2022 World Series of Poker
Location	Bally's Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
Dates	May 31 – July 20
Champion
Espen Jørstad
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The 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was the 53rd edition of the event and run from May 31-July 20. After being held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino since 2005, the event moved to Bally's Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas for the first time. ^[1]

There were 88 bracelet events on the schedule, including the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event beginning on July 3. The series culminated with the Tournament of Champions, a freeroll with a $1 million prize pool open to the year's bracelet and circuit ring winners. ^[2]

Event schedule

Source: ^[3]

Key: (bracelets won in 2022/bracelets won in career)

	High stakes event ($10,000+ buy-in).
	No points awarded towards Player of the Year.
	Online event.

#	Event	Entrants	Winner	Prize	Runner-up	Results
1	$500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em	832	Kate Kopp (1/1)	$65,168	Wyatt Frost	Results
2	$100,000 High Roller Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	46	David Peters (1/4)	$1,166,810	Chance Kornuth (0/3)	Results
3	$2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	752	Scott Seiver (1/4)	$320,059	Alexander Farahi	Results
4	$1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed	430	Brad Ruben (1/4)	$126,288	Jaswinder Lally (0/1)	Results
5	$500 The Housewarming No-Limit Hold'em	20,080	Henrieto Acain (1/1)	$701,215	Jared Kingery	Results
6	$25,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship	64	Dan Smith (1/1)	$509,717	Christoph Vogelsang	Results
7	$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	1,086	Amnon Filippi (1/1)	$252,718	Matt Vengrin	Results
8	$25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	251	Chad Eveslage (1/1)	$1,415,610	Jake Schindler	Results
9	$1,500 Seven Card Stud	329	Alex Livingston (1/1)	$103,282	Daniel Weinman	Results
10	$10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship	123	Ben Diebold (1/1)	$299,488	Mike Gorodinsky (0/2)	Results
o1	$5,300 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Freezeout	218	Norbert Szecsi (1/3)	$288,850	Tony Dunst (0/2)
o2	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Big $500	1,213	Manig Löser (1/2)	$127,153	Brian Battistone
11	$600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	5,715	Raj Vohra (1/1)	$335,286	Qing Liu	Results
12	$50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	101	Jake Schindler (1/1)	$1,328,068	Brek Schutten	Results
13	$1,500 Limit Hold'em	522	Michael Moncek (1/1)	$145,856	Ben Ross	Results
14	$1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	2,392	Leo Soma (1/1)	$456,889	Thomas Schultz	Results
15	$10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	196	Daniel Zack (1/2)	$440,757	Dustin Dirksen	Results
16	$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em	1,240	Stefan Lehner (1/1)	$558,616	Toby Boas	Results
17	$2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball	309	Dominick Sarle (1/1)	$164,243	Jerry Wong	Results
18	$1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	2,663	Bryan Schultz (1/1)	$330,057	Young Sik Eum	Results
19	$25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha	264	Tong Li (1/1)	$1,467,739	Fabian Brandes	Results
20	$1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw	350	Denis Nesterenko (1/1)	$108,250	Von Altizer	Results
21	$1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em	6,501	Mike Jukich (1/1)	$966,577	Mateusz Moolhuizen	Results
22	$10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship	95	Adam Friedman (1/5)	$248,254	Jean Gaspard (0/1)	Results
23	$3,000 Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	213	Jeremy Ausmus (1/4)	$142,147	Michael Rocco (0/1)	Results
24	$1,000 FLIP & GO No-Limit Hold'em	1,329	Christopher Chatman (1/1)	$187,770	Rafi Elharar	Results
25	$800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	4,062	Rajaee Wazwaz (1/1)	$358,346	Robert Crow	Results
26	$10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship	92	Jonathan Cohen (1/1)	$245,678	Kyle Dilschneider	Results
o3	$400 No-Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack	1,641	Brian Altman (1/1)	$110,662	Eric Salazar
27	$1,500 Shootout No-Limit Hold'em	1,000	Michael Simhai (1/1)	$240,480	David Dowdy	Results
28	$50,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha	106	Robert Cowen (1/2)	$1,393,816	Dash Dudley (0/2)	Results
29	$1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw	437	Maxx Coleman (1/1)	$127,809	Thomas Newton	Results
30	$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed	1,891	Daniel Weinman (1/1)	$255,359	Jamey Hendrikson	Results
31	$10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship	118	Brian Hastings (1/6)	$292,146	Eric Wasserson	Results
32	$1,500 H.O.R.S.E.	773	Steve Albini (1/2)	$196,089	James Morgan	Results
33	$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	1,348	Nino Ullmann (1/1)	$594,079	Timothy Flank	Results
34	$1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	1,774	Justin Pechie (1/2)	$364,899	Samuel Bifarella	Results
35	$2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event	281	Lok Chan (1/1)	$144,338	Drew Scott	Results
36	$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better	471	Ali Eslami (1/1)	$135,260	Chris Papastratis	Results
37	$1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em	7,961	Yuliyan Kolev (1/2)	$1,125,189	Oren Rosen	Results
38	$10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship	121	Pedro Bromfman (1/1)	$294,616	Scott Seiver (1/4)	Results
39	$3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed	719	Fabian Brandes (1/1)	$371,358	Leonid Yanovski	Results
40	$10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	137	Daniel Zack (2/3)	$324,174	David Funkhouser	Results
41	$1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	2,227	Ramsey Stovall (1/1)	$191,223	Timothy Heng	Results
42	$100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	62	Aleksejs Ponakovs (1/2)	$1,897,363	Phil Ivey (0/10)	Results
o4	$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max	470	Matt Szymaszek (1/1)	$141,705	Greg Koutelidakis
43	$500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	4,786	David Perry (1/1)	$241,729	Chris Moorman (0/2)	Results
44	$10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship	192	Andrew Yeh (1/1)	$487,129	Craig Chait	Results
45	$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha	1,437	Phil Hui (1/3)	$311,782	Daniel Tordjman	Results
46	$5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	920	Jonathan Pastore (1/1)	$771,765	Stephen Song (0/1)	Results
47	$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship	7,188	Eric Smidinger (1/1)	$694,909	Ben Sarnoff	Results
48	$1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed	695	Menikos Panagiotou (1/1)	$180,783	Nick Yunis	Results
49	$2,000 No-Limit Hold'em	1,977	Simeon Spasov (1/1)	$527,944	Mike Watson	Results
50	$250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	56	Alex Foxen (1/1)	$4,563,700	Brandon Steven	Results
51	$400 Colossus No-Limit Hold'em	13,565	Paul Hizer (1/1)	$414,490	Sam Laskowitz	Results
52	$2,500 Nine Game Mix 6-Handed	456	Kijoon Park (1/1)	$219,799	André Akkari (0/1)	Results
53	$5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha	788	João Simão (1/2)	$686,242	Marius Gierse	Results
54	$500 Salute to Warriors No-Limit Hold'em	3,209	James Todd (1/1)	$161,256	Brett Coltman	Results
55	$1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em	913	Espen Jørstad (1/1) Patrick Leonard (1/1)	$74,042	Jamie Kerstetter Corey Paggeot	Results
56	$50,000 Poker Players Championship	112	Daniel Cates (1/2)	$1,449,103	Yuri Dzivielevski (0/2)	Results
o5	$600 Online Deepstack Championship	1,248	William Corvino (1/1)	$149,319	Pavel Plesuv
57	$600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold'em	4,913	Tamas Lendvai (1/1)	$299,464	Frank Reichel	Results
58	$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	1,303	Lawrence Brandt (1/1)	$289,610	Corey Wade	Results
59	$1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold'em	2,668	Massoud Eskandari (1/1)	$330,609	Jennifer Gianera	Results
60	$10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em	110	Shota Nakanishi (1/1)	$277,212	Ben Lamb (0/1)	Results
o6	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo Deepstack	1,746	Martin Stoyanov (1/1)	$132,783	Arkadiy Tsinis (0/1)
61	$10,000/$1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship	1,074	Jessica Teusl (1/1)	$166,975	Julie Le	Results
62	$1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	2,569	Dash Dudley (1/3)	$301,396	David Sanchez	Results
63	$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	284	Eli Elezra (1/5)	$611,362	Chino Rheem	Results
64	$600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack	2,858	Konstantin Angelov (1/1)	$199,466	Gregg Merkow	Results
65	$3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em	1,359	David Jackson (1/2)	$598,173	Phil Hellmuth (0/16)	Results
66	$1,000 Mini Main Event No-Limit Hold'em	5,832	Young Sik Eum (1/1)	$594,189	Cosmin Joldis	Results
67	$10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	419	Nacho Barbero (1/1)	$587,520	Fabiano Kovalski	Results
68	$1,000 Million Dollar Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	14,112	Quincy Borland (1/1)	$750,120	Kevin Hong	Results
69	$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship	683	Sean Troha (1/1)	$1,246,770	Shiva Dudani	Results
70	$10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event	8,663	Espen Jørstad (2/2)	$10,000,000	Adrian Attenborough	Results
o7	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	2,161	Sane Chung (1/1)	$149,729	Dylan Smith
71	$1,111 One More for One Drop No-Limit Hold'em	5,702	Mike Allis (1/1)	$535,610	Ryan Riess (0/1)	Results
72	$1,500 Mixed Omaha	771	Bradley Anderson (1/1)	$195,565	Scott Abrams	Results
73	$1,500 Razz	383	Daniel Strelitz (1/2)	$115,723	Lynda Tran	Results
74	$1,500 Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha	1,390	Pei Li (1/1)	$190,219	Nolan King	Results
75	$777 Lucky 7's No-Limit Hold'em	6,891	Gregory Teboul (1/1)	$777,777	Rodney Turvin	Results
76	$1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold'em	865	Hong Jin-ho (1/1)	$276,067	Punnat Punsri	Results
o8	$7,777 Lucky 7's No-Limit Hold'em High Roller	161	Harry Lodge (1/1)	$396,366	Andrew Robl
o9	$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Online Championship	994	Yevgeniy Minakrin (1/1)	$238,315	Dragos Trofimov
77	$1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha	1,234	Sandeep Pulusani (1/2)	$277,949	Esther Taylor-Brady	Results
78	$2,500 No-Limit Hold'em	1,364	Sebastien Aube (1/1)	$499,636	Julien Loire	Results
79	$10,000 Razz Championship	125	Julien Martini (1/4)	$328,906	Hal Rotholz	Results
o10	$3,200 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller 8-Max	340	Julien Perouse (1/1)	$324,767	Calvin Anderson (0/2)
80	$600 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack	2,107	Romans Voitovs (1/1)	$158,609	Michael Dobbs	Results
81	$5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed	756	Mo Arani (1/1)	$665,459	Johannes Straver	Results
82	$800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 8-Handed	2,812	Richard Alsup (1/1)	$272,065	Gary Whitehead	Results
83	$50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em	97	João Vieira (1/2)	$1,384,413	Lander Lijo	Results
84	$3,000 H.O.R.S.E.	327	Lawrence Brandt (2/2)	$205,139	Roberto Marin	Results
85	$1,500 The Closer No-Limit Hold'em	2,968	Minh Nguyen (1/1)	$536,280	Ahmed Karrim	Results
86	$10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship	394	Gregory Jensen (1/1)	$824,649	Pavel Plesuv	Results
87	$5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed	573	Michael Wang (1/2)	$541,604	Farid Jattin	Results
o11	$777 No-Limit Hold'em Lucky 7's Second Chance	781	Fred Li (1/1)	$159,060	Zach Okin
88	$1,000 Super Turbo No-Limit Hold'em	1,282	Jaspal Brar (1/1)	$190,731	Jesse Lonis	Results
o12	$5,300 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Freezeout Encore	245	Gianluca Speranza (1/1)	$324,625	Paul Scaturro
o13	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Summer Saver	1,189	Shaun O'Donnell (1/1)	$125,330	Benjamin Chung
89	WSOP Tournament of Champions	470	Benjamin Kaupp (1/1)	$250,000	Raul Garza	Results

Michigan Online

#	Event	Entrants	Winner	Prize	Runner-up
1	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Big 500	242	Brett Blackwood (1/1)	$35,559	Andrew Rosen
2	$400 No-Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack	275	Todd Estes (1/1)	$27,896	Corey Paggeot
3	$500 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max	141	John Macleod (1/1)	$21,387	Timothy Mulroy
4	$600 Online Deepstack Championship	176	Adam Kittle (1/1)	$30,420	Marcus Norman
5	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	180	Freddie Kirkland (1/1)	$26,038	Christopher Hando
6	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Online Bracelet Championship	108	Cade Lautenbacher (1/1)	$28,829	Robert Gincott
7	$777 No-Limit Hold'em Lucky 7's	98	Ryan Hiller (1/1)	$21,947	Joseph Cervo
8	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Summer Saver	179	Matthew Garza (1/1)	$27,824	Germandio Andoni

Pennsylvania Online

#	Event	Entrants	Winner	Prize	Runner-up
1	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Big 500	204	Joseph Kuczewski (1/1)	$30,970	Michael Duffy
2	$400 No-Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack	218	Christopher Perkins (1/1)	$24,960	Kyle Lorenz
3	$500 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max	90	Mark Dellavecchio (1/1)	$17,292	Robert Lavin
4	$600 Online Deepstack Championship	153	Stephen Jarrett (1/1)	$26,979	Joshua Berardi
5	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	136	Jonas Wexler (1/1)	$19,615	Anthony Garofalo
6	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Online Bracelet Championship	94	Alex Schwint (1/1)	$27,055	Jonas Wexler (1/1)
7	$777 No-Limit Hold'em Lucky 7's	89	Peter Williamson (1/1)	$20,519	Ryan Messick
8	$500 No-Limit Hold'em Summer Saver	166	Ryan Messick (1/1)	$24,300	Michael McNeil

Player of the Year

Final standings as of July 19 (note: does not include events from the 2022 WSOP Online series or the 2022 WSOP Europe series):

Standings ^[4]

Rank	Name	Points	Bracelets
1	Daniel Zack	4,530.64	2
2	Daniel Weinman	4,040.20	1
3	Koray Aldemir	3,275.02	0
4	Shaun Deeb	3,197.65	0
5	David Peters	2,982.08	1
6	Yueqi Zhu	2,766.27	0
7	João Vieira	2,752.88	1
8	João Simão	2,735.76	1
9	Alex Foxen	2,548.47	1
10	Brian Rast	2,520.06	0

Main Event

The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 3.

Performance of past champions

Name	Championship Year(s)	Day of Elimination
Johnny Chan	1987, 1988	2D
Phil Hellmuth	1989	2ABC
Scotty Nguyen	1998	3
Chris Moneymaker	2003	4 (1198th)*
Greg Raymer	2004	1C
Joe Hachem	2005	2D
Joe Cada	2009	2ABC
Greg Merson	2012	4 (610th)*
Ryan Riess	2013	4 (1182nd)*
Martin Jacobson	2014	2ABC
Joe McKeehen	2015	3
Qui Nguyen	2016	2ABC
John Cynn	2018	4 (550th)*
Hossein Ensan	2019	1C
Damian Salas	2020	7 (27th)*
Koray Aldemir	2021	6 (75th)*

*- Denotes player who finished in the money

Other notable high finishes

NB: This list is restricted to top 100 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Place	Name	Prize
17th	Kenny Tran	$410,000
27th	Damian Salas	$262,300
35th	Marco Johnson	$262,300
75th	Koray Aldemir	$101,700

Final Table

Name	Number of chips (percentage of total)	WSOP Bracelets	WSOP Cashes*	WSOP Earnings*
Matthew Su	80,800,000 (15.5%)	0	0	0
Matija Dobric	78,950,000 (15.2%)	0	11	$235,513
Espen Jørstad	68,400,000 (13.2%)	1	22	$810,052
Michael Duek	65,075,000 (12.5%)	0	4	$608,839
Jeffrey Farnes	56,150,000 (10.8%)	0	6	$27,509
Aaron Duczak	55,400,000 (10.7%)	0	35	$144,269
John Eames	54,950,000 (10.6%)	0	18	$273,286
Adrian Attenborough	44,200,000 (8.5%)	0	5	$27,659
Philippe Souki	15,900,000 (3.1%)	0	7	$39,067

*Career statistics prior to the Main Event

Final Table results

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Espen Jørstad	$10,000,000
2nd	Adrian Attenborough	$6,000,000
3rd	Michael Duek	$4,000,000
4th	John Eames	$3,000,000
5th	Matija Dobric	$2,250,000
6th	Jeffrey Farnes	$1,750,000
7th	Aaron Duczak	$1,350,000
8th	Philippe Souki	$1,075,000
9th	Matthew Su	$850,675

References

External links

• Official website