With the average stack coming into the final day sitting at nearly 100 big blinds, there was some expectation that the race to crown a champion could be a lengthy affair. Monday’s finale took just a hair under three hours to find a champion between Adam Walton, Daniel Weinman and Steven Jones, which mirrored Day 9’s breakneck pace.

On Day 49 of the 2023 WSOP, that record was finally broken by Georgia’s Daniel Weinman in one of the quickest final tables in recent memory. For seventeen long years, Jamie Gold’s name stood tall as the winner of the largest WSOP Main Event purse in history, with his victory over 8,773 entrants netting him a $12 million payday.