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The sluggers for the New York Yankees are off to a strong start.
Aaron Judge, the newly crowned AL home run champion, began his 2023 season with a home run in his first at-bat on Thursday. Giancarlo Stanton performed the following on Sunday:
That's a 485-foot moonshot into the upper balcony in center field. It was moving at 117.8 mph when it departed his bat. There was no question about it. It was his second-longest home run of the season.
The home run was his second of the season and is likely a portent of things to come for the speedster, who has hit 31 and 35 home runs in each of his previous two seasons. The two-run blast off of Ross Stripling enabled the Yankees beat the San Francisco Giants 6-0.
How did they get their first hit? Judge deserves credit. In the third inning, Judge scored the game's first run on a one-out solo drive off an 87 mph Stripling slider that hung over the plate — the same pitch Stanton would send into the bleachers two at-bats later.
The home run, like Stanton's, was his second of the season — and a probable portent of things to come.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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