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Practice, apparently, makes perfect, as this was Daniel Weinman’s 16th year playing in the World Series of Poker.<\/p>\n
The entire prize pool for the WSOP Main Event was $93.4 million.<\/p>\n
Let’s just say this isn’t your grandpa’s poker night with the boys from the Veteran’s Lodge.<\/p>\n
The Main Event is the most visible part of the World Series of Poker, a months-long series of events where mostly grown men vie for fancy jewelry. And by that, we mean mostly men, but mostly grown applies in many cases. If you know, you know.<\/p>\n
Here are some words from the WSOP’s news release to describe how the Main Event culminated: “Steven Jones kicked off the final day of play on Monday in the lead with a chip count of 238,000,000. Adam Walton was the first to exit the final table after losing to Weinman’s pocket aces. After 23 hands in heads up play, tensions were high as both Jones and Weinman each tabled a pair of jacks, but Weinman had him out-kicked with a king, taking home the win in dramatic fashion.”<\/p>\n
In poker, “dramatic” is used very loosely, as most poker is about as much fun to watch as concrete curing.<\/p>\n
Still, there’s no denying the excitement around a guy winning $12.1 million dollars and a bejeweled bracelet as large as a surfboard.<\/p>\n The winner’s bracelet features 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, 2,352 gemstones, including 42 carats of diamonds, and 425 black and red stones to accentuate the suits.<\/p>\n While they didn’t get a fancy bracelet, the runners-up did pretty well. Steven Jones placed second in the Main Event and won $6.5 million. Walton took third place and a prize of $4 million.<\/p>\n We don’t follow the WSOP too closely, but we can’t remember the last time the top three finishers were all American. Not too shabby.<\/p>\n Daniel Weinman is a professional poker player, but his LinkedIn page says, “I’m a full stack web developer who specializes in building React.js applications, but prefers backend development. I enjoy building full stack applications from the ground up, generally using Node.js and Express for the backend.”<\/p>\n We want to party with this guy.<\/p>\n It was great to see the WSOP is still going strong following the move from its longtime home at Rio to Horseshoe on The Strip.<\/p>\n Yes, we were the first to share the WSOP would be moving to Horseshoe, known as Bally’s at the time. Not everything has to be about us, though, so please stop with the accolades. Our scoop was shared in June 2019 (see below) and confirmed in Nov. 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n More on the future home of WSOP: Look ye not unto Caesars Forum, but rather Bally's. Romans said \"ye,\" right?<\/p>\n — Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) June 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/wsop_2023_bracelet-845x563.jpg\")
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