The top eight finishers will take home at least $1.075 million. Poker legend Doyle Brunson is scheduled to appear for the “Shuffle up and deal!” ceremony to kick off the action, which Action is expected to continue until four players are left.Īll the remaining players are guaranteed at least $675,000. The Main Event was off Thursday to allow players to recover, and the battle for the $10 million first prize will resume at 2 p.m. Thursday with 10 players remaining rather than playing down to the final table of nine.
I was very tired at the end and I could definitely feel that I made a couple of plays that I regret in retrospect.”Īfter almost 17 hours of play in the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em World Championship, officials halted the tournament shortly after 6 a.m. “But I realized that I’m not in the shape that I thought I was in. “I was thinking that it’s probably to my advantage if we played very long because I try to take care of myself by exercise and get rest,” Jorstad said Thursday. That is, until the Norwegian poker pro had to endure Day 7 of the World Series of Poker Main Event. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Jorstad believed he was in excellent physical shape. Participants compete during the World Series of Poker Main Event, the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em World Championship, at Bally’s on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, in Las Vegas.