Calvin Anderson took down the 2024 World Sequence of Poker $10,000 eight-game championship, besting a troublesome area of 189 entries to earn his fifth profession gold bracelet and the highest prize of $413,446.
Anderson turned simply the forty first participant in WSOP historical past to have gained 5 or extra bracelets. The victory was apparently significantly particular for Anderson, given the format which incorporates eight of the most well-liked variants of poker.
“You’re enjoying a bunch of various video games towards the entire high gamers, I performed towards tons of actually, actually good gamers alongside the way in which. I ran good however I believe I performed rather well too, there’s loads of spots the place I’m tremendous pleased with the way in which that I performed. Feels good to do the entire issues proper,” Anderson instructed WSOP reporters.
This was the third-largest rating of Anderson’s profession. It elevated his lifetime earnings to almost $7.2 million.
Along with the {hardware} and the cash, Anderson was additionally awarded loads of rankings factors for this win. The 840 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors he secured have been sufficient to see him climb to 69th place within the 2024 standings, that are offered by International Poker. This was his fourth POY-qualified rating of the yr, and first title. He additionally earned 413 PokerGO Tour factors. With 1,085 earned to this point, he now sits in eleventh place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.
This match performed out over the course of three days on the outskirts of the 2024 WSOP fundamental occasion. The 189-entry turnout constructed a prize pool of $1,757,700 that was paid out among the many high 29 finishers. Amongst those who ran deep have been two-time bracelet winner Chris Brewer (sixteenth) and Maxx Coleman (thirteenth), bracelet winner Danny Wong (twelfth), five-time bracelet winners Adam Friedman (eleventh) and Yuri Dzivielevski (tenth), bracelet winner Maksim Pisarenko (ninth), bracelet winner and three-time World Poker Tour champion Gus Hansen (eighth), and bracelet winner Andres Korn (seventh).
The ultimate desk included the likes of two-time bracelet winner Tom Koral (sixth – $66,353), poker triple crown winner Mike Watson (4th – $126,780), and bracelet winner Ali Eslami (third – $182,938).
Japan’s Dai Ishibashi earned a career-best payday of $271,351 because the runner-up.
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
Calvin Anderson
$413,446
840
413
2
Dai Ishibashi
$271,351
700
271
3
Ali Eslami
$182,938
560
183
4
Michael Watson
$126,780
420
127
5
Paul Gunness
$90,389
350
90
6
Tom Koral
$66,353
280
66
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