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Who Is Adam Walton, The 2023 WSOP Main Event Chip Leader?

The final table of the top nine players at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2023 Main Event is all set. The final nine are ready after days of cruising through a sea of over 10,000 entries at this $10,000 buy-in championship event.

As these players return one last time to battle it out in the final table, each of them brings with them a long list of experience and poker achievements that make each of them stand out. Over the course of the past few days, these pros have caught everyone’s attention with their poker skills.

All eyes are now on who will make history by claiming the title. Leading the race currently among the top nine finalists is USA’s Adam Walton. So let’s get to know a little more about this pro.

Who Is Adam Walton?

Adam Walton is a Seattle, Washington-based pro poker player who currently resides in Henderson, located near Las Vegas, Nevada. There is very little known about Walton’s personal life and background. However, looking at the poker skills he has displayed at the WSOP 2023 Main Event so far, we’d say it doesn’t matter.

Adam Walton Poker Results

Adam Walton has been playing in the live poker circuit since 2009. His first ever recorded live cash is at the 2009 Deep Stack Extravaganza III, Las Vegas. He boasts of total live earnings of $989,037, with the highest being $283,072. By making it on the final table of the WSOP 2023 Main Event, Walton has ensured himself a min-cash of $900,000. This clearly means that Adam Walton’s WSOP 2023 Main Event result will be the biggest of his career, irrespective of the position he finishes at.

As long as his titles are concerned, he has quite an impressive list of titles on his poker resume.

Year	Event	Prize Amount
2017	Aria 2017 Poker Classic No-Limit Hold’em	$12,727
2021	2021 Wynn Casino Recurring Tournaments No Limit Hold’em	$1,847
2021	Bally’s Power Poker Series No-Limit Hold’em Heads-Up	$3,242
2021	2021 Wynn Casino Recurring Tournaments No-Limit Hold’em	$3,912
2021	2021 Wynn Casino Recurring Tournaments No-Limit Hold’em	$3,912
2021	2021 Wynn Casino Recurring Tournaments No-Limit Hold’em	$ 4,227
2021	DeepStack Extravaganza No Limit Hold’em – UltimateStack	$106,901
2021	DeepStack Championship Poker Series (MSPT, WPT, WPTDS, PokerGO Tour) No Limit Hold’em Survivors	$3,400
2021	2021 Wynn Casino Recurring Tournaments No-Limit Hold’em	$7,736

Adam Walton WSOP Results

Before his 2023 WSOP Main Event appearance, Adam Walton has a successful past at the world series. He played his first-ever WSOP in 2017 and has played and cashed at every annual WSOP since then. He has a total of 20 WSOP cashes accounting to a total of $265,147 in earnings from the bracelet events.

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At the 2023 WSOP, he has already cashed in two events, namely Event #39: No Limit Hold’em – Monster Stack (358th, $5,296) and Event #59: No Limit Hold’em – Freezeout (107th, $6,499). Adam Walton’s WSOP 2023 Main Event cash will be his third this summer.

Prior to this, he has cashed twice at the WSOP Main Event in 2018 and 2021, respectively. The closest he has come before this is 42nd at the 2021 WSOP Main Event for $163,900.

Adam Walton’s WSOP 2023 Main Event Journey

“It feels like a dream,” Walton told PokerNews while describing his WSOP 2023 Main Event journey. He qualified through flight Day 1c with a mid-stack of 60,200 chips. After playing Day 2abc (which was a combined flight), Walton bagged the 402nd-best bag from among 1,877 survivors with 244,000 chips.

He ended his Day 3 journey with the 25th-highest stack of 1,339,000 chips among the 1,877 players. On Day 4, he managed to chip up to 3,405,000 chips and concluded the day as the 17th-best stack among 441 players. Day 5 was a bumpy ride for Walton, who slipped to the 77th position among the 149 players with a mid-stack of 3,625,000.

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However, he bounced back on Day 6 to conclude the day with 4x the stack. He had the 21st-best stack of 12,225,000 chips among the 49 players left. Day 7 saw him steadily climb to end the day with the second-best stack of 75,475,000 among the top 15. A major chunk of this came when he busted the last Indian standing Anirban Das just before the end of the day and collected a massive 6 Million worth of pot.

Finally, he bagged the best stack of 143,800,000 chips among the final nine at the end of Day 8. Another thing to note is that the second-best stack is 90,300,000, which is far behind him.

End of Day	Rank	Chips
1c	1,428/2,326	60,200
2abc	402/1877	244,000
3	25/1,518	1,339,000
4	17/441	3,405,000
5	77/149	3,625,000
6	21/49	12,225,000
7	2/15	75,475,000
8	1/9	143,800,000

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