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WSOP Event #82: $1,000 No Limit Hold'em Day 1 Chip Counts
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“There’s not much more that can be said about what a special year 2023 was for the WSOP and the game of poker,” said Ty Stewart, SVP and Executive Director of the World Series of Poker. “But it’s time to turn the page and begin the countdown to 2024. Records are made to be broken. We’re busy on improvements to make sure 2024 is both the biggest and best event in poker history. Mark your calendars and bank those vacation days. We’ll see you in Vegas.” MOST TRUSTED BRAND IN POKER The 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, the biggest in its history with over 10,000 players, now has its final table set for Tuesday, July 16 at 1:30 p.m. PST from Horseshoe Las Vegas casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Discussion of the Main Event
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I spoke with Holzner ahead of the Main Event, and he has the most interesting story beyond his small stakes rise to poker’s most presigious and richest tournament. Holzner lives in the northern Italy town of South Tyrol near the Austria border. He works on his family’s apple farm with his dad and speaks mostly German along with Italian and English. He told me of his journey to Las Vegas for the WSOP Main Event. Las Vegas Review-Journal Phil Ivey has already won a WSOP bracelet this summer to improve his total to 11, six shy of Phil Hellmuth. Ivey ended his Day 1 with a lot more chips than Hellmuth here, bagging up 153,500, good for 2.5x the starting stack of 60,000. Several former Main Event winners ended Day 1d with chips, too, as Joe McKeehen (121,300), Martin Jacobson (117,800) and Scotty Nguyen (104,900) all survived. The 2023 winner and defending champion Daniel Weinman (55,600) won big with quads early, but lost a few late on to dip below starting stack in his defense of the title.