Maurice Hawkins Wins 2021 Palm Beach Kennel Club Summer Poker Classic Championship

The 2021 Palm Beach Summer Classic $1,100 buy-in no-limit maintain’em championship occasion attracted a area of 233 entries to the Palm Beach Kennel Club. The strong turnout noticed the $200,00 assure simply surpassed, with the highest 27 finishers making the cash. In the tip, the title and the biggest share of that prize cash was awarded to Maurice Hawkins. The 14-time World Series of Poker Circuit gold ring winner earned $55,287 for the win, rising his lifetime reside event earnings to greater than $4.1 million.

The remaining desk motion was live-stream on PBKC’s Twitch channel, and featured commentary from the venue’s personal Noah Carbone and Mike Jameson, with appearances from Adam Schoenfeld, the previous host of Card Player TV’s ‘The Scoop’ and Zhen Cai, who completed sixth within the 2019 WSOP fundamental occasion. Cai positioned tenth on this occasion for $4,033, busting out one spot sooner than his spouse Jessica Cai, who earned $4,975 because the ninth-place finisher.

A video replay of the total final-table broadcast might be seen under:

The remaining day started with 20 gamers remaining and Hawkins within the chip lead. He took out Billy Scheer in fifth place ($13,529) to enter four-handed motion in second place behind Steven McKoy. He then scored a double knockout when his 108 beat out the J8 of Mark Rakoff and the pocket fives of Baumstein. The board ran out Okay44A10 to safe the pot for Hawkins. Rakoff was the shortest of the 2 very brief stacks, and completed fourth for $18,109. Baumstein earned $24,658 because the third-place finisher.

Maurice took roughly 2.5 million into heads-up play with McKoy, who sat with 2.2 million. The two performed briefly earlier than agreeing to a deal that introduced the occasion to a conclusion, with Hawkins securing the title.

Here is a take a look at the payouts awarded on the remaining desk:

Winner picture supplied by PBKC.