David Coleman into the 2024 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $1,600 no-limit maintain’em predominant occasion with greater than $3.6 million in recorded event earnings to his title throughout 152 scores. The one factor the 30-year-old former on-line grinder didn’t have, although, was a reside event title. That all modified when he overcame a subject of 457 entries to take down the CPPT Venetian for $115,989.
“I’ve been a pro for nine years and I’ve been playing for fun for 18 years or so,” mentioned Coleman when requested about his background in poker. “This is my first live tournament ever, so it’s a big monkey off my back that I’ve really been trying to get off and it feels great to get it done.”
This was the fifth-largest rating for the brand new Las Vegas resident who made a giant splash in 2021 when he managed a number of deep run in reside high-roller occasions. Before that, he was extra generally discovered within the on-line streets in his dwelling state of New Jersey enjoying in tournaments starting from $200-$500 buy-ins.
In addition to the six-figure payday and the coveted title, this win additionally noticed Coleman earn 720 Card Player Player of the Year factors. As a consequence, he’s at the moment ranked second within the early 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker.
This CPPT predominant occasion performed out over the course of 4 days at The Venetian® Resort Las Vegas. The three beginning flights drew the 457 entries to blow away the $400,000 assure, ending with a remaining prize pool of $648,940 that was paid out among the many prime 59 finishers.
The three beginning flights every performed right down to 12.5 p.c of the sphere, leading to day 2 beginning within the cash with that cash contenders remaining. Day 2 started with Esther Kim within the lead and Coleman in forty fourth chip place.
Plenty of massive names fell as the sphere was narrowed right down to a remaining desk, together with two-time bracelet winner Shannon Shorr (58th), bracelet winner Ryan Laplante (fifty fifth), 2022 CPPT Venetian champion John Riordan (forty fifth), WPT champion James Romero (thirty seventh), two-time bracelet winner Jesse Yaginuma (twenty ninth), 2013 WSOP predominant occasion champion Ryan Riess (twenty second), World Poker Tour Venetianchampion Ben Palmer (twentieth), MSPT Venetian champion Landon Tice (18th), Darren Rabinowitz (fifteenth), bracelet winner Nicholas Pupillo (thirteenth), bracelet winner Alexandre Reard (twelfth), and Joe Kuether (tenth).
Coleman received a giant pot simply earlier than the ultimate desk started, forcing Ivan Ruban out of the hand to strategy 3 million in chips. By the time the sphere was right down to 9, he had climbed to 3rd on the leaderboard.
Ruban (ninth – $11,764) was the primary to fall, working pocket eights into the pocket jacks of Vinh Ho. The Russian poker professional now has greater than $882,000 in lifetime cashes.
Qing Liu quickly adopted. The 2021 WPT Venetian predominant occasion winner ran Okay-Q suited into the A-J suited of Bob Buckenmayer to hit the rail in eighth place ($14,833). Liu now has $2,980,540 in profession earnings. More than $1.6 million of that has come at The Venetian, placing him second on the venue’s all-time earnings listing behind solely Eric Baldwin.
Despite eliminating Liu, Buckenmayer was in the end the subsequent to be knocked out. He acquired concerned in a giant pot towards Coleman, betting the early streets after which checking the river. Coleman shoved and Buckenmayer known as, however couldn’t beat the flopped set of tens held by Coleman. He earned $19,004 because the seventh-place finisher to convey his profession complete to greater than $1.5 million.
Coleman seemed like he may start to drag away from the pack after that hand however quickly doubled up Louis Cheffy to lose a few of that momentum. Later, he commented, “Yeah, that’s always tough switching gears, thinking you can kind of have control of the table and then lose the big pots and then you’re stuck being short. It definitely takes experience to be able to switch gears. I know I struggled with that when I first started playing tournaments… the emotion of going from chip leader to short in a short period of time. But now I think that just my experience really comes in handy in those situations.”
Coleman’s bounce again started when his A-J outran the pocket queens of Ho in a preflop all-in showdown. Coleman made journey aces by the river to double up.
Esther Kim’s run on this occasion got here to an finish in sixth place when her Okay-10 clashed with the Okay-Q of a surging Louis Cheffy. Both gamers paired their kings, however the kickers performed ultimately and Kim was despatched to the rail with $24,734.
Cheffy went on to knock out Ho, selecting up OkayQ towards Ho’s QJ and holding to slim the sphere to 4. Ho earned a career-best $32,694 for his efforts.
Coleman added to his stack in a giant means when his Okay-4 suited outran the A-4 of Eugene Tung in a battle of the blinds. Coleman hit kings up on the flop and held from there to remove Tung in fourth place ($43,880).
2023 Wynn Millions predominant occasion winner Michael Rossitto ran pocket deuces into the pocket aces of Cheffy to complete third for $59,784. The rating grew his profession earnings to greater than $3.5 million.
With that, Coleman took simply over a 2:1 chip lead into heads-up play with Cheffy. It didn’t take lengthy for him to transform that benefit into the title. In the ultimate hand, a AAJ flop noticed Cheffy fireplace 700,000. Coleman known as and the flip introduced the Okay.
Cheffy wager 1,000,000 and Coleman got here alongside. The 2 river noticed Cheffy test. Coleman slid out sufficient chips to place his opponent in danger and Cheffy known as with QQ. Coleman rolled over A7 for tip aces, securing the pot and the title.
Cheffy earned $82,666 because of a deep run within the event. This was the third-largest rating but for the World Series of Poker Circuit Palm Beach Kennel Club maijn occasion winner from Florida.
Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:
Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
1 | David Coleman | $115,989 | 720 |
2 | Louis Cheffy | $82,666 | 600 |
3 | Michael Rossitto | $59,784 | 480 |
4 | Eugene Tung | $43,880 | 360 |
5 | Vinh Ho | $32,694 | 300 |
6 | Esther Kim | $24,734 | 240 |
7 | Bob Buckenmayer | $19,004 | 180 |
8 | Qing Liu | $14,833 | 120 |
9 | Ivan Ruban | $11,764 | 60 |