Pierre Shum – Photo Credit: WSOP / Rachel Kay Miller
Pierre Shum made the primary victory of his match profession a golden one on July 17 in Las Vegas, Nevada when he received The Closer $1,500 no-limit maintain’em occasion on the World Series of Poker. He took residence the highest prize value $606,810, and the gold bracelet. Shum is a software program engineer who at the moment lives in Chicago, Illinois, and he actually has a bigger bankroll to attempt his hand in additional tournaments transferring ahead.
“I was born in Jamaica, and my parents moved there for work. I’ve played poker for a pretty long time, but mostly with friends. I started playing cash games more recently this year. I came in here today to try and win the tournament. The money wasn’t even in my mind,” stated Shum to reporters after the win. He continued to say that he enjoys the social facet of the sport, “I started off mostly because my friends played it. I’ve definitely made lots of friends from the poker table. Where I play, it is very social, so it’s fun.” He completed the interview with, “Well, if you like poker, try a tournament. You never know.”
The two-day match supplied two beginning flights that drew a discipline of three,531 entries. That put the full prize pool at $4,713,885, with the ultimate 524 gamers min-cashing for $2,400. Notables that made a deep run towards the ultimate desk included gold-bracelet winner Lisa Hamilton (tenth), five-time WSOP Circuit gold-ring winner Preston McEwen (eleventh), and prime poker skilled Chris Moorman (fifteenth).
Day 2 noticed the ultimate 258 gamers return at Noon to play all the way down to a winner, and the ultimate desk was reached a bit after 8:30 pm. Shum had gained management of the chip lead by that time in play to arrange his run for victory. Shum scored his first knockout on the ultimate desk when he eradicated match skilled Peter Hengsakul in eighth place.
Peter Nigh pulled away from the sector with the chip lead because the desk performed down to 5 gamers, after which Shum acquired in on the motion once more when he took out Amirpasha Emami in fifth place. Gold-bracelet winner Jack Duong fell in fourth place, after which Nigh took a commanding lead into the heads-up ultimate when he eradicated Roongsak Griffeth in third place.
Shum had his work lower out for him with Nigh holding over two-thirds of the chips left in play when the ultimate match started, however he quickly discovered quad fours to take again the lead. It took only a half hour from there for the ultimate hand to transpire round midnight. Nigh moved all in preflop with A
8
within the gap, and Shum referred to as to cowl him holding Q
2. The board was dealt QQ7
J5, and Nigh was eradicated in second place, good for $376,420. It was the biggest money of Nigh’s profession, and it takes his match earnings as much as $1.22 million.
Here is a take a look at the payouts awarded on the ultimate desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Pierre Shum | $606,810 | 1,320 |
| 2 | Peter Nigh | $376,420 | 1,100 |
| 3 | Roongsak Griffeth | $284,030 | 880 |
| 4 | Jack Duong | $215,650 | 660 |
| 5 | Amirpasha Emami | $164,750 | 550 |
| 6 | Mihai Niste | $126,660 | 440 |
| 7 | Jixue Yin | $100,120 | 330 |
| 8 | Peter Hengsakul | $76,300 | 220 |
| 9 | Sanjeev Kapoor | $59,760 | 110 |
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