The final day of the 2022 World Series of Poker $10,000 short deck event featured five players with collective prior tournament earnings of more than $101.5 million dollars. Three of the five contenders were already bracelet winners, including one five-time champion at the series. In the end, the player that came out on top was the one with the shortest tournament resume: Shota Nakanishi. The Japanese player came in with the chip lead and outlasted the stacked final table to secure his first WSOP bracelet and the top prize of $277,212.
“I’m so happy! Very happy right now,” Nakanishi told WSOP reporters after his victory.
“I play lots of short deck, many times. I’ve been playing online for three years. I also enjoy no-limit hold’em and sometimes pot-limit Omaha,” said Nakanishi.
This year’s short deck event drew a record turnout of 110 entries to build a prize pool of $1,025,750. The top 17 finishers made the money, with big names like 2013 main event champion Ryan Riess (16th – $16,449), six-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu (15th – $16,449), three-time World Poker Toru champion Chino Rheem ()14th – $19,590), 2017 Poker Players Championship winner Elior Sion (9th – $29,712), and rising high-stakes star Chris Brewer (8th – $29,712) all making deep runs.
The final day began with Nakanishi on top of the leaderboard and Stephen Chidwick. The British bracelet winner got off to a rough start, with his two pair and turned flush draw running into the flopped straight of bracelet winner and two-time main event final tablist Ben Lamb.
Chidwick was left on fumes after a brick on the river. He soon got all-in with A-9 trailing the A-J suited of Nakanishi. Chidwick found no help and was eliminated in fifth place ($65,143). The score increased Chidwick’s career earnings to more than $43.1 million, good for fifth place on poker’s all-time money list. he now sits just $106,123 behind fourth-ranked David Peters.
Chidwick also earned enough rankings points to strengthen his hold on fourth in the Card Player Player of the Year standings and the fifth-place spot on the PokerGO Tour leaderboard.
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