The $50,000 PLO High Roller was won by Dylan Linde ($2,146,414).
At this series, Dylan already had a 4th place in the $2,500 NLHE tournament and a 7th place in the $1,500 Monster Stack (Dylan was eliminated from this tournament with kings against the aces of the eventual winner Clemens Reuter).
– "I’ve done a lot of studying and worked with a lot of players who are a lot better than I am. I’m just lucky to be friends with some very good players that have helped me improve a lot, especially during lockdown when I just spent a lot of time studying and playing online."
2nd place went to Stephen Chidwick ($1,430,938).
Dirk "VeniVidi" Gerritse ($228,489) was eliminated in 8th place.
"I just finished 8th in the $50k PLO WSOP event, very happy with the result of course," he tweeted . "but when I watched back the stream some very suspicious happened on the first hand after the break that happened before the final table.
Ding opens the cutoff and Zhou finds the “creative” 3 bet from the big blind and generates a fold from Ding. Anyone who has spent over an hour of trying to get better at PLO will understand this is a losing play and notably it’s coming from someone who usually is playing relatively tight.
I’m not saying with certainty that there is cheating going on here, I just think the hand is very suspicious and it deserves more attention. This way, if cheating was going on, the people involved will be less inclined to do it again in the future. If there was no cheating involved I want to take my hat off for the amazing live read.
The same hand was posted by another PLO regular, Martin "Imbajimba" Dam. He added that Ding folded without putting his cards on sensors. And Zhou called during the next round with two suits on BB 9bb deep against a raise from MP and folded on the SB with a 21BB stack against a CO raise.
– "These are ofc slightly different spots, but they are indicative of his general playing style. He is not a player who randomly 3bets J874s unless there is something else going on."
"Imagine what they are doing off-stream in tritons and other WSOP events if they are willing to do something this blatant ON stream"
“Very weird,” Nacho Barbero added in the comments.
A few minutes later Nacho returned:
– "Btb I asked ren and they don’t like each other and I don’t see bing diao doing anything shady. Is prob nothing."
– "Yeah that ain’t true," Alex Petersen refuted. "They came together and both played in a very high stakes private game I also was in last and previous week. Happend several times. Ding only runs it once even if pot is extremely big, but against each other ding would run it twice, only person he did that to."
– The Chinese are pushing at every opportunity, – Martin Zamani stated categorically. – They are not shy even on streams. Ren also cheats almost always. And on the bubble of the 25k Triton tournament, one Chinese player checked back on the river with a full house and left Danny Tenga with 1BB after they exchanged a few words in Chinese. When I started to complain, the floor basically sent me away with the words "we need these Chinese."
"The whole final table was very strange," wrote Patrick Leonard. "I wouldn't mind what they took during the break."
"Maybe Ding just forgot to check in one of the previous hands and decided to return the favor. Nothing special," Daniel Colpoys said ironically.
“I agree 100% with Dirk’s conclusions,” wrote Bryce Yockey.
Alex Livingston gave his take on the situation:
V strange 3bet on the surface. A few points to consider: – Re Ding not scanning cards: RFIDs were not working well and many cards not scanning throughout from all – If a chip dump, it doesn't achieve much collectively (?) – Quan has always been an erratic "feel player" in my exp
During the stream of this final table, one of the Reddit users created a topic in which he wrote that Biao Ding had read his cards out loud in Chinese right during the hand. It went unnoticed, but the topic with VeniVidi's tweet immediately shot up to the top of the most popular ones in the poker section.
The comments recalled a hand from EPT Barcelona 2019, in which Zhou made a strange motion as if throwing away cards, and then returned them to himself. He did this several times, but managers each time limited themselves to a warning.
Benny Glaser won his third bracelet of the summer in Event #56, the $2,500 Triple Draw Mixed Game.
Only six players have accomplished this before him: Scott Seaver (2024), Jeff Lisandro (2009), Phil Ivey (2002), Ted Forrest (1993), Phil Hellmuth (1993) and Puggy Pearson (1973).
Benny won all three bracelets in cheap tournaments, which surprised him quite a bit:
– It’s funny that I win kilofields, it would seem that in ten-thousanders in limit games the chances are better.
Glaser has 8 bracelets in his career. Tim Duckworth found out that no one has won 8 bracelets faster than Benny:
– After winning his first WSOP bracelet in 2000, it took Phil Ivey 3,697 days to win his eighth.
After winning his first #WSOP bracelet in 2015, it took Benny Glaser ONLY 3,657 days to win his eighth.
History Made 🏆 Benny Glaser, mixed game legend.
The legendary actor James Woods, who became famous primarily for his role as the traitor Max in the Once Upon a Time in America saga, was eliminated on the final table bubble.
In a fatal hand for himself, he mixed up the games – he thought that the round was 2-7 and “stood” with 98-low, although they were playing A-5.
Adrian Mateos won his fifth bracelet in the $3,200 buy-in online/live hybrid event ($253,080).
Players made 444 entries, playing online until the final table.
Mateos is 30 years old, and before him only Phil Ivey (under 28), Phil Hellmuth (29), Allen Cunningham (30) and Daniel Alaï (30) had won five bracelets by that age.
Adrian beat Alex Kulev in heads-up.
The $10k HORSE Championship was won by Christopher Tong ($452,689).
– “I’m like super blessed in life, but I had kind of like a family tragedy, like eight, nine months ago, and honestly, it kind of messed me up for a little while. I’ve like grown so much, learned so much, really special people have come into my life more from that situation, and it’s just like crazy.”
Mixed-game superstars Scott Seiver, Alex Livingston, Marco Johnson and Jason Mercier all crashed out in 7th through 4th place, with Bradley Ruben taking third after winning the NL2-7 event of the series.
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