James Obst started enjoying poker critically on-line as a teen in his residence nation of Australia. He battled his approach to the highest on the web and commenced to make his presence felt on the life event scene by the early 2010s. In 2017, he gained his first World Collection of Poker bracelet, taking down the $10,000 razz championship for $265,354.
Then in 2018, on the age of 27, Obst introduced that he’d be stepping away from poker to pursue a profession in skilled tennis. He had been a critical participant in his youth, however put his aspirations to the aspect after coping with some well being challenge as a youthful participant.
After just a few years away from reside poker, Obst returned to the WSOP in 2023 and made a number of deep runs, together with a fourth-place end within the $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship. He hadn’t missed a beat, so far as his abilities on the desk have been involved.
Just some weeks into the 2024 WSOP, Obst has managed to emerge victorious along with his second bracelet. He topped afield of 107 entries within the $10,000 seven card stud championship to safe the {hardware} and the highest prize of $260,658. He now has greater than $3.5 million in recorded event earnings to his title.
Obst scored 600 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors and 261 PokerGO Tour factors for the win.
Solely the highest 17 finishers earned a share of the $995,100 prize pool on this occasion. Large names that ran deep included four-time bracelet winner Brad Ruben (seventeenth), three-time bracelet winner Chad Eveslage (14th), bracelet winner and 2019 WSOP most important occasion third-place finisher Alex Livingston (eleventh), two-time bracelet winner Yuval Bronshtein (tenth), four-time bracelet winner Yuri Dzivielevski (eighth), bracelet winner Andre Akkari (seventh), two-time bracelet winner Juha Helppi (sixth), and five-time bracelet winner Robert Mizrachi (fifth).
Obst knocked out Mizrachi gained his fifth bracelet simply shy of two weeks earlier within the vendor’s alternative championship. Obst made jacks as much as ship Mizrachi to the rail with $61,190.
Mike Lang was the subsequent to fall, as he bumped into an ace-high flush for bracelet winner Jason Daly. Lang walked away with $83,932 because the third-place finisher. It took greater than three hours for the subsequent elimination to come up. Regardless of busting Lang in fourth, Daly was in the end the subsequent participant to be despatched residence. He received all-in on fifth road with an ace-high flush draw in opposition to nines-up for Obst. Daly ended up with only a pair of eights by seventh road and was knocked out in third place ($118,809).
Obst entered heads-up play with 3,535,000 to 2,890,000 for three-time bracelet winner Paul Volpe. he was in a position to prolong that benefit because the night time wore on. Kings up for Obst in one of many closing pots noticed Volpe left on fumes because the hour strategy 3:00 AM.
Volpe was quickly all-in with three to a flush going through a break up pair of fours for Obst. Volpe was unable to make his flush or a pair larger than fours, which meant his run got here to a conclusion in second place ($173,391). He now has almost $9.9 million in recorded event earnings throughout 292 in-the-money finishes.
Here’s a take a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the closing desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
PGT Factors
1
James Obst
$260,658
600
261
2
Paul Volpe
$173,391
500
173
3
Jason Daly
$118,809
400
119
4
Mike Lang
$83,932
300
84
5
Robert Mizrachi
$61,190
250
61
6
Juha Helppi
$46,084
200
46
7
Andre Akkari
$35,893
150
36
8
Yuri Dzivielevski
$28,945
100
29
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Photograph credit: PokerGO / Miguel Cortes.
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