Daniel Maor Wins $3,500 BetMGM Event At Aria Poker Classic

Daniel Maor took dwelling the title within the BetMGM Poker Championship that was a part of the Aria Poker Classic alongside the Las Vegas Strip. Maor additionally captured $613,914 in prize cash for the most important rating of his profession contained in the PokerGO studio after going through off in opposition to a stacked ultimate desk. His profession earnings now stand near $1.14 million. It was additionally the primary event victory for the Director of Product Marketing at WPT Global.

“I mean, obviously, it feels great to win $600k, especially at a final table like this. I mean you have guys that have millions in earnings and have guys with fifteen to twenty years at the top of the game. To beat a guy like Shannon Shorr heads up is not an easy feat so yeah, it feels great,” stated Maor after the win.

He continued with these ideas on his first event win, “I think I’ve had some close calls recently. I final tabled the Wynn Millions this year. I had a couple final tables at WPT Australia, but I wasn’t able to close the deal. So yeah, it feels great to be able to kind of get that monkey off your back and win a prestigious event like this.”

The $3,500 buy-in no-limit maintain’em event noticed a area of 1,141 runners be part of the race throughout two beginning flights. The complete prize pool climbed all the way in which as much as $3,651,200, and the highest 143 gamers all cashed for not less than $4,966. There had been 311 gamers remaining when the beginning flights mixed for Day 2, and that quantity was right down to 37 for the beginning of Day 3.

The march to the ultimate desk continued with adorned poker skilled Shannon Shorr taking the chip result in finish Day 4 with the ultimate seven gamers nonetheless within the hunt. Notables misplaced alongside the way in which throughout the penultimate day included Joseph Cheong (twelfth), Andrew Moreno (sixteenth), Alexander Condon (seventeenth), Michael Rossitto (twenty second), TK Miles (twenty fourth), Robert Schulz (twenty seventh), Joe Kuether (twenty seventh), Upeshka De Silva (thirty third), Matt Stout (thirty fourth), and Cliff Josephy (thirty sixth).

Maor had his work reduce out for him sitting fifth in chips when playing cards received into the air on the ultimate day. Maor founds quads and pocket kings throughout the early going to maintain his stack, after which he wakened with pocket aces in opposition to the A-J of Eric Baldwin to take him out in sixth place.

Maor had moved as much as second in chips behind Shorr throughout four-handed play. He then moved into the chip lead by taking out Jordan Westmorland in fourth place. Maor additionally eradicated Lyu Qiang in third place to take a greater than 2:1 chip benefit into the ultimate match in opposition to Shorr.

The endgame was quick, with all of the chips going into the center solely as soon as. Shorr was all in with AQ, and Maor had him coated holding QJ. The cash received in with the flop studying J108, after which the flip and river fell 84 to complete the hand and the event. Shorr added a rating of $430,637 to take his profession earnings above $13.9 million.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the ultimate desk:

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