WSOP Day 9 Recap: Jake Schindler Wins First WSOP Bracelet for $1.3 million

A huge day of action took place in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas as a packed Paris and a bulging Bally’s welcomed players from around the world. With three bracelets won on the day, there was debut gold for both Jake Schindler and Ben Diebold.

Schindler Claims Maiden Bracelet in $50,000 High Roller

Six players returned to action in the $50,000-entry High Roller tournament, which was won by Jake Schindler after he beat the overnight chip leader Brek Schutten to the title heads-up. With players such as 2019 WSOP Main Event runner-up Dario Sammartino (8^th for $151,942) and David Peters (5^th for $326,464) both taking part, the final table was a thrilling one to watch, with viewers treated to the whole show on the PokerGO live stream.

You can watch the event play down to a winner in stunning fashion right here, with commentary from Jeff Platt and Jamie Kerstetter throughout.

WSOP 2022 Event #12 $50,000 High Rollers Final Table Results:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Jake Schindler	U.S.A.	$1,328,068
2nd	Brek Schutten	U.S.A.	$820,808
3rd	Punnat Punsri	Thailand	$593,481
4th	Shannon Shorr	U.S.A.	$436,412
5th	David Peters	U.S.A.	$326,464
6th	Andrew Lichtenberger	U.S.A.	$248,516
7th	Michael Rocco	U.S.A.	$192,570
8th	Dario Sammartino	Italy	$151,942

Diebold Wins First-Ever Bracelet After Defeating Gorodinsky

After coming back to finish off Event #10, the $10,000-entry Dealer’s Choice Championship,

Ben Diebold used the 5.7 million chips that he returned with to defeat Mike Gorodinsky and deny him a third bracelet. Keeping Gorodinsky at arm’s length throughout the short battle, Diebold eventually closed it out in No Limit Hold’em, with his pocket sevens holding against his opponent’s queen-jack to seal a memorable win and the top prize of $299,488.

WSOP 2022 Event #10 $10,000 Dealer’s Choice Final Table Results:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Ben Diebold	U.S.A.	$299,488
2nd	Mike Gorodinsky	U.S.A.	$185,095
3rd	Brian Rast	U.S.A.	$134,370
4th	Christopher Claassen	U.S.A.	$98,738
5th	Naoya Kihara	Japan	$73,453
6th	Randy Ohel	U.S.A.	$55,329

Michael Moncek Takes Gold as Yueqi Zhu Comes Third

In the $1,500-entry Limit Hold’em event, otherwise known as Event #13, proved lucky for Michael Moncek as he captured the title and $145,86 top prize. Outlasting a stellar final table, Moncek overcame Ben Ross heads-up for the title after Yueqi Zhu busted in third place.

The day began with just 16 players left from the 522 total entries. With three bust-outs in the opening level, former WSOP Main Event Joe McKeehen was out of the reckoning in fifth after losing two pots to the eventual winner along the way.

WSOP 2022 Event #13 $1,500 Limit Hold’em Final Table Results:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Michael Moncek	U.S.A.	$145,856
2nd	Ben Ross	U.S.A.	$90,150
3rd	Yueqi Zhu	U.S.A.	$63,314
4th	Christoph Kwon	U.S.A.	$45,178
5th	Joe McKeehen	U.S.A.	$32,761
6th	Steven Wolansky	U.S.A.	$24,149
7th	Fred Lavassani	U.S.A.	$18,100
8th	Nick Pupillo	U.S.A.	$13,798
9th	Lee Markholt	U.S.A.	$10,701

Cada and Tsang Battling for More Gold in Six-Max

The fourth event of the Day 6 tournaments to close for the night was Day 2 of the Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Event #14, which was topped by Daniel Wellborn (8,805,000). He was some way clear of Leonard August (5,800,000) in the top 10, with the 2009 WSOP Main Event winner Joe Cada (5,645,000) in third place of the remaining 16 players.

On a busy day, players such as Jeremy Ausmus, Taylor Paur and Shankar Pillai all cashed along the way, with the top prize of $456,889 now being chased by 14 players without a WSOP bracelet and just two with. Cada is joined in that respect by the short-stacked Anson Tsang, who has just 520,000 chips.

WSOP 2022 Event #14 $1,500 6-Max NLHE Top 10 Chipcounts:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Daniel Wellborn	U.S.A.	8,805,000
2nd	Leonard August	U.S.A.	5,800,000
3rd	Joe Cada	U.S.A.	5,645,000
4th	Maximiliano Gallardo	Argentina	5,615,000
5th	Thomas Schultz	U.S.A.	5,550,000
6th	Leo Soma	France	4,790,000
7th	Ivan Zhechev	Bulgaria	4,650,000
8th	Derek Sudell	U.S.A.	3,700,000
9th	Ryan Jones	U.S.A.	3,400,000
10th	Tuanyi Mu	China	3,055,000

Deeb and Drinan Both Chasing Becker’s Lead

There is a stacked field remaining in the 15^th event of the WSOP, with Johannes Becker leading the 24 players who survived from 110 on Day 2 of the Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship. Becker ended the day on 895,000 chips, marginally more than Freddy Deeb with 840,000.

Ray Henson (830,000), Connor Drinan (675,000) and Aditya Prasetyo (670,000) round out the top 5 chipcounts, but there are superstars everywhere in a tank full of sharks for the final stages of the event.

Daniel Zack (610,000), Bryce Yockey (605,000) and Yuval Bronshtein (595,000) are all in the top 10 chipcounts, but players such as Phil Ivey, Brian Rast and WSOP Main Event reigning world champion Koray Aldemir all attempted late registration at the start of the day but busted.

WSOP 2022 Event #15 $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship Top 10 Chipcounts:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Johannes Becker	Germany	895,000
2nd	Freddy Deeb	Lebanon	840,000
3rd	Ray Henson	U.S.A.	830,000
4th	Connor Drinan	U.S.A.	675,000
5th	Aditya Prasetyo	U.S.A.	670,000
6th	Daniel Zack	U.S.A.	610,000
7th	Bryce Yockey	U.S.A.	605,000
8th	Yuval Bronshtein	Israel	595,000
9th	Bart O’Connell	U.S.A.	505,000
10th	Kane Kalas	U.S.A.	490,000

Two More Events Tie up on Day 1

In Event #16, the $3,000-entry NLHE event saw 1,080 entries make up a near $2.5 million prize pool. With just 407 players surviving Day 1, the chip leader at the close of play was David Tovmasyan, who bagged up 325,500 chips by the close of play, with Barry Hutter (311,500) and Jarrett Bates (311,500) each piling up the same amount with which to chase down the leader on Day 2. With top five appearances from Calvin Anderson (300,000) and Christina Gollins (298,000), plenty of other big names made Day 2 such as Chance Kornuth (226,000), Norbert Szecsi (209,500) and Michael Mizrachi (194,000).

Among those who didn’t make the cut and bag up chips at the close of Day 1 were WSOP Main Event winner Joe McKeehen, David Pham, Andrew Lichtenberger, David Williams, Bertrand Grospellier, Eddy Sabat and Chris Brewer.

WSOP 2022 Event #16 $3,000 NLHE Top 10 Chipcounts:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	David Tovmasyan	U.S.A.	325,500
2nd	Barry Hutter	U.S.A.	311,500
3rd	Jarrett Bates	U.S.A.	311,500
4th	Calvin Anderson	U.S.A.	300,000
5th	Christina Gollins	U.S.A.	298,000
6th	Stephen Song	U.S.A.	297,600
7th	Michael Scarborough	U.S.A.	288,500
8th	John Reiter	U.S.A.	286,000
9th	Yi Wei Peng	Taiwan	285,000
10th	Alexandros Theologis	U.S.A.	283,000

Finally, in the $2,500-entry Mixed Triple Draw event, James Opie (196,500) bagged the most chips as he outran Robert Campbell (177,000) to the chip lead, with Kenny Hsiung continuing his strong series with 173,000 chips. Others such as Patrick Leonard (128,500), Max Kruse (122,000), Ari Engel (120,000) are all still in the running.

Others fell by the wayside, with Jaswinder Lally, Adam Friedman, Robert Campbell and Barry Greenstein all failing to make the Day 2 cut.

WSOP 2022 Event #17 $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Top 10 Chipcounts:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	James Opie	U.S.A.	196,500
2nd	Robert Campbell	Australia	177,000
3rd	Kenny Hsiung	U.S.A.	173,000
4th	Kimberly Stone	U.S.A.	167,500
5th	Jonas Mackoff	Canada	166,500
6th	Alex Epstein	U.S.A.	165,000
7th	Sumir Mathur	U.S.A.	160,000
8th	Paul Martino	U.S.A.	150,500
9th	David Funkhouser	U.S.A.	146,500
10th	Hasan Kural	U.S.A.	145,000

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