9 years after capturing his first World Collection of Poker bracelet, Arash Ghaneian has battled his manner again to the winners circle. The 2015 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. champion topped a discipline of 167 entries within the 2024 WSOP $10,000 stud eight-or-better championship to earn $376,476 and his second gold bracelet.
Happily for Ghaneian, the circumstances surrounding this newest victory have been a lot happier than the primary time round. Throughout his run to his first bracelet, Ghaneian’s spouse acquired scary medical information in regards to the twins she was carrying. The problem required surgical procedure instantly. Fortunately, the process went off with no hitch simply days after Ghaneian’s victory, with mom and kids all coming by way of properly.
This time round, there have been no potential medical emergencies to watch. Ghaneian overcame a tricky last desk, and survived an prolonged heads-up conflict with Richard Sklar that required the addition of an unplanned fourth day of play for a winner to be determined.
Ghaneian, a finance dealer from Las Vegas, now has greater than $1,373,000 in profession event earnings to his identify after this most up-to-date triumph. He additionally earned 780 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors and 376 PokerGO Tour factors for popping out on high.
The $1,553,100 prize pool for this occasion was cut up amongst the highest 26 finishers, with large names like bracelet winner Dario Sammartino (twenty sixth), five-time bracelet winner Adam Friedman (twenty fifth), three-time bracelet winner Chris Vitch (twenty second), bracelet winner Naoya Kihara (18th), bracelet winner Owais Ahmed (seventeenth), bracelet winner Michael Noori (sixteenth), longtime WSOP commentator Norman Chad (fifteenth), four-time bracelet winner Brad Rubin (twelfth), Michael Rocco (eighth), bracelet winner Andrey Zhigalov (seventh), bracelet winner Dario Alioto (sixth), Eric Wasserson (fifth), and bracelet winner Todd Brunson (4th) working deep.
After current $1,000 pot-limit Omaha runner-up Thomas Taylor bowed out in third place ($173,533), the ultimate two fought on for a bit earlier than motion was halted for the night time on the finish of day 3. Play resumed at 1:00 PM native time with Sklar main Ghaneian 28 large bets to 22. A champion wasn’t decided for almost 9 hours. Finally, Ghaneian took the lead and stretched it.
Within the last hand Ghaneian made a wheel to greatest the pair of sixes and 8-6-3-2-A low of Sklar for a scoop. Sklar earned a career-best event rating of $250,984 because the runner-up.
Here’s a have a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the last desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
PGT Factors
1
Arash Ghaneian
$376,476
780
376
2
Richard Sklar
$250,984
650
251
3
Thomas Taylor
$173,533
520
174
5
Todd Brunson
$122,663
390
123
6
Eric Wasserson
$88,686
325
89
7
Dario Alioto
$65,620
260
66
8
Andrey Zhigalov
$49,715
195
50
9
Michael Rocco
$38,589
130
39
Photograph credit: WSOP / Spenser Sembrat.
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