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Manny Machado hit a major milestone Saturday. The San Diego Padres slugger kept up his July power surge with an upper-deck blast against the Philadelphia Phillies. The home run was the 300th of his career. With the first game of a doubleheader tied 3-3, Machado faced a 2-2 count against Phillies reliever Matt Strahm. Strahm delivered a 94 mph fastball that caught the inside of the plate. Machado turned on the pitch and delivered it 425 feet into the second deck of the left-field stands at Citizens Bank Park. The solo shot gave the Padres a 4-3 lead. Unfortunately for San Diego, it didn't hold. The Phillies rallied for a 6-4 win thanks to a three-run bottom of the eighth. For Machado, he becomes the 157th player to hit 300 career home runs. At 31 years old, reaching 400 isn't out of the question. Machado's coming off a season that saw him finish second in MVP voting while tallying 32 home runs. Despite missing the All-Star game last week, he's on a strong pace again this summer, thanks largely to a scorching hot July. Saturday's home run was his fourth in three games and his eighth in July. He won't likely be in the MVP conversation again, but he's putting up strong numbers with a .260 average, 17 home runs and 51 RBI through 76 games. The Padres need everything they can get from their slugging third baseman. A 44-48, they've got a lot of work to do to rally from fourth place in the NL West and into postseason contention.
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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