Dong Chen Takes Down WSOP Paradise $10,000 Six-Max No-Limit Hold’em Event

Dong Chen is the newest champion to have been topped on the 2023 World Series of Poker Paradise competition within the Bahamas. The Chinese participant outlasted 169 entries within the $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em six-max occasion, incomes $411,659 and his first bracelet for the win.

Chen now has greater than $1.1 million in recorded match earnings to his title, with this being his largest payday but. His earlier greatest exhibiting in a bracelet occasion noticed him place fifth on this identical occasion on the Las Vegas WSOP again in 2015.

This occasion was scheduled to conclude after two days of play on the Atlantis Paradise Island Bahamas, however an additional day was in the end required. The high 26 finishers made the cash, however simply 4 returned for day 3 with a shot on the bracelet. Among those that ran deep however fell wanting day 3 had been bracelet winner Webster Lim (14th), reigning WSOP $25,000 heads-up championship winner Chanracy Khun (thirteenth), bracelet winner Pieter Aerts (eleventh), high-stakes common Sergi Reixach (eighth), and Roman Hrabec (seventh).

Canadian poker professional Mike Watson was the shortest stack heading into day 3, with Chen within the lead. The first deal of the day noticed Watson run Ok-J into the pocket kings of Thomas Santerne. Watson discovered no assistance on an eight-high runout and the World Poker Tour champion and two-time European Poker Tour primary occasion winner was eradicated in fourth place ($132,800). He now has greater than $22 million in profession cashes to his title.

This was Watson’s twelfth last desk of the yr, with 4 titles received and 5,502 Card Player Player of the Year factors accrued alongside the way in which. As a consequence, Watson has laid declare to the Fifteenth-place spot within the 2023 POY standings introduced by Global Poker. Chen additionally secured 412 PokerGO Tour factors for the win, sufficient to maneuver right into a tie for 129th place on the PGT leaderboard.

French businessman and frequent high-stakes match participant Jean-Noel Thorel was the subsequent to fall, together with his Ok-10 working into the pocket aces of Chen. Thorel picked up outs to a gutshot on the flip however was in the end unable to beat the flopped high set of Chen. Thorel earned $182,188 because the third-place finisher, rising his profession earnings to greater than $15.5 million.

Chen took a large chip lead into heads-up play towards Santerne, with 9,130,000 to the Frenchman’s 1,040,000. Santerne managed one double-up however was quickly all-in once more with center pair towards the highest pair of Chen. The flip improved Chen to journeys to depart Santerne drawing lifeless. He earned a career-best payout of $254,417 for his runner-up end.

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

Photo credit score: WSOP / Tomas Stacha.