Lebanese Player Closes Great 2024 With Merit Poker Gatsby Gala Main Event Victory

Nichan Khorchidian’s two largest poker match paydays have each are available in $3,300 buy-in no-limit maintain’em major occasions held at Crystal Cove Resort and On line casino in Benefit, Cyprus. He kicked off 2024 with a runner-up exhibiting within the Benefit Poker Western Collection major occasion, incomes $252,500 to set a brand new private finest. On the primary day of December, he managed to prime that exhibiting, defeating a discipline of 614 entries within the championship occasion of the Gatsby Gala Collection on the identical venue to take residence $307,700.

The Lebanese participant now has almost $925,000 in recorded match earnings, with nearly all of that cash coming from his two enormous scores in Cyprus.

Khorchidian additionally earned 1,260 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors for the win. When mixed with the 1,050 he secured for his runner-up exhibiting initially of 2024, his complete sits at 2,310 factors. That places him simply outdoors the highest 150 on this yr’s standings, that are offered by World Poker.

This occasion featured a $1.5 million assure. The sturdy turnout noticed the ultimate prize pool swell to almost $1.7 million, with the highest 79 finishers incomes a share. A number of huge names ran deep on this occasion, together with current World Collection of Poker major occasion champion Simone Andrian (51st), bracelet winner Nikolay Fal (fortieth), bracelet winner Shai Zurr (thirty sixth), World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour major occasion winner Andrey Pateychuk (seventh), and EPT champion Anton Wigg (4th).

Pateychuk ran Ok-Q into the pocket kings of Adrian State to hit the rail with $51,300. The Russian now has almost $5.3 million in profession earnings after this newest sturdy exhibiting.

Regardless of scoring that knockout, State was in the end the following to fall (sixth – $61,640). Khorchidian then despatched Vedat Yilmaz (fifth – $76,930) to enter four-handed play with the chip lead.

Bogdan Jontulovic moved forward as short-handed play continued, however Khorchidian’s Ok-Q held towards Wigg’s Ok-3 suited to see him rating one other elimination to shut the hole a bit. Wigg is approaching $5 million in profession earnings after including $102,570 along with his efficiency on this match.

The subsequent huge conflict pitted Khorchidian’s AQ towards the A4 of Dmitry Gromov. Each gamers flopped a pair of aces, and Khorchidian’s kicker was the distinction ultimately. Gromov earned $142,470 because the third-place finisher. The 2011 WPT Vienna champion now has greater than $2.5 million in lifetime cashes to his title.

Heads-up play started with Khorchidian holding 34,800,000 to Jontulovic’s 26,600,000. He was capable of stretch that benefit even additional forward of the ultimate hand. Khorchidian open-shoved with A8 from the button for round 11 huge blinds efficient. Jontulovic known as with Ok3 and the flop got here down OkQ10 to see Jontulovic take the lead. The three flip improved him to 2 pair, leaving Khorchidian in want of a jack on the river. The J match the invoice, giving Khorchidian a straight and the title. Jontulovic earned $211,400 because the runner-up. This was the first-ever six-figure rating for the Romanian.