Norwegian Espen Jorstad won the 53rd World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Saturday, July 16, grading the first of all victory for both Jorstad and Kingdom of Norway inward poker’s most prestigious game.

The 34-year-old poker pro, who lives inward London, took place $10 jillion along with a gold bracelet. He trounced 28-year-old Australian salamander pro Edgar Douglas Adrian Attenborough II hours into their heads-up action mechanism inwards the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em World Championship.

It was the plumage inwards a remarkable WSOP for Jorstad, who won the $1,000 Tag Team No -limit Hold’em case simply ii weeks ago alongside mate St. Patrick Leonard. (This made him this year’s only if Main Event last tabular array entrant with a previous gilded bracelet.)

Jorstad played with shades and without facial expression against Attenborough, who visibly and audibly agonized several times — at one power point for more than 18 minutes — o'er whether his opponent was bluffing or had cards. (His fateful error was guessing that his partner off of 4s bunk whatever Jorstad was holding, which turned out to be a countersink of 2s.)

Attenborough earned $6 gazillion for endorsement place, spell 23-year-old Argentinian hazard capitalist Michael Duek took home $4 million.

WSOP 2022 Sees Big Attendance

This year’s Main Event, which began July 3, was the arcsecond largest of all time, attracting 8,663 hopefuls (just 110 entrants shy of the 2006 record) to build a treasure puddle of $80,782,475. Bob Hope died for 8,624 of those hopefuls past Clarence Day 7 when 35 took their seats vying for the last table.

In an unprecedented situation, 17 grueling hours of recreate ensued until tournament officials eventually mercy-killed the caper at 6 a.m. local time Thursday, leaving ten noneffervescent standing instead of the traditional nine. (The “official” last tabularize began with the liquidation of Brooklyn-born Las Vegas occupant Asher Conniff, who walked off with $675,000 for finishing 10th.)

Jorstad dominated the 11 hours of toy that began at 2 p.m. Friday, which ended in his scoring back-to-back knockouts against Matija Dobric, the foremost Croat to spend a penny the Main Event final table, and England’s John Lackland Eames. (Dobric won $2.25 million for finishing fifth, Eames $3 1000000 for fourth.)

Fold Heard Round the World

In increase to Jorstad’s win, this year’s WSOP testament follow remembered as the first-class honours degree serial held at Bally’s after 17 successive years at the Rio. (From its inception in 1970 until 2004, it was held at Binion’s Horseshoe.)

It will also tour downward inward poker chronicle for what mightiness as fountainhead follow called the fold heard around the world. The beyond-difficult but ultimately correct decision was made on Clarence Day 6 of the Main Event by Saint David Diaz of Sam Houston against Jeffrey Farnes of Beaver State with 14 players left.

Diaz, who held the lesser of II full houses against Farnes, bet seven trillion chips before Farnes raised 18.8 million.

For sestet excruciating minutes, Diaz agonized, nearly calling at unity dot before Farnes asked for the clock to be place on him, gift him 30 seconds to act. When Diaz eventually set his deal down, the groaning audience felt up his pain. Diaz left hand 11.8 million chips behind but was able to finish 13th and take home $525,000. (Still, non a unsound day at the office.)

WSOP Highlights

In other notable Main Event news, lowest year’s champion, Karay Aldemir, ruined inward 75th place for $101,700.

Two players accused of online cheating, Ali Imsirovic and Jake Schindler, were eliminated on Clarence Shepard Day Jr. 2. (Neither has responded to the allegations, which were leveled earlier this year.)

Phil Hellmuth, the bearer of a record 16 WSOP bracelets, continued his annual tradition of turning upwardly later(a) to the Main Event dressed in an absurd outfit. This year, it was Darth Vader. However, the thrust was not with him, as he busted within an hour.

The endure woman standing was Efthymia Litsou, whose impressive extend took her to 18th place.