Poker Masters: Jonathan Little Wins Event No. 4

Two-time World Poker Tour champion and Card Player columnist Jonathan Little added one other trophy to his assortment on Saturday, Sept. 14. Little beat out a discipline of 81 entries in occasion no. 4 on the 2024 Poker Masters, a $10,100 buy-in no-limit maintain’em event.

Little earned $226,800 because the champion of this occasion, rising his profession haul to almost $9.3 million. This was his 18th recorded money of six-figures or extra. Little’s two largest paydays stay his victories within the 2007 WPT Mirage Poker Showdown for $1,091,295 and the 2008 WPT World Poker Finals for $1,120,310. This newest win at present ranks as his ninth-largest event rating.

In addition to the cash and the title, Little additionally earned loads of rankings factors for this win. The 480 Card Player Player of the Year factors he secured moved him inside the highest 200 within the 2024 POY race introduced by Global Poker. Little climbed to thirty seventh place within the season-long PokerGO Tour standings after including 227 factors with this victory. This was his third PGT title of the 12 months, having taken down two occasions on the PokerGO Cup on his approach to securing the collection championship at that competition.

This occasion performed out over two days on the PokerGO Studio inside ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The prize pool grew to $810,000 because of the 81 entries made by the conclusion of registration, with the highest 12 making the cash. Plenty of huge names ran deep, together with bracelet winner and WPT champion Alex Foxen (eleventh), two-time bracelet winner John Riordan (tenth), high-stakes common Brock Wilson (ninth), and Thirteenth-ranked POY contender Ren Lin (eighth). Lin fell simply in need of making his third consecutive day 2 of the collection.

The ultimate day started with seven gamers remaining and Little atop the leaderboard. Little scored every knockout on the way in which to hoisting the trophy. He began by besting Clemen Deng’s (seventh – $32,400) A-J suited with A-Okay. He then eradicated two-time Super High Roller Bowl champion Isaac Haxton (sixth – $40,500), holding with A-J towards A-10 suited. This payday pushed Haxton’s profession earnings previous the $51.1 million mark.

Wayne Nowak’s run resulted in fifth place when his A-2 bumped into Little’s A-Q on an ace-high flop. Little improved and aces and queens by the river to ship Nowak to the rail with $56,700.

Two-time bracelet winner Sam Soverel received his final chips in forward, with AOkay main the J10 of Little. Things simply stored get higher for Little from there, although. He flopped a pair, turned a straight, and rivered a flush. Soverel, however, ended up with simply ace excessive. He settled for $76,950 because the fourth-place finisher.

Three-time bracelet winner Jim Collopy improved on his sixth-place end in occasion no. 3 by surviving to the highest three on this event. In his final hand he known as all-in with pocket deuces from the massive blind and was racing towards the Okay-3 that Little shoved with from the small blind. Little flopped two pair and held from there to knock Collopy out in third place ($105,300).

Little entered heads-up play with 8,625,000 to Harvey Castro’s 1,500,000. The ultimate hand of the occasion noticed Little open shoved from the button with AJ. Castro known as all-in with 109 for round 11 massive blinds. The board ran out 5443Okay and Castro was eradicated in second place. Castro earned $145,800 because the runner-up, the second-largest rating of his profession behind the $275,660 he locked up because the 2023 WSOP Circuit Choctaw foremost occasion champion.

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

Photo credit: PokerGO / Antonio Abrego.