“I mean honestly, it feels like a dream,' he told PokerNews at the end of Day 8. He finished 407th in the 2018 edition and bested that in 2021 with a 42nd-place first finish worth $163,900. Though this isn't Walton's first Main Event run, it is his deepest. Leading the final nine at the end of Day 8 is Seattle's Adam Walton with 143,800,000 chips as he looks for his first bracelet and a place in poker history, while Arizona's Steven Jones looks to do the same with a stack of 90,300,000. The shortest day so far of the $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship wrapped up after less than six hours of play as a final table of nine has been set in the record-breaking event at the 2023 World Series of Poker.
