Ali Imsirovic Wins Latest ARIA High Roller Poker Tournament For $149,600

In the lead as much as the 2022 PokerGO Tour Heads-Up Showdown occasion, the ARIA Resort & Casino hosted the primary of a trio of excessive curler tournaments on Wednesday, Apr. 20. The $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion drew a discipline of 44 whole entries, which resulted in a prize pool of $440,000 that was paid out among the many high seven finishers. The final participant standing was Ali Imsirovic, who earned $149,600 because the champion.

This was already the 27-year-old poker professional’s fifth title and seventeenth final-table end of 2022. He was already the chief in each the Card Player and PokerGO Tour Player of the Year factors races, however has now prolonged his lead as he seems to go back-to-back after profitable each awards in 2021. He has cashed for greater than $3 million in reside tournaments to date in 2022.

The cash bubble burst on this occasion when World Poker Tour champion and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Dylan Linde ran pocket sevens into the pocket jacks of Jesse Lonis.

Recent _Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown) $50,000 buy-in champion Andrew Lichtenberger misplaced a key pot with pocket kings dealing with the A-J of Imsiurovic to fall to the underside of the chip counts. He then received the final of his stack in with Ok-10, solely to have Jamil Wakil get up with pocket aces. Lichtenberger was unable to come back from behind and was eradicated in seventh place ($17,600).

Lonis was the following to fall, together with his pocket kings being coolered by the pocket aces of Wakil, who prolonged his chip lead after his bigger pair held up. Lonis earned $26,400 because the sixth-place finisher. This was his eighth final-table exhibiting of 2022. He now sits inside the highest 100 within the POY standings.

Sean Winter additionally made a splash within the factors races because of a deep run on this occasion. The current U.S. Poker Open participant of the sequence award winner completed fifth for $35,200 when his pocket threes clashed with the pocket jacks of Justin Saliba. With 11 final-table finishes, two titles, and $1,890,300 in year-to-date earnings, Winter now sits in seventh place within the general POY rankings. He is seventh on the PGT leaderboard.

After a number of pair-over-pair eventualities resulted in the latest eliminations, Justin Saliba discovered himself in a basic prefop race for the final of his stack. His pocket sevens had been forward of Wakil’s Ok-J suited to start out, however a king on the flip gave Wakil the lead and he by no means appeared again. Saliba secured $48,400 because the fourth-place finisher.

Craig Mason received the final of his chips in with 98 on a OkJ10 flop. He was dealing with Ok9 for Imsirovic. The 5 flip and 9 river had been of no assist to Mason and he was eradicated in third place ($66,000).

With that, heads-up play started with Wakil holding 2,320,000 to Imsirovic’s 2,080,000. Imsirovic rapidly overtook the lead, and was in a position to lengthen to greater than a 16:1 benefit by the point the ultimate hand was dealt. Wakil shoved with 106 and Imsirovic known as holding 77. The board ran out Ok4493 and Wakil was knocked out because the runner-up ($96,800).

Here is a take a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the ultimate desk”

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