# Jonathan Van Fleet to compete for the WSOP golden bracelet and a $700k+ payday

Source: https://poker.academy/blog/post/jonathan-van-fleet-to-compete-for-the-wsop-golden-bracelet-and-a-700k-payday
Author: Doro
Published: 2023-06-22 · Updated: 2023-07-11
Category: Live Game

![Jonathan Van Fleet to compete for the WSOP golden bracelet and a $700k+ payday](https://poker.academy/wp-media/2023/06/Jon-Van-Fleet-Omar-Sader-Pokernews-WSOP-ev-no-44.jpg)

The 54th World Series of Poker is now in full swing in Las Vegas. Taking center stage for our first report is Poker Academy’s ambassador **Jonathan “apestyles” Van Fleet**, who will attempt to win his first gold bracelet today. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that he makes it happen!

Jonathan is one of the 1,735 entrants (including re-entries) participating in #44 $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em event. After three days of intense action, 15 players have made it through to the final day. **Van Fleet** currently holds the **9th largest stack** with 3.8 million, while **Aram Oganyan** is leading with a total of 9.9 million.

| **#** | **Player** | **Country** | **Chip Count** | **#BB** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Aram Oganyan | USA | 9,900,000 | 50 |
| 2 | Shannon Shorr | USA | 8,750,000 | 44 |
| 3 | Yang Zhang | China | 6,875,000 | 34 |
| 4 | Aleks Dimitrov | Bulgaria | 6,500,000 | 33 |
| 5 | Levente Szabo | Hungary | 5,150,000 | 33 |
| 6 | John Marino | USA | 5,100,000 | 26 |
| 7 | Ankush Mandavia | USA | 4,800,000 | 24 |
| 8 | Kartik Ved | India | 4,500,000 | 23 |
| **9** | **Jon Van Fleet** | **USA** | **3,800,000** | **19** |
| 10 | Alex Lynskey | Australia | 3,650,000 | 18 |
| 11 | Aliaksandr Shylko | Belarus | 2,975,000 | 15 |
| 12 | Aliaksandr Hirs | Belarus | 2,975,000 | 15 |
| 13 | Samy Boujmala | France | 2,525,000 | 13 |
| 14 | Frederic Normand | Canada | 2,000,000 | 10 |
| 15 | Justin Chu | Taiwan | 1,175,000 | 6 |

The prize pool for this event is $4,632,450. A total of 261 players have reached the ITM stage. Every remaining player will receive a minimum payout of $30,873. The champion will earn an astounding $717,879 and a priceless gold bracelet.

| **Place** | **Prize (USD)** |
| --- | --- |
| 1 | $717,879 |
| 2 | $443,680 |
| 3 | $323,610 |
| 4 | $238,546 |
| 5 | $177,732 |
| 6 | $133,862 |
| 7 | $101,928 |
| 8 | $78,475 |
| 9 | $61,098 |

Below, you can see a pivotal hand of this event for the “apestyles”. In the KK vs AQ confrontation on a Q-high board Jonathan scooped a pot worth of 3.6 mln in chips. Later he added 200k to finish the day.

![Jonathan Van Fleet hand in the #44 $3,000 NLHE WSOP event. His KK wins over AQ on the Q-high board and he scoops the pot of 3.6 mln.](https://poker.academy/wp-media/2023/06/Jon-Van-Fleet-2-576x1024.jpg)

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Action resumes at 11 a.m. local time with blinds set to 100,000/200,000 and a big blind ante of 200,000. Play will continue throughout the day until one player is declared the winner. Live text coverage is provided by Pokernews.com. You can find it [here](https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2023-wsop/event-44-no-limit-hold-em/).

Let’s keep our fingers crossed for the Poker Academy ambassador. We dream of writing about his historic WSOP win sometime tomorrow. Go, get’em Jon!