Brock Wilson Captures Penultimate 2024 Poker Masters Title

Brock Wilson emerged victorious from a subject of 76 entries in occasion no.7 on the 2024 Poker Masters. The skilled participant from New York earned $330,600 and his second PokerGO Tour title because the champion of this $15,100 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion, which was the penultimate event of the sequence. This rating grew Wilson’s profession earnings to greater than $9.7 million.

This was Wilson’s third title and thirteenth final-table end of the yr. The 504 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors he was awarded for this newest victory elevated his level complete to three,992, which is nice for twenty third place within the 2024 POY standings introduced by World Poker.

Wilson additionally moved inside the highest 50 within the season-long PGT factors race because of this win. His 777 factors are sufficient to say the Forty sixth-place spot within the rankings. The 331 PGT factors he earned introduced his sequence complete, which places him in fifth place heading into the final occasion on the schedule.

Wilson was the chip chief heading into day 2. Solely 5 contenders moved on from day 1, though 11 made the cash and earned a share of the $1,140,000 prize pool. Amongst these to money earlier than hitting the rail late on day 1 have been bracelet winner Alex Foxen (eleventh), Victoria Livschitz (tenth), two-time bracelet winner Justin Saliba (ninth), bracelet winner Nicholas Seward (eighth), and four-time bracelet winner Kristen Foxen (sixth).

Latest Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl IX winner Seth Davies ran A-3 suited into the pocket jacks of Wilson to hit the rail in fifth place ($79,800). Not lengthy after that, David Stamm’s Ok-7 didn’t beat out the A-3 suited of Michael ‘Texas Mike’ Moncek to slender the sphere to 3. Stamm earned $108,300 for his fourth-place displaying.

Two-time bracelet winner John Riordan (third – $153,900) awakened with pocket sixes within the huge blind and known as Wilsons shove from the small blind. It was a race, with Wilson holding 10-8. Wilson flopped a pair of tens and held from there to take a large lead into heads-up play with Moncek.

Within the ultimate hand, Wilson shoved with Ok6 from the button and Moncek known as with Q4. The board got here down A1063A and Moncek was eradicated in second place ($216,600). The 2-time bracelet winner now has practically $2.8 million in recorded event earnings to his title after recording two second-place showings throughout this sequence. He additionally earned $165,000 because the runner-up in occasion no. 2. He sits simply forward of Wilson within the series-long factors race with 382.