Konstantin Held Captures World Poker Tour Cambodia Main Event Title

A complete of 760 entries have been made within the 2024 World Poker Tour Cambodia Championship $3,500 buy-in no-limit maintain’em fundamental occasion, blowing away the $1 million assure to create a prize pool of $2,432,760. After two beginning flights and three extra days of motion on the NagaWorld Integrated Resort in Phnom Penh, it was Germany’s Konstantin Held
who emerged victorious with the title and the highest prize of $361,310.

This was the biggest rating but for Held, whose solely six-figure money earlier than this win was earned by way of a sixth-place end within the 2023 European Poker Tour Paris fundamental occasion for $261,080. He now has greater than $763,000 in whole recorded match earnings.

The prime three finishers struck a deal that redistributed the prize cash, leaving the title, the trophy, and a $10,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas to play for. Held in the end squared off with Joshua Mccully heads-up with these prizes on the road.

“Over the moon. Honestly, over the moon,” Held informed WPT reporters when requested in regards to the victory. “It has been an insane journey to end up heads up with a good friend of mine. We just enjoyed our time. We were all having a blast. And the experience here was great. I love the venue. I think NagaWorld is great. It’s been amazing to come to Cambodia.”

Held was additionally awarded 1,368 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. This was his first POY-qualified rating of the 12 months, but it surely alone was sufficient to catapult him into fifth place within the 2024 POY standings offered by Global Poker.

The prime 95 finishers made the cash on this occasion, with six-figure paydays for the ultimate 5. Held got here into the final day of motion because the chip chief among the many remaining 9 contenders. He added to his lead by taking out Jianfeng Sun (seventh – $69,678) after which got here from behind with A-7 suited besting the A-Ok suited of Kyle Bao Diep (sixth – $90,532).

Amit Kaushik’s (fifth – $118,906) run concluded when his A-7 was unable to win an all-in in opposition to the Ok-Q of Mccully. Then Motoyoshi Okamura’s A-& bumped into the pocket queens of Mccully, which made queens full by the river. Okamura earned $157,858 because the fourth-place finisher.

The deal between the ultimate three noticed the remaining prize cash re-worked, with the beforehand talked about prizes put aside for the winner, as follows:

Konstantin Held – $350,910
Florent Remi – $302,019
Joshua Mccully – $277,291

Mccully overtook after which knocked out Remi in third, with a flush-over-flush state of affairs touchdown the ultimate blow. Mccully held higher than a 3:1 chip lead after that, however that was rapidly erased due to a double-up and a giant pot received with out showdown. In the ultimate hand, Mccully shoved from the button with 97 and Held referred to as with Ok5. The board ran out J42106 and Held held to lock up the pot and the title.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:

Winner picture credit score: WPT / Joe Giron.