Isaac Haxton Wins Asian Poker Tour Taipei High Roller Title

Isaac Haxton ended 2023 in a tie for essentially the most titles gained of any participant on the reside event circuit. He and Danny Tang each secured seven first-place finishes final 12 months. Haxton made a complete of 27 last tables in 2023, accumulating greater than $15.9 million throughout these scores, essentially the most of any participant.

Haxton managed two final-table finishes throughout the first few days of 2024, however has since been with no deep run on the reside circuit. On March 3, he secured his first victory of the brand new 12 months by taking down a high-roller occasion on the Asian Poker Tour Taipei cease. He beat out a discipline of 137 entries within the NT$300,000 ($9,504 USD) buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion, incomes $290,869 USD for the win.

“It was a wild heads-up match. Big pots every hand and a lot of back and forth,” mentioned Haxton to occasion host Gregory Liow, identified to many as ‘Greg Goes All In’.

This rating pushed Haxton’s profession earnings previous the $49.2 million mark. He stays the eighth-ranked participant on poker’s all-time cash checklist, and is now simply $746,317 away from changing into the eighth participant to surpass $50,000,000 in cashes.

This newest victory noticed Haxton stroll away with 528 Card Player Player of the Year factors. With 1,063 factors, he now sits simply exterior the highest 50 within the 2024 POY standings offered by Global Poker.

Haxton wasn’t the one 2023 POY prime performer who ran deep on this event. Ren Lin, who completed final 12 months in fifth place within the last standings, was the runner-up to Haxton.

Bracelet winner Jans Arens (seventeenth), bracelet winner Wing Po Liu (eleventh), bracelet winner Sung Joo Hyun (eighth), and high-stakes common Punnat Punsri (sixth) had been additionally among the many 20 gamers who cashed on this occasion.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the last desk:

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