Nick Schulman Captures Sixth World Series of Poker Bracelet

Nick Schulman got here out on prime within the 2024 World Series of Poker Paradise $5,000 no-limit maintain’em turbo bounty occasion, dubbed ‘The Closer’, incomes $145,000 and his sixth profession gold bracelet. The 40-year-old poker professional from New York grew to become simply the twenty fifth participant in historical past to have gained as many bracelets.

Schulman secured his fifth bracelet earlier this 12 months in Las Vegas, taking down a $25,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em excessive curler occasion for $1,667,842. His first two wins on the collection got here within the $10,000 no-limit maintain’em deuce-to-seven single draw lowball championships of 2009 and 2012. In 2019 he scooped the ultimate pot within the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better championship for his third bracelet. His fourth got here in a $1,500 stud occasion in 2023.

This newest victory noticed Schulman, who can be a World Poker Tour champion, surpass $21.6 million in profession event earnings. This win additionally moved Schulman to thirty first place within the 2024 Card Player Player of the Year standings offered by Global Poker. He has gained three titles and made 10 POY-qualified remaining tables this 12 months.

Schulman was removed from the one highly-decorated participant in rivalry down the stretch on this fast-paced affair. The event drew 238 entries, with the highest 37 incomes a share of the $1,190,000 prize pool. Three-time bracelet winner Daniel Zack (nineteenth), four-time bracelet winner Georgios Sotiropoulos (14th), 2019 WSOP major occasion champion Hossein Ensan (twelfth), Ebony Kenney (tenth), high-stakes common Sosia Jiang (ninth), and 2023 WSOP Paradise $25,000 excessive curler champion Samuel Muller (seventh) all made deep runs.

The motion heats up in Event #15: $5,000 The Closer – NLH Turbo Bounty Familiar faces like:

Nicholas Schulman
Tony Lin
Daniel Negreanu
Shaun Deeb
Samuel Mullur
Santhosh Suvarna
Sosia Jiang #Poker #wsopPARADISE pic.twitter.com/DvOMu6Hwr7

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Six-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb completed sixth ($39,400), falling by the hands of Schulman. He was quickly joined on the rail by two-time bracelet winner Santhosh Suvarna (fifth – $50,800), who misplaced a race with Ok-9 towards the pocket sixes of seven-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu.

Despite scoring that knockout, Negreanu was the subsequent to fall. The 50-year-old Poker Hall of Famer misplaced a preflop all-in towards Schulman after which ran A-8 into the pocket tens of Ren Lin to be left with lower than an enormous blind. Lin’s Ok-J then held towards Negreanu’s 5-4 for the remainder. The Canadian all-time cash chief earned $65,200 for his 510th recorded event rating, bringing his profession haul to just about $53.6 million.

Bracelet winner and seven-time WSOP Circuit champion Arkadiy Tsinis then misplaced a traditional preflop coin flip with pocket threes towards the A-Q of Schulman to complete third for $84,600. The Ukrainian now has greater than $3.6 million in recorded scores.

Heads-up play started with Schulman on 6,975,000, whereas Lin sat with 4,925,000. He was in a position to increase his lead even additional forward of the ultimate hand, which noticed him open-shove from the button with AOk. Lin known as off his final 10 or so large blinds with Q8 and the board got here down 54397 to convey the occasion to an in depth.

This was Lin’s second deep run in as many days, having completed eleventh within the tremendous major occasion for $370,150 a day earlier. He earned $110,000 because the runner-up, rising his profession haul to $14.6 million. He additionally moved to seventh place within the 2024 POY race, with 22 final-table finishes and one title secured this 12 months.

Here is a have a look at payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:

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