Will Shillibier
Profitable two bracelets on the similar World Series of Poker is an extraordinary feat that lower than 60 avid gamers have accomplished all the way through the lengthy and storied historical past of the WSOP.
An entire host of acquainted names have accomplished the feat together with Scotty Nguyen, Max Pescatori and Brian Rast, with Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey and Phil Hellmuth amongst a choose team to have finished it two times!
The success occurs extra ceaselessly than you assume; you need to return over two decades to find a yr the place one participant did not win two bracelets in Las Vegas in the similar yr.
Then again, in 2021 an astonishing SIX avid gamers received two bracelets in the similar yr, one thing that hasn’t came about since 2003.
2021 Global Sequence of Poker
It was once an out of this world Fall on the Rio All-Suite Resort & On line casino, because the WSOP bid farewell to the on line casino that has been its house since it all started webhosting all occasions in 2006.
No longer most effective had been there some wonderful tales, there have been additionally some wonderful avid gamers together with the six who accomplished the original feat of successful two bracelets in one yr. Let’s revisit every of them and spot how they made their manner into this distinctive membership.
There could also be a amusing quiz so that you can play alongside at house. Solutions to the six questions will also be discovered on the backside of the web page. Excellent good fortune!
Josh Arieh
“It manner so much as a result of my daughters will likely be in point of fact proud.”
There is almost definitely no higher position than first of all the World Series of the Year Player of the Year. Already a two-time bracelets due to victories in 1999 and 2005, Josh Arieh grabbed two to clinch POY victory.
“My entire lifestyles and my profession, no matter I do, I construct momentum, so once I’m going just right, I’m in point of fact just right. After I’m going unhealthy, I’m going in point of fact unhealthy,” Arieh told PokerNews. “It manner so much as a result of my daughters will likely be in point of fact proud.”
His victories in Event #39: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha and Event #66: $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Championship noticed him dangle off each Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu to win the POY identify.
This marks the second one WSOP in a row the place the Participant of the 12 months received two bracelets en-rout to the identify, with Australian Robert Campbell doing the same in 2019.
Query 1: Since its inception in 2004, how lots of the 17 WSOP Participant of the 12 months winners have received two or extra bracelets en path to the identify?
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Scott Ball
“I have simply labored so arduous to get well at No-Restrict this previous yr”
In the meantime, Scott Ball took down the No Limits Velo leaderboard which incorporated all No Restrict Hang’em bracelet occasions in Las Vegas, in addition to the NV/NJ on-line occasions.
Ball’s first bracelet got here within the highly-competitive Event #25: $5,000 6-Max NLHE prior to following it up with victory within the large 3,797-player box Little One for One Drop.
“I have simply labored so arduous to get well at No-Restrict this previous yr,” Ball told PokerNews “It appears like I am dreaming, and I’ll get up the next day to come and be like, dang, I will’t wait to reside that sooner or later.”
Query 2: Who had been the final 3 avid gamers to win their first two bracelets in the similar yr?
Anthony Zinno
It did not take lengthy this yr for the primary two-time winner, and it was once a well-known face. Anthony Zinno now has 4 WSOP titles to head along with his three World Poker Tour titles, a feat unequalled by means of some other participant.
His two wins got here within the area of a handful of days, first successful Event #19: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship and following that up with victory in Event #27: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.
Query 3: Most effective 4 avid gamers have recorded over $4 million in WSOP cashes and over $3 million in WPT cashes. Are you able to identify them?
Michael Addamo
Every other participant who made it 4 this yr was once Michael Addamo who did in taste, successful two of probably the most high-profile occasions at the WSOP calendar.
No longer content material along with his summer time of luck that incorporated Poker Masters and Super High Roller Bowl crowns, Addamo stormed to victory in two extra Prime Rollers to convey his bracelet tally as much as 4.
He took down Event #38: $50K High Roller and Event #87: $100,000 High Roller for mixed cashes of over $3,000,000.
Query 4: Are you able to identify the one Australian participant with extra WSOP bracelets than Addamo?
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Kevin Gerhart
4 bracelets is just right, however believe 4 bracelets in 3 years. Step ahead Kevin Gerhart who, after successful his first bracelet in 2018 and bagging every other all the way through the 2020 WSOP On-line, received two extra in Vegas this Fall to convey his tally as much as 4.
A skilled combined sport participant, Gerhart received the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship and the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better for mixed cashes of over part one million greenbacks.
Query 5: Along with Gerhart, what number of avid gamers who received on-line bracelets since 2019 added a reside bracelet in 2021?
Jeremy Ausmus
“My first bracelet was once in Europe […] till this yr I had by no means received a bracelet right here on the Rio.”
Lower than a decade on from his final-table look within the 2012 Global Sequence of Poker Major Tournament, Jeremy Ausmus now has his fingers on 3 WSOP bracelets.
“It feels in point of fact just right,” Ausmus told PokerNews. “My first bracelet was once in Europe, out of doors of Paris, so till this yr I had by no means received a bracelet right here on the Rio. I’d had numerous deep runs, so it’s cool to take a pair down right here.”
Ausmus has now cashed for over $5.7 million on the WSOP on my own, along with his two bracelets in 2021 coming in Event #3: $1,000 Covid-19 Relief NLHE Charity Event and Event #84: $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller the place he beat Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth to clinch his 3rd identify.
Query 6: Who was once the one 2021 WSOP Major Tournament last tablist to have prior to now received a bracelet?
Different A couple of Bracelet Winners
It wasn’t only a yr for avid gamers successful two in one yr, however a number of WSOP regulars additionally bagged every other identify. Brian Rast, Brian Hastings and Shaun Deeb all received their 5th WSOP titles.
In the meantime, along with Addamo, Arieh, Gerhart and Zinno, six different avid gamers received their fourth bracelets with John Monnette, Adam Friedman, Farzad Bonyadi, Ben Yu, Brian Yoon and Adrian Mateos all including to their WSOP resumes.
A couple of WSOP bracelet winners in Las Vegas
| 12 months | A couple of Bracelet Winners | Names |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 1 | Johnny Moss |
| 1973 | 1 | Walter “Puggy” Pearson (3) |
| 1974 | 1 | Jimmy Casella |
| 1976 | 2 | Doyle Brunson, Howard Andrew |
| 1977 | 2 | Doyle Brunson, Bobby Stanley Baldwin |
| 1978 | 1 | Gary “Bones” Berland |
| 1979 | 2 | Gary “Bones” Berland, Lakewood Louie |
| 1981 | 1 | Stu Ungar |
| 1982 | 2 | Billy Baxter, David Sklansky |
| 1983 | 1 | Tom McEvoy |
| 1984 | 2 | Jack Keller, Dewey Tomko |
| 1993 | 3 | Phil Hellmuth (3), Ted Forrest (3), Humberto Brenes |
| 1994 | 1 | T. J. Cloutier |
| 1995 | 3 | Dan Harrington, Males Nguyen, Hilbert Shirey |
| 1997 | 1 | Max Stern |
| 2000 | 1 | Chris Ferguson |
| 2001 | 2 | Scotty Nguyen, Nani Dollison |
| 2002 | 2 | Phil Ivey (3), Layne Flack |
| 2003 | 6 | Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson, Johnny Chan, John Juanda, Layne Flack, Males Nguyen |
| 2004 | 2 | Ted Forrest, Scott Fischman |
| 2005 | 1 | Mark Seif |
| 2006 | 2 | Jeff Madsen, William Chen |
| 2007 | 1 | Tom Schneider |
| 2008 | 1 | John Phan |
| 2009 | 4 | Jeff Lisandro (3), Phil Ivey, Brock Parker, Greg Mueller |
| 2010 | 1 | Frank Kassela |
| 2011 | 1 | Brian Rast |
| 2012 | 1 | Greg Merson |
| 2013 | 1 | Tom Schneider |
| 2014 | 1 | George Danzer |
| 2015 | 2 | Max Pescatori, Brian Hastings |
| 2016 | 3 | Jason Mercier, Ian Johns, Benny Glaser |
| 2017 | 2 | Nipun Java, David Bach |
| 2018 | 3 | Shaun Deeb, Joe Cada, Justin Bonomo |
| 2019 | 1 | Robert Campbell |
| 2021 | 6 | Josh Arieh, Anthony Zinno, Kevin Gerhart, Scott Ball, Jeremy Ausmus, Michael Addamo |
Daring signifies participant additionally received the WSOP Major Tournament that yr
Italics signifies participant additionally received WSOP Participant of the 12 months
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Quiz Solutions
- 11 of the 17 winners have received 2+ bracelets, the exceptions being Negreanu (’04), Cunningham (’05), Lindgren (’08), Lamb (’11), Gorodinsky (’15) and Ferguson (’17).
- Robert Campbell (2019), Nipun Java (2017) and Greg Merson (2012)
- The one different avid gamers are Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari and J.C. Tran.
- Addamo trails most effective Jeff Lisandro (6) in maximum bracelets by means of an Australian.
- 7 avid gamers – Ryan Leng, Bradley Ruben, Georgios Sotiropoulos, Connor Drinan, Mark Herm, Daniel Lazrus and Martin Zamani.
- Chase Bianchi
