With 2,031 entries made throughout 5 beginning flights, the 2024 World Series of Poker Paradise $2,500 buy-in mini important occasion had greater than $5 million in prize cash to award. The prime 306 finishers earned a share, with six determine payouts for the ultimate seven contenders. The largest payday of all went to eventual champion Jeffrey Hakim, who earned $575,050 and his first WSOP gold bracelet for the win.
“I dedicate it to the kid in me, in my 20s, who chased this dream for so long…you end up getting to the point where you don’t think it can happen,” mentioned Hakim in an interview with WSOP’s Jeff Platt after popping out on prime. “Definitely hasn’t sunk in, as everyone says.”
This was a brand new career-best rating for Hakim, who has reside outcomes on the WSOP relationship again to 2008. Thanks to this victory, his profession earnings now sit at almost $2.6 million.
The 1,620 Card Player Player of the Year factors that Hakim secured because the champion had been sufficient to maneuver him inside the highest 350 within the 2024 POY standings sponsored by Global Poker.
Hakim was hardly the one highly-accomplished participant to run deep on this occasion. Five different gamers among the many closing 9 had a number of hundreds of thousands in prior earnings. World Poker Tour champions Aram Oganyan (ninth – $70,135) and Matas Cimbolas (eighth – $91,020) had been knocked out early on the closing desk. They had been quickly joined by businessman and high-stakes event common Paul Newey (seventh – $120,600), who now has over $6 million in profession cashes after this sturdy displaying.
Matthew Frankland had completed eighth within the WPT Rock’n’Roll Poker Open $3,500 important occasion simply days earlier than making this closing desk. He backed up that deep run with a sixth-place end good for $152,300 and 540 POY factors. As a consequence, he climbed to 106th within the POY rankings, with two titles and eight final-table finishes thus far in 2024.
Belarus’ Andrei Piatrushchanka eradicated Ryan Gebow (fifth – $202,100) to slim the sphere to 4. Hakim then received a giant preflop race with Ok
Q dealing with 7
7
for Viktor Ustimov. Hakim rivered the nut flush to ship Ustimov to the rail with $261,500, which grew his profession haul to over $3.9 million.
Piatrushchanka held the lead early in three-handed play, however was finally the following to be eradicated. He misplaced a giant one with aces up in opposition to a set of sixes for Hakim to surrender the highest spot on the leaderboard. He then misplaced a giant coin flip with pocket tens in opposition to A-Q for Hakim, which made aces up by the river to remove Piatrushchanka in third place ($344,000).
Hakim took a large chip lead into heads-up play in opposition to one other Belarusian in Alina Paliahoshka. All of the chips quickly went in with Paliahoshka’s A
6 dealing with 33 for Hakim. The QJ75Q runout didn’t join with both participant and Paliahoshka was knocked out in second place ($445,400).
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Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Jeff Hakim | $575,050 | 1620 |
| 2 | Alina Paliahoshka | $445,400 | 1350 |
| 3 | Andrei Piatrushchanka | $344,000 | 1080 |
| 4 | Viktor Ustimov | $261,500 | 810 |
| 5 | Ryan Gebow | $202,100 | 675 |
| 6 | Mathew Frankland | $152,300 | 540 |
| 7 | Paul Newey | $120,600 | 405 |
| 8 | Matas Cimbolas | $91,020 | 270 |
| 9 | Aram Oganyan | $70,135 | 135 |
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