2024 World Series of Poker Main Event: Money Bubble Bursts On Day 4Stephen Song Leads With Just 464 Players Remaining In From A Record Field of 10,112 Entries |
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The money bubble has officially burst in the largest World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event ever held. A record field of 10,112 entries turned out this year, resulting in a massive $94,041,600 prize pool. By the end of day 4, just 464 contenders remain with a shot at the championship bracelet and the $10,000,000 first-place prize.
Day 4 began with just 1,529 players remaining, which meant that 12 eliminations were required to make the money. Hand-to-hand play began roughly 45 minutes into the day. It took roughly another hour for the bubble to burst, with two players knocked out simultaneously at separate tables. Jack Effel, Vice President of the World Series of Poker, bounced between tables announcing the action from the various all-ins around the room. He was, as always, followed by a swarm of media and players looking to grab a shot of the hand that burst the bubble.
The first of the two bubble players was Lucas Reeves (pictured at the top of the page), who seven-bet shoved with K
K
and found himself up against the A
A
of Marcelo Tadeu Aziz Junior. Neither player connected with a queen-high runout and Reeves was eliminated. Moments later, Christian Stratmeyer was in the spotlight, with his AK facing the 83 of poker media member Terence Reid in a preflop confrontation. Reid flopped trip eights and then backdoored a flush to send Stratmeyer packing.
Reeves and Stratmeyer split the $15,000 in prize money that would have gone to the first player bust inside the money, taking home $7,500 each. They then high-carded for a free seat into next year’s main event, with Stratmeyer pulling a jack to best the deuce of Reeves. With that, the remaining 1,516 could breath a sigh of relief, having at least locked up $15,000.
By the end of the night, the 464 that remained were all guaranteed $37,500. Sitting at the top of the chip counts heading into day 5 is bracelet winner and 2022 WPT Prime Championship winner Stephen Song with 4,745,000 (190 big blinds). He won a big pot late on day four with quad threes to help propel him into the top spot. Song has more than $6.5 million in prior tournament earnings, with nearly $1.6 million in cashes in WSOP events.
Song is far from the only highly-accomplished player near the top of the chip counts, though. Sitting in second chip position is four-time bracelet winner Adrian Mateos with 4,500,000 (180 big blinds). Rounding out the rest of the top five is Will Berry(4,465,000), Aloisio Dourado (4,335,000), and Biao Ding (4,265,000).
Other notables with big stacks include World Poker Tour champion Veerab Zakarian (3,625,000), two-time bracelet winner Boris Kolev (3,045,000), two-time bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs (2,935,000), eight-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Matt Stout (2,910,000), two-time bracelet winner David Prociak (2,880,000), WPT champion and 15-time WSOPC ring winner Joshua Reichard (2,540,000), and two-time bracelet winner Jesse Lonis (2,520,000).
Full chip counts for the remaining 464 contenders can be found by clicking HERE.
Poker Hall of Famer Phil Ivey is also still in contention, having ended day 4 with 650,000. The 11-time bracelet winner was on one of PokerGO’s featured tables during the day, and won a big pot while on the broadcast via the most brutal preflop cooler in the game: pocket aces over pocket kings. Check out the hand below.
Aces vs Kings.
All In.
and @philivey
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Among the 1,065 players that were eliminated on day 4 were seven-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu (1,468th), reigning WSOP ladies event champion Shiina Okamoto (1,407th), 10-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (1,369th), and bracelet winner Matt Waxman (1,157th).
Five former main event champions made it to day 4, with all of them being knocked out before the end of play. That means that a new world champion will be crowned in 2024. 2022 champion Espen Jorstad’s run ended in 1,393th, while 2023 champion Daniel Weinman finished 1,357th, 2017 champion Scott Blumstein placed 1,137th. 2021 champion Koray Aldemir and 2015 champion Joe McKeehen also cashed, but their official finishing spots have not yet been posted.
The final 464 players will return for day 5 at noon on Thursday, July 11 with blinds of 10,000-25,000 with a 25,0000 big blind ante for level 22. The average stack of 1,307,586 will represent just over 52 big blinds when action resumes.
Here is a look at the top ten chip stacks heading into day 5:
| Rank | Player | Chips |
| 1 | Stephen Song | 4,745,000 |
| 2 | Adrian Mateos | 4,500,000 |
| 3 | Will Berry | 4,465,000 |
| 4 | Aloisio Dourado | 4,335,000 |
| 5 | Biao Ding | 4,265,000 |
| 6 | Malo Latinois | 4,130,000 |
| 7 | Luis Vazquez | 4,055,000 |
| 8 | Nazar Buhaiov | 3,875,000 |
| 9 | Kevin Theodore | 3,760,000 |
| 10 | Ryan Hoenig | 3,665,000 |
Remaining payouts up for grabs in the 2024 WSOP main event:
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $10,000,000 |
| 2 | $6,000,000 |
| 3 | $4,000,000 |
| 4 | $3,000,000 |
| 5 | $2,500,000 |
| 6 | $2,000,000 |
| 7 | $1,500,000 |
| 8 | $1,250,000 |
| 9 | $1,000,000 |
| 10 – 11 | $800,000 |
| 12 – 13 | $600,000 |
| 14 – 17 | $450,400 |
| 18 – 26 | $350,000 |
| 27 – 35 | $300,000 |
| 36 – 44 | $250,000 |
| 45 – 53 | $200,000 |
| 54 – 62 | $160,000 |
| 63 – 71 | $140,000 |
| 72 – 80 | $120,000 |
| 81 – 125 | $100,000 |
| 126 – 134 | $85,000 |
| 135 – 162 | $70,000 |
| 163 – 224 | $60,000 |
| 225 – 287 | $50,000 |
| 288 – 311 | $45,000 |
| 312 – 350 | $45,000 |
| 351 – 413 | $40,000 |
| 414 – 476 | $37,500 |
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