Event #46: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 1a Completed
2024 World Series of Poker
Event #46: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
2024 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$6,999,520
Entries
7,954
Level
369
Blinds
600,000 / 1,200,000
Ante
6,000,000
Entries
3,537
Players Left
647
Event #46: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship got off to a flying start at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, with 4,993 over-50s buying in before late registration closed. That bumper crowd means $4,393,840 has already been collected before Day 1b commences on June 19.
Of those 3,537 starters, only 647 had chips requiring bagging and tagging after the end of 11 levels. Brent Nelms, who finished 72nd in this event in 2022, is the overnight chip leader with 525,000 chips, followed by Carlos Bermudez (468,000), and Rafael Benami (438,500).
End of Day 1a Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brent Nelms | United States | 525,000 | 210 |
| 2 | Carlos Bermudez | United States | 468,000 | 187 |
| 3 | Rafael Benami | Israel | 438,500 | 175 |
| 4 | Brett Reichard | United States | 414,500 | 166 |
| 5 | Steven Cohen | Canada | 400,500 | 160 |
| 6 | Lawrence Lazar | United States | 377,000 | 151 |
| 7 | Derek Ichilcik | Australia | 373,000 | 149 |
| 8 | Kirk Stowell | United States | 372,000 | 149 |
| 9 | Bryan Montgomery | United States | 368,500 | 147 |
| 10 | Mark Rubin | United States | 343,000 | 137 |
$25K Fantasy Draft pick Dan Shak made it through to Day 2 with 110,000 chips in his stack, which places him in or around the top one-third of surviving players. We are more used to watching Shak compete in high-stakes events than $1,000 buy-in affairs, but the lure of a WSOP bracelet remains strong regardless of what events you usually play.
Dozens of familiar faces and bracelet owners are among the Day 1a survivors. Julio Belluscio (256,500), Matt Salsberg (210,000), James Calderaro (175,000), Andy Black (153,000), Allyn Shulman (92,000), Andres Korn (82,000), Mark Seif (77,000), and Robert Campbell (49,000), are just some of the players to look out for when PokerNews traditional coverage begins on Day 2.
Day 1b of this event shuffles up and deals at 10 a.m. on June 19, with the entrants scheduled to grind out 11 levels. The second and final flight should be even busier than today's antics, which should mean a final attendance of more than 10,000. Stay tuned to PokerNews to discover if that is the case.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
525,000
525,000
|
525,000 |
|
||
|
468,000
468,000
|
468,000 |
|
438,500
438,500
|
438,500 |
|
414,500
414,500
|
414,500 |
|
400,500
400,500
|
400,500 |
|
377,000
377,000
|
377,000 |
|
373,000 | |
|
372,000
372,000
|
372,000 |
|
368,500
368,500
|
368,500 |
|
343,000
343,000
|
343,000 |
|
332,500
332,500
|
332,500 |
|
|
328,500
328,500
|
328,500 |
|
|
308,000
308,000
|
308,000 |
|
304,000
304,000
|
304,000 |
|
302,000
302,000
|
302,000 |
|
301,500
301,500
|
301,500 |
|
|
299,500
299,500
|
299,500 |
|
|
296,000
296,000
|
296,000 |
|
|
290,000
290,000
|
290,000 |
|
290,000
290,000
|
290,000 |
|
288,000
288,000
|
288,000 |
|
||
|
284,500
284,500
|
284,500 |
|
|
282,500
282,500
|
282,500 |
|
279,500
279,500
|
279,500 |
|
277,500
277,500
|
277,500 |
137,500
67,500
265,000
Table 542Seat 3
Five days after Phil Ivey moved alone into second place all-time by winning his 11th bracelet, Phil Hellmuth is on the verge of extending his record.
The "Poker Brat" has reached the final table in Event #43: $1,500 Mixed Omaha on Tuesday, meaning he could be hours away from capturing his 18th bracelet, seven more than any other player has won.
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is making a move that will change the online poker game in the US with the launch of WSOP Online, a new platform that will bring players from three states together.
Poker players in Nevada and New Jersey are already competing against each other on WSOP.com, while those in Michigan have a separate single-state site. But that is changing with the trio of states being merged together on one online poker site ahead of the 2024 WSOP. Pennsylvania's WSOP site will not be part of the shared liquidity deal.
On top of the merger news, the WSOP has announced 30 online bracelet events this summer on the new WSOP Online.
Earlier this year on an ordinary Monday afternoon, a bespectacled man walked into the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop on Las Vegas Blvd. Tucked under his arm was an uninteresting box that only he knew contained something rather interesting – a pair of gold watches dating back more than 40 years.
These were not your run-of-the-mill wristwear, but rather evidence of a unique and often overlooked time of poker history, a year when the World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet, now the game’s highest accolade, was replaced in favor of watches.
The man holding the box was David Sklansky, who in 1978 forever changed poker by advocating a mathematical approach to the game in his groundbreaking book The Theory of Poker. Nicknamed “The Mathematician,” he proved his prowess just four years later when he won two WSOP tournaments in five days.
First, he won the 1982 WSOP Event #7: $800 Mixed Doubles Limit Seven Card Stud, a tournament that paired one man with one woman, alongside Dani Kelly, and followed that up by taking down Event #12: $1,000 Limit 5-Card Draw High. A year later, the Binions reverted back to the beloved bracelets players know today, and Sklansky captured his third piece of WSOP hardware by winning Event #11: $1,000 Limit Omaha.
It was a remarkable accomplishment, and for more than four decades he’s kept safe the evidence of his victories, both of which still worked. So, why was Sklansky carrying his 1982 WSOP gold watches, two of only 15 ever awarded, into a pawn shop? Well, he was looking to sell them of course, but not to just any of the dozens of pawn shops spread across Las Vegas. Oh no, he was walking into arguably the most famous pawn shop in the world, the home to the wildly popular television show Pawn Stars, and he was there to do it with cameras rolling.
Read all about the 1982 WSOP watches here in our feature article!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
80,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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24,000
5,500
|
5,500 |
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Made day 2 with a healthy stack. Thursday for Day 2