Bradley Ritschel Runs Away With World Series of Poker Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Main Event Title

Bradley Ritschel entered the ultimate day of the 2023 World Series of Poker Harvey’s Lake Tahoe $1,700 buy-in no-limit maintain’em primary occasion with a large chip lead among the many remaining six contenders. It took him simply over two hours to transform that benefit into the title, scoring each knockout on his solution to securing the WSOP Circuit gold ring and the highest prize of $115,740.

“It’s awesome, it’s a dream come true, I never would have imagined first,” he informed Poker.org reside reporters masking the occasion after popping out on high.

This was the second-largest reside event payday but for the 25-year-old New Jersey resident. His largest money stays the $141,000 he earned because the third-place finisher within the 2021 Prime Poker Open at Prime Social Club in Houston.

Ritcschel now has greater than $465,000 in complete reside event earnings to his title after this breakthrough victory for his first WSOPC ring.

In addition to the {hardware} and the cash, Ritschel was additionally awarded 600 Card Player Player of the Year factors because the champion. This was his second title and third final-table end of the yr. With 1,064 complete factors, he now sits simply outdoors the highest 600 within the 2023 POY standings introduced by Global Poker.

After managing the primary 4 knockouts of the day, Ritschel entered heads-up play with an enormous lead over James Chavanarojrit. While that hole was narrowed considerably within the early going, Ritschel was nonetheless effectively out in entrance by the point the ultimate hand of the event was dealt.

Ritschel raised with 43 from the button and referred to as a three-bet from Chavanarojrit, who held OkayOkay within the massive blind. The flop got here down J52 and Chavanarojrit led out together with his overpair. Ritschel referred to as together with his open-ended straight draw and the J paired the board on the flip. Chavanarojrit checked and Ritschel fired a wager of 1,000,000. Chavanarojrit made the decision and the 6 on the river accomplished Ritschel’s straight. Chavanarojrit checked once more and Ritschel moved all in. Chavanarojrit thought it over for a pair of minutes earlier than making the decision. His overpair was second greatest, although, and he was despatched to the rail with $71,000 for his runner-up displaying.

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

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