2022 World Series of Poker

2022 World Series of Poker
Location	Bally's Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
Dates	May 31 – July 20
Champion
Espen Jørstad
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The 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was the 53rd edition of the event and run from May 31-July 20. After being held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino since 2005, the event moved to Bally's Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas for the first time.^[1]

There were 88 bracelet events on the schedule, including the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event beginning on July 3. The series culminated with the Tournament of Champions, a freeroll with a $1 million prize pool open to the year's bracelet and circuit ring winners.^[2]

Source: ^[3]

Key: (bracelets won in 2022/bracelets won in career)

	High stakes event ($10,000+ buy-in).
	No points awarded towards Player of the Year.
	Online event.

#	Event	Entrants	Winner	Prize	Runner-up	Results
1	$500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em	832	Kate Kopp (1/1)	$65,168	Wyatt Frost	Results
2	$100,000 High Roller Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	46	David Peters (1/4)	$1,166,810	Chance Kornuth (0/3)	Results
3	$2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	752	Scott Seiver (1/4)	$320,059	Alexander Farahi	Results
4	$1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed	430	Brad Ruben (1/4)	$126,288	Jaswinder Lally (0/1)	Results
5	$500 The Housewarming No-Limit Hold'em	20,080	Henrieto Acain (1/1)	$701,215	Jared Kingery	Results
6	$25,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship	64	Dan Smith (1/1)	$509,717	Christoph Vogelsang	Results
7	$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	1,086	Amnon Filippi (1/1)	$252,718	Matt Vengrin	Results
8	$25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	251	Chad Eveslage (1/1)	$1,415,610	Jake Schindler	Results
9	$1,500 Seven Card Stud	329	Alex Livingston (1/1)	$103,282	Daniel Weinman	Results
10	$10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship	123	Ben Diebold (1/1)	$299,488	Mike Gorodinsky (0/2)	Results
o1	$5,300 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Freezeout	218	Norbert Szecsi (1/3)	$288,850	Tony Dunst (0/2)
o2	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Big $500	1,213	Manig Löser (1/2)	$127,153	Brian Battistone
11	$600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	5,715	Raj Vohra (1/1)	$335,286	Qing Liu	Results
12	$50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	101	Jake Schindler (1/1)	$1,328,068	Brek Schutten	Results
13	$1,500 Limit Hold'em	522	Michael Moncek (1/1)	$145,856	Ben Ross	Results
14	$1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	2,392	Leo Soma (1/1)	$456,889	Thomas Schultz	Results
15	$10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	196	Daniel Zack (1/2)	$440,757	Dustin Dirksen	Results
16	$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em	1,240	Stefan Lehner (1/1)	$558,616	Toby Boas	Results
17	$2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball	309	Dominick Sarle (1/1)	$164,243	Jerry Wong	Results
18	$1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	2,663	Bryan Schultz (1/1)	$330,057	Young Sik Eum	Results
19	$25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha	264	Tong Li (1/1)	$1,467,739	Fabian Brandes	Results
20	$1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw	350	Denis Nesterenko (1/1)	$108,250	Von Altizer	Results
21	$1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em	6,501	Mike Jukich (1/1)	$966,577	Mateusz Moolhuizen	Results
22	$10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship	95	Adam Friedman (1/5)	$248,254	Jean Gaspard (0/1)	Results
23	$3,000 Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	213	Jeremy Ausmus (1/4)	$142,147	Michael Rocco (0/1)	Results
24	$1,000 FLIP & GO No-Limit Hold'em	1,329	Christopher Chatman (1/1)	$187,770	Rafi Elharar	Results
25	$800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	4,062	Rajaee Wazwaz (1/1)	$358,346	Robert Crow	Results
26	$10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship	92	Jonathan Cohen (1/1)	$245,678	Kyle Dilschneider	Results
o3	$400 No-Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack	1,641	Brian Altman (1/1)	$110,662	Eric Salazar
27	$1,500 Shootout No-Limit Hold'em	1,000	Michael Simhai (1/1)	$240,480	David Dowdy	Results
28	$50,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha	106	Robert Cowen (1/2)	$1,393,816	Dash Dudley (0/2)	Results
29	$1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw	437	Maxx Coleman (1/1)	$127,809	Thomas Newton	Results
30	$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed	1,891	Daniel Weinman (1/1)	$255,359	Jamey Hendrikson	Results
31	$10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship	118	Brian Hastings (1/6)	$292,146	Eric Wasserson	Results
32	$1,500 H.O.R.S.E.	773	Steve Albini (1/2)	$196,089	James Morgan	Results
33	$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	1,348	Nino Ullmann (1/1)	$594,079	Timothy Flank	Results
34	$1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	1,774	Justin Pechie (1/2)	$364,899	Samuel Bifarella	Results
35	$2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event	281	Lok Chan (1/1)	$144,338	Drew Scott	Results
36	$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better	471	Ali Eslami (1/1)	$135,260	Chris Papastratis	Results
37	$1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em	7,961	Yuliyan Kolev (1/2)	$1,125,189	Oren Rosen	Results
38	$10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship	121	Pedro Bromfman (1/1)	$294,616	Scott Seiver (1/4)	Results
39	$3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed	719	Fabian Brandes (1/1)	$371,358	Leonid Yanovski	Results
40	$10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	137	Daniel Zack (2/3)	$324,174	David Funkhouser	Results
41	$1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	2,227	Ramsey Stovall (1/1)	$191,223	Timothy Heng	Results
42	$100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	62	Aleksejs Ponakovs (1/2)	$1,897,363	Phil Ivey (0/10)	Results
o4	$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max	470	Matt Szymaszek (1/1)	$141,705	Greg Koutelidakis
43	$500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	4,786	David Perry (1/1)	$241,729	Chris Moorman (0/2)	Results
44	$10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship	192	Andrew Yeh (1/1)	$487,129	Craig Chait	Results
45	$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha	1,437	Phil Hui (1/3)	$311,782	Daniel Tordjman	Results
46	$5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	920	Jonathan Pastore (1/1)	$771,765	Stephen Song (0/1)	Results
47	$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship	7,188	Eric Smidinger (1/1)	$694,909	Ben Sarnoff	Results
48	$1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed	695	Menikos Panagiotou (1/1)	$180,783	Nick Yunis	Results
49	$2,000 No-Limit Hold'em	1,977	Simeon Spasov (1/1)	$527,944	Mike Watson	Results
50	$250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	56	Alex Foxen (1/1)	$4,563,700	Brandon Steven	Results
51	$400 Colossus No-Limit Hold'em	13,565	Paul Hizer (1/1)	$414,490	Sam Laskowitz	Results
52	$2,500 Nine Game Mix 6-Handed	456	Kijoon Park (1/1)	$219,799	André Akkari (0/1)	Results
53	$5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha	788	João Simão (1/2)	$686,242	Marius Gierse	Results
54	$500 Salute to Warriors No-Limit Hold'em	3,209	James Todd (1/1)	$161,256	Brett Coltman	Results
55	$1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em	913	Espen Jørstad (1/1) Patrick Leonard (1/1)	$74,042	Jamie Kerstetter Corey Paggeot	Results
56	$50,000 Poker Players Championship	112	Daniel Cates (1/2)	$1,449,103	Yuri Dzivielevski (0/2)	Results
o5	$600 Online Deepstack Championship	1,248	William Corvino (1/1)	$149,319	Pavel Plesuv
57	$600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold'em	4,913	Tamas Lendvai (1/1)	$299,464	Frank Reichel	Results
58	$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	1,303	Lawrence Brandt (1/1)	$289,610	Corey Wade	Results
59	$1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold'em	2,668	Massoud Eskandari (1/1)	$330,609	Jennifer Gianera	Results
60	$10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em	110	Shota Nakanishi (1/1)	$277,212	Ben Lamb (0/1)	Results
o6	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo Deepstack	1,746	Martin Stoyanov (1/1)	$132,783	Arkadiy Tsinis (0/1)
61	$10,000/$1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship	1,074	Jessica Teusl (1/1)	$166,975	Julie Le	Results
62	$1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	2,569	Dash Dudley (1/3)	$301,396	David Sanchez	Results
63	$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	284	Eli Elezra (1/5)	$611,362	Chino Rheem	Results
64	$600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack	2,858	Konstantin Angelov (1/1)	$199,466	Gregg Merkow	Results
65	$3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	1,359	David Jackson (1/2)	$598,173	Phil Hellmuth (0/16)	Results
66	$1,000 Mini Main Event No-Limit Hold'em	5,832	Young Sik Eum (1/1)	$594,189	Cosmin Joldis	Results
67	$10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	419	Nacho Barbero (1/1)	$587,520	Fabiano Kovalski	Results
68	$1,000 Million Dollar Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	14,112	Quincy Borland (1/1)	$750,120	Kevin Hong	Results
69	$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship	683	Sean Troha (1/1)	$1,246,770	Shiva Dudani	Results
70	$10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event	8,663	Espen Jørstad (2/2)	$10,000,000	Adrian Attenborough	Results
o7	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	2,161	Sane Chung (1/1)	$149,729	Dylan Smith
71	$1,111 One More for One Drop No-Limit Hold'em	5,702	Mike Allis (1/1)	$535,610	Ryan Riess (0/1)	Results
72	$1,500 Mixed Omaha	771	Bradley Anderson (1/1)	$195,565	Scott Abrams	Results
73	$1,500 Razz	383	Daniel Strelitz (1/2)	$115,723	Lynda Tran	Results
74	$1,500 Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha	1,390	Pei Li (1/1)	$190,219	Nolan King	Results
75	$777 Lucky 7's No-Limit Hold'em	6,891	Gregory Teboul (1/1)	$777,777	Rodney Turvin	Results
76	$1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	865	Hong Jin-ho (1/1)	$276,067	Punnat Punsri	Results
o8	$7,777 Lucky 7's No-Limit Hold'em High Roller	161	Harry Lodge (1/1)	$396,366	Andrew Robl
o9	$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Online Championship	994	Yevgeniy Minakrin (1/1)	$238,315	Dragos Trofimov
77	$1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha	1,234	Sandeep Pulusani (1/2)	$277,949	Esther Taylor-Brady	Results
78	$2,500 No-Limit Hold'em	1,364	Sebastien Aube (1/1)	$499,636	Julien Loire	Results
79	$10,000 Razz Championship	125	Julien Martini (1/4)	$328,906	Hal Rotholz	Results
o10	$3,200 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller 8-Max	340	Julien Perouse (1/1)	$324,767	Calvin Anderson (0/2)
80	$600 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack	2,107	Romans Voitovs (1/1)	$158,609	Michael Dobbs	Results
81	$5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed	756	Mo Arani (1/1)	$665,459	Johannes Straver	Results
82	$800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 8-Handed	2,812	Richard Alsup (1/1)	$272,065	Gary Whitehead	Results
83	$50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	97	João Vieira (1/2)	$1,384,413	Lander Lijo	Results
84	$3,000 H.O.R.S.E.	327	Lawrence Brandt (2/2)	$205,139	Roberto Marin	Results
85	$1,500 The Closer No-Limit Hold'em	2,968	Minh Nguyen (1/1)	$536,280	Ahmed Karrim	Results
86	$10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship	394	Gregory Jensen (1/1)	$824,649	Pavel Plesuv	Results
87	$5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed	573	Michael Wang (1/2)	$541,604	Farid Jattin	Results
o11	$777 No-Limit Hold'em Lucky 7's Second Chance	781	Fred Li (1/1)	$159,060	Zach Okin
88	$1,000 Super Turbo No-Limit Hold'em	1,282	Jaspal Brar (1/1)	$190,731	Jesse Lonis	Results
o12	$5,300 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Freezeout Encore	245	Gianluca Speranza (1/1)	$324,625	Paul Scaturro
o13	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Summer Saver	1,189	Shaun O'Donnell (1/1)	$125,330	Benjamin Chung
89	WSOP Tournament of Champions	470	Benjamin Kaupp (1/1)	$250,000	Raul Garza	Results

#	Event	Entrants	Winner	Prize	Runner-up
o1	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Big 500	242	Brett Blackwood (1/1)	$35,559	Andrew Rosen
o2	$400 No-Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack	275	Todd Estes (1/1)	$27,896	Corey Paggeot
o3	$500 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max	141	John Macleod (1/1)	$21,387	Timothy Mulroy
o4	$600 Online Deepstack Championship	176	Adam Kittle (1/1)	$30,420	Marcus Norman
o5	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	180	Freddie Kirkland (1/1)	$26,038	Christopher Hando
o6	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Online Bracelet Championship	108	Cade Lautenbacher (1/1)	$28,829	Robert Gincott
o7	$777 No-Limit Hold'em Lucky 7's	98	Ryan Hiller (1/1)	$21,947	Joseph Cervo
o8	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Summer Saver	179	Matthew Garza (1/1)	$27,824	Germandio Andoni

#	Event	Entrants	Winner	Prize	Runner-up
o1	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Big 500	204	Joseph Kuczewski (1/1)	$30,970	Michael Duffy
o2	$400 No-Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack	218	Christopher Perkins (1/1)	$24,960	Kyle Lorenz
o3	$500 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max	90	Mark Dellavecchio (1/1)	$17,292	Robert Lavin
o4	$600 Online Deepstack Championship	153	Stephen Jarrett (1/1)	$26,979	Joshua Berardi
o5	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	136	Jonas Wexler (1/1)	$19,615	Anthony Garofalo
o6	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Online Bracelet Championship	94	Alex Schwint (1/1)	$27,055	Jonas Wexler (1/1)
o7	$777 No-Limit Hold'em Lucky 7's	89	Peter Williamson (1/1)	$20,519	Ryan Messick
o8	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Summer Saver	166	Ryan Messick (1/1)	$24,300	Michael McNeil

Final standings as of July 19 (note: does not include events from the 2022 WSOP Online series or the 2022 WSOP Europe series):

Standings^[4]

Rank	Name	Points	Bracelets
1	Daniel Zack	4,530.64	2
2	Daniel Weinman	4,040.20	1
3	Koray Aldemir	3,275.02	0
4	Shaun Deeb	3,197.65	0
5	David Peters	2,982.08	1
6	Yueqi Zhu	2,766.27	0
7	João Vieira	2,752.88	1
8	João Simão	2,735.76	1
9	Alex Foxen	2,548.47	1
10	Brian Rast	2,520.06	0

The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 3.

Name	Championship Year(s)	Day of Elimination
Johnny Chan	1987, 1988	2D
Phil Hellmuth	1989	2ABC
Scotty Nguyen	1998	3
Chris Moneymaker	2003	4 (1198th)*
Greg Raymer	2004	1C
Joe Hachem	2005	2D
Joe Cada	2009	2ABC
Greg Merson	2012	4 (610th)*
Ryan Riess	2013	4 (1182nd)*
Martin Jacobson	2014	2ABC
Joe McKeehen	2015	3
Qui Nguyen	2016	2ABC
John Cynn	2018	4 (550th)*
Hossein Ensan	2019	1C
Damian Salas	2020	7 (27th)*
Koray Aldemir	2021	6 (75th)*

*- Denotes player who finished in the money

NB: This list is restricted to top 100 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Place	Name	Prize
17th	Kenny Tran	$410,000
27th	Damian Salas	$262,300
35th	Marco Johnson	$262,300
75th	Koray Aldemir	$101,700

Name	Number of chips (percentage of total)	WSOP Bracelets	WSOP Cashes*	WSOP Earnings*
Matthew Su	80,800,000 (15.5%)	0	0	0
Matija Dobric	78,950,000 (15.2%)	0	11	$235,513
Espen Jørstad	68,400,000 (13.2%)	1	22	$810,052
Michael Duek	65,075,000 (12.5%)	0	4	$608,839
Jeffrey Farnes	56,150,000 (10.8%)	0	6	$27,509
Aaron Duczak	55,400,000 (10.7%)	0	35	$144,269
John Eames	54,950,000 (10.6%)	0	18	$273,286
Adrian Attenborough	44,200,000 (8.5%)	0	5	$27,659
Philippe Souki	15,900,000 (3.1%)	0	7	$39,067

*Career statistics prior to the Main Event

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Espen Jørstad	$10,000,000
2nd	Adrian Attenborough	$6,000,000
3rd	Michael Duek	$4,000,000
4th	John Eames	$3,000,000
5th	Matija Dobric	$2,250,000
6th	Jeffrey Farnes	$1,750,000
7th	Aaron Duczak	$1,350,000
8th	Philippe Souki	$1,075,000
9th	Matthew Su	$850,675

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