Astedt and Foxen Headline Final 18 In 2024 World Series of Poker Main EventJoe Serock, Jason James and Brian Kim Also Among Tops Stacks Vying For The $10 Million Top Prize |
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The 2024 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event is now down to just 18 players from a record field of 10,112. The remaining contenders have now all locked up at least $350,000 for making it to this point, and are now just one sleep away from the chance to battle for a spot at the final table of the largest WSOP main event ever held.
The chip leader following the conclusion of day 7 is Malo Latinois (pictured above) with 61,300,000. The French player came into this event with just shy of $97,000 in total prior live tournament earnings, and is now just nine eliminations away from securing a seven-figure payday and another eight knockouts from the championship bracelet and the top prize of $10,000,000.
Hot on Latinois’ heels is 2023 European Poker Tour Paris €10,300 high roller champion Diogo Coelho of Portugal with 51,500,000 and 2006 World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship runner-up Jason Sagle of Ontario, Canada.
Online tournament poker superstar Niklas Astedt sits in fourth place heading into day 8 with 50,000,000. The Gothenburg, Sweden native, known to many by his screen name ‘Lena900’, has tens of millions in online tournament earnings and another $3.8 million in recorded live cashes. Now he has a real shot at becoming just the second player from his home country to take down poker’s world championship, following in the footsteps of 2014 main event winner Martin Jacobson. Astedt only needs to outlast one opponent on day 8 in order to secure a new top live score, with 17th place being good for $450,400 and his prior top cash sitting at $390,572.
Four-time bracelet winner Kristen Foxen also has her sights set on making history. As the last female player remaining in this event, she alone has the chance to be the first woman to make the main event final table since Barbara Enright finished fifth back in 1995. Four women have fallen just short of the final table in 10th place, with the most recent being Gaelle Baumann in 2012.
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Foxen was nearly sent to the rail in 22nd place. She was all-in for her last five big blinds with A-5 suited trailing the pocket queens of Gabriel Moura and was down to needing an ace on the river in order to remain in the event. The A
rolled off on the end, giving Foxen the double up and kickstarting a late-night surge that saw her finish the night in fifth chip position. Foxen is now well situated to add to her $8.4 million in career tournament earnings in a major way, with a chance to extend his record as the all-time leading female bracelet winner.
In addition to Foxen, are three more bracelet winners sitting inside the top ten in Joe Serock (46,300,000), Jason James (46,300,000), and Brian Kim (42,400,000).
Foxen was joined by one other female player among the 59 players that made it to day 7. Shundan Xiao entered the day in second chip position, but had a tough go of it during the middle of the day. The 36-year-old software engineer hails from China and is now based out of San Jose, California. She only picked up poker two years ago, and has been encouraged in her pursuit of the game by her wife Yongqing Yuan, who finished 18th in this year’s ladies event. Despite being a relative newcomer to poker, Xiao navigated her way through this massive field to ultimately finish in 28th place for $300,000.
Xiao was one of 41 players to be eliminated during day 7 action. Joining her on that list were bracelet winners Stephen Song (57th) and Alex Keating (55th), 2022 WSOP main event sixth-place finisher Russell Rosenblum (46th), bracelet winner Nick Jivkov (43rd), two-time bracelet winner Brandon Cantu (39th), 2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship winner Aliaksandr Shylko (36th), 2022 WSOP Circuit Hard Rock Tulsa main event champion Arthur Morris (34th), WPT champion Orson Young (26th), and six-time bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Famer member Brian Rast (24th).
Rast’s run in this event came to an end when his A-Q ran into the pocket kings of Jonathan Tamayo, a longtime poker player with more than $2.3 million in tournament earnings under his belt. Rast picked up the nut flush draw on the turn to go with his overcard to Tamayo’s pocket pair, but the river brought a king to improve Tamayo to kings full. Rast earned $350,000 for his deep run, growing his lifetime total to more than $27.3 million. Tamayo bagged up 18,400,000 at the end of the day, which is good for 14th chip position.
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The final 18 players will return at 2:00 PM local time on Sunday, July 14 with blinds of 400,000-800,000 and a big blind ante of 800,000 for level 36. The average stack of 33,706,667 will represent just over 42 big blinds when play resumes, with the plan being to play to a final table of nine before the tournament takes a one-day hiatus ahead of the final table.
Here is a look at the complete chip counts heading into day 8:
| Rank | Player | Chips |
| 1 | Malo Latinois | 61,300,000 |
| 2 | Diogo Coelho | 51,500,000 |
| 3 | Jason Sagle | 51,400,000 |
| 4 | Niklas Astedt | 50,000,000 |
| 5 | Kristen Foxen | 47,400,000 |
| 6 | Joe Serock | 46,300,000 |
| 7 | Malcolm Franchi | 45,900,000 |
| 8 | Jason James | 45,800,000 |
| 9 | Brian Kim | 42,400,000 |
| 10 | Jessie Bryant | 27,600,000 |
| 11 | Gabriel Moura | 24,600,000 |
| 12 | Guillermo Sanchez Otero | 24,500,000 |
| 13 | Yegor Moroz | 24,500,000 |
| 14 | Jonathan Tamayo | 18,400,000 |
| 15 | Andres Gonzalez | 14,900,000 |
| 16 | Gerardo Hernandez | 13,400,000 |
| 17 | Boris Angelov | 8,300,000 |
| 18 | Jordan Griff | 8,300,000 |
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 | $350,000 |
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