Nick Schulman Dominates $25,000 Eight-Max To Win Fifth World Series of Poker Bracelet

Nick Schulman ran away with the title within the 2024 World Series of Poker $25,000 no-limit maintain’em eight-max occasion, scoring 5 of the seven knockouts on the ultimate desk whereas sustaining a large chip lead for the ultimate few hours of the match. As the champion, the 39-year-old poker professional and commentator earned $1,667,842 and his fifth WSOP gold bracelet. He is simply the thirty ninth participant in poker historical past to have received 5 or extra titles on the collection.

“Five has a really special ring to it,” Schulman advised PokerGO reporters after popping out on high. “It really does mean a lot. I’m so thankful. I’m so happy.”

This was Schulman’s first bracelet received in no-limit maintain’em. His first two wins got here within the $10,000 deuce-to-seven lowball championship in 2009 and 2012. In 2019 he took down the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better championship, whereas his fourth bracelet got here within the $1,500 seven-card stud occasion final yr.

Schulman now has greater than $20.3 million in profession match earnings, with this newest rating being the second-highest payday on his resume. The first stays the $2.2 million he earned because the winner of the 2005 World Poker Tour World Poker Finals at Foxwoods Resort Casino.

This was the primary title and fourth final-table end of the yr for Schulman. The 1,680 Card Player Player of the Year factors he locked up with the victory moved him into thirty first place within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker.

Schulman additionally scored 750 PokerGO Tour factors for topping the 318-entry area. With 1,035 complete factors, he now sits in fourth place on the PGT season-long leaderboard.

The high 48 finishers earned a share of the $7,473,000 prize pool on this occasion, with a lot of large names operating deep together with ten-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey (twenty second), latest $1,5000 shootout winner Daniel Sepiol (twenty first), bracelet winner Dan Smith (thirteenth), and 2019 WSOP predominant occasion runner-up Dario Sammartino (tenth).

The ultimate desk started with Schulman within the lead and six-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb sizzling on his heels. Deeb misplaced a giant chunk of his stack operating a multi-street bluff with Q-4. He was referred to as down by Noel Rodriguez, who had rivered journey kings. Deeb was left brief, whereas Rodriguez surged in the direction of the highest of the chip counts.

Schulman jumped out to his large lead through an enormous coin flip versus Rodriguez throughout eight-handed motion, with pocket queens fading A-Ok for the one participant who had him out-chipped on the time. Rodriguez was left with only a couple of large blinds after shedding the race, whereas Schulman ended the hand with 44 p.c of the full chips in play in his stack.

It took a number of hours earlier than the primary knockout blow of the official ultimate desk was dealt. The stalemate ended when Deeb’s A-Ok was unable to beat the pocket sixes of Dean Lyall. Deeb earned $153,302 for his newest deep run. The 2018 WSOP Player of the Year now has almost $13.9 million in profession earnings to his title.

Yingui Li was the subsequent to fall when his Ok-J suited bumped into Ok-Q for Schulman. Both gamers flopped a pair of kings, and Schulman’s queen kicker performed to earn him the pot. Li secured $202,574 because the seventh-place finisher.

That kicked off a spree of eliminations. Schulman’s A-9 bested Roberto Perez’s (sixth – $273,414) Q-9 suited to slender the sector to 5. Schulman then got here from behind with 10-6 suited towards the A-10 of bracelet winner Ben Heath (fifth – $376,762). The British poker professional was quickly joined on the rail by David Stamm, who referred to as off his previous few blinds with J-5 and located himself dominated by the Q-5 of Schulman, who flopped a pair of queens and held from there. Stamm earned $529,833 because the fourth-place finisher, whereas Schulman took 83 p.c of the chips in play into three-handed motion.

The two shorter stacks squared off for the subsequent knockout, with Dean Lyall’s A-3 suited operating into A-Ok for Noel Rodriguez, who had managed to bounce again from only a couple of large blinds after shedding that large flip with the identical hand towards the pocket queens of Schulman earlier within the day. Rodriguez held by means of a nine-high runout to remove Lyall (third – $760,083) and arrange the heads-up showdown with Schulman.

Schulman held almost a 6:1 chip lead when playing cards bought again within the air. It took only a single hand for him to transform that benefit into the title. Schulman limped from the button for 400,000 complete with 104. Rodriguez checked with J2 and the flop got here down 1082. Rodriguez checked and Schulman wager a single large blind along with his high pair. Rodriguez check-raised to 1,300,000 along with his flush draw and backside pair. Schulman moved all-in and Rodriguez referred to as. The 6 flip and 6 river stored Schulman forward to deliver the occasion to a detailed.

Rodriguez walked away with $1,111,897 because the runner-up, the biggest rating but for the Northern California native.

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

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