John Hennigan Captures PGT Mixed Games $5,100 Eight-Game Title

John Hennigan has been a mixed-games poker crusher for many years. The World Poker Tour champion and six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner has captured 13 profession titles through the years, with greater than $9.3 million in event earnings accrued throughout 86 complete in-the-money finishes.

The 53-year-old’s newest rating noticed him greatest a discipline of 89 entries to emerge victorious within the 2024 PokerGO Tour Mixed Games $5,100 buy-in eight-game combine occasion. Hennigan took dwelling $120,150 for the win, the twentieth rating of six figures or greater on his resume.

This was the second final-table end of the 12 months for Hennigan, who additionally positioned eighth in a $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion again in January in the course of the PokerGO Cup. He now has 464 Card Player Player of the Year factors thanks to those two deep runs, sufficient to position him inside the highest 300 within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker.

Hennigan additionally earned 120 PGT rankings factors for this win, transferring him into twenty sixth place on that leaderboard.

The prime 13 finishers made the cash on this occasion, with the bubble bursting late on day 1. The second and last day noticed simply six contenders return to the PokerGO Studio inside ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas. Hennigan started with the lead. He sat with practically half of the chips in play when playing cards bought again within the air.

This occasion featured a mixture of six restrict video games (maintain’em, Omaha eight-or-better, razz, stud, stud eight-or-better, and triple-draw deuce-to-seven lowball) and two big-bet video games (no-limit maintain’em and pot-limit Omaha).

The first knockout of the day got here throughout a spherical of PLO. Christopher Claassen bought all-in with pocket kings in opposition to the pocket aces of Max Hoffman. The bigger pair held up and Claassen was eradicated in sixth place ($22,250). Despite that win, Hoffman was the subsequent to fall. He bought all-in with a low attract Omaha eight-or-better, solely to seek out himself up in opposition to a greater low draw and prime pair for bracelet winner Ken Aldridge. Hoffman was unable to come back from behind and hit the rail in fifth place ($31,150).

Bracelet winner Nick Guagenti bought the final of his stack in preflop in PLO with 9987. He was up in opposition to QJ1010 for five-time bracelet winner Adam Friedman. Neither participant improved and Guagenti settled for $40,050.

Aldridge doubled up a number of occasions throughout three-handed play, however was in the end nonetheless the subsequent to be despatched dwelling. Aldridge bought all-in on fifth road enjoying stud with (A6)436 dealing with the (73)72J of Hennigan. Aldridge caught the Okay on sixth and Q on seventh to complete with a pair of sixes. The 5 and 9 down the stretch for Hennigan meant that his pair of sevens would earn the pot. Aldridge secured $55,625 because the third-place finisher.

Hennigan took an enormous lead into heads-up play with Friedman, starting with 12,125,000 to his opponent’s 1,325,000. It didn’t take lengthy for him to transform that benefit into the title. The last hand of the event noticed all the chips go in on third road in stud. The last boards seemed as follows:

Hennigan: (43)4QOkay4(8)
Friedman: (OkayOkay)J1039(9)

Hennigan’s journey fours bested kings and nines for Friedman to convey this occasion to an in depth. Friedman earned $77,875 because the runner-up, surpassing $4.4 million in event earnings within the course of.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the last desk:

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