Sasha Sabbaghian Wins 2024 World Series of Poker Circuit Graton Main Event

The 2024 World Series of Poker Circuit Graton Resort and Casino $1,700 no-limit maintain’em principal occasion drew 580 entries, simply surpassing the $500,000 assure to construct a remaining prize pool of $877,185. After a pair of beginning flights and two extra days of motion, Sasha Sabbaghian emerged victorious along with his first WSOPC gold ring and the highest prize of $168,015.

This was the biggest event rating but for Sabbaghian, who hails from Granite Bay, California. He now has almost $624,000 in profession earnings to his identify, with 81 cashes and 4 titles.

In addition to the cash and the {hardware}, Sabbaghian was additionally awarded 840 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. This was his second POY-qualified final-table end of the 12 months.

The remaining day started with 9 gamers remaining and two-time bracelet winner Marco Johnson within the lead. Sabbaghian was second in chips when playing cards received it the air. Johnson ended up ending sixth for $28,557. The Northern California native now has almost $4.4 million in lifetime tournaments cashes. Johnson ran pocket eights into the pocket jacks of WSOPC ring winner Bob Mather to slip towards the underside of the chip counts and was eradicated shortly after that.

Despite scoring that massive double up, Mather was in the end the following to fall. He received all-in with 54 trailing the 77 of Michael Persky, who gained two WSOPC principal occasions in California inside a number of months of one another final 12 months. Persky’s pair held up and Mather was knocked out in fifth place ($39,067). He now has $949,000 n profession earnings after this newest deep run.

Persky’s run ended when his A-8 bumped into the A-Q of Mitchell Tsang. Persky earned $54,475 because the fourth-place finisher.

A traditional preflop race spelled the tip of Peter Yang’s event. He received all-in with A-10 going through the pocket sevens of Sabbaghian, who had overtaken the lead throughout short-handed motion. Neither participant improved and Yang was knocked out in third place ($77,399).

Heads-up play started with Sabbaghian holding greater than a 2:1 lead over Tsang. In the ultimate hand, Sabbaghian min-raised to 500,000 from the button with A9 and Tsang three-bet shoved with AQ from the massive blind. Sabbaghian referred to as and the board ran out Ok101079, bringing a 9 on the river to safe the pot for Sabbaghian.

Tsang cashed for $112,010 because the runner-up.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:

Winner photograph credit score: WSOP / Graton Resort Casino.