Scott ‘BudLightLime’ Hempel is a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner after a couple of crazy nights at the WSOP.com tables. Hempel became a colour on the canvas of Event #17: $777 No Limit Hold’em finishing seventh, before turning gold in the proceeding event.
Hempel conquered a field of 987-entrants (697 unique, 290 re-entries) in Event #18: $1,000 No Limit Hold’em. His $181,060 purse is a few grand shy of the $185,330 he picked up, finishing sixth in the World Poker Tour (WPT) LA Poker Classic in March. Hempel has finished in the money in only two other WSOP events for nothing more than gnarled bark.
Barry Hutter was the only gold bracelet winner to make the final table. With more than $5.8m in live tournament earnings, Hutter, is a big hitter, with roots in the high roller scene in Las Vegas. Hutter won his bracelet in 2015, winning a 1,000 entrant $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Shootout for $283,546. In 2018, Hutter finished 25th in the Main Event and finished runner-up to Diogo Veiga in a $3k No Limit Hold’em event.
Hutter also owns a World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) gold ring after taking down an event in New Orleans, more than a decade ago, the same period that Daniel Fischer earned his in Atlantic City. Hutter finished fifth, and Fischer took fourth.
For every winner, there is someone who had a fantastic experience that nobody will ever care about, and in this report that experience belongs to Dave ‘dunningkrugr’ Alfa who ran deep in both Event #17 & #18 events, finishing ninth in them both.
Here are the results.
Event #18: $1,000 No Limit Hold’em
987-entrants (697 unique, 290 re-entries)
Results
- Scott ‘BudLightLime’ Hempel – $181,060
- Myles ‘Shipthemoney’ Kotler – $111,955
- Andrew ‘GoatMaster’ Melillo – $78,856
- Daniel ‘IntoTheRiver’ Fischer – $56,259
- Barry ‘puigmyfriend’ Hutter – $40,694
- Landon ‘ActionDealer’ Tice – $29,817
- Harrison ‘harrisond33’ Dobin – $22,222
- Matthew ‘EarvinMagic’ Parry – $16,784
Two high rollers to plunge deeper than an asparagus spear in runny egg yolk were Ryan Riess (32nd) and Phil Hellmuth (97th).