{"id":3876,"date":"2022-07-17T04:11:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T04:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slategray-wallaby-310340.hostingersite.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/17\/norwegian-espen-jorstad-wins-2022-wsop-main-event-for-10m\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T04:11:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T04:11:51","slug":"norwegian-espen-jorstad-wins-2022-wsop-main-event-for-10m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/17\/norwegian-espen-jorstad-wins-2022-wsop-main-event-for-10m\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Espen Jorstad Wins 2022 WSOP Main Event  for $10M"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Norwegian\u00a0<strong>Espen Jorstad<\/strong>\u00a0has today won the\u00a0<strong>2022 World Series of Poker Main Event<\/strong>\u00a0earning him $10,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>After a dazzling final day performance at Bally\u2019s &#038; Paris, Las Vegas, Jorstad defeated Australian\u00a0<strong>Adrian Attenborough<\/strong>\u00a0heads-up, who took home $6,000,000, with third place finisher <strong>Michael Duek<\/strong> signing off for a payday of $4,000,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your 2022 WSOP Main Event Champion is Norway&#8217;s Espen Jorstad! Jorstad ultimately topped a field of 8,663 players claim the grand prize of $10,000,000 and his second gold bracelet of the series.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hayleyocho?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hayleyocho<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A4PqWvKJEL\">https:\/\/t.co\/A4PqWvKJEL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kdOAYi63Ia\">pic.twitter.com\/kdOAYi63Ia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WSOP (@WSOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSOP\/status\/1548463428099923969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s field of 8,663 entries was the second largest in the 53-year history of the <a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/poker\/world-series-of-poker-wsop\/\">WSOP<\/a> with 1300 players finishing\u00a0in-the-money.<\/p>\n<p>Going into the final day, with just the three left to battle it out for this year\u2019s World Series of Poker Main Event Champion,\u00a0 Jorstad felt pretty good and had said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c(Saturday) will be exciting. I\u2019m going to do some preparations, refresh how to be a boss three-handed. Refresh my memory with some chip-leader sims and see what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And Jorstad did some \u2018bossing\u2019 out as he became the first Norwegian to win the WSOP Main Event. It had been a good series for the poker-pro who had had already won his first bracelet in Event #55,\u00a0 teh $1,000 Tag Team, with Patrick Leonard<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after he first called his mother, the main event champion said it would probably still take him a couple of days before fully comprehending what took place this week:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShe was crying and had trouble speaking. She\u2019s my biggest fan, so it was kind of emotional,\u201d<\/em> Jorstad said.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/poker-news\/norwegian-espen-jorstad-wins-2022-wsop-main-event-for-10m\/\">Norwegian Espen Jorstad Wins 2022 WSOP Main Event  for $10M<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/\">iGaming.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian\u00a0Espen Jorstad\u00a0has today won the\u00a02022 World Series of Poker Main Event\u00a0earning him $10,000,000. After a dazzling final day performance at Bally\u2019s &#038; Paris, Las Vegas, Jorstad defeated Australian\u00a0Adrian Attenborough\u00a0heads-up, who took home $6,000,000, with third place finisher Michael Duek signing off for a payday of $4,000,000. 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