Michael Brinkenhoff Wins Latest Venetian High Roller Poker Tournament

The second in a trio of high-stakes no-limit maintain’em tournaments at The Venetian Las Vegas wrapped up within the early-morning hours of Saturday, May 7. The $10,000 buy-in Venetian High Roller occasion drew a area of 23 entries, making a prize pool of $230,000 that was paid out among the many high 4 finishers. When all was mentioned and finished, Michael Brinkenhoff emerged victorious with the title and the highest prize of $105,800.

This was the primary recorded stay win for Brinkenhoff, together with his earlier high rating being a seventh-place displaying in a $5,000 buy-in turbo occasion on the 2017 World Series of Poker for $59,107. He now has greater than 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 {dollars} in lifetime cashes to his title.

In addition to the title and the cash, Brinkenhoff additionally earned 180 Card Player Player of the Year factors for his first qualifying rating of the 12 months. This was additionally his first money counting in direction of the 2022 PokerGO Tour factors race.

Brinkenhoff burst the cash bubble because of a preflop cooler, together with his pocket aces holding towards the pocket kings of bracelet winner and World Poker Tour champion Dylan Linde.

Anthony Hu was the primary participant eradicated inside the cash. He misplaced nearly all of his stack working into quads for Brinkenhoff. The subsequent hand he obtained all-in with J-9, just for Brinkenhoff to name with a dominating Ok-J. A king-high flop noticed Brinkenhoff lengthen his lead within the hand, which he maintained by the river. Hu earned $23,00 because the fourth-place finisher.

Bracelet winner Andrew Lichtenberger the following to go. The current Seminole Hard Rock Poekr SHowdown $50,000 buy-in champion known as all-in from the massive blind with A-8 going through a small-blind shove from Shannon Shorr, Lichtenberger was forward of Shorr’s Q-J, however a jack-high runout noticed Shorr make a profitable pair to safe the pot. Lichtenberger earned $36,800 for his third-place displaying. This was his sixth final-table end of the 12 months. He now sits in 73rd place within the 2022 POY race, which is sponsored by Global Poker.

With that, Brinkenhoff took a slight lead into heads-up play with Shorr. After shedding the benefit briefly, he was in a position to regain the lead after which lengthen it. By the time the ultimate hand was dealt, Shorr had slipped to simply greater than 11 huge blinds. Brinenhoff raised on the button and Shorr moved all-in from the massive blind with Ok3. Brinkenhoff known as with 65 and the flop got here down A107 to offer him an unbeatable flush. The flip and river had been mere formalities and Shorr was despatched dwelling with $64,400 because the runner-up. This was his seventh POY-qualified last desk of 2022. With 1,392 whole factors and greater than $660,000 in year-to-date earnings, Shorr is now the 51st-ranked participant within the general POY standings.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on this occasion:

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