At simply 21 years of age, David Chen is the youngest participant to ever win a PokerGO Tour title. The Vienna, VA resident took down occasion no. 5 of the 2024 Poker Masters sequence, a $10,100 buy-in no-limit maintain’em event. He was awarded $217,500 for the win, the primary six-figure rating on his event resume.
According to bio info from the unique PokerGO broadcast of this occasion, Chen is a former U.S. Nationals Math Champion who graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a level in Computer Science. He was written a number of articles for poker coaching firm GTO Wizard.
This was simply his sixth recorded dwell money, with no earlier ultimate tables or titles. The 420 Card Player Player of the Year factors and 218 PGT factors he secured had been the primary of his profession.
This occasion drew 75 entries to the PokerGO Studio inside ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, with 11 gamers incomes a share of the $750,000 prize pool. Big names like six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus (eleventh), David Coleman (ninth), Jeremy Becker (eighth), and two-time Super High Roller Bowl champion Isaac Haxton (sixth) had been eradicated inside the cash late on day 1.
The ultimate day started with Filipp Khavin within the lead and Chen scorching on his heels. Sam Laskowitz was the primary to fall. He was left on fumes after shedding a basic preflop race with A-Ok in opposition to the pocket queens of Chino Rheem. He then received the final of his stack in with a flopped pair of fives trailing the pocket jacks of Chen to complete fifth for $52,500. This rating elevated Laskowitz’s profession earnings to almost $2.7 million.
Khavin slid to the underside of the leaderboard throughout four-handed play. He ultimately received his final 9 or so huge blinds in preflop, three-bet shoving from the massive blind with A-5 and receiving a name from Chen, who had opened with A-8 from the button.Both gamers flopped their aspect playing cards and Chen held via the river to get rid of Khavin in fourth place ($71,250). His earnings are approaching $2 million after this win.
Rheem was the clear quick stack when playing cards received within the air for the ultimate three. He was quickly all-in with a double-gutshot straight draw going through the king excessive and gutshot broadway draw of Chen. Neither participant improved from there and Rheem settled for $101,250 because the third-place finisher. The 2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure fundamental occasion winner and three-time World Poker Tour champion now has greater than $15.1 million in profession cashes to his title.
Heads-up play started with Chen holding 5,525,000 to the three,850,000 of three-time bracelet winner Jim Collopy. He was in a position to prolong his result in greater than 7:1 in time for the ultimate hand of the event. Collopy shoved for a bit over 9 huge blinds with A
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from the button and Chen referred to as with J
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. The board ran out Ok
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and Chen made a flush to lock up the pot and the title.
Collopy earned $142,500 because the runner-up finisher. This was his third consecutive final-table end at this sequence, having positioned sixth in occasion no. 3 and third in occasion no. 4. This was the twentieth final-table end of the Year for Collopy, with 4 titles gained alongside the way in which. He now sits in eighth place within the POY race introduced by Global Poker and twelfth place within the season-long PGT standings.
Collopy’s back-to-back-to-back ultimate tables have moved him into the lead within the Poker Masters’ series-long factors race, along with his 295 factors giving him a ten-point lead over second-ranked Jeremy Becker (285). There are nonetheless three occasions left to play out on the pageant.
Here is a take a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the ultimate desk:
Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
1 | David Chen | $217,500 | 420 | 218 |
2 | Jim Collopy | $142,500 | 350 | 143 |
3 | Chino Rheem | $101,250 | 280 | 101 |
4 | Filipp Khavin | $71,250 | 210 | 71 |
5 | Sam Laskowitz | $52,500 | 175 | 53 |
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