World Series of Poker 2017 Updates!

The 48th running of the WSOP officially opened its doors Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino.
Here's a brief update on what's occurred until now.

**EVENTWISE UPDATE: **

Event #1: $565 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em :
Buy-in: $565
Prizepool: $325,500
Entries: 651
Winners:
1st Bryan Hollis - $68,817 from United States
2nd Christopher Solomon - $42,508 from United States
3rd Joshua Clanton - $29,372 from United States

Event #2: $10,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em Championship :
Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $958,800
Entries: 102
Winners:
1st Liv Boeree and Igor Kurganov - $136,982 each.
2nd Joe Kuether and Ankush Mandavia - $84,662 each.
3rd Daniel Negreanu, David Benyamine and Mark Gregorich - $29,938 each.

Event #3: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em SHOOTOUT :
Buy-in: $3,000
Prizepool: $996,300
Entries: 369
Winners:
1st Upeshka De Silva - $229,923 from United States
2nd Louis Helm - $142,115 from United States
3rd Linglin Zeng - $103,449 from China

Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better :
Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,221,750
Entries: 905
Winners:
1st Benjamin Zamani - $238,620 from United States
2nd Jared Hemingway - $147,428 from United States
3rd Alex Ferrari - $103,471 from United States

Event #5: THE COLOSSUS III - $565 No-Limit Hold'em :
Buy-in: $565
Prizepool: $9,027,000
Entries: 18,054
Winners:
1st Thomas Pomponio - $1,000,000 from United States
2nd Taylor Black - $545,430 from United States
3rd John Hanna - $406,474 from United States

Event #6: $111,111 HIGH ROLLER for ONE DROP No-Limit Hold'em :
Buy-in: $111,111
Prizepool: $13,722,150
Entries: 130
Winners:
1st Doug Polk - $3,686,865 from United States
2nd Bertrand Grospellier(Elky) - $2,278,657 from France
3rd Dario Sammartino - $1,608,295 from Italy

Event #7: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball :
Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $506,250
Entries: 225
Winners:
1st Jesse Martin - $130,948 from United States
2nd James Obst - $80,922 from Australia
3rd Chris Bjorin - $52,761 from Sweden

Event #8: $333 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold'em :
Buy-in: $333
Prizepool: $752,700
Entries: 2,509
Winners:
1st Joe Mitchell - $122,314 from United States
2nd JMark Scacewater - $73,539 from United States
3rd Michael Addamo - $54,044 from Australia

Event #9: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship :
Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $1,447,600
Entries: 154
Winners:
1st Abe Mosseri - $388,795 from United States
2nd Daniel Negreanu - $240,290 from Canada
3rd Yarron Bendor - $166,895 from United States

Event #10: $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em :
Buy-in: $1,000
Prizepool: $758,700
Entries: 843
Winners:
1st Nipun Java and Aditya Sushant - $75,319 each.
2nd Pablo Mariz and David Guay - $46,537 each.
3rd Kiryl Radzivonau and Mikhail Semin - $32,595 each.

Event #11: $1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed :
Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $491,400
Entries: 364
Winners:
1st David Bach - $119,399 from United States
2nd Kevin Iacofano - $73,779 from United States
3rd Christopher Sensoli - $47,629 from United States

Event #12: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em :
Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $2,347,650
Entries: 1,739
Winners:
1st David Pham - $391,960 from United States
2nd Jordan Young - $242,160 from United States
3rd Roman Korenev - $174,559 from Russia

Event #13: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw :
Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $359,100
Entries: 266
Winners:
1st Frank Kassela - $89,151 from United States
2nd Bernard Lee - $55,086 from United States
3rd Timothy Mcguigan - $37,032 from United States

Event #14: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. :
Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $993,600
Entries: 736
Winners:
1st David Singer - $203,709 from United States
2nd Kevin LaMonica - $125,904 from United States
3rd Andrew Kelsall - $88,221 from United States

Event #15: $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship :
Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $1,203,200
Entries: 129
Winners:
1st Adrian Mateos - $324,470 from Spain
2nd John Smith - $200,538 from United States
3rd Charlie Carrel - $125,454 from United Kingdom

Event #16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed :
Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $2,359,800
Entries: 1,748
Winners:
1st Anthony Marquez - $393,273 from United States
2nd Demosthenes Kiriopoulos - $242,978 from Canada
3rd Daniel Weinman - $170,477 from United States

Event #17: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship :
Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $930,600
Entries: 102
Winners:
1st John Racener - $273,962 from United States
2nd Viacheslav Zhukov - $169,323 from Russia
3rd Chris Klodnicki - $117,786 from United States

Event #18: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha :
Buy-in: $565
Prizepool: $1,593,000
Entries: 3,186
Winners:
1st Tyler Smith - $224,344 from United States
2nd Jason Stockfish - $138,655 from United States
3rd Igor Sharaskin - $102,045 from Russia

The rest of the events are still running. Will update this story again once the events are over. :)
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