Following an enormous $10,000 important occasion, the World Poker Tour continued their sequence on the Wynn Las Vegas with a $111,000 buy-in Alpha8 for One Drop excessive curler occasion.
The high-stakes no-limit event drew a area of 45 entries, creating an total prize pool of $4,612,500. Part of every event buy-in was put aside for the One Drop Foundation, which gives entry to wash water all around the globe.
After three days of play, it was Massachusetts native Jonathan Jaffe who got here away with the title and a career-best $1,537,600.
“I’m still going to wait before I process the win. I’m still kind of in poker mode and just going through the motions right now but I know I will feel good,” Jaffe mentioned after the victory.
Only the ultimate seven gamers made the cash, with Denmark’s Henrik Hecklen eradicated on the cash bubble late on day 2. The official livestreamed ultimate desk was then set when Isaac Haxton misplaced a race to bust in seventh place.
Haxton banked $222,600 for the mincash, his fifteenth six-figure or higher rating of the 12 months. It was sufficient to maneuver him over the $40 million in earnings mark for his profession, which is nice for eleventh place on the all-time cash checklist.
Although he misplaced his lead within the Card Player Player of the Year race when the red-hot Bin Weng took down the principle occasion for his second WPT title of the season, Haxton was in a position to claw again 150 factors to shut the hole between them. He now sits about 1,400 factors behind going into the second half of the 12 months.
Iaron Lightbourne (sixth – $273,200), Michael Lim (fifth – $350,100), and Aleksejs Ponakovs (4th – $485,200) had been eradicated throughout the first 5 orbits on day 3, establishing a three-handed battle between Jaffe, Taylor von Kriegenbergh, and Dan Smith. All three had already gained a WPT important occasion earlier than and had been wanting so as to add the Alpha8 excessive curler trophy to their mantel.
Jaffe scored a key double up with kings and nines besting von Kriegenbergh’s tens and nines to take the lead, after which watched as Smith bought short-stacked to bust in third place. Smith picked up $701,700, which brings him to $45.6 million in profession earnings and into seventh place all time.
The stacks had just about evened up after Smith’s stack went to von Kriegenbergh, establishing a heads-up ultimate that lasted 32 arms. Jaffe had opened up a 2:1 lead by the point the ultimate hand was dealt, along with his pocket tens holding in opposition to von Kriegenbergh’s Okay Q on a seven-high board to win the title.
The $1,042,100 was the second-biggest rating for von Kriegenbergh, who pocketed $1.1 million for profitable the WPT Hard Rock Showdown in 2011. The New York resident now has $4.5 million in profession earnings.
Jaffe isn’t any stranger to excessive curler wins, having taken down the $25,000 Lucky Hearts Poker Open twice, and the $50,000 occasion on the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. The Florida resident and former on-line heads-up specialist now has greater than $9 million in complete earnings.
Final Table Results
Place | Player | Payout | POY |
1 | Jonathan Jaffe | $1,537,600 | 600 |
2 | Taylor von Kriegenbergh | $1,042,100 | 500 |
3 | Dan Smith | $701,700 | 400 |
4 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | $485,200 | 300 |
5 | Michael Lim | $350,100 | 250 |
6 | Iaron Lightbourne | $273,200 | 200 |
7 | Isaac Haxton | $222,600 | 150 |
The WPT will return to the Wynn Las Vegas in December for the season-ending championship.