WSOP Review Day 17: Chance Kornuth Wins Third WSOP Bracelet in Short Deck Victory, Hellmuth Second of Ten Remaining in Lowball Event

Chance Kornuth celebrated his third WSOP victory last night in Las Vegas as the popular poker pro and coach in the game won the $10,000-entry Short Deck Event #29 for a top prize of $194,670.

Kornuth the King Once Again as Chance Wins Third Bracelet

Chance Kornuth won his third bracelet last night as he was victorious in Event #29, the $10,000 Short Deck event, where he defeated Chad Campbell to win his third WSOP bracelet. The final began with six players in seats and Kornuth held a slim chip lead over Campbell, who was one of four players at the table without a bracelet win in their careers.

Short-stacked Thomas Kysar was first to leave the action, and he was followed from the felt by the only other man to win WSOP gold previously in Joao Vieira. Israeli player Moshe Gabay busted in fourth place before Dan Shak missed out on the chance to win his first-ever WSOP bracelet.

Heads-up was a battle between the two men at the top of the chipcounts at the start of the day, as Kornuth overcame Chad Campbell and sealed victory in the Thunderdome.

Watch all the action as the final six played down to a winner at the Rio right here:

WSOP 2021 Event #29 $10,000 Short Deck
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Chance Kornuth	U.S.A.	$194,670
2nd	Chad Campbell	U.S.A.	$120,316
3rd	Dan Shak	U.S.A.	$82,678
4th	Moshe Gabay	Israel	$58,601
5th	Joao Vieira	Portugal	$42,885
6th	Thomas Kysar	U.S.A.	$32,437

Weisman the Winner in Pot Limit Omaha

Event #28 saw Dylan Weisman win his first-ever WSOP bracelet as he triumphed on the final day and took the gold at the expense of Craig Chait heads-up. Weisman’s first bracelet came in an event where the eliminations came thick and fast, with Weisman at the heart of many of them.

With a total of 1,069 entries and a prizepool of just over $950,000, Weisman was in control of much of the final table and entered heads up with a lead of 10:1 against Chait. With earlier players busted from the final table including Manan Bhandari (seventh for $22,787) and Alexander Yen (third for $74,239), Weisman’s win saw his friends hoist him on their shoulders and hurl him into the air.

WSOP 2021 Event #28 $1,000 Pot Limit Omaha
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Dylan Weisman	U.S.A.	$166,461
2nd	Craig Chait	U.S.A.	$102,884
3rd	Alexander Yen	U.S.A.	$74,239
4th	Tim Van Loo	Germany	$54,230
5th	Ran Niv	Israel	$40,109
6th	Chase Fujita	U.S.A.	$30,040
7th	Manan Bhandari	U.S.A.	$22,787
8th	Youness Barakat	Italy	$17,510

The second starting flight of Event #30, the $1,500-entry event with an almost $4.7 million prizepool, saw 1,972 players build the total entries in the event to a whopping 3,520. Of the Day 1b entries, just 701 players made the cut, meaning that combined with Day 1a’s 518 survivors, just 1,219 remain in the hunt for the $610,347 top prize.

Day 1b’s chip leader at the close of play was Rajaee Wazwaz, whose pile of 510,500 chips dwarfed most, with the closest two challengers to Wazwaz being Pavel Plesuv (483,500) and Ryan Leng, who already has one 2021 live WSOP bracelet to his name. Elswhere in the top 10, there was also a spot for another newly-crowned WSOP champion in Dylan Linde (443,000), who will be hoping to add a no limit hold’em bracelet to his mixed game win the other day.

WSOP 2021 Event #30 $1,500 Monster Stack
Position	Player	Country	Chips
1st	Rajaee Wazwaz	U.S.A.	510,500
2nd	Pavel Plesuv	Moldova	483,500
3rd	Ryan Leng	U.S.A.	473,000
4th	Mitchell Collins	U.S.A.	465,000
5th	Dylan Linde	U.S.A.	443,000
6th	Francois Pirault	France	440,500
7th	Joshua Gordon	U.S.A.	440,500
8th	Yeon Bae	South Korea	433,500
9th	La Sengphet	U.S.A.	428,000
10th	Matthew Eng	U.S.A.	424,500

Event #31 saw the $1,500 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw event reach the final 10 players from a total field of 84 players. With Rep Porter the chip leader with 1,129,000 chips, the headlines will belong to Phil Hellmuth as the ‘reformed’ Poker Brat made his fourth final day of the Series so far, racking up 1,016,000 as Porter’s closest challenger.

Elsewhere in the final ten players, there was a bag for Italian WSOP Main Event runner-up Dario Sammartino, whose 800,000 chips represent a great chance for him to grab gold, while Jake Schwartz (398,000) and 2013 Main Event winner Ryan Riess (266,000) will go into play as short-stacks who have a wealth of experience to call upon.

WSOP 2021 Event #31 $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw
Position	Player	Country	Chips
1st	Rep Porter	U.S.A.	1,129,000
2nd	Phil Hellmuth	U.S.A.	1,016,000
3rd	Kenji Faris	U.S.A.	840,000
4th	Dario Sammartino	Italy	800,000
5th	Jason Papastavrou	U.S.A.	666,000
6th	Jason Lipiner	U.S.A.	663,000
7th	Kevin Gerhart	U.S.A.	581,000
8th	Chris Vitch	U.S.A.	447,000
9th	Jake Schwartz	U.S.A.	398,000
10th	Ryan Riess	U.S.A.	266,000

Event #32 was the final event of the day to close play for the night as Saturday’s superstars of H.O.R.S.E. bagged up their chips and saddled up for the night. At the end of the night, Lithuanian player Vincas Tamasauskas held the chip lead with 197,000 chips, as John Fahmy (188,700) and Brian Hastings (178,400) followed him in the chipcounts.

Elsewhere, players such as Maria Ho (169,400), David Williams (168,900), John Monnette (120,600), Max Pescatori (106,100), Daniel Negreanu (95,900), Ari Engel (95,100), Eli Elezra (83,200) and Robert Mizrachi (79,700) all made Day 2, with stars such as Dan Shak, Cary Katz and Chino Rheem among those who were unable to make the next day, with around half of the 282 entries falling out of contention for the bracelet.

WSOP 2021 Event #32 $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.
Position	Player	Chips
1st	Vincas Tamasauskas	197,000
2nd	John Fahmy	188,700
3rd	Brian Hastings	178,400
4th	Daryl Aguirre	174,600
5th	Sachin Bhargava	173,300
6th	George Alexander	169,700
7th	Maria Ho	169,400
8th	Jose Paz-Gutierrez	169,400
9th	David Williams	168,900
10th	Paramjit Gill	139,500

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