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MintTrav:
Event 14: $1,500 Seven Card StudWinner          Rafael LebronRunners          261Paid          39Final Table          9
Player          Position          Points          Shaun Deeb          5          10          Anthony Zinno          11          1          Brandon Shack-Harris          28          1          Yueqi Zhu          37          1         
Selector    Points                   Jo 1    12                   Jo 2    12                   Barrie 1    11                   Carl 1    11                   Gareth    11                   John 1    11                   Stephen 1    11                   Barrie 2    10                   Chris    10                   David    10                   Del    10                   Derek    10                   Jon    10                   Karen    10                   Michael    10                   Richard    10                   Rob    10                   Simon A    10                   Simon L    10                   Stu    10                   Tom    10                   Carl 2    1                   John 2    1                   Stephen 2    1                  
When Rafael Lebron and his friend Ian Johns learned poker together, his idol was David Williams, runner-up to Greg Raymer in the 2004 Main Event and bracelet-winner in 2006, so it was his dream heads-up to be pitted against Williams. It was less of a dream for Williams, who started short and never improved. Now Johns has three bracelets, Lebron has two and Williams is still stuck on one.

MintTrav:
Event 15: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em 6-HandedWinner          Jonathan BaylorRunners          1450Paid          224Final Table          7
Player          Position          Points          Daniel Buzgon          51          1          Joao Vieira          89          1          Sean Perry          96          1          Benjamin Yu          99          1          Vanessa Kade          155          1         
Selector    Points                   Rob    2                   Simon L    2                   Aneurin    1                   Barrie 1    1                   Carl 2    1                   Chris    1                   Del    1                   Gareth    1                   Jo 1    1                   Jo 2    1                   John 1    1                   Jon    1                   Stephen 1    1                  
When it came to three players left, there were two players making their first ever WSOP cash (one on his first ever Hendon Mob cash) and Jonathan Baylor on his third cash of this Series. Baylor won.

While it may have been amateur night at the top, there were several well-known players who dropped shortly before the final table, including Jason Stockfish, Hye Park, Melanie Weisner and Blair Hinkle. Stockfish is a case - he reached three final tables between 2016 and 2017 and was runner-up in them all. He made another final in 2019 and guess what - he was 2nd yet again. One more final that year and he finally broke his runner-up curse......by coming fifth. He could be a multiple winner spoken about in hushed tones. Instead, he doesn't have a single bracelet.


Jason Stockfish - if you play him heads-up, I'll take a share

MintTrav:
Event 16: $10,000 Limit Hold'em ChampionshipWinner          John MonnetteRunners          92Paid          14Final Table          10
Player          Position          Points          John Monnette          1          25          John Racener          6          8          Chad Eveslage          14          1         
Selector    Points                   Stephen 1    26                   Jo 1    25                   Barrie 2    8                   Carl 2    8                   Jo 2    8                   Luca 1    8                   Gareth    1                  
It's no surprise for John Monnette to snag another bracelet (numero four) or for John Racener to be in the shake-up. What was a surprise was to see Nate Silver mixing it at this level. Nate is a statistician who founded the FiveThirtyEight website, mainly known for political forecasting. I have watched him on many podcasts and never knew that he's a poker player, and has a few meaty cashes to his name. He was in exalted company here - seven of the final eleven were already bracelet-winners, and only one of the remainder had never graced a WSOP final table before. Eric Kurtzman and Terrance Chan, who finished third and fourth, were amongst the non-winners, but both have been both 2nd and 3rd previously. Jason Somerville, who was 5th, has filled every position from 1-5, while Racener not only has final tables to burn (this was his 18th), but was runner-up in the 2010 Main Event. But Silver came through all of them to heads-up, despite being short early on the FT. Silver and Monnette battled fairly evenly for three hours until Monnette managed to pull away.

Nate Silver in his natural environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eeiGIUpvaI

MintTrav:
Event 17: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No Limit Hold'emWinner          Daniel LazrusRunners          5326Paid          799Final Table          9
Player          Position          Points          Faraz Jaka          22          1          Vanessa Kade          75          1          Allen Kessler          290          1          Brian Hastings          318          1          Daniel Buzgon          394          1          Niall Farrell          561          1          Joseph Cheong          730          1         
Selector    Points                   Chris    2                   Simon L    2                   Aneurin    1                   Carl 1    1                   Carl 2    1                   Del    1                   John 1    1                   Jon    1                   Karen    1                   Rob    1                   Simon A    1                  
$1m for 1st and $500k for 2nd. Not bad. With over 5,000 entries, who gets to the final table is going be somewhat random - so how does Michael Gathy do it? 4th place in this just two days after finishing 3rd out of 720 in #13. That's worth $289k on top of $164k. Vanessa Kade picked up her 3rd cash of the Series.


Practicing for millionairedom!

MintTrav:
Event 18: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw LowballWinner          Vladimir PeckRunners          253Paid          38Final Table          7
Player          Position          Points          Joao Vieira          3          15          Mike Gorodinsky          12          1          David Benyamine          20          1          Benny Glaser          31          1          Benjamin Yu          33          1          Randy Ohel          34          1         
Selector    Points                   Rob    16                   Gareth    3                   Carl 1    2                   Del    2                   Jo 2    2                   Stephen 1    2                   Aneurin    1                   Barrie 1    1                   Barrie 2    1                   Carl 2    1                   Derek    1                   Jo 1    1                   John 1    1                   Luca 2    1                   Nic    1                  
Now that Vieira has arrived, he is making inroads into the points deficit for Rob.

This event needed an extra day as the heads-up had made little advance after two hours and it was 3am. It took another two hours on the unscheduled Day 4 to finish it.


Peck had to make a major comeback to win his bracelet:

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