Anirban Das and Masato Yokosawa share their 2023 WSOP Main Event experience after falling in Day 7

07/14/2023

Asia’s hopes for a WSOP Main Event title vanished as India’s Anirban Das and Japan’s Masato Yokosawa, both fell in Day 7. Yokosawa was eliminated early in 45th place, Das followed out on the last hand of the day in 16th place.

Anirban Das – 16th place – $430,200

aniban das pokergo — Anirban Das – Photo by pokerGO

Taking a look at Anirban Das’ stats:

entering Day 3 – 46 bb
entering Day 4 – 83 bb
entering Day 5 – 115 bb
entering Day 6 – 115 bb
entering Day 7 – 54 bb

In an interview with Das he stated,

“This is my deepest run by 10x but to be honest, it feels really bad because I know I am good enough to get away from the last hand I busted on (hand below). I made bigger folds earlier to stay alive so that still stings being so close to the top. Overall, it was an incredible experience and I highly recommend anyone interested in poker or sport to try just this one tournament at least once in their lives. It was full of different types of players but overall everyone was competent, competitive, and pleasant to play with.

He went on to add that he enjoyed “bluffing” the most at the WSOP.

On Day 7, Das went from 54 bb down to 12 bb then won a few flips to run up to top 5 in chips. However, he was pummeled on the next level, found himself on the wrong side of two coolers to drop to 15 bb. Although Das was able to grind back up to 30 bb, he fell on the last hand of the day, his flush crushed by a full house. Das earned a career high payout of $430,200.

Here is his final hand as reported by Pokernews,

Masato Yokosawa – 45th place – $188,400

masato yokosawa pokernews — Masato Yokosawa – Photo by Pokernews

Taking a look at Masato Yokosawa’s stats:

entering Day 2 – 126 bb
entering Day 3 – 94 bb
entering Day 4 – 64 bb
entering Day 5 – 86 bb
entering Day 6 – 84 bb
entering Day 7 – 13 bb

In a brief interview with Yokosawa he shared,

“It was so much fun! This was my first Main Event cash. I played so many exciting hands. I was always nervous, but having so much fun. I hope all my plays were okay, I feel I played well. The Main Event has so many types of players, professionals, amateurs, recreational, every single table was different. I am satisfied to finish 45th. But today was tough. I doubled up with tens (hand below) which was a very tough hand. It’s painful but I just have to keep on playing. I don’t have any plans on playing in Asia, my next stop will probably be EPT Barcelona. But I will be back here next year.”

During the last hand of Day 6, Yokosawa dropped to 13 bb in a set over set cooler. He picked up an early double at Day 7 then lost on a bad beat – Ace-King losing to Ace-Queen, queen found the board. Yokosawa was eliminated in 45th place. Here was his double up hand as reported by Pokernews,

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The 54h Annual World Series of Poker $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship aka WSOP Main Event wrapped up Day 7 at Horseshoe Las Vegas with the record breaking 10,043 player field trimmed to just 15 players. Two are bracelet winners, Germany’s Jan-Peter Jachtmann and USA’s Daniel Weinman, and backed by the largest stack was Juan Maceiras, the lone Spaniard remaining.

Day 8 plays down to the final 9 players.

Final 15 players

Rank	Player	Flag	Stack	BB
1	Juan Maceiras	Spain	108,000,000	135
2	Adam Walton	USA	75,475,000	94
3	Jan-Peter Jachtmann	Gernany	70,775,000	88
4	Steven Jones	USA	67,900,000	85
5	Toby Lewis	UK	50,050,000	63
6	Ruslan Prydryk	Ukraine	45,750,000	57
7	Jose Aguilera	Mexico	37,600,000	47
8	Joshua Payne	USA	31,000,000	39
9	Sachin Joshi	UK	27,775,000	35
10	Daniel Weinman	USA	21,750,000	27
11	Dean Hutchinson	USA	17,500,000	22
12	Daniel Holzner	Italy	14,750,000	18
13	Alec Torelli	USA	14,275,000	18
14	Jack O’Neill	UK	11,700,000	15
15	Cong Pham	USA	8,700,000	11