Seonguk Huh – Photo Credit: World Poker Tour
Seonguk Huh gained the World Poker Tour Prime fundamental occasion in Taiwan that was hosted by the WPT and Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association. The poker participant from South Korea took dwelling his first WPT Prime title and the highest prize of $197,741, which was by far the biggest money of his poker event profession. Huh was additionally awarded a $10,400 seat within the WPT World Championship in December at Wynn Las Vegas.
The NT$33,000 ($1,064 USD) buy-in no-limit maintain’em event noticed a big turnout of 1,359 entries over three beginning flights that set a report for the biggest WPT Prime fundamental occasion area ever. The high 173 gamers all took dwelling no less than $821 in prize cash from the entire prize pool value $1,237,387 which simply surpassed the $1 million assure. Notable gamers eradicated alongside the way in which to the ultimate desk earlier than the ultimate day of play included WPT Beijing champion Pete Chen (94th), and former WPT Prime Cambodia champion David Erquiaga (161st).
There have been gamers from six completely different nations among the many ultimate 9 when playing cards bought into the air on the ultimate desk, and Huh was proper in the course of the chip counts when play started. Huh wasted no time getting in on the motion by taking out Guillem Segura in ninth place to begin climbing the leaderboard.
Huh stored that momentum rolling by taking Feng Wen Chen in eighth place. Huh was at it as soon as once more when he busted Dongkyu Kim in sixth place. Huh additionally performed a component in taking out Jacky Wang in fourth place, and he held about three-fourths of the chips in play by that time. Huh took out Seung Hun Ko in third place to take a virtually 4:1 chip lead within the ultimate match in opposition to Yannick Leonard.
Huh made fast work of the heads-up ultimate that lasted lower than half an hour as he gained each showdown pot on his path to victory. The ultimate hand noticed Leonard get all in with Okay
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, and Huh awoke with AOkay
in opposition to him. The ultimate board learn Okay
83A2, and Leonard was eradicated in second place, good for $131,790. It was additionally the biggest event rating by far for the Frenchman due to his deep run within the occasion.
Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Seonguk Huh | $197,741 | 960 |
| 2 | Yannick Leonard | $131,790 | 800 |
| 3 | Seung Hun Ko | $97,559 | 640 |
| 4 | Jacky Wang | $72,935 | 480 |
| 5 | Tung Wing Wong | $55,069 | 400 |
| 6 | Dongkyu Kim | $41,990 | 320 |
| 7 | Tao Chang | $32,353 | 240 |
| 8 | Feng Wen Chen | $25,147 | 160 |
| 9 | Guillem Segarra | $19,806 | 80 |
The subsequent cease on the WPT Prime schedule will take the tour to the Grand Casino Liechtenstein for a fundamental occasion in Europe from Sept. 6-11. The complete event sequence runs Aug. 30 – Sept.11 and you may see the schedule proper right here.
