The $10,000 buy-in Big O championship made its debut on the 2024 World Series of Poker, drawing 332 entries in it’s inaugural operating. After three days of five-card pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better motion, John Fauver emerged victorious because the first-ever champion. The West Virginian earned $681,998 and his first gold bracelet for the win.
Before taking down this new championship occasion, Fauver’s earlier prime rating had been a seventh-place exhibiting in a $15,000 buy-in occasion at this yr’s PokerGO Tour PLO Series for $49,800. With this massive win on the WSOP, he now has greater than $881,000 in complete match earnings to his title.
In addition to the cash and the {hardware}, Fauver was additionally awarded 1,200 Card Player Player of the Year factors. This was his second title and fifth final-table end in POY-qualified tournaments this yr. With 1,904 factors he has climbed to 74th place within the 2024 POY standings offered by Global Poker.
Fauver additionally earned 682 PokerGO Tour factors, sufficient to climb to seventh place on the PGT season-long leaderboard.
The third and ultimate day of this occasion started with 19 gamers remaining, with every assured at the least $25,430 for surviving to that time. The prime 50 gamers made the cash on this occasion, with massive names like four-time bracelet winner Mike Matusow (thirty first), two-time bracelet winner Yuval Bronshtein (thirtieth), two-time bracelet winner Justin Saliba (twenty eighth), two-time bracelet winner Tom Koral (twenty seventh), Matt Glantz (twenty fourth), five-time bracelet winner Adam Friedman (18th), three-time bracelet winner Ryan Hughes (seventeenth), three-time bracelet winner Anson Tsang (14th), bracelet winner David Benyamine (ninth), bracelet winner Danny Wong (eighth), Michael Rocco (seventh), and two-time bracelet winner Dylan Weisman (fifth) all operating deep.
Farid Jattin, who completed runner-up within the $5,000 pot-limit Omaha occasion earlier this summer time, positioned fourth for $217,783 on this match. The Colombian additionally earned 600 POY factors for his fifth final-table end of 2024. He moved into sixteenth place within the rankings due to his robust exhibiting on this occasion.
Four-time bracelet winner Calvin Anderson knocked out Nitesh Rawtani (third – $311,747) to enter heads-up play with 8,425,000 to Fauver’s 11,500,000. That lead was prolonged forward of the ultimate hand.
Fauver limped from the button for 200,000 complete with Okay
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and Anderson raised to 600,000 holding AAA106 within the massive blind. Fauver referred to as and the flop got here down Okay97. Anderson guess pot and Fauver moved all-in together with his set of kings. Anderson referred to as and improved to a ten-high straight on the 8 flip. He additionally picked up the nut-flush redraw and outs to a low. The river introduced the 8, although, giving Fauver kings full of eights and a scoop, with no low potential.
Anderson was awarded $454,668 because the runner-up finisher. He now has greater than $6.7 million in lifetime match earnings.
Here is a take a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the ultimate desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | John Fauver | $681,998 | 1,200 | 682 |
| 2 | Calvin Anderson | $454,668 | 1,000 | 455 |
| 3 | Nitesh Rawtani | $311,747 | 800 | 312 |
| 4 | Farid Jattin | $217,783 | 600 | 218 |
| 5 | Dylan Weisman | $155,065 | 500 | 155 |
| 6 | Alfred Atamian | $112,573 | 400 | 113 |
| 7 | Michael Rocco | $83,359 | 300 | 83 |
| 8 | Danny Wong | $62,985 | 200 | 63 |
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