WSOP Day 20 Round Up: Phil Galfond Wins His 2nd Gold Bracelet; Hoyt Corkins Looking for No.3 in the Monster Stack

Lee Davy brings you up to speed with all the news from the 20th day of the 46th  Annual World Series of Poker including a second bracelet for Phil Galfond, and Hoyt Corkins taking the chip lead into the fourth day of action in the Monster Stack.

Phil Galfond has won Event #29: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship. It’s his second World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet victory. His first came seven years ago in a Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) event. He earned $224,383 for his win, a sum of money that he wins and loses in a single hand of online cash game action. But money is not the motivating factor here. It’s all about the gold.

I would like to say that Galfond did it the hard way, but with only 77 players entering the event, and fewer weak spots than a Terminator, it was always going to be tough. Most $10,000 Championship events are.

Of the final 14-players in this event, six were multiple bracelet winners. Nick Schulman was amongst that group, having won this very event on two different occasions. Erik Seidel was another two-time winner of this event. Galfond overcame a 3:1 heads-up chip deficit against Schulman thus preventing him from becoming the first player to win it thrice.