There are now just 59 players remaining in the 2024 World Series of Poker no-limit hold’em main event from the record-setting field of 10,112 entries. Those still in contention have now locked up at least $160,000, with one lucky player among them just days away from emerging victorious with $10 million top prize and the championship bracelet.
The chip leader is Kevin Davis with 26,250,000. The Louisville, Kentucky resident is a six-time WSOP Circuit gold ring winner with more than $575,000 in prior live tournament earnings. This is Davis’ first recorded cash in the main event, and also his first score of six figures or more.
Other big stacks include Malo Latinois (22,375,000), Guillermo Sanchez Otero (21,975,000), Yake Wu (20,875,000), Yegor Moroz (20,575,000), and Daniel Zadok (20,325,000).
Among the many accomplished notables still in the mix are World Poker Tour champion Orson Young (18,350,000), recent WSOP tag team event winner Jason James (15,825,000), six-time bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Fame member Brian Rast (12,675,000), 2009 WSOP main evnet 21st-place finisher Jonathan Tamayo (13,300,000), 2012 WPT Player of the Year Joe Serock (13,175,000), bracelet winner Brian Kim (9,975,000), bracelet winner Alex Keating (5,250,000), two-time bracelet winner Brandon Cantu (4,800,000), 2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship winner Aliaksandr Shylko (3,850,000), and bracelet winner Stephen Song (2,175,000).
Online poker legend Niklas ‘Lena900’ Astedt (15,800,000) is among the top 15 stacks. The Swedish poker pro has nearly $3.9 million in recorded live tournament earnings, but has also reportedly accrued tens of millions in online cashes.
There were four female players among the 160 players that made it to day 6. Two moved on to day 7, including Shundan Xiao, who bagged the second-largest stack of any player with 23,925,000. The San Jose, California resident is set to multiply her career earnings of $32,376 many times over with a deep run in this record-setting event, which sports a staggering prize pool of $94,041,600.
Four-time bracelet winner Kristen Foxen also survived, ending the day with 14,500,000 chips. Foxen got off to a rocky start when her ace-king lost a roller-coaster clash with the pocket kings of Bradley Mercer. Turnabout was fair play for Foxen, who later doubled up through Mercer with pocket kings beating his ace-king. Foxen found a few other spots throughout the day to display the poker prowess that has earned her over $8.4 million on the tournament circuit, including turning pocket kings into a bluff to force two opponents off of top pair on the river.
Xiao and Foxen are both looking to become the first female players since Barbara Enright to make the WSOP main event final table in 1995. Enright finished fifth that year, and remains the only woman to have made the top nine in this tournament. Four women have come close, only to hit the rail in 10th place. That list includes: Barbara Samuelson (1994), Susie Isaacs (1998), Annie Duke (2000), and Gaelle Baumann (2012). If Foxen were to match or beat Enright’s fifth-place finish, she would overtake Vanessa Selbst ($10,899,027 in career cashes) atop the female tournament earnings leaderboard. She currently trails by $2,484,979, with fifth place this year paying $2.5 million.
As for the other two women who made day 6 this year, Danielle Andersen was knocked out in 116th place after getting all-in with a combo draw against middle pair. Andersen found no help on the turn or river and was sent to the rail with $100,000. Ma Li finished 90th, earning the same payday.
Other notable players that were eliminated on day 6 included bracelet winner Christopher Brammer (157th), WPT champion and three-time bracelet winner Tony Dunst (144th – $70,000), former Storage Wars star Rene Nezhoda (123rd), two-time bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs (120th), WPT champion Joe Tehan (118th), WPT Champion Iaron Lightbourne (99th), 2023 North American Poker Tour Las Vegas champion Sami Bechahed (74th), WPT champion Veerab Zakarian (68th), and bracelet winner and five-time Triton champion Danny Tang (62nd).
The final 59 contenders will return to blinds of 125,000-250,000 and a big blind ante of 250,000 for level 31. The average stack of 10,283,390 will represent just over 41 big blinds when cards get back in the air. All remaining players have locked up at least $160,000 by making this far.
Here is a look at the complete chip counts heading into day 7:
| Rank | Player | Chips |
| 1 | Kevin Davis | 26,250,000 |
| 2 | Shundan Xiao | 23,925,000 |
| 3 | Malo Latinois | 22,375,000 |
| 4 | Guillermo Sanchez Otero | 21,975,000 |
| 5 | Yake Wu | 20,875,000 |
| 6 | Yegor Moroz | 20,575,000 |
| 7 | Daniel Zadok | 20,325,000 |
| 8 | Orson Young | 18,350,000 |
| 9 | Jason Sagle | 17,350,000 |
| 10 | Adrian Lopez | 17,025,000 |
| 11 | Charles Russell | 16,000,000 |
| 12 | Naor Slobodskoy | 16,000,000 |
| 13 | Jason James | 15,825,000 |
| 14 | Niklas Astedt | 15,800,000 |
| 15 | Gabriel Moura | 14,900,000 |
| 16 | Andres Gonzalez | 14,775,000 |
| 17 | Kristen Foxen | 14,500,000 |
| 18 | Tomas Szwarcberg | 14,200,000 |
| 19 | Jonathan Tamayo | 13,300,000 |
| 20 | Joe Serock | 13,175,000 |
| 21 | Giovanni Zanette | 13,100,000 |
| 22 | Brian Rast | 12,675,000 |
| 23 | Edward Pak | 11,600,000 |
| 24 | Justin Vaysman | 11,055,000 |
| 25 | Gerardo Hernandez | 10,975,000 |
| 26 | Garrett Bok | 10,300,000 |
| 27 | Richard Lowe | 10,225,000 |
| 28 | Kyosuke Nagami | 10,050,000 |
| 29 | Brian Kim | 9,975,000 |
| 30 | Diogo Coelho | 9,975,000 |
| 31 | Eliott Kessas | 9,325,000 |
| 32 | Russell Rosenblum | 9,175,000 |
| 33 | Daniel Erlandsson | 8,950,000 |
| 34 | Jordan Griff | 8,725,000 |
| 35 | Aloisio Dourado | 7,075,000 |
| 36 | Kevin Theodore | 7,075,000 |
| 37 | Hiroki Nawa | 6,325,000 |
| 38 | Luis Vazquez | 6,325,000 |
| 39 | Daniel Kyosev | 6,050,000 |
| 40 | Arthur Morris | 5,925,000 |
| 41 | Jesse Capps | 5,925,000 |
| 42 | Alex Keating | 5,250,000 |
| 43 | Jean Lhuillier | 5,200,000 |
| 44 | Malcolm Franchi | 5,150,000 |
| 45 | Robert Renaud | 5,075,000 |
| 46 | Boris Angelov | 4,975,000 |
| 47 | Brandon Cantu | 4,800,000 |
| 48 | Julio Trimmer | 4,050,000 |
| 49 | Aliaksandr Shylko | 3,850,000 |
| 50 | Jason Hoffman | 3,400,000 |
| 51 | Rodrigo Garrido Portaleoni | 2,900,000 |
| 52 | Mauro Juarez | 2,650,000 |
| 53 | Stephen Song | 2,175,000 |
| 54 | Charles Alex-Barton | 2,100,000 |
| 55 | Jessie Bryant | 2,050,000 |
| 56 | Yong Han | 1,950,000 |
| 57 | Nick Jivkov | 1,900,000 |
| 58 | Brian Hawkins | 1,225,000 |
| 59 | Randy Gattesco | 575,000 |
Remaining payouts up for grabs in the 2024 WSOP main event:
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $10,000,000 |
| 2 | $6,000,000 |
| 3 | $4,000,000 |
| 4 | $3,000,000 |
| 5 | $2,500,000 |
| 6 | $2,000,000 |
| 7 | $1,500,000 |
| 8 | $1,250,000 |
| 9 | $1,000,000 |
| 10 – 11 | $800,000 |
| 12 – 13 | $600,000 |
| 14 – 17 | $450,400 |
| 18 – 26 | $350,000 |
| 27 – 35 | $300,000 |
| 36 – 44 | $250,000 |
| 45 – 53 | $200,000 |
| 54 – 59 | $160,000 |
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