Daniel Perkusic Wins WSOP $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller

The third and remaining day of the 2024 World Series of Poker $50,000 pot-limit Omaha excessive curler started with 5 gamers remaining, with 4 having already earned a minimum of one bracelet. Daniel Perkusic of Germany was the lone contender chasing his first win on the sequence. After a number of brief hours, Perkusic was the one hoisting the {hardware} and heading to the payout desk to gather the highest prize of $2,100,325.

This was the second dwell match win of Perkusic’s profession. His first got here in a 2022 European Poker Tour Barcelona €10,200 PLO occasion, which noticed him earn what was a career-high rating of $268,042. With this newest multi-million-dollar victory, he now practically $2.8 million in recorded match scores to his title.

In addition to the cash and the bracelet, Perkusic additionally earned 1,122 Card Player Player of the Year factors and 750 PokerGO Tour factors for the win. While he nonetheless sits outdoors the highest 300 within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker, he’s now a top-25 contender on the season-long PGT leaderboard.

The 187-entry turnout for this match constructed a prize pool of $8,929,250. Among the 29 gamers to make the cash have been large names like bracelet winner Dan Smith (twenty seventh), two-time bracelet winner Dylan Weisman (twenty fifth), four-time bracelet winner Anthony Zinno (twentieth), six-time bracelet winner Jason Mercier (18th), Cary Katz (twelfth), Sean Winter (tenth), two-time bracelet winner Ben Lamb (ninth), six-time bracelet winner Brian Rast (eighth), and bracelet winner David Benyamine (seventh).

Danny Tang got here into the ultimate day because the chip chief, with Perkusic in the course of the pack. Two-time bracelet winner Santhosh Suvarna was the primary to fall, together with his overpair of aces operating right into a flopped set of eights for Perkusic. The current $250,000 buy-in winner earned $503,085 because the fifth-place finisher. This brings his earnings for the sequence to greater than $6 million, whereas his lifetime whole approaches $13.7 million.

Bracelet winner Ronald Keijzer was the following to hit the rail, together with his remaining hand being a failed bluff try tha bumped into the queens filled with tens held by Tang. Keijzer earned a career-best payday of $692,232 for his fourth-place displaying.

Three-time bracelet winner Jim Collopy bought the final of his stack in with rainbow Okay-Okay-3-3 dealing with the single-suited A-A-10-3 for Perkusic. Neither participant improved and the bigger pocket pair was sufficient to ship the pot to Perkusic. Collopy was awarded $973,882 because the third-place finisher, the most important rating but on his resume. He now has practically $8.9 million in lifetime scores to his title.

Heads-up play started with Perkusic holding roughly a 6:5 lead over Tang, who was searching for his second profession bracelet. Tang overtook the lead briefly, however Perkusic quickly regained the benefit after which started to drag away. The remaining hand noticed Perkusic elevate from the button with AOkay92. Tang known as from the large blind with Okay665 and the flop got here down Okay96. Tang shoved together with his set of sixes and a flush draw. Perkusic known as with prime two pair. The A flip gave Tang the nut flush, however the 9 river improved Perkusic to nines filled with kings for the win.

Tang walked away with $1,400,217 because the runner-up. He now has over $28.2 million in match earnings throughout 193 recorded in-the-money finishes.

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

Photo credit score: WSOP / Omar Sader.

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