Matthew Lambrecht Wins 2024 World Series of Poker $10,000 Mystery Bounty

Mystery bounty mania continues on the 2024 World Series of Poker. The $10,000 buy-in model of this more and more well-liked format drew 965 entries, making a ultimate prize pool of $8,974,500. With $3,000 from every buy-in being put aside for the bounty prize pool, that meant that $2,895,000 can be paid out to those that secured knockouts from day 2 on. There have been 236 bounties up for grabs, starting from 145 $5,000 tickets as much as the lone $250,000 slip.

While a lot of the main focus was on that facet attraction, there was additionally a lot of cash in the primary prize pool. The largest chunk was finally captured by Matthew Lambrecht, who earned $1,018,933 and his first gold bracelet for the win.

This was far and away the biggest rating of Lambrecht, blowing away the $238,079 he earned because the third-place finisher in a $1,600 buy-in occasion on the Wynn Summer Classic simply shy of a month earlier. The two-time WSOP Circuit ring winner now has practically $2.6 million in profession earnings after this large victory.

In addition to the {hardware} and the seven-figure payday, Lambrecht was additionally awarded a lot of rankings factors. This was his second title and 14th final-table end to date. The 2,280 Card Player Player of the Year factors he secured have been sufficient to catapult him into eighth place within the 2024 standings offered by Global Poker. He additionally nabbed 1,100 PokerGO Tour factors, sufficient to see him shoot up the standings and inside the highest ten on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.

Plenty of massive names have been among the many 145 that cashed on this occasion, together with six-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb (twentieth), 2017 Poker Players Championship winner Elior Sion (18th), 2013 WSOP major occasion runner-up Jay Farber (fifteenth), Ky Nguyen (thirteenth), two-time bracelet winner Chris Brewer (twelfth), four-time bracelet winner Adrian Mateos (eleventh), and 2010 Aussie Millions $100,000 buy-in champion Dan Shak (Tenth).

The ultimate day started with Brazil’s Tauan Naves within the lead and Lambrecht in a digital tie for second place with 9 remaining. Naves added to his lead by busting William Jia (ninth – $80,238). Lambrecht then scored his first knockout of the day, along with his AOkay holding towards the A8 of 2019 WSOP major occasion Tenth-place finisher Robert Heidorn (eighth – $103,942).

Short stack Andrei Konopelko obtained all-in with J-9 dealing with the pocket kings of Naves. A king-high flop left Konopelko in tough form. Naves held from there and Konopelko was eradicated in seventh place ($136,792).

Eshaan ‘Brown Balla’ Bhalla obtained all-in from the small blind with Q-3 for simply over 4 massive blinds. Damarjai Davenport known as with A-2 and held by way of a jack-high runout. Bhalla, a daily on excessive stakes money streams, earned $182,846 because the sixth-place finisher.

Vladimir Minko obtained all-in with pocket tens towards the A-7 of Lambrecht. Minko nonetheless lead after Lambrecht paired his seven on the flop, however an ace on the flip left him in want of a two-outer on the river. A deuce rolled off as an alternative and Minko was eradicated in fifth place ($248,174).

Simas Karaliunas, who received the $1,000 thriller bounty on-line occasion earlier this sequence for his first bracelet, was the subsequent to seek out himself all-in and in danger. He was in unhealthy form, with A-9 trailing A-Okay for Lambrecht. The board introduced 4 spades to see Lambrecht make the nut flush on the tip. Karaliunas earned $341,963 because the fourth-place finisher, the biggest rating but for the Lithuanian.

Naves bowed out in third place when his A-5 was unable to beat the A-Q of a surging Lambrecht, who flopped high pair and held from there. Naves was awarded $478,247 for his third-place end. This was his largest reside end result but.

Heads-up play started with Lambrecht holding 41,000,000 to Davenport’s 16,000,000. Davenport was worn down to five,400,000 earlier than the ultimate hand of the match was dealt. He shoved for seven massive blinds with J9 and was known as by Lambrecht’s Okay9. The board ran out AQ255 and Davenport was knocked out in second place ($678,707). This was his largest match rating by greater than $640,000.

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

Photo credit: WSOP / Alicia Skillman.

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