Georgios Skarparis of Cyprus has received the 2024 World Series of Poker $1,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em ‘mini main event’, topping a discipline of 6,076 entries to earn his first bracelet and $554,925. He instructed WSOP reporters that the win was devoted to the reminiscence of his late buddy and pupil Kyriakos Oxinos, who tragically handed away in a site visitors accident in 2023.
This was the most important match end result but for Skarparis, topping the $167,070 he earned because the runner-up finisher in a $3,300 buy-in occasion on the 2022 Merit Summer Retro Series. He now has over $919,000 in profession match earnings.
The 1,320 Card Player Player of the Year factors awarded to the winner of this occasion have been sufficient to maneuver Skarparis inside placing distance of the highest 200 within the 2024 POY standings offered by Global Poker.
This occasion took three days to play all the way down to a champion. The high 912 finishers earned a chunk of the $5,346,880 prize pool, however solely 5 superior to the ultimate day. Among the various notables that ran deep on this occasion have been Tony Miles (404th), Landon Tice (219th), Marsha Wolak (113th), Stoyan Madanzhiev (51st), James Carroll (thirty sixth), and Hunter Frey (ninth).
Kyle Williamson held the chip lead going into day 3, with Skarparis sizzling on his heels.
Alexandre Barbaranelli scored the primary knockout of the day, profitable a flip with pocket eights in opposition to the A-Ok of Dirk Bruns (fifth – $158,191). Williamson ended up ending fourth after dropping a few all-in showdowns throughout four-handed play. In his ultimate hand, A-Ok was outrun by the Q-J suited of Skarparis. Williamson earned $208,444 for his efforts.
Mikhail Zavoloka received the final of his brief stack in with 10-2, and was unable to beat the Q-6 suited of Barbaranelli and the 6-5 suited of Skarparis. Queen excessive performed in the long run to ship the pot to Barbaranelli. Zavoloka was awarded $276,695 because the third-place finisher.
Skarparis held greater than a 3.5:1 chip lead when heads-up play started. The final hand of the match noticed the entire chips go in preflop with Skarparis’ A
9
main the A
3
of Barbaranelli. The board got here down 775102 and Barbaranelli was eradicated in second place ($369,994).
Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Georgios Skarparis | $554,925 | 1320 |
| 2 | Alexandre Barbaranelli | $369,994 | 1100 |
| 3 | Mikhail Zavoloka | $276,695 | 880 |
| 5 | Kyle Williamson | $208,444 | 660 |
| 6 | Dirk Bruns | $158,191 | 550 |
| 7 | Josh Prager | $120,950 | 440 |
| 8 | Kai Hu | $93,171 | 330 |
| 9 | Stefan Widmer | $72,316 | 220 |
| 9 | Hunter Frey | $56,557 | 110 |
Photo credit: WSOP / Hayley Hochstetler.
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