Three more World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2017 events have wrapped up, crowing title winners Nadar Kakhmazov, Thomas Reynolds and Joe McKeehen.
Event 36, the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed was won by Russian Nadar Kakhmazov for a massive $580,338 pay day and his first WSOP gold career bracelet after he defeated Chris “Big Huni” Hunichen in heads-up play.
Final Table Payouts were:
1 Nadar Kakhmazov, $580,338
2 Chris Hunichen, $358,677
3 Kenny Hallaert, $238,855
4 Sam Soverel, $162,257
5 Faraz Jaka, $112,484
6 Christian Rudolph, $79,661
Thomas Reynolds took down Event 37, the $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em for his first WSOP gold career bracelet and $292,880.
Reynolds outplayed a huge field of 2,020 players and a talented final table, ultimately defeating James Hughes in three-hours of heads-up play.
Final Table Results were:
1 Thomas Reynolds – $292,880
2 James Hughes – $180,919
3 Reginald Hampton – $131,061
4 Eric Blair – $95,899
5 Michael Gathy – $70,884
6 Vlad Darie – $52,932
7 Chris Johnson – $39,937
8 Chad Eveslage – $30,448
9 Joep Raemakers – $23,460
2015 Main Event winner Joe McKeehen defeated Jared Talarico in Event 38, the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship to win his second WSOP bracelet and a payday of $311,817, bringing his WSOP career earnings to over $10 million.
Final Table Payouts were:
1 Joe McKeehen, $311,817
2 Jared Talarico, $192,717
3 Sorel Mizzi, $135,985
4 Ben Yu, $97,904
5 JC Tran, $71,949
6 Robert Campbell, $53,995
7 Raymond Henson, $41,399
8 Terrence Chan, $32,443
9 Aaron Sacks, $26,000
Having passed the halfway mark, WSOP 2017 released “Inside the Numbers”, a look at the tournament series so far.
A record 61,616 collective entries have been recorded for the first 37 events with participation by 97 different nationalities. A mind-boggling $81,480,871 has been won so far, which if averaged over the collective equates to an average prize pool of $2,202,185. 15 percent or 9,254 participants have won prize money to date.
“Players continue to respond favorably to our diverse offerings and industry-leading prize pools,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart. “We believe we’ve found the right mix of price points and game variants to make a trip to the Rio in Las Vegas a must annually for anyone who loves the game of poker.”
Most participants are predictably from the U.S., followed by Canada, United Kingdom, France and Australia. International players represent 10,305 entries.
To date 78 different countries have cashed in bracelet events, led by the U.S., then Canada, France, United Kingdom, and Italy.
The average age of participants to date is 43 and it is still a male-dominated demographic comprising 95.22 percent of entries.