vanessa Kade | $77,378 | 270 |
9 | Benjamin Gold | $60,088 | 135 |
Event 63 – $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Lowball Draw Seven Max
David Funkhouser came away with the win in event no. 63, the $1,500 no-limit deuce-to-seven single draw lowball tournament. He overcame a field of 453 entries to lock up his first bracelet and $123,314 in prize money.
Funkhouser now has nearly $1.1 million in lifetime cashes under his belt. This was the third-largest score on his resume, trailing the he earned as the runner-up in the 2022 $10,000 stud eight-or-better championship and the $187,200 he earned for winning a $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. event at the 2023 PGT Mixed Games II.
Joining Funkhouser at the business-end of this event were the likes of recent $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball champion Patrick Moulder (20th), three-time bracelet winner Chance Kornuth (17th), bracelet winner Patrick Leonard (10th), three-time bracelet winner David Baker (7th), bracelet winner Ali Eslami (5th), and bracelet winner Owais Ahmed (4th).
Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
1 | David Funkhouser | $123,314 | 720 |
2 | Michel Leibgorin | $81,412 | 600 |
3 | Charles Tucker | $54,868 | 480 |
4 | Owais Ahmed | $37,764 | 360 |
5 | Ali Eslami | $26,555 | 300 |
6 | Tzu Wang | $19,087 | 240 |
7 | David Baker | $14,030 | 180 |
Event 64 – $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
Christopher Moen bested a field of 5,263 total entries in the $600 buy-in no-limit hold’em Deepstack to nab his first bracelet and the top prize of $289,323.
Moen’s previous standout score was a first-place finish in the 2009 Twin Cities Poker Open main event for $61,924. He now has more than $397,000 in total tournament earnings.
This event only took two days to play down to a winner. Day 2 began with 283 contenders remaining, and yet a champion was still decided before the stoke of midnight. Big names that cashed included 2021 WSOP main event champion Koray Aldemir (75th), two-time bracelet winner Nick Guagenti (52nd), and bracelet winner Kartik Ved (48th).
Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
1 | Christopher Moen | $289,323 | 660 |
2 | Thomas Kuess | $192,809 | 550 |
3 | Cody Chung | $143,258 | 440 |
4 | August Smrek | $107,289 | 330 |
5 | John Ricksen | $80,996 | 275 |
6 | Gal Naim | $61,642 | 220 |
7 | Daniel Hirose | $47,295 | 165 |
8 | Guilherme Castro | $36,586 | 110 |
9 | Vance Isono | $28,536 | 55 |
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Winner photo credits for Boi, Moen: WSOP / Rachel Kay Winter, Spenser Sembrat.