Vikenty Shegal Wins Venetian High Roller For $136,000

The PokerGO Tour has returned to Venetian Las Vegas this week for a trio of excessive curler no-limit maintain’em occasions unfold from May 5-7. The kickoff match featured a $10,000 buy-in, with a complete of 34 entries made earlier than registration was formally closed. The $340,000 prize pool was divvied up among the many high 5 finishers, with the lion’s share going to eventual champion Vikenty Shegal.

Shegal is on a formidable run thus far this 12 months. This was his first title and eighth final-table end of 2022, with $772,721 in earnings secured alongside the best way. With 1,355 Card Player Player of the Year factors, he’s now ranked 57th within the 2022 POY race, which is sponsored by Global Poker. He additionally earned 136 PokerGO Tour factors for the win, sufficient to see him transfer inside attain of the highest 30 in that factors race.

Shegal knocked out Sam Soverl in seventh place, then eradicated Elvis Toomas on the cash bubble to take lengthen his chip lead heading into five-handed motion. His rampage continued when his flush beat the 2 pair of Daniel Colpys (fifth – $23,800) to slim the sector to 4.

Dylan Linde was the one different participant moreover Shegal to attain a knockout inside the cash. His pocket nines held in opposition to the J-9 of Alex Foxen, who flopped a straight draw and turned a flush draw. Linde flopped backside set, and improved to a full home on the river to ship Foxen dwelling with $37,400. This was Foxen’s twelfth final-table end of the 12 months, with greater than $1.6 million in POY earnings accrued to date. As a results of his spectacular consistency, he now sits in sixth place within the POY standings and fifth on the PGT leaderboard.

Isaac Kempton was the following to fall. The Wynn Millions principal occasion runner-up and up to date PGT Heads-Up Showdown semi-finalist four-bet shoved with A-3 suited, solely to run into the pocket jacks of Shegal. The huge pair held as much as see Kempton end third for $54,500 and 150 POY factors. He is now ranked fifth on the leaderboard and is fourth within the PGT race.

A preflop cooler introduced this match to an finish. Shegal limped in with 1010 and known as Linde’s shove. Linde revealed pocket 99. The board ran J329Q. Linde overtook the lead with a set on the flip, however Shegal backed right into a flush to take down the pot and the title. Linde, a bracelet winner and World Poker Tour champion, earned $88,4000 because the runner-up.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on this occasion:

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