Jeffrey Hakim Takes Down World Series of Poker Paradise Mini Main Event

With 2,031 entries made throughout 5 beginning flights, the 2024 World Sequence of Poker Paradise $2,500 buy-in mini principal occasion had greater than $5 million in prize cash to award. The highest 306 finishers earned a share, with six determine payouts for the ultimate seven contenders. The biggest payday of all went to eventual champion Jeffrey Hakim, who earned $575,050 and his first WSOP gold bracelet for the win.

“I dedicate it to the child in me, in my 20s, who chased this dream for thus lengthy…you find yourself attending to the purpose the place you don’t assume it could actually occur,” mentioned Hakim in an interview with WSOP’s Jeff Platt after popping out on high. “Undoubtedly hasn’t sunk in, as everybody says.”

This was a brand new career-best rating for Hakim, who has reside outcomes on the WSOP courting again to 2008. Due to this victory, his profession earnings now sit at almost $2.6 million.

The 1,620 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors that Hakim secured because the champion had been sufficient to maneuver him inside the highest 350 within the 2024 POY standings sponsored by World Poker.

Hakim was hardly the one highly-accomplished participant to run deep on this occasion. 5 different gamers among the many remaining 9 had a number of thousands and thousands in prior earnings. World Poker Tour champions Aram Oganyan (ninth – $70,135) and Matas Cimbolas (eighth – $91,020) had been knocked out early on the remaining desk. They had been quickly joined by businessman and high-stakes event common Paul Newey (seventh – $120,600), who now has over $6 million in profession cashes after this sturdy displaying.

Matthew Frankland had completed eighth within the WPT Rock’n’Roll Poker Open $3,500 principal occasion simply days earlier than making this remaining desk. He backed up that deep run with a sixth-place end good for $152,300 and 540 POY factors. Because of this, he climbed to 106th within the POY rankings, with two titles and eight final-table finishes to date in 2024.

Belarus’ Andrei Piatrushchanka eradicated Ryan Gebow (fifth – $202,100) to slim the sphere to 4. Hakim then gained a giant preflop race with OkQ dealing with 77 for Viktor Ustimov. Hakim rivered the nut flush to ship Ustimov to the rail with $261,500, which grew his profession haul to over $3.9 million.

Piatrushchanka held the lead early in three-handed play, however was finally the subsequent to be eradicated. He misplaced a giant one with aces up towards a set of sixes for Hakim to surrender the highest spot on the leaderboard. He then misplaced a giant coin flip with pocket tens towards A-Q for Hakim, which made aces up by the river to remove Piatrushchanka in third place ($344,000).

Hakim took a large chip lead into heads-up play towards one other Belarusian in Alina Paliahoshka. The entire chips quickly went in with Paliahoshka’s A6 dealing with 33 for Hakim. The QJ75Q runout didn’t join with both participant and Paliahoshka was knocked out in second place ($445,400).

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