Faraz Jaka grabbed one other title so as to add to his trophy chest near house in Colorado by profitable the Mid-States Poker Tour Bally’s Black Hawk foremost occasion on Jan. 26. This was the 39-year-old’s twenty first recorded victory on the circuit, together with a win within the 2023 World Series of Poker $1,500 shootout occasion. The high prize for this newest triumph was $127,849, which grew the poker coach {and professional} participant’s profession earnings above $8.3 million.
“I believe I’ve performed 4 tournaments right here at Black Hawk and received two of them, in order that’s cool. I really feel like I ought to play extra right here as a result of I stay right here. I usually play greater buy-ins however since this was in my yard and I had some college students taking part in I assumed I ought to pop in,” stated Jaka after the win.
“I’m tempted to play extra MSPT stops as a result of so most of the individuals I coach that is the prize level they play in, and I wish to be aware of the gamers right here so I can higher information them… so possibly you’ll begin seeing me at a number of extra of those,” Jaka mused.
“This was a extremely cool second, I had three of my Jaka Coaching college students right here on the ultimate desk with me whereas one other (Kaushik Kannan) received the ultimate occasion, in order that was superior,” he concluded.
The $1,110 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion drew a discipline of 636 entries, making a ultimate prize pool as much as $615,420 to greater than double the assure of $300,000. The ultimate 68 gamers all cashed for no less than $2,058. That’s what number of gamers got here again for the ultimate day of play for the standard lengthy march all the way down to a champion.
Familiar faces misplaced alongside the best way on the ultimate day included Mo Nuwarah (54th), Nick Barksdale (fiftieth), DJ Buckley (forty fifth), Steve Wilkie (thirty fourth), Angela Jordison (twenty second), Alex Cruz (twenty first), Justin Lynch (seventeenth), and Antonio Vargas (14th). After all of that the ultimate 9 have been set, with Jaka on the high of the chip counts.
Jaka then took out Dainwei Sun in ninth place, and Ross Babel in seventh place. Mike Wheeler fell in eighth place in between these bookends. Kelly Mahana was out after that in sixth place, and Jaka bought again in motion once more when he busted Caden Coleman in fifth place.
Back-to-back MSPT participant of the yr Umut Ozturk then fell by the hands of Jaka in fourth place to take motion all the way down to three-handed. Zach Gutierrez then eradicated Michael Banducci to drag near Jaka earlier than the beginning of heads-up play.
Jaka held a slight 11:9 chip benefit when playing cards bought into the air between the ultimate two gamers, they usually traded chips backwards and forwards earlier than the ultimate hand of the match performed out.
That hand noticed Gutierrez get all in with A-5, however he was dominated by the A-10 of Jaka. The superior kicker made the distinction ultimately, securing one other match victory together with the MSPT trophy and high prize cash for Jaka. Gutierrez was awarded $77,952 in prize cash because the runner-up, which propelled his profession earnings previous the $700,000 mark.
Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Faraz Jaka | $127,849 | 840 |
| 2 | Zach Gutierrez | $77,952 | 700 |
| 3 | Michael Banducci | $58,000 | 560 |
| 4 | Umut Ozturk | $43,032 | 420 |
| 5 | Caden Coleman | $32,430 | 350 |
| 6 | Kelly Mahana | $24,322 | 280 |
| 7 | Ross Babel | $18,710 | 210 |
| 8 | Terry Wheeler | $14,968 | 140 |
| 9 | Dianwei Sun | $11,226 | 70 |
The MSPT tour will proceed with one other foremost occasion at Potawatomi Casino & Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin operating from Jan. 30- Feb. 2.
Photo Credit: Mid-States Poker Tour.
