Martin Alcaide primarily performs poker on-line. The Spanish-born Bulgarian informed World Series of Poker reporters he probably wouldn’t have occasion been at this 12 months’s WSOP if it weren’t for profitable a foremost occasion seat on-line at companion website GGPoker. With that seat locked up, Alcaide made his strategy to Las Vegas and determined to enter into the $400 buy-in no-limit maintain’em ‘Colossus’ occasion. He ended up overcoming the large area of 10,143 entries to earn $501,240 and his first gold bracelet.
Prior to this win, Alcaide had simply shy of $12,500 in prior stay cashes to his identify. Now, he’s a WSOP champion.
In addition to the title and the cash, Alcaide additionally earned 576 Card Player Player of the Year factors. This was his first-ever POY certified rating.
The seas of gamers that turned out for this occasion constructed a prize pool of $5,940,883. The prime 2,296 finishes secured a bit of the pot. Notables that ran deep included 2004 WSOP foremost occasion winner and Card Player columnist Greg Raymer (56th), seven-time bracelet winner Men Nguyen (twenty seventh), and Matt Glantz (nineteenth).
The occasion featured three beginning flights after which three extra days of combined-field play. The closing day started with 92 gamers nonetheless in rivalry, with Alcaide inside the highest 20 when playing cards received within the air. By the time the sector mixed onto a single desk, he had overtaken the lead.
Joshua Welch (tenth – $42,200), Nicholas Richards (ninth – $53,354), and Trevor Brown (eighth – $67,840) hit the rail within the early going, with Alcaide being the one to ship Brown packing.
Caleb Powell’s A-7 was unable to carry in opposition to the J-8 suited of Ricky Andino. Powell earned $86,800 because the seventh-place finisher. A couple of minutes later, Bohdan Slyvinskyi misplaced a basic race with pocket queens in opposition to the A-Okay of Joel Vanetten. An ace-high runout noticed Slyvinskyi eradicated in sixth place ($111,740).
Yujian Eugen Zhou was nearly elimianted in fifth place, however was capable of crack Alcaide’s pocket aces with J-10 to double up and keep alive. Alcaide fared significantly better in his subsequent key conflict, with A-Q suited holding in opposition to the Okay-Q of Andino (fifth – $144,700) to slender the sector to 4.
Joel Vanetten’s A-Okay didn’t work out fairly as nicely within the subsequent preflop all-in. Zhou’s Q-10 suited flopped two pair and improved to queens filled with tens on the river to finish Vanetten’s run in fourth place ($188,510).
Zhou’s surge continued when he picked up pocket kings in opposition to the A-9 suited of Brooks Floyd (third – $247,030). Floyd made prime pair on the flop, however Zhou had hit a set. Floyd was unable to enhance any additional and headed to the payout desk to gather his quarter-million-dollar payday.
Heads-up play started with Zhou holding 395,000,000 to Alcaide’s 377,000,000. Alcaide took down a chunky pot immediately to leap out to a large lead. In the ultimate hand he moved all-in from the button with 7
7
and Zhou known as with 5
5. The board got here down QJ96J and Alcaide’s larger pair held to earn him the pot and the title. Zhou was awarded $325,640 because the runner-up finisher.
Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Martin Alcaide | $501,240 | 576 |
| 2 | Eugene Yujian Zhou | $325,640 | 480 |
| 3 | Brooks Floyd | $247,030 | 384 |
| 5 | Joel Vanetten | $188,510 | 288 |
| 6 | Ricardo Andino | $144,700 | 240 |
| 7 | Bohdan Slyvinskyi | $111,740 | 192 |
| 8 | Cales Powell | $86,800 | 144 |
| 9 | Trevor Brown | $67,840 | 96 |
| 9 | Nicholas Richards | $53,354 | 48 |
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Winner photograph credit score: WSOP / Hayley Hochstetler.
