Thai Ha Wins $1,500 Short Deck Event At World Series Of Poker

Thai Ha – Photo Credit: WSOP / Danny Maxwell

Thai Ha has taken house the gold bracelet within the $1,500 quick deck occasion on the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 13. The Vietnamese poker participant captured his first WSOP title with the victory together with a prime prize price $111,170. In reality, this was his very first event win, and Ha now holds greater than $500,000 in profession earnings.

“It feels great. Short deck is one of the games I play the most and I got second twice already so this time it definitely feels great not to get second again. I feel like short deck is my strongest game,” mentioned Ha to reporters after the win. He additionally had this to say in regards to the heads-up ultimate towards poker skilled David Prociak, “He’s pretty good but I have a little bit more experience in short deck than him so I felt comfortable playing heads up. But he’s good in every game and he’s picking up short deck very fast. He wasn’t an easy opponent”

The event took simply two days to play out, with the ultimate 9 returning for the final day of play. The whole area measurement was set at 363 entries, with the highest 55 min-cashing for $2,413. Notables that made the cash included Stuart Rutter (sixteenth), five-time gold bracelet winner Adam Friedman (twenty third), Patrick Leonard (thirtieth), nine-time WSOP Circuit gold ring winner Roland Israelashvili (thirty first), Alex Epstein (forty fifth), and Martin Zamani (54th).

Ha was third in chips when the ultimate day started, and he took out Marco Exterkotter in eighth place for his first elimination punch of the day. That moved him as much as second in chips with seven gamers remaining on the ultimate desk. Ha then took out Matan Gabay in seventh place to slim the hole between his stack and the chip chief Prociak.

Ha additionally took out bracelet winner Ryan Laplante in fifth place, however Prociak eradicated Robert James in third place to offer him 6.3 million for the ultimate showdown for the title. That meant that Ha had his work lower out for him with 2.8 million in his stack for heads-up play.

Ha fought again over the course of an hour to even up the chip counts, profitable a pivotal hand the place he flopped a nut straight to take the chip lead for the primary time. All of the chips solely received into the center one time between the ultimate two gamers. Ha picked off a bluff from Prociak within the penultimate hand of the event, so Prociak was low when he received all in holding OkJ. Ha wakened with pocket queens, and the board fell AJ887. Prociak took house $68,712 because the runner-up, and the poker skilled with a gold bracelet and two WSOP Circuit gold rings to his credit score bumped his profession earnings above $2 million.

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

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