There have already been six bracelets awarded in stay occasions on the 2024 World Series of Poker Paradise pageant, which quantities to only shy of half of the in-person tournaments on the schedule. There are additionally two on-line bracelet occasions included within the choices for this 12 months’s WSOP Paradise, which is operating from Dec. 6-19 at Atlantis Paradise Island within the Bahamas.
The newest champion to emerge is China’s Lei Yu. He defeated a area of 363 whole entries within the $5,000 no-limit maintain’em deepstack occasion to earn $293,050 and his first gold bracelet.
This was the biggest recorded rating but for Yu, topping the $134,125 he earned for successful a KRW 10,000,000 ($7,395) facet occasion on the World Poker Tour Korea cease this spring for $134,125. Yu now has greater than $805,000 in profession earnings.
Yu additionally scored 1,200 Card Player Player of the Year factors for this win. With two closing tables and this one victory, Yu has surged up the rankings and into 393rd place within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker.
The $1.8 million prize pool for this event was paid out among the many high 51 finishers. Plenty of massive names ran deep, together with 2024 WSOP) major occasion fifth-place finisher Boris Angelov (forty fifth), Ana Marquez (forty first), 2019 WSOP major occasion champion Hossein Ensan (fortieth), 2019 WSOP major occasion sixth-place finisher Zhen Cai (thirty eighth), bracelet winner Nick Maimone (twentieth), and 2022 World Poker Tour World Championship major occasion winner Eliot Hudon (tenth).
High-stakes event common Fahredin Mustafov completed sixth for $79,800. He was eradicated by Slovenia’s Blaz Zerjav. Brazilian on-line event crusher Bruno Volkmann (fifth – $103,490) was the following to fall, together with his A-6 being outflopped by the A-5 of Romanian bracelet winner Vlad Darie.
Despite scoring that knockout, Darie was quickly making his method to the payout desk. His Ok-Q suited was unable to return from behind towards the A-Ok suited of Rokas Asipauskas. Darie added $134,210 to his lifetime haul, which now sits at greater than $4.6 million.
Zerjav made a straight towards the highest two pair of Asipauskas to finish his run in third place ($174,050). He entered heads-up play with Yu holding the lead, however an early coin flip turned the tables. Yu’s pocket tens held towards A-Q. Zerjav flopped a pair of queens however Yu backed right into a queen-high straight to overhaul the lead.
Zerjav was capable of battle again out in entrance, however Yu doubled up once more with Ok-Q besting A-8. The closing hand noticed all of the chips go in after a 8
65. Zerjav held 8
7 for high pair and an open-ended straight draw. Yu was forward with AA
for an overpair and the nut flush draw. The 8 flip improved Zerjav to journey eights, however the 4 on the top gave Yu a successful flush. Zerjav earned $225,720 because the runner-up. He now has greater than $1.7 million in lifetime cashes to his title.
Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Lei Yu | $293,050 | 1200 |
| 2 | Blaz Zerjav | $225,720 | 1000 |
| 3 | Rokas Asipauskas | $174,050 | 800 |
| 4 | Vlad Darie | $134,210 | 600 |
| 5 | Bruno Volkmann | $103,499 | 500 |
| 6 | Fahredin Mustafov | $79,800 | 400 |
| 7 | Gleb Tremzin | $61,530 | 300 |
| 8 | Archibald Seaton | $47,450 | 200 |
| 9 | Ezequiel Kleinman | $36,590 | 100 |
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