Sasha Sabbaghian Wins 2024 World Series of Poker Circuit Graton Main Event

The 2024 World Collection of Poker Circuit Graton Resort and On line casino $1,700 no-limit maintain’em important occasion drew 580 entries, simply surpassing the $500,000 assure to construct a remaining prize pool of $877,185. After a pair of beginning flights and two extra days of motion, Sasha Sabbaghian emerged victorious together with his first WSOPC gold ring and the highest prize of $168,015.

This was the most important event rating but for Sabbaghian, who hails from Granite Bay, California. He now has practically $624,000 in profession earnings to his identify, with 81 cashes and 4 titles.

Along with the cash and the {hardware}, Sabbaghian was additionally awarded 840 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors for the win. This was his second POY-qualified final-table end of the yr.

The ultimate day started with 9 gamers remaining and two-time bracelet winner Marco Johnson within the lead. Sabbaghian was second in chips when playing cards received it the air. Johnson ended up ending sixth for $28,557. The Northern California native now has practically $4.4 million in lifetime tournaments cashes. Johnson ran pocket eights into the pocket jacks of WSOPC ring winner Bob Mather to slip towards the underside of the chip counts and was eradicated shortly after that.

Regardless of scoring that huge double up, Mather was finally the following to fall. He received all-in with 54 trailing the 77 of Michael Persky, who received two WSOPC important occasions in California inside a couple of months of one another final yr. Persky’s pair held up and Mather was knocked out in fifth place ($39,067). He now has $949,000 n profession earnings after this newest deep run.

Persky’s run ended when his A-8 bumped into the A-Q of Mitchell Tsang. Persky earned $54,475 because the fourth-place finisher.

A traditional preflop race spelled the top of Peter Yang’s event. He received all-in with A-10 going through the pocket sevens of Sabbaghian, who had overtaken the lead throughout short-handed motion. Neither participant improved and Yang was knocked out in third place ($77,399).

Heads-up play started with Sabbaghian holding greater than a 2:1 lead over Tsang. Within the remaining hand, Sabbaghian min-raised to 500,000 from the button with A9 and Tsang three-bet shoved with AQ from the large blind. Sabbaghian referred to as and the board ran out Okay101079, bringing a 9 on the river to safe the pot for Sabbaghian.