Xixiang Luo will go down in poker historical past because the first-ever champion of a double board bomb pot occasion on the World Collection of Poker. The Chinese language participant outlasted 1,312 entries within the new $1,500 buy-in event, which featured a mixture of each pot-limit Omaha and no-limit maintain’em, to earn $270,820 and his first WSOP gold bracelet.
This was Luo’s ninth recorded event win total, bringing his profession earnings to almost $2.9 million. This was his second title of 2024 alone, having taking down an Asian Poker Tour Jeju event for $309,091 this spring. The 960 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors Luo secured for his win on the WSOP introduced his complete to 2,368, which is nice for fiftieth place within the total POY standings offered by International Poker.
The event was not completely contended over double board bomb pots, through which each participant antes and preflop motion is skipped. These particular pots occured solely on the primary hand of each sport change between PLO and NLH.
The highest 197 finishers earned a reduce of the $1,751,520 prize pool on this occasion, with five-figure scores for the ultimate 23. Simply 16 contenders moved on to the third and remaining day of motion, with Luo within the lead.
Loads of achieved gamers made deep runs on this event, together with two-time bracelet winner David Prociak (nineteenth), bracelet winner Dario Alioto (thirteenth), bracelet winner Dejuante Alexander (eleventh), bracelet winner Gaby Livshitz (seventh), and rising event crusher Quan Zhou (fifth).
David Funkhouser hit the rail in fourth place ($91,891) when his Ok-8 suited bumped into the A-J of bracelet winner William Kopp. Regardless of incomes that knockout, Kopp was in the end the following participant to fall. He bought all-in with Ok
4 dealing with the pocket eights of Daniel Hachem, son of 2005 WSOP principal occasion champion Joe Hachem. The pocket pair held and Kopp settled for $127,925 because the third-place finisher.
Luo held the lead over Hachem when heads-up play started. The 2 swapped the lead a couple of instances, but it surely was Luo on prime when the ultimate hand was dealt throughout a spherical of PLO. Hachem limped on the button with A
Ok
107. Luo raised to 1,800,000 from the massive blind with J1098 and Hachem made it 5,600,000 to go. Luo known as and the flop got here down 997. Luo moved all-in together with his journey nines and wrap straight draw. Hacken known as together with his flush draw and two pair. The 5 flip and 4
river despatched the pot and the title to Luo. Hachem earned a career-high rating of $180,541 because the runner-up.
Here’s a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Xixiang Luo
$270,820
960
2
Daniel Hachem
$180,541
800
3
William Kopp
$127,925
640
4
David Funkhouser
$91,891
480
5
Quan Zhou
$66,930
400
7
Gaby Livshitz
$37,044
240
8
Robert Cote
$28,161
160
Go to the Card Participant 2024 World Collection of Poker web page for schedules, information, interviews, and the most recent occasion outcomes. WSOP protection sponsored by International Poker.
Photograph credit score: PokerGO / Miguel Cortes.
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