It took an unscheduled additional day of play principally from an prolonged heads-up battle towards Venkata Tayi, however Vladimir Peck emerged victorious within the $2,500 blended triple draw lowball occasion for his first World Series of Poker bracelet.
The Chicago-based software program engineer isn’t knowledgeable grinder however has been a severe leisure participant for nearly 20 years. He has a handful of six-figure scores on his resume relationship again to 2005 and advised WSOP reside reporters that he has been on the East Coast for the final 10 years enjoying blended video games at Borgata and Parx.
Peck defeated a 253-entry subject so as to add one other six-figure payday to his checklist of poker accomplishments. He netted $134,390 for his efforts, whereas Tayi left with $83,056 for his runner-up end. Peck additionally added 612 factors within the Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by Global Poker.
Though they have been the final two gamers remaining, Peck and Tayi took very totally different routes to heads-up play. Tayi spent most of the ultimate desk at or close to the highest of the chip counts, whereas Peck was the quick stack battling to remain alive on a number of events.
“I know I made a few folds that I would usually never make, but there were these big stacks and suddenly the bets were so big,” Peck advised WSOP reside reporters about being quick on chips for a lot of the ultimate desk. “You pick a hand to get involved in and that’s your tournament right there.”
The remaining 12 gamers returned on Sunday, which was scheduled to be the final day of the occasion, which featured a combination of badugi, A-5 and 2-7 triple draw, and the sector was trimmed to the ultimate desk after only a few hours of play.
Three-time bracelet winner Brian Yoon was main the best way whereas Portuguese on-line sensation Joao Vieira was the quick stack. Vieira chipped up by way of the early levels of the ultimate desk, whereas Yoon slid on the leaderboard as stacks started to even out across the desk for probably the most half.
Hal Rotholz, nevertheless, turned the quick stack after dropping a non-showdown pot to Aaron Rogers in Badugi the place there was a guess on each road. Rotholz was left with crumbs after calling a guess earlier than the draw and after the primary one in a three-way 2-7 triple draw pot towards Rogers and Peck.
He was formally eradicated in sixth by Tayi in 2-7 when Tayi made an 8-6-5-3-2 towards Rotholz’s 5-4-3-2 draw.
Five-handed play noticed Peck battle to remain alive for a pair hours, clinging to only a handful of massive bets. He ended up preventing lengthy sufficient for Yoon to lose a pair pots and find yourself because the quick stack. Yoon was eradicated in fifth by Vieira, who made a 7-6-4-2 badugi towards Yoon, who solely ended up with a two-card hand.
Once Yoon was gone, Peck confirmed indicators of life. He doubled by way of Tayi after which notched Rogers with a 10-dugi towards a Jack-dugi in a hand of badugi that noticed betting on most streets.
Rogers hit the rail in fourth each he and Vieira made a 9-dugi, however Vieira’s 9-3-2-A notched Rogers 9-6-2-A. The elimination as soon as once more left Peck because the quick stack with about 4 massive bets, whereas Tayi held about two-thirds of the chips in play.
Over the following two hours, nevertheless, chips evened out among the many three finalists with Peck finally leaping Vieira, sitting second in chips behind solely Tayi. Peck received an important pot towards Vieira in A-5 when Peck picked off a river bluff with 7-6-5-3-A towards Vieira’s pair of threes. The pot left Vieira with lower than two massive bets and was eradicated by Tayi after the bounds have been raised.
Tayi began heads-up play towards Peck with barely lower than a 2-to-1 chip lead, however with limits getting greater and stack sizes getting shallower, the ultimate two ranges of play for the evening noticed chips fly and the lead change a number of occasions. At about 3 a.m., the 2 gamers agreed to bag up for the evening and are available again on Monday with chips proper about the place they have been two hours earlier, however with stacks considerably shallower and solely about 14 massive bets in play between each of them.
On Monday, Tayi received the primary important pot, however from there it was all Peck. After an hour into an unscheduled fourth day of motion, Peck’s J-6-5-3-2 bested Tayi’s pair of nines in 2-7 to ship the bracelet to Peck.
Final Table Results:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Vladimir Peck | $134,390 | 612 |
| 2 | Venkata Tayi | $83,056 | 510 |
| 3 | Joao Vieira | $57,558 | 408 |
| 4 | Aaron Rogers | $40,443 | 306 |
| 5 | Brian Yoon | $28,818 | 255 |
| 6 | Hal Rotholz | $20,828 | 204 |
Photo Credit: WSOP/Danny Kim
