Sergio Aido Wins World Series of Poker $50,000 Buy-In Event For $2 Million

The largest prime prize paid out to date on the 2024 World Series of Poker is the $2,026,506 earned by Spanish poker professional Sergio Aido. The high-stakes match common bested a large turnout of 177 entries within the $50,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em eight-max occasion to safe the multi-million-dollar rating and his first WSOP gold bracelet.

Aido now has practically $21.4 million in whole lifetime match earnings to his identify, good for second place on Spain’s all-time cash record. He nonetheless has fairly a protracted method to go to attempt to catch as much as his residence nation’s all-time chief, Adrian Mateos, who has practically $48.6 million in profession scores. Mateos added to that haul on this very occasion, actually, ending fourth for $681,554.

This was Aido’s first win and seventh final-table end of 2024. He earned 1,326 Card Player Player of the Year factors because the champion, sufficient to see him surge up the rankings and into fourth place within the 2024 POY standings offered by Global Poker.

He additionally locked up 800 PokerGO Tour factors, climbing to seventh within the season-long standings for that high-stakes-centric factors race.

The $8,451,750 prize pool for this occasion was in the end paid out between the highest 27 finishers, with a min-cash being price $101,724. Big names like Mikita Badziakouski (nineteenth), Chris Brewer (18th), Artur Martirosian (twelfth), Martin Kabrhel (tenth), and Leon Sturm (ninth) all made deep runs.

Aido knocked out Sturm to set the official closing desk of eight. Mixed martial arts ring announcer Bruce Buffer made a career-best poker exhibiting on this occasion, inserting eighth for $212,423 after working A-Ok into the pocket kings of Jonathan Jaffe. He now has greater than $551,000 in profession earnings.

Aido knocked out Johannes Straver (seventh – $276,987) and Jaffe (sixth – $367,577) to additional develop his stack heading into short-handed play. Swedish on-line legend Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom stored tempo by knocking out two-time bracelet winner Jesse Lonis (fifth – $496,293).

Mateos’ run on this occasion was ended by Aido, whose Ok-7 suited held towards the Q-8 suited of Mateos. Aido made journeys to ship his countryman to the rail and take an enormous lead into three-handed motion.

Blom slid to the underside of the counts because the night time wore on, dropping an all-in confrontation with three-time bracelet winner Chance Kornuth to fall beneath ten large blinds. He rebuilt a bit from there, however ultimately ran right into a cooler state of affairs with prime and backside pair on the flop towards prime and center pair for Kornuth. All the chips went in at that time, and Kornuth held to get rid of Blom in third place ($951,727). This was the third-largest match rating but for the Swede.

Aido held a slim lead over Kornuth when heads-up play started. Kornuth edged forward briefly, however Aido quickly regained management and prolonged his benefit in time for the ultimate hand of the match.

Kornuth min-raised to 1,000,000 from the button with J9 and Aido known as with 96 from the massive blind. The flop got here down 966 and Aido checked his journeys. Kornuth wager 700,000 and known as when Aido check-raised to 2,600,000. The 2 flip gave Kornuth a flush draw to go along with his nines and sixes. Aido wager 5,800,000 and Kornuth known as. The 3 accomplished the board and Aido moved all-in. Kornuth took a couple of minutes within the tank earlier than making the decision, solely to be proven a flopped full home by his opponent.

Kornuth earned $1,351,000 because the runner-up, which is his new highest match payday. He now has practically $18.2 million in recorded earnings.

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

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