A few weeks ago, Phil Hellmuth broke a three-way tie he shared with Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan when he won his eleventh World Series of Poker bracelet, which is the most in WSOP history.
Today, Brunson has a chance to re-tie Hellmuth in the $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha event that's set to begin its conclusion at 2 p.m. PT. Brunson is one of nine players who made it to the final table.
Here are the players and their chip counts:
- Tom Ly, $1,895,000
- Robert Mizrachi, $1,090,000
- Rene Mouritsen, $775,000
- Patrik Antonius, $650,000
- Doyle Brunson, $510,000
- Jonas Flug-Entin, $445,000
- Marco Traniello, $420,000
- Stephen Ladowsky, $360,000
- Steve Sung, $175,000
The final table participants are those left of a field that started with 314 players and generated a prize pool of $2,951,000. The winner receives $768,889, while the runner-up gets $464,877. Each player is guaranteed $50,177 for making it to the final nine.
Brunson is a two-time WSOP champion and has made 23 final tables, including this event. He last won a bracelet in 2005, when he was 71 years old. He'll turn 74 in August.
Here's a list of Brunson's bracelet wins:
- 1976, $10,000 main event, $230,000
- 1977, $5,000 deuce to seven draw, $80,250
- 1977, $1,000 seven-card stud eight-or-better, $62,500
- 1977 $10,000 main event, $340,000
- 1978, $5,000 stud, $68,000
- 1979, $600 mixed doubles (Starla Brodie was his partner), $4,500
- 1991, $2,500 no-limit hold'em
- 1998, $1,500 razz, $93,000
- 2003, $2,000 H.O.R.S.E., $84,080
- 2005, $5,000 no-limit shorthanded, $367,800
