David Einhorn based and manages a hedge fund with billions of {dollars} value of property below administration, and is himself reportedly a billionaire, however that gained’t take a lot of the sting away from the $500,000 cooler he skilled within the Bahamas.
The occasional high-stakes participant sat right down to battle it out within the Triton Million occasion on the World Sequence of Poker Paradise pageant, however was eradicated on the primary hand of the $500,000 event, which options the most important buy-in of the 12 months.
The occasion kicked off on Saturday, Dec. 7 at Atlantis Paradise Island Bahamas. The event options pairings of beginner {and professional} gamers who collectively put up $1,000,000, with early motion break up into two fields. Einhorn was within the beginner part, with an preliminary beginning stack of 1,000,000 and blinds of two,000-3,000 with an enormous blind ante of three,000.
Sinan Unlu opened to 7,000 and was three-bet by Jared Bleznick, a former poker professional turned sports activities card enterprise proprietor. Bleznick, recent off a clear sweep over Patrik Antonius in PokerGO’s Excessive Stakes Duel 5, made it 25,000 to go together with A
A
, prompting Einhorn to four-bet to 77,000 out of the large blind with A
Okay.
Bleznick five-bet to 225,000 and Einhorn shoved for the total 1,000,000. Bleznick rapidly referred to as together with his pocket aces and the board ran out Okay828
7 to see Einhorn eradicated simply minutes into the event.
Bleznick, a WSOP bracelet winner and the champion of the 2023 Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl Pot-Restrict Omaha occasion, jumped out to an early chip lead within the occasion whereas Einhorn hit the rail. This occasion permits for a single re-entry, with late registration open up till the beginning of Sunday’s day 2.
A number of hours after being knocked out, Einhorn had not but availed himself of his choice to purchase into this occasion once more. The 56-year-old has almost $5.3 million in poker event cashes to his identify, however has not made the cash in a reside occasion in over 5 years now.
His largest rating got here when he completed third within the first-ever $1 million buy-in poker event again in 2012. He earned over $4.3 million for that deep run within the inaugural Large One For One Drop, and donated all of it to an training nonprofit group.
FIRST Triton MILLION Bust Out!
David Einhorn 6-bet All in with AK, and Jared Bleznick snap referred to as. Einhorn was proven the dangerous information operating into Jared’s A A.
The board ran out clear A A> AKfor the primary Triton Thousands and thousands participant felled.
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— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) December 7, 2024
This event is one among 15 bracelet occasions enjoying out on the WSOP Paradise from Dec. 6-19, with $68.5 million in assured prize cash to be paid out alongside the best way. There are many excessive stakes affairs on the schedule, together with $100,000 and $50,000 buy-ins in each no-limit maintain’em and pot-limit Omaha, in addition to a $25,000 buy-in seller’s alternative occasion and the $25,000 buy-in $50,000,000 assured ‘tremendous major occasion’.
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