2023 World Series of Poker

The 2023 World Series of Poker was the 54th edition of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), a series of poker tournaments. It took place from May 30 – July 17 at the Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[1]

2023 World Series of Poker
Location	Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
Dates	May 30 – July 17
Champion
Daniel Weinman
← 2022 2024 →

The series featured 95 bracelet events, plus another 20 online bracelet events. Events included the $1,000 Mystery Millions beginning on May 31, with mystery bounties of up to $1 million. There were also Badugi and Big O events for the first time, as well as a $300 Gladiators of Poker event. The Tournament of Champions also returned, this time near the beginning of the series.^[2]

The $10,000 Main Event began on July 3 with the first of four starting flights. The final table was held over two days on July 16–17.

Event Schedule

Key: (bracelets won in 2023/bracelets won in career)

	High stakes event ($10,000+ buy-in).
	No points awarded towards Player of the Year.
	Online event.

#	Event	Entrants	Winner	Prize	Runner-up	Results
1	$500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em	1,015	Peter Thai (1/1)	$75,535	James Urbanic	Results
2	$25,000 High Roller Six Handed No-Limit Hold'em	207	Alexandre Vuilleumier (1/1)	$1,215,864	Chance Kornuth (0/3)	Results
3	$1,000 Mystery Millions No-Limit Hold'em	18,188	Tyler Brown (1/1)	$1,000,000	Guang Chen	Results
4	WSOP Tournament of Champions	741	Ronnie Day (1/1)	$200,000	Brent Gregory	Results
5	$1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed	456	Chad Eveslage (1/2)	$131,879	Andrew Kelsall (0/1)	Results
6	$5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha	568	Michael Moncek (1/2)	$534,499	Fernando Habegger	Results
7	$1,500 Limit Hold'em	527	Vadim Shlez (1/1)	$146,835	Rostyslav Sabishchenko	Results
o1	$333 No-Limit Hold'em Triple Treys Summer Tip Off	1,330	Cody Bell (1/1)	$87,665	Douglas May
8	$25,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship	64	Chanracy Khun (1/1)	$507,020	Doug Polk (0/3)	Results
9	$1,500 Seven Card Stud	360	Nick Schulman (1/4)	$110,800	Andrew Hasdal	Results
10	$10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship	130	Chad Eveslage (2/3)	$311,428	Dutch Boyd (0/3)	Results
11	$600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	6,085	Kenneth O'Donnell (1/1)	$351,098	Jefferson Guerrero	Results
12	$5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed	735	Jeremy Eyer (1/1)	$649,550	Felipe Ramos	Results
o2	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Bankroll Builder	1,253	Ian Matakis (1/1)	$120,686	Baruch Forst
o3	$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	688	Ryan Hughes (1/3)	$145,059	Shaun Deeb (0/5)
13	$600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack	3,200	Joseph Altomonte (1/1)	$217,102	Michael Holmes	Results
14	$10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship	130	Brian Yoon (1/5)	$311,433	Dan Shak	Results
15	$1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em	2,454	Rafael Reis (1/1)	$465,501	Daniel Barriocanal	Results
16	$25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed	301	Isaac Haxton (1/1)	$1,698,215	Ryan O'Donnell	Results
17	$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	1,143	Jim Collopy (1/3)	$262,542	Nick Kost (0/1)	Results
o4	$600 No-Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack	1,656	Danny Wong (1/1)	$130,648	Eshaan Bhalla
18	$300 Gladiators of Poker No-Limit Hold'em	23,088	Jason Simon (1/1)	$499,852	Eric Trexler	Results
19	$2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	1,139	Valentino Konakchiev (1/1)	$435,924	Andres Korn (0/1)	Results
20	$1,500 Badugi	516	Michael Rodrigues (1/1)	$144,678	Yingui Li	Results
21	$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed	2,017	Stephen Nahm (1/1)	$267,991	Kevin Rand	Results
22	$10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship	134	Josh Arieh (1/5)	$316,226	Dan Idema (0/3)	Results
23	$50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	124	Leon Sturm (1/1)	$1,546,024	Bill Klein	Results
24	$1,500 Razz	556	David "ODB" Baker (1/3)	$152,991	Justin Liberto (0/1)	Results
25	$10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	212	Ben Lamb (1/2)	$492,795	James Chen	Results
26	$800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	4,747	Renji Mao (1/1)	$402,588	Matthew Elsby (0/1)	Results
27	$1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed	789	Shaun Deeb (1/6)	$198,854	Aloísio Dourado	Results
o5	$400 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Max	1,488	Gary Belyalovsky (1/1)	$121,854	Joseph Hebert
28	$1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	2,046	Benjamin Ector (1/1)	$406,403	Adam Swan	Results
29	$100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	93	Jans Arends (1/2)	$2,576,729	Cary Katz	Results
30	$1,500 Limit 2–7 Lowball Triple Draw	522	John Monnette (1/5)	$145,846	Christopher Chung	Results
31	$600 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack	2,759	Scott Dulaney (1/1)	$194,155	Sridhar Sangannagari	Results
32	$3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em	1,241	Mark Ioli (1/1)	$558,266	Johann Ibanez	Results
33	$10,000 Razz Championship	123	Jerry Wong (1/1)	$298,682	Carlos Chadha	Results
34	$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha	1,355	Sean Troha (1/2)	$298,192	Ryan Coon	Results
35	$10,000 Secret Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	568	Chris Klodnicki (1/2)	$733,317	Aram Oganyan	Results
36	$3,000 Nine Game Mix	361	Ryutaro Suzuki (1/1)	$221,124	Walter Chambers	Results
37	$2,000 No-Limit Hold'em	1,962	Yuan Li (1/1)	$524,777	Jonathan Camara	Results
38	$10,000 Limit 2–7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship	130	Benny Glaser (1/5)	$311,428	Oscar Johansson	Results
39	$1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em	8,317	Braxton Dunaway (1/1)	$1,162,681	Colin Robinson	Results
40	$250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	69	Chris Brewer (1/1)	$5,293,556	Artur Martirosian	Results
41	$1,500 Big 0	1,458	Scott Abrams (1/1)	$315,203	Robert Williamson III (0/1)	Results
42	$800 8-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	3,773	Qiang Xu (1/1)	$339,377	Jason Johnson	Results
43	$50,000 Poker Players Championship	99	Brian Rast (1/6)	$1,324,747	Talal Shakerchi	Results
o6	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo	1,879	Harley Brooks (1/1)	$134,527	Will Collins
o7	$500 PLO 8-Max	608	Joe Serock (1/1)	$93,911	Millard Hale
44	$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em	1,735	Yang Zhang (1/1)	$717,879	Aram Oganyan	Results
45	$1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo	1,091	William Leffingwell (1/1)	$253,651	Zhen Cai	Results
46	$500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	5,342	Jay Lockett (1/1)	$262,526	Jie Fu	Results
47	$1,500 H.O.R.S.E.	836	Yuri Dzivielevski (1/3)	$207,688	Randy Ohel (0/1)	Results
o8	$3,200 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller	321	Jeremy Ausmus (1/6)	$360,036	Christopher Castiglia (0/1)
48	$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship	8,180	Lonnie Hallett (1/1)	$765,731	Billy Baxter (0/7)	Results
49	$1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	2,226	Pengfei Wang (1/1)	$270,700	Will Linden	Results
50	$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship	731	Lou Garza (1/1)	$1,309,232	Arthur Morris	Results
51	$1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em	1,282	Michael Savakinas (1/1) Satoshi Tanaka (1/1)	$190,662	Vincent Moscati Tanner Bibat (0/2)	Results
52	$2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball	353	Nick Pupillo (1/1)	$181,978	Ryan Moriarty	Results
o9	$1,000 PLO Championship	383	Stanislav Barshak (1/1)	$128,841	Chris DeMaci
53	$1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em	10,416	Pavel Plesuv (1/1)	$1,201,564	Florian Ribouchon	Results
54	$10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship	185	Mike Gorodinsky (1/3)	$422,747	Alex Livingston (0/1)	Results
55	$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better	566	Marcin Horecki (1/1)	$155,275	Mike Matusow (0/4)	Results
56	$500 Salute to Warriors No-Limit Hold'em	4,303	Steven Genovese (1/1)	$217,921	Kelly Gall	Results
57	$25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha	449	Ka Kwan Lau (1/1)	$2,294,756	Sergio Martinez Gonzalez	Results
58	$3,000 6-Handed Limit Hold'em	263	Jason Daly (1/1)	$165,250	Brent Mutter	Results
o10	$400 No-Limit Ultra Deepstack	2,901	Ryan Eriquezzo (1/3)	$145,374	Richard West
59	$3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	1,598	Robert Schulz (1/1)	$675,275	Julien Sitbon	Results
60	$1,500 No-Limit 2–7 Lowball Draw	548	Jason Mercier (1/6)	$151,276	Mike Watson	Results
61	$1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold'em	3,121	Klaus Ilk (1/1)	$371,603	Ronald Lane	Results
62	$1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha	2,076	David Simon (1/1)	$410,659	David Prociak (0/1)	Results
63	$10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	141	Ryan Miller (1/1)	$344,677	Bryn Kenney (0/1)	Results
o11	$888 No-Limit Hold'em Crazy 8's	1,679	Robert Como (1/1)	$227,001	Gytis Lazauninkas
64	$600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold'em	4,303	David Guay (1/1)	$270,972	John Taylor	Results
65	$5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em	1,199	Weiran Pu (1/1)	$938,244	Norbert Szecsi (0/3)	Results
66	$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	1,125	William Kopp (1/1)	$259,549	Michael Rodrigues (1/1)	Results
67	$10,000/$1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship	1,295	Tamar Abraham (1/1)	$192,167	Shiina Okamoto	Results
68	$1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	2,824	Gabriel Schroeder (1/1)	$228,632	Joel Wertheimer	Results
69	$10,000 No-Limit 2–7 Lowball Draw Championship	154	Chris Brewer (2/2)	$367,599	Alex Livingston (0/1)	Results
70	$400 Colossus No-Limit Hold'em	15,894	Moshe Refaelowitz (1/1)	$501,120	Dae Woong Song	Results
71	$50,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha	200	Jesse Lonis (1/2)	$2,303,017	Tyler Smith (0/1)	Results
72	$10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	642	Phil Hellmuth (1/17)	$803,818	Justin Zaki	Results
73	$2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event	377	Julio Belluscio (1/1)	$190,240	Federico Quevedo	Results
74	$1,000 Mini Main Event No-Limit Hold'em	5,257	Bradley Gafford (1/1)	$549,555	Joshua Reichard	Results
75	$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	277	Hassan Kamel (1/1)	$598,613	Ryan Hoenig	Results
o12	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	1,754	Thomas Hall (1/1)	$176,920	Daniel Marin
76	$10,000 Main Event No-Limit Hold'em	10,043	Daniel Weinman (1/2)	$12,100,000	Steven Jones	Results
o13 *	$5,300 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Championship *	408	Sam Soverel (1/2)	$393,516	Gergely Kulcsár
o14	$400 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo	1,767	Zachary Grech (1/1)	$107,504	Amit Makhija
77	$777 Lucky 7's No-Limit Hold'em	7,300	Shawn Daniels (1/1)	$777,777	Julien Montois	Results
o15	$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship	1,365	Blaze Gaspari (1/1)	$224,816	Matthew Gillingham
o16	$600 Online Deepstack Championship	2,157	Vitor Dzivielevski (1/1)	$185,316	Michael Baldwin
78	$1,500 Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha	1,214	Thomas Skaggs (1/1)	$171,742	David Hu	Results
79	$2,500 No-Limit Hold'em	2,068	Samuel Bernabeu (1/1)	$682,436	James Anderson (0/1)	Results
80	$25,000 High Roller H.O.R.S.E.	112	Josh Arieh (2/6)	$711,313	Dan Heimiller (0/2)	Results
81	$600 Ultra Stack No-Limit Hold'em	7,207	Joseph Roh (1/1)	$401,250	Denny Lee	Results
82	$3,000 6-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha	1,013	Matthew Parry (1/1)	$480,122	Dustin Goldklang	Results
o17	$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max Championship	1,170	Tom Marchese (1/1)	$195,963	Besmir Hodaj
83	$1,500 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em	363	Thai Ha (1/1)	$111,170	David Prociak (0/1)	Results
84	$50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	176	Alex Kulev (1/1)	$2,087,073	Gergely Kulcsár	Results
85	$1,500 Shootout No-Limit Hold'em	987	Faraz Jaka (1/1)	$237,367	Michael Finstein	Results
86	$1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	1,417	Diego Ventura (1/1)	$402,054	Thomas Kysar	Results
87	$2,500 Mixed	460	Bradley Smith (1/1)	$221,733	Nghia Le	Results
88	$1,500 The Closer No-Limit Hold'em	3,531	Pierre Shum (1/1)	$606,810	Peter Nigh	Results
89	$1,000 Flip & Go No-Limit Hold'em	1,024	Dong Meng (1/1)	$160,490	Wesley Fei	Results
90	$10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship	550	Alexandre Reard (1/2)	$1,057,663	Stephen Chidwick (0/1)	Results
91	$3,000 H.O.R.S.E.	331	Ryan Miller (2/2)	$208,460	Leonard August	Results
o18	$2,000 Freezeout Championship	551	Julien Sitbon (1/1)	$176,348	Ashish Ahuja
92	$1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	1,710	Kang Hyun Lee (1/1)	$236,741	Eric Mizrachi	Results
93	$10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em	106	Martin Nielsen (1/1)	$270,160	Hong Wei Yu	Results
o19	$500 NL Hold'em Summer Saver	1,301	Christian Roberts (1/1)	$154,359	Michael Haberman
o20	$777 No-Limit Hold'em Lucky 7's	954	Nipun Java (1/3)	$195,151	Michael Jozoff
94	$5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold'em	813	Alex Keating (1/1)	$701,688	Guoliang Wei (0/1)	Results
95	$1,000 Super Turbo No-Limit Hold'em	1,482	Paul Berger (1/1)	$212,645	Yuri Dzivielevski (1/3)	Results

* Online tournament, but final table held as in-person event.

Michigan Online

#	Event	Entrants	Winner	Prize	Runner-up
o1	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Bankroll Builder	132	Todd Estes (1/2)	$18,623	Imari Love
o2	$400 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Max	215	Morgan Magee (1/1)	$17,447	Alec Magdan
o3	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo	193	Rudy Gavaldon (1/1)	$20,193	Roger Khoury
o4	$400 No-Limit Ultra Deepstack	208	David Ferus (1/1)	$17,898	Shivprasad Nomula
o5	$600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	125	Kyle Goodman (1/1)	$22,850	Peter Hotaling
o6	$300 No-Limit Hold'em	207	Joe Midena (1/1)	$17,884	Sung Cho
o7	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Summer Saver	178	Nicolai Morris (1/1)	$26,231	Randy Bullen

Pennsylvania Online

#	Event	Entrants	Winner	Prize	Runner-up
o1	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Bankroll Builder	153	Andrew Kershaw (1/1)	$16,965	Derek Duckett
o2	$400 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Max	234	Joshua Dempsey (1/1)	$20,100	Samuel Monks
o3	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo	195	Justin Vaysman (1/1)	$20,402	Max Pinnola
o4	$400 No-Limit Ultra Deepstack	217	Christopher Nunez (1/1)	$20,311	Clinton Branchen
o5	$600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	134	Michael Mayer (1/1)	$25,110	Michael Wolf
o6	$300 No-Limit Hold'em	122	Aleksey Levin (1/1)	$19,776	Keith McCarroll
o7	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Summer Saver	156	Elias Garney (1/1)	$23,306	Justin Koniuk

Player of the Year

Final standings as of July 18 (note: does not include events from the 2023 WSOP Online series, 2023 WSOP Europe series, or the 2023 WSOP Paradise series):

Standings^[3]

Rank	Name	Points	Bracelets
1	Ian Matakis	5,203.89	1
2	Shaun Deeb	4,276.12	1
3	Chris Brewer	4,127.61	2
4	Josh Arieh	3,938.62	2
5	Jesse Lonis	3,865.70	1
6	Michael Rodrigues	3,513.21	1
7	Chad Eveslage	3,447.63	2
8	Yuri Dzivielevski	3,382.33	1
9	Ben Yu	3.128.08	0
10	Phil Hellmuth	3,072.14	1

Main Event

The $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 3 with the first of four starting flights. The final table took place on July 16–17.

The Main Event attracted 10,043 players, making it the largest Main Event field in history.^[4] The top 1,507 players finished in the money, with the champion earning $12,100,000, a new Main Event record.^[5]

Performance of past champions

Name	Championship Year(s)	Day of Elimination
Tom McEvoy	1983	3
Johnny Chan	1987, 1988	4 (1067th)*
Phil Hellmuth	1989	2D
Jim Bechtel	1993	3
Scotty Nguyen	1998	2D
Chris Moneymaker	2003	5 (403rd)*
Greg Raymer	2004	2ABC
Joe Hachem	2005	5 (402nd)*
Jamie Gold	2006	4 (1082nd)*
Joe Cada	2009	4 (1358th)*
Greg Merson	2012	1C
Ryan Riess	2013	3
Martin Jacobson	2014	3
Joe McKeehen	2015	3
Qui Nguyen	2016	2D
Scott Blumstein	2017	4 (782nd)*
John Cynn	2018	3
Hossein Ensan	2019	1D
Damian Salas	2020	3
Koray Aldemir	2021	1C
Espen Jørstad	2022	2ABC

*- Denotes player who finished in the money

Other notable high finishes

NB: This list is restricted to top 100 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Place	Name	Prize
11th	Alec Torelli	$700,000
32nd	Mark Teltscher	$280,100
46th	Sam Stein	$188,400
53rd	John Racener	$188,400
66th	Tony Dunst	$130,300
72nd	John Duthie	$109,400
87th	Nate Silver	$92,600

Final Table

Name	Number of chips (percentage of total)	WSOP Bracelets	WSOP Cashes*	WSOP Earnings*
Adam Walton	143,800,000 (23.9%)	0	20	$265,147
Steven Jones	90,300,000 (15.0%)	0	23	$130,751
Daniel Weinman	81,700,000 (13.6%)	1	69	$1,298,605
Jan-Peter Jachtmann	74,600,000 (12.4%)	1	17	$923,980
Juan Maceiras	68,000,000 (11.3%)	0	2	$5,483
Ruslan Prydryk	50,700,000 (8.4%)	0	1	$6,207
Dean Hutchison	41,700,000 (6.9%)	0	17	$130,239
Daniel Holzner	31,900,000 (5.3%)	0	1	$4,070
Toby Lewis	19,800,000 (3.3%)	0	48	$874,216

*Career statistics prior to the Main Event

Final Table results

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Daniel Weinman	$12,100,000
2nd	Steven Jones	$6,500,000
3rd	Adam Walton	$4,000,000
4th	Jan-Peter Jachtmann	$3,000,000
5th	Ruslan Prydryk	$2,400,000
6th	Dean Hutchison	$1,850,000
7th	Toby Lewis	$1,425,000
8th	Juan Maceiras	$1,125,000
9th	Daniel Holzner	$900,000