The biggest prime prize paid out to this point on the 2024 World Collection 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 title, good for second place on Spain’s all-time cash record. He nonetheless has fairly an extended solution 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, in reality, ending fourth for $681,554.
This was Aido’s first win and seventh final-table end of 2024. He earned 1,326 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors because the champion, sufficient to see him surge up the rankings and into fourth place within the 2024 POY standings offered by World 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. Huge 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. Combined martial arts ring announcer Bruce Buffer made a career-best poker exhibiting on this occasion, putting eighth for $212,423 after working A-Okay 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 saved tempo by knocking out two-time bracelet winner Jesse Lonis (fifth – $496,293).
Mateos’ run on this occasion was ended by Aido, whose Okay-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 Likelihood Kornuth to fall beneath ten huge 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 of the chips went in at that time, and Kornuth held to eradicate 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 J
9 and Aido referred to as with 9
6 from the large blind. The flop got here down 9
66 and Aido checked his journeys. Kornuth wager 700,000 and referred to as when Aido check-raised to 2,600,000. The two flip gave Kornuth a flush draw to go along with his nines and sixes. Aido wager 5,800,000 and Kornuth referred to as. The three
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’s a have a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the closing desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
PGT Factors
1
Sergio Aido
$2,026,506
1326
800
2
Likelihood Kornuth
$1,351,000
1105
700
3
Viktor Blom
$951,727
884
571
4
Adrian Mateos
$681,554
663
409
5
Jesse Lonis
$496,293
553
298
6
Jonathan Jaffe
$367,577
442
221
7
Johannes Straver
$276,987
332
166
8
Bruce Buffer
$212,423
221
127
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