2023 World Series of Poker

Event #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker
Day: 5
Event Info

2023 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kq
Prize
$1,201,564
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$13,905,360
Entries
10,430
Level Info
Level
41
Blinds
1,000,000 / 2,000,000
Ante
2,000,000
Players Info - Day 5
Entries
7
Players Left
1

Final Seven Competing for Gold as Event #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker Crowns a Winner Today

Pavel Plesuv
Pavel Plesuv

A whopping 10,430 entries over the course of two starting flights made an attempt for gold in Event #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker at the 2023 World Series of Poker at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas and just seven players remain.

Pavel Plesuv enters today's play as a dominating chip leader, with a total of 70,300,000 chips. Plesuv is looking to claim the $1,201,564 first-place prize to add to his total live earnings of $6,037,058 and take home his first WSOP gold bracelet.

Florian Ribouchon is second in chips to start the day with a total of 46,000,000 in chips, which is 15 big blinds behind Plesuv and Myles Mullaly is right on his tail with 43,600,000.

Final Seven Chip Counts

SeatPlayerCountryChipsBig Blinds
2Pavel PlesuvMoldova70,300,00044
3Anton SmirnovRussia19,800,00012
4Paul GunnessUnited States24,100,00015
6Florian RibouchonFrance46,000,00029
7Myles MullalyUnited States43,600,00027
8Andreas KniepGermany34,800,00022
9Vitor De Souza CoutinhoBrazil20,800,00013

The massive prize pool of $13,905,360 means that each of the remaining players is guaranteed $222,749, but only one player will be able to collect the jaw-dropping first-place prize of $1,201,564 that awaits the winner.

Final Table Results and Remaining Payouts

PlaceWinnerCountryPrize
1  $1,201,564
2  $1,003,554
3  $650,058
4  $501,182
5  $373,524
6  $287,522
7  $222,749
8Andras MatraiHungary$173,683
9Charles BenoitCanada$136,302

Play will resume at 1 p.m. local time on Wednesday at the Horseshoe feature table as the world watches to discover who will become the latest overnight millionaire of the 54th annual World Series of Poker.

The action will be streamed on PokerGO starting at 2 p.m. and the updates will be in sync with the stream to avoid spoilers. Keep it locked in to PokerNews to find out who will rise to the top and earn a shiny new WSOP gold bracelet!