Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 4 Completed
2023 World Series of Poker
Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 4
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 4
2023 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$1,246,200
Entries
134
Level
26
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
0
Entries
3
Players Left
1
Level 26
: Blinds 60,000/120,000, 0 ante
Although he came back for the fourth day of Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship as the short stack, 2021 WSOP Player of the Year Josh Arieh went on a bit of a run on the final table today to claim his fifth WSOP bracelet. With 134 entries in the field, the total prize pool came to $1,246,200 and Arieh claimed a first-place prize of $316,226.
Arieh defeated Daniel Idema heads-up with the Canadian taking home $195,443 with him while Nozomu Shimizu padded his bankroll with an extra $144,069.
Arieh now has over $8.5 million in WSOP cashes. His biggest cash was finishing in third place in the 2005 Main Event for $2,500,000. An even more spectacular statistic is that his first cash came back in 1999 when he also won his first bracelet in Event #10: $3,000 Limit Hold'em for $202,800.
He was visibly emotional and a bit speechless when PokerNews spoke to him: "Yeah. Euhm, yeah, I'm trying to think of the best way to say it. Like, I know I'm on the outside looking into the Hall of Fame. I look at the list of people and think I'm close. And now, with a little more success, I might get thought of. I mean, Brian Rast, Matt Savage, Isai Scheinberg. I mean, the list just goes on, and only one person gets in a year."
"So this is just another step that will give me a chance to maybe be inducted in to the Hall of Fame. Poker players were looked at as these backroom hustlers. Like, oh, you're a poker player, you're a bad person. You gamble for a living; how do you do that? I've said it before; it just gives it a little validity. And to be thought about, the names of people that are one, it would just be insane. "
Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh Arieh | United States | $316,226 |
| 2 | Daniel Idema | Canada | $195,443 |
| 3 | Nozomu Shimizu | Japan | $144,069 |
| 4 | Joe McKeehen | United States | $107,540 |
| 5 | Louis Hillman | United States | $81,298 |
| 6 | Nick Pupillo | United States | $62,255 |
| 7 | Nick Schulman | United States | $48,298 |
| 8 | Kevin Song | United States | $37,967 |
Three-handed Final Day Action
From the first hand of the day when Arieh chipped up through Shimizu with a higher kicker, it seemed not much could go wrong for Arieh. He doubled up within the first fifteen minutes through Idema when he had flopped top pair while Idema had turned a lower pair and straight draw. He stayed active, played many hands, and took over the chip lead after only twenty minutes of play.
Shimizu lost a chunk of his stack to Arieh when he called a raise with a flopped pair of jacks to see his opponent had rivered a straight. From there on, the cheerful Japanese player never really recovered and ended up in third place when he lost the remainder of his stack to Idema. Still sporting a huge smile and even giggling a bit, he wished the rest good luck while making his way off the feature stage.
After a short break, the heads-up battle commenced, with the eventual champion holding almost a 2:1 chip lead. The two-hour heads-up battle went back and forth for a bit, but he was slowly chipping away at Idema's stack. Even though the Canadian doubled up once, he kept giving chips back in other pots. Ultimately, he doubled up again before all the chips went in with ace-deuce on a trey-five-five-nine board. Arieh had turned two pair with the nine-four in his hand, and the nine on the river gave him a full house for his fifth bracelet.
Reflecting on the day, the champion added, "I had this huge rush of clarity and calmness, and I wasn't the least bit stressed out. And I just knew that limit hold'em is a game of momentum and a game of rushes. And I was like, well, there are three people left. One of us will go on a rush, and it can very easily be me. And that's just what happened."
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Level 26
: Blinds 60,000/120,000, 0 ante
Josh Arieh raised and Daniel Idema three-bet in the big blind. Arieh called.
Idema bet on the 3?5?5? flop and Arieh called. Idema bet again on the 9? turn and Arieh raised. Idema three-bet all in and Arieh called.
Daniel Idema: A?2?
Josh Arieh: 9?4?
Arieh was ahead with a pair of nines and improved to a full house on the 9? river to eliminate Idema and lock up his fifth career bracelet.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
7,845,000
800,000
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800,000 |
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Busted | |
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Level 26
: Blinds 60,000/120,000, 0 ante
Josh Arieh raised and Daniel Idema re-raised in the big blind. Arieh called and led out on the flop of 6?4?2? as Idema called off for his tournament life.
Daniel Idema: K?J?
Josh Arieh: 10?8?
Idema was ahead with king-high and the J? on the turn gave him a lock to double before the 5? bricked off on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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7,045,000
-550,000
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-550,000 |
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1,000,000
550,000
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550,000 |
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Level 26
: Blinds 60,000/120,000, 0 ante
Daniel Idema opened with Q?7? and Josh Arieh three-bet with Q?Q?. Idema called.
Arieh bet on the flop of 9?5?8? and Idema called. Arieh bet again on the A? turn and Idema folded with be left with fumes.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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7,595,000
1,500,000
|
1,500,000 |
|
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||
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450,000
-1,500,000
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-1,500,000 |
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Level 26
: Blinds 60,000/120,000, 0 ante
Josh Arieh raised with 8?6? and Daniel Idema three-bet with A?J?. Arieh called.
Idema bet on the 7?4?9? flop and three-bet when Arieh raised. Arieh called. Idema bet on the K? turn and Arieh raised.
Idema called. Idema checked on the 8? river and Arieh checked back as he showed down the winner.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
6,095,000
480,000
|
480,000 |
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||
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1,950,000
-480,000
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-480,000 |
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Level 26
: Blinds 60,000/120,000, 0 ante
Daniel Idema raised with J?J? and Josh Arieh called with A?3?.
Arieh checked on the 5?4?7? flop and Idema bet. Arieh check-raised and Idema called. Arieh bet on the K? turn and Idema raised. Arieh three-bet and Idema called for his tournament life.
Arieh couldn't hit an ace or club on the 8? river and Idema earned the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
5,615,000
-95,000
|
-95,000 |
|
|
||
|
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2,430,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
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Level 26
: Blinds 60,000/120,000, 0 ante
Daniel Idema opened with Q?4? and Josh Arieh defended with Q?8?.
Arieh checked on the 2?8?K? flop and Idema bet. Arieh check-raised with his middle pair and Idema called with his flush draw.
Arieh bet on the J? turn and Idema raised. Arieh called. Arieh checked on the 6? river and called a final bet from Idema to extend his lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
5,710,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
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2,335,000
-60,000
|
-60,000 |
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Level 26
: Blinds 60,000/120,000, 0 ante
Josh Arieh opened to 7?3? and Daniel Idema called with A?3?.
Idema checked on the flop of 5?10?J? and called a bet from Arieh. Idema checked again on the 10? turn and called a bet from Arieh.
Idema checked again on the 7? river and Arieh bet once more with his flush. Idema called with his ace-high and saw the bad news.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
5,650,000
-60,000
|
-60,000 |
|
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2,395,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
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Level 26
: Blinds 60,000/120,000, 0 ante
Josh Arieh raised from the button with A?2? and Daniel Idema three-bet with 8?8? for Arieh to call.
The flop came 6?5?7?, Idema bet with the pocket pair of eights and Arieh raised. Idema three-bet for Arieh to lay it down.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
5,530,000
1,680,000
|
1,680,000 |
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|
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|
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2,515,000
-1,680,000
|
-1,680,000 |
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