Matthew Wantman Wins Final $10,100 Event of 2024 U.S. Poker Open

The stakes are about to be raised on the 2024 U.S. Poker Open, with the three largest buy-in tournaments of the competition set to play out within the coming days. Event no. 5 of the sequence was the fourth and ultimate $10,100 buy-in no-limit maintain’em contest on the schedule. The event attracted 92 entries, making a prize pool of $920,000. After two days of motion, it was Matthew Wantman who emerged victorious with the title and the highest prize of $239,200.

The was the fourth-largest rating on Wantman’s resume. The World Poker Tour champion now has greater than $6.4 million in lifetime event earnings to his title after this victory.

This was Wantman’s first title and fourth final-table end of 2024. The 540 Card Player Player of the Year factors he secured because the final participant standing on this occasion have been sufficient to maneuver him inside hanging distance of the highest 100 on this yr’s POY rankings, that are offered by Global Poker. Wantman additionally climbed into twentieth place on the PokerGO Tour leaderboard due to the 239 PGT factors he secured for this win.

This event performed out over the course of two days contained in the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas. The prime 14 finishers made the cash, however solely seven contenders moved on to day 2 motion. Six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and two-time WPT champion Daniel Negreanu held the chip lead when playing cards acquired again within the air, whereas Wantman started with the second fewest chips. Outright quick stack Paulius Plausinaitis (seventh – $36,800) was the primary to fall, along with his A-Ok unable to carry going through the Q-J suited of Grant Wang.

Four-time bracelet winner David Peters’ run on this occasion got here to an finish when his A-3 suited was outrun by the Ok-3 of Negreanu, who had shoved from the small blind. A king-high flop turned the tables, and Negreanu held from there to ship Peters packing in sixth place ($46,000).

Negreanu’s surge continued when his pocket aces held towards the A-Ok of Wang. Negreanu’s stack grew to greater than three-times the scale of the closest contender, whereas Wang was eradicated in fifth place ($64,000).

Victoria Livschitz was properly place to double up by Negreanu when she acquired all-in with pocket kings main pocket threes, however Negreanu spiked a set on the flop to knock her out in fourth place ($82,800). This was her fourth consecutive in-the-money end of the competition.

Wantman scored his first knockout of the day when his A-J held up towards the A-8 of Erik Seidel in an all-in showdown. Both gamers flopped a pair of aces, however Wantman’s kicker performed to ship Seidel dwelling with $110,400 for his third-place displaying. The ten-time bracelet winner now has greater than $47.5 million in profession earnings throughout 400 lifetime cashes.

Heads-up play started with Negreanu holding roughly a 6:5 lead over Wantman. The key hand of the conflict noticed Negreanu limp from the button for 200,000 after which shove over Wantman’s elevate to 750,000 with A5. Wantman referred to as all-in for five,500,000 complete with OkQ and the board got here down Q4289 to present Wantman the double up and a large lead.

Negreanu was left on fumes after that. He managed to win two all-ins to maintain his hopes alive, however was quickly in danger once more with J-8 going through the Ok-3 of Wantman. A king-high runout introduced the event to an in depth. Negreanu earned $151,800 because the runner-up. This was already his tenth ultimate desk of the yr, with two titles gained. He climbed to tenth place within the POY standings, and is now the third-ranked participant within the season-long PGT standings.

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

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