Event #9: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Gets Underway at 2 p.m.

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Today sees the start of Event #9: $1,500 Limit Hold'em (8-Handed) here at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas.

This three-day event gets underway at 2 p.m. local time with late registration open for nine levels. There will be 15-minute breaks every three levels, with no dinner break scheduled on Day 1.

The starting stack is 25,000 chips with the plan for Day 1 to play 15 levels. Day 2 resumes at 1 p.m. Saturday when levels increase to 60 minutes.

Last year's event saw 527 players generate a prize pool of $703,545. The winner was Vadim Shlez, who defeated Rostyslav Sabishchenko heads up in a Ukrainian one-two. Shlez took home $146,835 and his first WSOP bracelet.

“I’ve been working on it for pretty much my whole life,” Shlez told PokerNews. “I started poker pretty much with the World Series of Poker [...] I didn’t expect to win in this discipline, even though it was my favorite game when I started.”

Year	Entries	Winner	Country	Payout
2023	527	Vadim Shlez	Ukraine	$146,835
2022	522	Michael Moncek	United States	$145,856
2021	422	Yuval Bronshtein	Israel	$124,374
2019	541	David Baker	United States	$161,139
2018	596	Robert Nehorayan	United States	$173,568

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