As the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) winds to a close, Event #84: $50,000 High Roller saw a massive uptick in entries from last year to this year. A total of 176 entrants came out to play this iteration of the high roller, creating a prize pool of $8,404,000. From that starting, only five returned on Friday to play for the WSOP bracelet.
At the end of the day, it was Bulgarian high roller Alex Kulev taking home his first WSOP bracelet with a career-best score of $2,087,073.
“I’m just very grateful and very excited to be here,” the newly crowned champion said surrounded by his supportive rail. “It has always been a dream of mine to win a bracelet, and doing it in this event against this type of field is the best that it can be.”
Kulev had also final tabled the WSOP $250,000 No-Limit Hold’em event earlier in the 2023 series. Finishing in fourth place for $1,632,005 was his best result ever at the time. This time he came into the day with the chip lead and only relinquished it once throughout the final table.
At the end of the day, it was Bulgarian high roller Alex Kulev taking home his first WSOP bracelet with a career-best score of $2,087,073.
“I’m just very grateful and very excited to be here,” the newly crowned champion said surrounded by his supportive rail. “It has always been a dream of mine to win a bracelet, and doing it in this event against this type of field is the best that it can be.”
Kulev had also final tabled the WSOP $250,000 No-Limit Hold’em event earlier in the 2023 series. Finishing in fourth place for $1,632,005 was his best result ever at the time. This time he came into the day with the chip lead and only relinquished it once throughout the final table.