In a heads-up pot on a board of 7?2?8?10?, Kyle Frey bet 650,000 and Yegor Moroz raised all in. Frey gave it some thought and called off with his remaining stack of around 1,500,000.
Kyle Frey: K?K?
Yegor Moroz: 10?10?
Frey had run into a turned set, didn't hit his two-outer on the 5? river, and was eliminated early on Day 6.
It will be hard to match the dramatic action that took place on Day 5 of the 2024 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, but the remaining 160 players returning for Day 6 inside the Horseshoe Event Center will do their best as poker's biggest event gets closer to crowning a champion.
Leading the way for the third straight day is 2022 GPI Player of the Year Stephen Song, who seeks his second bracelet, another career year and to add to his more than $6 million in live earnings.
Song, who bagged 4,745,000 on Day 4 before running up a stack of 12,310,000 on Day 5, will have to fend off a trio of Portuguese pros who ascended to the top of the counts on Day 5: Carlos Caldas, Diogo Coelho and Manuel Machado. He will also have to contend with fellow Americans Yegor Moroz and Kevin Davis, as well as Ireland's Charles Russell, Mexico's Tomas Szwarcberg, Belgium's Laurent Manderlier and Sweden's Niklas "Lena900" Astedt, an online crusher recognized as one of the best in poker without a bracelet.
Niklas Astedt
Day 6 Top Ten Chip Counts
Place
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Stephen Song
United States
12,310,000
154
2
Carlos Caldas
Portugal
12,110,000
151
3
Diogo Coelho
Portugal
9,950,000
124
4
Yegor Moroz
United States
9,470,000
118
5
Manuel Machado
Portugal
8,830,000
110
6
Kevin Davis
United States
8,675,000
108
7
Charles Russell
Ireland
8,055,000
101
8
Tomas Szwarcberg
Mexico
7,950,000
99
9
Niklas Astedt
Sweden
7,900,000
99
10
Laurent Manderlier
Belgium
7,500,000
94
Other notables who will be in the Day 6 field include Poker Hall of Famer Brian Rast, four-time bracelet winner Kristen Foxen, poker commentator Tony Dunst and high-stakes familiars Danny Tang, Ren Lin and Leonard Maue.
Kristen Foxen
The field shrank significantly on Day 5 and saw some of poker's biggest names go, including Phil Ivey, Alex Livingston, Nacho Barbero, Alejandro Lococo and Adrian Mateos, who correctly folded kings before getting aces cracked in a brutal turn of events.
Day 6 kicks off today at noon local time on Level 26 with blinds of 40,000/80,000/80,000. It will follow the same schedule as previous days with five two-hour levels planned and 20-minute breaks after each level and a 75-minute dinner break scheduled after Level 28 at approximately 6:40 p.m.
Each returning player has locked up a payday of at least $70,000, while all eyes are on the eight-figure prize of $10 million up top.
Remaining Payouts
Place
Prize
Place
Prize
1
$10,000,000
14-17
$450,400
2
$6,000,000
18-26
$350,000
3
$4,000,000
27-35
$300,000
4
$3,000,000
36-44
$250,000
5
$2,500,000
45-53
$200,000
6
$2,000,000
54-62
$160,000
7
$1,500,000
63-71
$140,000
8
$1,250,000
72-80
$120,000
9
$1,000,000
81-125
$100,000
10-11
$800,000
126-134
$85,000
12-13
$600,000
135-162
$70,000
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team is here on-site and ready to continue providing Main Event updates ahead of the 2024 champion being crowned.
