Aram Oganyan Triumphs In Inaugural World Poker Tour Voyage Championship

Aram Ognayan is the most recent addition to the celebrated listing of World Poker Tour most important occasion champions. The rising high-stakes event star took down the inaugural WPT Voyage Championship aboard a Virgin Voyages cruise ship within the Caribbean.

The Los Angeles resident overcame a subject of 293 entries within the $5,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em event, incomes $214,245 for the win and including his title to the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup. The rating elevated his profession earnings to greater than $4 million.

“I feel amazing. This is so fun. This is unbelievable. I won some flips at the end, got some bluffs through, and here we are. We got our name on the trophy. RIP Mike, the legend,” Oganyan advised WPT reporters after closing out the win. “I thought poker on a cruise would be an amazing thing, and it is so amazing. Everyone should do it.”

This was the primary title and third final-table end of the 12 months for Oganyan, together with a third-place end in an enormous $25,000 buy-in excessive curler on the Triton Poker Jeju pageant earlier this month for a career-best payout of $989,501. Oganyan has already amassed 2,151 Card Player Player of the Year factors, sufficient to maneuver him inside the highest 20 on this 12 months’s POY race standings offered by Global Poker.

This occasion sported a $1 million assure. The 293-entry turnout noticed the ultimate prize pool develop to $1,347,800, with the highest 37 finishers making the cash. Plenty of massive names ran deep, together with 2013 World Series of Poker most important occasion champion and WPT winner Ryan Riess (thirty third), 2022 WPT World Championship winner Eliot Hudon (twenty second), in style vlogger and WPT Ambassador Andrew Neeme (nineteenth), WPT champion and two-time bracelet winner Tony Dunst (seventeenth), WPT champion Frederic Normand (sixteenth), bracelet winner and WPT champion Tyler Patterson (thirteenth), and WPT Champion Masato Yokosawa (tenth).

The closing day started with 9 gamers left and Farid Jattin within the lead. Oganyan was in the course of the pack when playing cards bought within the air. Reigning WPT World Championship winner Dan Sepiol scored the primary two knockouts of the day, sending Marcelo Giordano (ninth – $28,000) and Iman Dan (eighth – $34,000) to the rail to his stack.

Kasey Mills (seventh – $42,000) was the subsequent to fall, together with her pocket fives working into the pocket kings of Carlo Basurto. Ognanyan doubled up early in six-handed play, leaving his opponent Romulo Dorea on fumes. Dorea was knocked out the next hand, incomes $55,000 because the sixth-place finisher.

Sepiol bought the final of his stack in with an overpair of queens on a ten-high board dealing with the pocket eights of Jattin, who had flopped an open-ended straight draw. The river accomplished Jattin’s straight, eliminating Sepiol in fifth Place ($75,000).

Jattin misplaced a couple of huge all-in confrontations throughout four-handed play, together with having his pocket jacks overwhelmed by the Q-J suited of Oganyan. His closing hand noticed one other huge pocket pair cracked, as his AA was bested by the OkQ of Basurto, who flopped journey kings and held from there. Jattin earned $100,000 because the fourth-place finisher, rising his profession earnings to almost $8.8 million.

The closing three gamers then hashed out a deal to redistribute the remaining prize cash, setting apart $31,400 and the title to play for whereas locking up the next payouts:

Carlo Basurto – $202,885
Austin Srur – $188,670
Aram Oganyan – $182,845

The subsequent hand noticed a three-way all-in preflop, which was received by Oganyan’s Q-8 to present him an enormous chip lead. The three went all-in once more on the subsequent hand and Oganyan’s 2 bested the 63 of Basurto and the Q4 of Austin Srur on a Ok32Q9 runout to deliver the event to an in depth.

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

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