Jamie Walden Wins 2024 WSOP $1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty Event

The 2024 World Collection of Poker $1,979 Poker Corridor of Fame no-limit maintain’em bounty occasion drew 1,119 entries, constructing a complete prize pool of $1,970,906. After three days of poker motion it was British poker participant Jaime Walden who emerged victorious with the bracelet and the highest prize of $313,370.

This was the fifteenth profession money and second recorded title for Walden, who hails from Tisbury, England. He now has $417,532 in complete earnings to his identify.

This event was first launched in 2021, making this the fourth annual operating. The bizarre buy-in worth level stems from the founding date of Poker’s Corridor of Fame, which was established in 1979. Corridor of Fame members who performed every sported a bounty that corresponded to the 12 months they had been inducted. For the sake of instance, 2024 inductee Patrik Antonius would have been price $2,024 to get rid of.

The highest 167 finishers made the cash on this occasion, with large names like 2014 WSOP principal occasion winner Martin Jacobson (nineteenth), 10-time bracelet winner and Corridor of Famer Erik Seidel (seventeenth), Poker Corridor of Fam member Jack McClelland (fifteenth), bracelet winner Martin Finger (sixth), Ankit Ahuja (fifth), and Adam Hendrix (4th).

Frequent high-stakes event participant David Stamm completed third for $148,183, leaving Walden heads-up with Naseem Salem for the bracelet. Salem held roughly a 6:5 chip result in begin, however the two traded the lead earlier than Walden pulled forward for the ultimate time. Within the final hand of the even, Salem raised to 2,500,000 on the button with 97 and Walden referred to as from the massive blind with 103. The flop got here down Ok97 and Walden checked along with his flush draw. Salem guess 2,000,000 and Walden check-raised all-in Salem referred to as along with his nines and sevens. The 8 on the flip accomplished Walden’s flush, leaving Salem in want of a 9 or seven on the river. The Q appeared as an alternative and Salem was despatched residence in second place ($208,919).