June 29 was one other busy day on the fifty fifth Annual World Collection of Poker, with 4 bracelet occasions coming to an in depth. Elie Nakache received the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha championship and Colin Robinson took down the $2,500 no-limit maintain’em occasion. These two had been then joined within the winner’s circle by Ben Collins and Nikolay Fal, who triumphed within the $500 no-limit maintain’em Salute to Warriors and the $1,500 stud eight-or-better, respectively. Beneath is a more in-depth have a look at the outcomes from the latter tournaments.
Occasion 67 – $500 Salute to Warriors No-Restrict Maintain’em
The Salute to Warriors drew a area of 4,517 entries, with $40 from every $500 buy-in being donated to United Service Organizations and different entities benefitting veterans. After these contributions had been put aside, there was $1,851,970 in prize cash and a gold bracelet to play for. After three days of poker motion, Ben Collins got here away with the {hardware} and the highest prize of $207,486.
This was the biggest reside rating but for the UK resident, who performed professionally on-line over a decade in the past.
Collins was one of many 678 gamers that cashed on this occasion, with huge names that ran deep together with 2006 WSOP important occasion champion Jamie Gold (436th), 2015 WSOP important occasion seventh-place finisher Pierre Neuville (124th), and Vladas Tamasauskas (fifteenth).
The highest three finishers walked away with six-figure paydays, with Tolga Gesli incomes $105,360 for third and Stavros Petychakis cashing for $138,423 because the runner-up.
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Ben Collins
$207,486
660
2
Stavros Petychakis
$138,423
550
3
Tolga Gesli
$102,360
440
4
Paul Serrate-Cortes
$76,338
330
5
Rami Hammoud
$57,420
275
6
Dane Harnett
$43,564
220
7
Ben Snodgrass
$33,341
165
8
Siavash Bahri
$25,742
110
9
Gerald Schnierer
$20,052
55
Occasion 69 – $1,500 Stud Eight-or-Higher
Nikolay Fal scooped his first bracelet because the champion of this yr’s $1,500 stud eight-or-better occasion. Fal topped a area of 611 entries to earn $153,730.
This was Fal’s third-largest rating, trailing the $326,153 he secured because the 2022 Benefit Western Poker Collection $3,300 buy-in occasion winner and the $230,000 he was awarded for successful a $2,700 buy-in occasion on the 2017 Thousands and thousands Russia competition. Fal now has greater than $1.6 million in lifetime earnings.
There have been loads of huge names among the many 92 gamers that earned a slice of the $815,685 prize pool for this occasion. Amongst those that made it right down to the ultimate few tables had been five-time bracelet winner Eli Elezra (eleventh), bracelet winner Joseph Couden (ninth), Jon Turner (eighth), and two-time bracelet winner Yuval Bronshtein (sixth).
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Nikolay Fal
$153,730
840
2
Christian Roberts
$102,492
700
3
Joseph Hertzog
$70,288
560
4
Kenneth Kemple
$49,127
420
5
Dekel Balas
$35,006
350
6
Yuval Bronshtein
$25,442
280
7
Nikolay Ponomarev
$18,866
210
8
Jon Turner
$14,280
140
Go to the Card Participant 2024 World Collection of Poker web page for schedules, information, interviews, and the newest occasion outcomes. WSOP protection sponsored by International Poker.
Winner photograph credit: WSOP / Eloy Cabacas, Rachel Kay Winter.
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