Lei Yu Wins World Series of Poker Paradise $5,000 Deepstack Bracelet

There have already been six bracelets awarded in dwell occasions on the 2024 World Collection of Poker Paradise pageant, which quantities to only shy of half of the in-person tournaments on the schedule. There are additionally two on-line bracelet occasions included within the choices for this 12 months’s WSOP Paradise, which is working from Dec. 6-19 at Atlantis Paradise Island within the Bahamas.

The most recent champion to emerge is China’s Lei Yu. He defeated a area of 363 complete entries within the $5,000 no-limit maintain’em deepstack occasion to earn $293,050 and his first gold bracelet.

This was the most important recorded rating but for Yu, topping the $134,125 he earned for successful a KRW 10,000,000 ($7,395) facet occasion on the World Poker Tour Korea cease this spring for $134,125. Yu now has greater than $805,000 in profession earnings.

Yu additionally scored 1,200 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors for this win. With two last tables and this one victory, Yu has surged up the rankings and into 393rd place within the 2024 POY standings offered by World Poker.

The $1.8 million prize pool for this event was paid out among the many prime 51 finishers. Loads of large names ran deep, together with 2024 WSOP) important occasion fifth-place finisher Boris Angelov (forty fifth), Ana Marquez (forty first), 2019 WSOP important occasion champion Hossein Ensan (fortieth), 2019 WSOP important occasion sixth-place finisher Zhen Cai (thirty eighth), bracelet winner Nick Maimone (twentieth), and 2022 World Poker Tour World Championship important occasion winner Eliot Hudon (tenth).

Excessive-stakes event common Fahredin Mustafov completed sixth for $79,800. He was eradicated by Slovenia’s Blaz Zerjav. Brazilian on-line event crusher Bruno Volkmann (fifth – $103,490) was the following to fall, along with his A-6 being outflopped by the A-5 of Romanian bracelet winner Vlad Darie.

Regardless of scoring that knockout, Darie was quickly making his technique to the payout desk. His Ok-Q suited was unable to come back from behind in opposition to the A-Ok suited of Rokas Asipauskas. Darie added $134,210 to his lifetime haul, which now sits at greater than $4.6 million.

Zerjav made a straight in opposition to the highest two pair of Asipauskas to finish his run in third place ($174,050). He entered heads-up play with Yu holding the lead, however an early coin flip turned the tables. Yu’s pocket tens held in opposition to A-Q. Zerjav flopped a pair of queens however Yu backed right into a queen-high straight to overhaul the lead.

Zerjav was capable of battle again out in entrance, however Yu doubled up once more with Ok-Q besting A-8. The ultimate hand noticed the entire chips go in after a 865. Zerjav held 87 for prime pair and an open-ended straight draw. Yu was forward with AA for an overpair and the nut flush draw. The 8 flip improved Zerjav to journey eights, however the 4 on the tip gave Yu a successful flush. Zerjav earned $225,720 because the runner-up. He now has greater than $1.7 million in lifetime cashes to his title.