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After interviewing with the Boston Red Sox last week, Twins General Manager Thad Levine is no longer a candidate to become their head of baseball operations, a source confirmed to the Star Tribune. Levine, who joined the Twins in November 2016, was informed by the Red Sox on Monday he was no longer in consideration for the gig. The Red Sox interviewed at least four external candidates after firing chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom in September, and the Boston Globe reported former Twins reliever Craig Breslow is viewed as the favorite to earn the job. The Red Sox requested permission to interview Levine and Derek Falvey, the Twins' president of baseball operations, after the Twins advanced to the American League Division Series this fall. Falvey declined the interview request. We plan to take our time, Red Sox CEO Sam Kennedy told reporters after the season ended. We plan to be very deliberate. We're going to have internal candidates. We're going to have external candidates. We're going to have a consistent, robust process that hopefully leads us to the right person or people.
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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