Jack Hardcastle Wins World Poker Tour Montreal Online Main Event

The World Poker Tour Montreal Online $3,200 buy-in principal occasion featured a $2,000,000 assure. A complete of 888 entries had been made through the two beginning flights, making a remaining prize pool of $2,664,000 that was paid out among the many high 133 finishers. The lion’s share of that cash in the end went to the United Kingdom’s Jack Hardcastle, who emerged victorious together with his first WPT principal tour title and the highest prize of $447,859.

This is the most important recorded rating of Hardcastle’s profession, beating out the $130,000 he took residence because the seventh-place finisher within the 2020 MILLIONS UK $10,300 buy-in principal occasion. He additionally took down the WPT UK ‘Opener’ $550 buy-in occasion again within the fall of 2019 for one more $100,000.

The remaining desk was set on this occasion after three days of motion, with American excessive curler Dan Shak sitting atop the leaderboard. Three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Upeshka De Silva was the primary to be eradicated. He received all-in with A-Okay offsuit and was referred to as by the AOkay of Rayan Chamas. The board introduced three golf equipment to present his opponent a flush and De Silva hit the digital rail with $37,024. This was one more brutal end for De Silva in a serious occasion, after having been disqualified from the 2020 WSOP principal occasion ‘Domestic Tournament’ after testing optimistic for COVID-19 the day earlier than he was set to play on the remaining desk.

Marcel Kunze was the following to fall, together with his A-J working into the A-Okay of Andrei Kriazhev. He took residence $46,685 because the eighth-place finisher. Jakob Miegel’s run on this occasion got here to an finish by the hands of Hardcastle. Miegel received the final of his stack in with A3 and Hardcastle referred to as with AOkay. Neither participant improved by the river and Hardcastle’s superior excessive playing cards had been sufficient to take down the pot. Miegel was awarded $58,650 for his seventh-place displaying.

Hardcastle secured his second knockout of the day by choosing up pocket kings after Charles Chattha had shoved with Okay-Q suited. The massive pair held up and Chattha was eradicated in sixth place ($74,119).

Shak discovered a lucky runout after being on the flawed aspect of a preflop cooler to arrange the following bustout. He received all-in with AOkay towards the AA of Kriazhev. The board introduced three spades to present Shak the flush and the pot. Kriazhev was left on fumes and eradicated shortly after in fifth place. He earned $95,672 for his deep run.

The subsequent massive pot noticed Felix Schulze name all-in on a J105 flop in a three-bet pot with AJ and was forward of Chamas’ Okay10. The 4 on the flip stored Schulze forward, however the Okay on the river gave Chamas a profitable two pair to ship Schulze packing in fourth place ($139,164).

With that Chamas edged out Hardcastle to take a slight lead into three-handed play. Hardcastle regained the highest spot quickly by choosing off a multi-street bluff from Shak, although. The American was left brief and was quickly all-in, calling for his match life with OkayJ from the large blind. The A5 of Hardcastle improved to a pair of of fives by the river, which was sufficient to eradicate Shak in third place ($212,459).

Hardcastle took practically a 2:1 chip lead into heads-up play towards Chamas, who managed to mount an early comeback effort. Hardcastle rebuilt his lead by the point the ultimate hand was dealt, although. Chamas min-raised from the small blind with J3 and Hardcastle referred to as holding 98. The flop got here down A97 and Hardcastle check-called a guess of three,396,600. The flip introduced the Okay and Hardcastle once more check-called, this time to the tune of 5,520,871. The 8 on the river prompted one more verify from Hardcastle. Chamas had simply jack excessive for showdown worth, and fewer than a pot-sized guess left in his stack. He moved all-in for 20,797,515 and Hardcastle made the decision together with his rivered two pair to safe the pot and the title. Chamas earned $308,703 because the runner-up finisher.

Here is a have a look at the payouts awarded on the remaining desk:

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