Phil Ivey Wins 11th World Series of Poker Bracelet

After almost a decade with out a win on the World Series of Poker, Phil Ivey lastly broke his droop by taking the 2024 WSOP $10,000 triple draw deuce-to-seven lowball championship occasion for $347,440 and his 11th gold bracelet. He closed out the victory by making one of the best hand attainable within the recreation: 7-5-4-3-2.

The 47-year-old Poker Hall of Fame member now has sole declare to the second-place spot on the WSOP titles leaderboard, trailing solely 17-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth. Johnny Chan, Erik Seidel, and the late Doyle Brunson now sit in a three-way tie for third place with 10 bracelets every.

“Winning a World Series of Poker event is always special. I’ve been playing the WSOP for 25 years, so it’s really nice to win,” Ivey informed PokerGO reporters after popping out on prime.

All 11 of Ivey’s bracelets have come exterior of no-limit maintain’em. He received his first eight bracelets throughout the span of a decade (2000-2010), then added one other two WSOP titles in the course of the 2010’s. He then needed to wait 3,639 days between his tenth win on June 27, 2014 earlier than lastly securing this victory.

Below is a take a look at Ivey’s full checklist of victories on the collection:

Ivey now has almost $45.2 million in profession match earnings to his title after this victory, good for twelfth place on poker’s all-time cash checklist. Nearly $9.7 million of Ivey’s lifetime haul have been earned throughout his 86 cashes and 40 final-table finishes on the collection.

In addition to the {hardware} and the cash, Ivey additionally earned 720 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. This was his first title and sixth final-table end of the 12 months. With 3,035 whole factors and almost $3.7 million in to-date POY earnings, Ivey now sits in fifteenth place within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker. He additionally secured 347 PokerGO Tour factors, sufficient to maneuver into thirty first in that high-stakes-centric race.

A complete of 149 entries have been made on this occasion, making a $1,385,700 prize pool that was paid out among the many prime 23 finishers. Plenty of large names made the cash, together with two-time bracelet winner Marco Johnson (twenty first), bracelet winner Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero (18th), Allen Kessler (tenth), two-time bracelet winner Steve Zolotow (ninth), two-time bracelet winner Justin Saliba (seventh), bracelet winner Jonathan Cohen (fifth), and five-time bracelet winner Benny Glaser (4th).

Glaser got here extremely near efficiently defending his title on this occasion, however fell just some spots quick of going back-to-back after having received in 2023. He earned $104,825 for his spectacular exhibiting.

Only three gamers remained heading into an unscheduled fourth day of motion, with bracelet winner Danny Wong main and six-time bracelet winner Jason Mercier in second chip place.

Mercier slid in direction of the underside of the chip counts in direction of the top of the primary hour of play. He managed to double up after which power Wong off of one of the best hand to chip up a bit, however quickly fell into the hazard zone anyway. He had another double up in him, however ultimately acquired all-in for his final 170,000 from the button with 3-2. He was known as by each Ivey and Wong. Mercier drew three whereas Ivey drew a complete new 5 card hand and Wong drew two. Wong guess with 8-6-4-3 heading into the second draw and Ivey bowed out. Mercier drew two with 7-3-2 and improved to 9-7-5-3-2. Wong paired his six and drew one once more after Mercier stood pat. Wong picked up the 7 on the top to make 8-7-6-4-3 for the knockout.

Mercier was awarded $151,412 because the third-place finisher, rising his profession earnings to almost $20.9 million. This was the 37-year-old Floridian poker professional’s twenty third WSOP final-table look and 77th money on the collection, with greater than $5.6 million earned throughout these scores alone.

Heads-up play started with Wong holding 5,315,000 to three,630,000 for Ivey. Roughly quarter-hour into the match, Ivey received a giant pot with the wheel made on the ultimate draw, besting the 9-8-4-3-2 that Wong made on the top.

Ivey then pulled additional forward when he picked off a bluff from Wong with a pair of deuces, which have been good towards Wong’s paired of sixes. Wong received a wholesome pot with a 7-6-5-4-2 to shut the hole a bit, however then promptly misplaced two large pots towards early patted arms for Ivey to fall properly behind once more.

WOng was then floor all the way down to a single large guess. In the ultimate hand of the match, Ivey raised on the button with J-J-6-4-3. Wong went all-in for 10,000 extra with J-8-8-8-6. Wong drew three, making a Q-8-7-6-2. Ivey drew two and hit 7-6-5-4-3. Wong drew one and improved to 10-8-7-6-2. Ivey had paired his seven after drawing one. Wong patted and Ivey drew one. The 2 on the top gave him the wheel for the win.

Wong earned $225,827 because the runner-up, falling simply quick of incomes his second bracelet.

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

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