Akbar Zamani Wins World Series Of Poker Circuit Stop At Thunder Valley

Akbar Zamani took prime honors on the World Series of Poker Circuit cease hosted at Thunder Valley Casino Resort close to Sacramento, California on January 27. It was the biggest event rating but for the San Jose resident, however not his largest gaming windfall. He reportedly earned $500,000 through the lottery a couple of years again.

Now, Zamani is a WSOP Circuit champion along with a jackpot winner. The $187,882 he secured for this newest triumph additionally got here along with his first WSOP Circuit gold ring.

“Most of the hands that I played, I was actually bluffing, but I bluffed with confidence,” Zamani advised WSOP reporters when he was requested about his play within the event. He continued when requested concerning the last match, “When we sat down, the two of us, I just felt that I’m going to win it. Yeah, I love heads-up. I think I had control over him. When we started heads-up, I dominated him… I knew when was the right time to bluff.”

The $1,700 buy-in no-limit maintain’em event featured two beginning flights, with 676 entries leading to a prize pool of $1,024,140. That greater than doubled the $500,000 assure. The prime 102 gamers all took house a minimum of $3,415 in prize cash when the bubble burst.

It wasn’t till virtually midnight that the ultimate 9 gamers to emerge on the penultimate day of play, and Zamani was the chip chief when playing cards obtained into the air on the last desk. Jose Mas fell in ninth place earlier than Zamani obtained in on the motion by busting Jiangfen Yin in eighth place.

I-Le Wu adopted on his method to the rail in seventh place, and an prolonged interval of play passed off earlier than Julian Bonorris took his depart in sixth place. Knockout quantity two was scored by Zamani when he eradicated a number of gold-ring winner Erle Mankin in fifth, and Zamani stored that momentum rolling by busting Michael Lin subsequent in fourth place.

Zamani made it three last punches in a row when he despatched Noah Curhan house in third place, and that gave him a slight chip benefit over Antonio Ma firstly of heads-up play. Zamani was in a position to shortly pull forward by successful all the early fingers of observe, and the primary all-in of the ultimate showdown decided the winner of the event.

Ma obtained the final of his stack in preflop holding OkayQ, and Zamani had him coated with QJ. The board ran out 932J9, and Zamani received the day with jacks and nines. Ma was out in second place for a payday value $125,260, and that put his profession earnings at almost $260,000.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the last desk:

This subsequent WSOP Circuit cease is already underway at Horseshoe Casino Tunica in Mississippi. The event collection runs from Jan. 23 – Feb. 3 with the $1,700 most important occasion happening Jan. 31 -Feb. 3.

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