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Any baseball fan will be able to tell you that nothing brings out a crowd quite like a bobblehead night, but the Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani bobblehead giveaway was on another level.
A horde of Dodgers fans, Ohtani fans and eBay users reported to Dodger Stadium hours before Thursday's game against the Cincinnati Reds to ensure they would receive one of the 40,000 bobbleheads being handed out at the gates. Adding to the frenzy were the 1,700 special gray uniform bobbleheads available at random.
The hype around Ohtani's first season with the Dodgers has reached levels rarely seen in baseball, and the line to get into any of the several Dodger Stadium entrances.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts summed things up before the game:
"It's exciting. Shohei certainly creates a stir. I can't imagine what it's like outside. It's good. It's great for Shohei, it's good for the Dodgers, it's going to be a hot-ticket item."
Roberts wasn't wrong on that last point. On the eBay side of things, the market was robust before the game was even over. As of Thursday night, there doesn't appear to be a single bobblehead verifiably from Thursday night available for less than $250.
The demand for the gray uniform bobblehead is even wilder. Here is one such collectible currently selling for more than $1,000 after 17 bids.
If the fans and collectors were expecting the hype to translate to a special night from Ohtani, they were left disappointed. Ohtani went 0-for-2 with a walk in a 7-2 Dodgers loss. He didn't finish the game either, as the Dodgers had rookie Andy Pages pinch hit for him in the bottom of the ninth inning.
This won't be the end of the Ohtani collectibles, as the Dodgers are currently scheduled to hand out a second bobblehead, a hat and a shirt later this season after giving him a $700 million contract last offseason.
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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