Hector Berry and Mark Checkwicz are the latest bracelet winners of the 2024 World Series of Poker

The 2024 World Series of Poker is in the final third of its schedule, with 65 of the 99 live bracelet events already completed. Thanks to nearly 140,000 participants, $217.9 million in prize money has already been awarded. Below is a look at the last two events that have been completed.

Event 62 – $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold’em

The $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold’em event attracted a total of 5,110 entrants, with 40 players qualifying for the popular daily deepstack tournaments via a leaderboard challenge. The high number of entrants resulted in a prize pool of $2,606,100. After four days of play, Britain’s Hector Berry went home with the bracelet and the top prize of $282,876.

This was Berry’s first live win and only his seventh. He has already earned nearly $327,000 in his career.

The best 767 finishers of this event made it into the money, including Ray Henson (12th) and World Poker Tour Champion Darryll Fish (5th).

Event 65 – $5,000 Senior High Roller No-Limit Hold’em

The first $5,000 Seniors High Roller No-Limit Hold’em event was a huge success. 811 participants (all at least 50 years old) brought the decent buy-in to the table, so that the final prize pool was $6,751,800.

Mark Checkwicz will go down in poker history as the first champion of this tournament. The player from Springfield, MA won $573,876 and his first bracelet.

This was by far the largest win ever recorded for Checkwicz, far surpassing the $25,986 he earned for winning a $400 buy-in event at Foxwoods Resort Casino a decade ago. Megastack Challenge.

There was a lot of strong competition on the home stretch, including four-time bracelet winner Farzad Bonyadi (18th), 2023 WPT World Championship The runners-up of the Senior High Rollers Judieth Bielan (10th), Angela Jordison (9th) and WPT Master Michael Vela (3rd).

Photo credit: WSOP / Danny Maxwell, Spenser Sembrat.

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