High-stakes professional and poker commentator Nick Schulman earned his fifth World Series of Poker bracelet on Tuesday, taking down the $25,000 High Roller and banking $1,667,842. Noel Rodriguez completed runner-up, settling for a career-best payday of $1,111,897.
The outcomes shouldn’t be too stunning, on condition that at one level with eight gamers left, the 2 gamers mixed for practically half of the chips in play. But that’s precisely when an enormous cooler developed that threatened ICM catastrophe.
With blinds at 100,000-200,000 with a 200,000 large blind ante, Rodriguez raised to 700,000 from the small blind with A
Okay
. To begin the hand, each had about the identical dimension stacks at round 11 million with Rodriguez simply barely forward of his opponent.
Schulman regarded down at Q Q
within the large blind and rapidly three-bet to 2.5 million. Rodriguez riffled his chips a bit and finally introduced that he was all in.
Schulman referred to as, visibly uneasy concerning the scenario, and the 2 chip leaders had been out of the blue enjoying for a pot price 21.2 million. Exiting in eighth would imply amassing simply $153,302 in comparison with the seven-figure paydays for the highest two spots and in the meantime, there have been two gamers remaining with lower than 15 large blinds.
The pocket queens had a 57% probability to win the pot, because of some folded outs. The winner would have a mountain of chips afterward, and the opposite can be left with not far more than an unlucky story.
“I didn’t know what the f**k to do,” stated Rodriguez.
“It’s not a fun spot to be in,” replied Shaun Deeb, who was additionally on the last desk.
The flop got here 10 8
5 and Schulman remained forward. The flip was the J, giving Rodriguez two extra outs, however the river was the 8, transport the pot to Schulman.
Watch the total hand beneath.
Nick Schulman (@NickSchulman) goes all in for the chip lead or an early exit
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Schulman would go on to make use of his newfound chips to bully the desk and run away to victory. Rodriguez was left with solely 500,000, however regardless of being left the brief stack he waged a valiant comeback, doubling up a couple of instances quickly after this large hand.
It wasn’t lengthy till he was out of the hazard zone completely and again in second place. Although he was by no means in a position to critically problem Schulman once more for the title, he did effectively to earn himself a a lot larger money.
Deeb in the end completed in eighth place for $153,302, whereas bracelet winner Ben Heath took fifth for $376,762. You can learn the total event recap right here.
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