Masashi Oya emerged victorious from a area of 30 entries within the $51,500 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion on the 2024 Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl Sequence at Benefit Crystal Cove Resort and On line casino in Cyprus. The Japanese poker professional earned $535,000 because the champion, rising his profession event haul to $8.5 million.
Along with the trophy and the cash, Oya additionally secured loads of rankings factors for the win. The 408 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors he was awarded grew his whole to three,234. With two titles and eight final-table finishes, he’s now the Thirty fourth-ranked participant within the 2024 POY standings offered by World Poker. Oya additionally gained 321 PokerGO Tour factors. With 518 whole, he’s no sitting in 79th place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.
The highest 5 finishers made the cash on this occasion, with $1,470,000 break up up between them. Danilo Velasevic was knocked out on the bubble, which meant at the least $120,000 paydays for the remaining contenders. That sum finally went to Sorel Mizzi when his Q-10 bumped into the dominating Q-J of Oya.
An analogous state of affairs performed out within the subsequent huge conflict, with Matthias Eibinger’s Q-J pipped by the Okay-Q of who else however Oya. Eibinger earned $180,000 because the fourth-place finisher. The Austrian now has greater than $22.1 million in profession cashes.
That left Oya thre-handed with four-time bracelet winner Adrian Mateos and six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus.
Mateos was the subsequent to bow out. The Spanish event tremendous star had been whittled down just some huge blinds and ended up getting in with 9-3 dominated by 10-3 for Oya. Mateos was unable to come back from behind and was eradicated in third place ($262,000). This was his second final-table end of the collection, having additionally positioned second in occasion no. 3 for $231,000.
Mateos now has 15 final-table finishes in 2024, with greater than $9.1 million accrued throughout these deep runs. With two titles gained and eight,124 factors, he stays the participant to beat on this 12 months’s POY race. This newest rating introduced his profession earnings to greater than $50 million. He’s simply the tenth participant in poker historical past to surpass that milestone.
Oya held a 5:1 chip lead over Ausmus when heads-up play started. The American battled all the way in which again into the lead, however was quickly overtaken once more. Within the closing hand of the event, Ausmus bought all-in with Okay
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trailing the A6 of Oya on a A
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5 board. The river was the Q and Ausmus was eradicated because the runner-up ($373,000).
Ausmus now has greater than $21.8 million in profession cashes. He’s ranked second within the PGT season-long standings and fifth within the POY race after this newest deep run.
Here’s a take a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the closing desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
PGT Factors
1
Masashi Oya
$535,000
408
321
2
Jeremy Ausmus
$373,000
340
224
3
Adrian Mateos
$262,000
272
157
4
Matthias Eibinger
$180,000
204
108
5
Sorel Mizzi
$120,000
170
72
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