Bin Weng can’t be stopped in 2023. He has made 16 last tables and received six titles, with a number of coming in large-field primary occasions. The 40-year-old Pennsylvania resident’s newest large win noticed him outlast a discipline of 194 entries within the 2023 World Poker Tour World Championship $25,000 excessive curler at Wynn Las Vegas. Weng finally struck a heads-up deal that noticed him earn $958,279. A flip between Wend and runner-up Thomas Boivin after the chop settlement decided who would take the trophy and the title.
Weng was already the clear chief on this 12 months’s Card Player Player of the Year race, however this victory has given him a large benefit over the closest competitors with the end line quick approaching. The 1,176 POY factors he secured with this win elevated his complete to 12,256. Isaac Haxton, who’s sitting in second place within the POY standings introduced by Global Poker, has 9,791 factors. That means Weng has a 2,465-point lead with simply shy of two weeks to go.
The majority of Weng’s almost $8.6 million in profession event earnings have now been recorded in 2023, together with his 5 largest scores but all coming up to now 12 months. He has cashed for greater than $6.6 million throughout 50 in-the-money finishes this 12 months.
This unimaginable spree started simply over every week into the brand new 12 months. Weng took down the primary seven-figure prime prize awarded in 2023, besting a discipline of 1,142 entries in The Return Championship $5,300 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion at The Borgata in early January for $1,000,000 and 1,920 POY factors.
His second title of the 12 months got here in late February. Weng outlasted 833 entries to win the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas $1,700 primary occasion for $227,344 and one other 912 factors.
In the spring, Weng made two delayed WPT last tables because the chip chief. The last tables had been set six days aside on the host venues however performed out on back-to-back days in late May. He went on to complete first within the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown $3,500 buy-in primary occasion for $1,128,250 and 1,620 factors. The following day he positioned fourth within the WPT Choctaw $3,800 primary occasion for $143,000 and 630 factors.
The largest victory of the 12 months for Weng got here when he defeated a discipline of 1,676 entries within the WPT EachOne for One Drop $10,500 buy-in occasion in July at Wynn Las Vegas. He took residence $2,227,054 and a couple of,700 POY factors because the champion, the biggest rating of his profession.
His fifth title of the 12 months additionally got here at Wynn Las Vegas. Weng scored the ultimate knockout within the $1,600 thriller bounty occasion in the course of the Wynn Fall Classic, incomes $159,078 and 912 factors for the win.
Prior to Weng’s victory on this excessive curler occasion, the common discipline measurement within the 5 occasions he had received was 1,370 entries. The smaller discipline for this high-stakes event dropped that common to 1,174.
With 194 entries, the excessive curler paid out the highest 23 finishers. Plenty of massive names ran deep, together with ten-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (twenty first), four-time WPT champion Darren Elias 918th), bracelet winner Brian Kim (seventeenth), WPT champion Seth Davies (sixteenth), bracelet winner and 2010 WSOP primary occasion third-place finisher Joseph Cheong (fifteenth), WPT champion Brek Schutten (thirteenth), bracelet winner and WPT champion Dylan Linde (eleventh), bracelet winner Orpen Kisacikoglu (ninth), four-time bracelet winner David Peters (eighth), three-time bracelet winner and 2015 world champion Joe McKeehen (seventh), bracelet winner Danny Tang (sixth), bracelet winner Joni Jouhkimainen (fifth), bracelet winner Alex Kulev (4th), and two-time bracelet winner Justin Saliba (third).
Tang climbed to sixth within the 2023 POY standings due to his 22 certified final-table finishes and 7 titles received this 12 months. Saliba moved to seventeenth, with two titles and 12 last tables.
Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the last desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Bin Weng | $958,279 | 1176 |
| 2 | Thomas Boivin | $958,278 | 980 |
| 3 | Justin Saliba | $525,087 | 784 |
| 4 | Alex Kulev | $397,254 | 588 |
| 5 | Joni Jouhkimainen | $295,116 | 490 |
| 6 | Danny Tang | $219,306 | 392 |
| 7 | Joe McKeehen | $173,844 | 294 |
| 8 | David Peters | $141,590 | 196 |
| 9 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | $117,659 | 98 |
Winner picture credit: WPT.
