Ryan “Adopt_aDogg0” Leng received his second World Series of Poker bracelet within the early hours of Wednesday morning.
According to the official dwell updates of the 2021 WSOP Online, Leng was enjoying on a cell gadget from a bar at a Red Rock Casino whereas celebrating his spouse’s birthday. He bested one of many more durable ultimate tables of the sequence within the $1,000 no-limit maintain’em freezeout.
The Illinois native topped a area of 561 gamers to earn $108,654 and his second piece of WSOP gold. The ultimate desk featured three different bracelet winners as Leng navigated via a ultimate desk that additionally featured blended video games specialist Yueqi “anoob” Zhu, Ankush “Rickrosstheb” Mandavia and Raman “Acrogum” Afanasenka.
Leng bested Carmine “Shem22” Ciccone heads-up. Ciccone earned $67,303 for his runner-up end. Afanasenka completed third, Mandavia was eradicated in fourth and Zhu hit the rail in sixth. WSOP Circuit ring winner Jonas “puffin_nails” Wexler made the ultimate desk and completed ninth.
Three years in the past on the 2018 WSOP, Leng received his first bracelet within the $1,500 no-limit maintain’em bounty occasion. He earned $272,765 for the victory and has 4 WSOP Circuit rings to go together with it. With his newest six-figure rating, he boosted his profession match earnings to simply north of $2 million.
It wasn’t a straightforward highway for Leng, who began the ultimate desk within the backside third of the leaderboard, whereas Afanasenka began with the chip lead.
The Belarussian began with a slight chip lead over Ciccone however prolonged it early by chilly decking Wexler. In a battle of the blinds, Wexler discovered himself all in with AQ
in opposition to Afanasenka’s A
Ok
. Wexler couldn’t enhance and busted in ninth for $7,119.
Dan “Albacazapada” Stavila was the quick stack by a large margin initially of the ultimate desk and notched a pay leap when Wexler busted in ninth. He was the following to go, nonetheless, when he ran A-8 into two separate A-Ok’s. One held by Mandavia and the opposite by Krishna “Ninjago” Kalidas. There was a Ok on the flop and Stavila’s chips have been cut up between Mandavia and Kalidas.
Afanasenka put much more distance between himself and the sphere when he eradicated Denis “ojlimpson” Gnidash in seventh. Afanasenka received a race together with his AOk
in opposition to Gnidash’s 10
10
. The A
got here on the flop and Gnidash was out.
With six gamers left, Leng began to build up some chips.
Zhu raised preflop and was referred to as by Kalidas within the small blind and Leng within the huge blind. On a Q8
4
flop, Zhu bought the final of his chips into the center with A
A
in opposition to Leng’s Q
10
.
Zhu was in nice form to double up, however the 10 got here on the flip to present Leng two pair. The river was a brick and Zhu’s match as over, whereas Leng moved nearer to the highest of the chip counts.
Just a couple of minutes later, Leng eradicated Kalidas with QQ
all in preflop in opposition to Kalidas’ A
J
. Kalidas couldn’t hit an A and was out in fifth. The ultimate 4 gamers went on a the ultimate break of the match with Leng within the driver’s seat holding the chip lead, having greater than double Afanasenka, who was second in chips on the time of the break.
When they returned, Leng picked up the place he left off. Mandavia moved all in on the button for about 15 huge blinds with OkQ
and Leng awoke with A
Q
within the huge blind. Mandavia couldn’t spike a three-outer and was gone in fourth.
The chip lead rotated three-handed, nonetheless, as Afanasenka took a small edge earlier than Ciccone took the lead.
Afanasenka in the end ended up dropping the following massive showdown when his OkQ
couldn’t overcome Leng’s A
J
. The board introduced no assist to anybody and Afanasenka was left with lower than 5 huge blinds. He was eradicated by Leng shortly after.
Busting Afanasenka gave Leng the chip lead heading into heads-up play in opposition to Ciccone. This time, he stored the chip lead for good.
Leng in the end received the bracelet with no sweat. Leng defended his huge blind, check-called a flop guess and check-raised all in on a board of Ok4
2
9
. Ciccone referred to as with Ok
6
, however was drawing lifeless in opposition to Leng’s Ok
9
.
The river was an irrelevant 3 and Leng secured his second bracelet.
Here are the ultimate desk outcomes:
Place | Player | Earnings |
1 | Ryan “Adopt_aDoggo” Leng | $108,654 |
2 | Carmine “Shem22” Ciccone | $67,303 |
3 | Raman “Acrogum” Afanasenka | $46,350 |
4 | Ankush “Rickrosstheb” Mandavia | $32,465 |
5 | Krishna “ninjago” Kalidas | $23,124 |
6 | Yueqi “anoob” Zhu | $16,673 |
7 | Denis “ojlimpson” Gnidash | $12,370 |
8 | Dan “Albacazapada” Stavila | $8,290 |
9 | Jonas “puffin_nails” Wexler | $7,119 |