Yinan Zhou took down 2024 World Collection of Poker Paradise $25,000 tremendous foremost occasion, which featured the biggest assure in event poker historical past: $50,000,000. The 24-year-old Chinese language participant topped a subject of 1,978 complete entries within the no-limit maintain’em affair that ran from Dec. 12-19 at Atlantis Paradise Island Bahamas, incomes his first WSOP gold bracelet and the large $6,000,000 high prize.
Previous to this multi-million-dollar triumph, Zhou’s high dwell rating was the $72,200 he earned because the Twenty eighth-place finisher within the inaugural WSOP Paradise $5,000 foremost occasion final yr. The primarily online-focused participant had one recorded six-figure money to his title, which fittingly got here together with his runner-up displaying in a $1,000 buy-in WSOP On-line occasion final fall.
“I’ve no plan [for the money]… it’s huge cash. Now I really feel good. I resolve to play extra, apply extra, examine extra to turn into higher and higher, to battle towards the very best and turn into the very best,” Zhou mentioned in his post-win interview on WSOP’s streaming broadcast.
Along with the cash and the {hardware}, Zhou was additionally awarded a large haul of Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors. Regardless of not having any prior POY-qualified scores, the three,780 he earned with this victory catapulted him into 54th place within the 2024 POY standings introduced by International Poker.
There have been 1,124 entries made throughout the 4 dwell beginning flights for this event, with one other 254 day 2 late registrants and 600 on-line entrants, bringing the full to 1,978. The highest 299 finishers earned a chunk of the massive prize pool, with none apart from 17-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth being the final to be eradicated outdoors of the cash.
Loads of huge names ran deep on this occasion, together with Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl winners Christoph Vogelsang (thirty second) and Rainer Kempe (thirty first), two-time bracelet winner Chris Klodnicki (twenty sixth), bracelet winner Roland Rokita (twenty second), bracelet winner Nick Maimone (18th), Sorel Mizzi (sixteenth), POY contender Ren Lin (eleventh), and 2003 WSOP foremost occasion champion Chris Moneymaker (tenth), who ran pocket nines into the pocket jacks of bracelet winner and 2010 European Poker Tour San Remo champion Liv Boeree.
The ultimate day started with four-time bracelet winner Michael Addamo out in entrance and Zhou in sixth chip place.
The primary knockout of on the last desk noticed quick stack Georg Lehmann run A-9 into the A-J of Addamo, additional including to the Australian’s lead. The German walked away with $750,000 for his ninth-place displaying, guaranteeing seven-figure paydays for the remaining contenders.
The primary participant to assert such a payout was Belarus’ Vadzim Lipauka. He referred to as off his final 14 huge blinds with A
8 from the large blind going through a small-blind shove from Mustapha Kanit, who rolled over Q
4. Kanit spiked high pair and held from there on a Q
9
53J board to get rid of Lipauka in eighth place ($1,000,000).
Justin Bonomo made headlines when he claimed on social media that he was requested to take away a Palestinian keffiyeh or face disqualification on the penultimate day of this occasion. The American poker professional got here near including to his assortment of three bracelets, however was in the end knocked out in seventh place when his pocket threes bumped into the pocket jacks of Yinan Zhou. Bonomo picked up a gutshot straight draw on the flop to go together with his outs to a set, however was unable to enhance any additional and accept $1,300,000. He stays in second on poker’s all-time cash record, with this newest deep run rising his lifetime haul to $67.7 million.
Regardless of beginning the day because the chip chief, Addamo was in the end the subsequent to fall. He misplaced a giant pot with two pair towards the turned broadway straight of Yinan Zhou to slip down the leaderboard and continued to development downward from there. He ultimately bought all-in with QJ trailing the Okay8 of Boeree, The group playing cards that rolled off the deck had been 109396, which ended Addamo’s run in sixth place ($1,650,000). He now has greater than $29 million in lifetime earnings after this, his eighth seven-figure rating.
sixth place and $1,650,000 for Michael Addamo within the Tremendous Foremost Occasion. A improbable efficiency! He began the day because the chip chief, however after operating into some powerful spots all through the day, he completed in sixth place. #GG #wsopPARADISE pic.twitter.com/kGB70bggmS
— WSOP – World Collection of Poker (@WSOP) December 19, 2024
Christopher Nguyen ran A-7 suited into the A-10 of Boeree to lose a bit of his stack. He then bought his final handful of huge blinds in with J-10 trailing the pocket queens of Kanit. Nguyen flopped a gutshot, however was unable to hit on the flip or river and was eradicated in fifth place ($2,100,000). This was by far the biggest dwell event rating but for the German, who’s at the moment among the many high contenders within the ongoing CoinPoker Money Sport World Championship.
A traditional preflop race spelled the tip of Boeree’s run on this occasion. She open shoved for simply over six huge blinds with 44 from the cutoff. Marcelo Aziz, who gained his means into this occasion at no cost by way of an internet satellite tv for pc on GGPoker, referred to as from the button with A8 and the 963AQ runout noticed Boeree head to the payout desk to gather a career-high payday of $2,800,000. This sum additionally set the file as the biggest single payout ever earned by a feminine participant, surpassing the $2,748,605 that Wenling Gao earned because the runner-up within the 2020 WSOP On-line foremost occasion. Boeree advised Poker.org’s Tiffany Michelle in a post-bustout interview that she plans to donate 20 % of her earnings from this occasion to charity.
Because of this record-setting windfall, the previous poker professional turned host of the Win-Win podcast now has greater than $6.5 million in profession cashes. That’s good for fourth place on the feminine all-time event earnings leaderboard, trailing solely Vanessa Selbst ($10,899,027), Kristen Foxen ($9,348,349), and Kathy Liebert ($7,113,052).
Liv Boeree shares her ideas on her wonderful run within the Tremendous Foremost Occasion! Catch her interview with @JeffPlatt now. #wsopPARADISE #Poker pic.twitter.com/v7OdFm6Us1
— WSOP – World Collection of Poker (@WSOP) December 19, 2024
Three-handed play lasted for roughly two hours. After loads of back-and-forth maneuvering, Kanit was in the end the subsequent to be eradicated. Shortly after profitable a race to double into the chip lead, he tried a multi-street bluff with seven excessive that was regarded up by Zhou’s full home. Whereas that value him the lead, he was removed from quick stacked after that hand. He then ran sevens and fives into the queens and jacks of Zhou, although, to fall to round 15 huge blinds. In his last hand he bought all-in with A3 going through 98 of Aziz. Each gamers picked up flush attracts by the flip, however Aziz rivered a pair of eights on a OkayQ268 board to win the hand. Kanit now has practically $16.4 million in lifetime cashes, placing him simply over 1,000,000 away from surpassing Italy’s all-time cash chief Dario Sammartino ($17.4 million).
Heads-up play started with Aziz holding 578,000,000 to Zhou’s 412,000,000. Zhou managed to edge his means in entrance after which started to drag away, just for Aziz to double up with A-7 besting A-8 in a preflop all-in showdown. The 2 took a dinner break not lengthy after that, and returned after an hour to proceed their battle for the bracelet.
By the point the ultimate hand arose, Zhou held greater than a 2:1 benefit. Zhou limped in from the button for 12,000,000 complete with A6 and Aziz shoved for 285,000,000 holding Okay6. Zhou shortly referred to as and was in a dominant place with 5 to come back. Each gamers ended up with journeys after the J7566 board was dealt, with Zhou’s ace kicker being the deciding issue. Aziz earned $4,600,000 because the runner-up, an unbelievable payday in any context, however all of the sweater provided that he gained his means into this occasion by way of a freeroll.
“I’m feeling so grateful for this second,” Aziz advised WSOP’s Jeff Platt after his cinderella story on this event got here to an finish.
A giant congratulations to Yinan Zhou, the Tremendous Foremost Occasion winner, claiming $6,000,000! Hats off to Marcelo Aziz Junior for ending 2nd in an unbelievable efficiency. #wsopPARADISE #Poker pic.twitter.com/lBEuuBWEmD
— WSOP – World Collection of Poker (@WSOP) December 20, 2024
Here’s a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the last desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Yinan Zhou
$6,000,000
3780
2
Marcelo Aziz
$4,600,000
3150
3
Mustapha Kanit
$3,600,000
2520
4
Liv Boeree
$2,800,000
1890
5
Christopher Nguyen
$2,100,000
1575
6
Michael Addamo
$1,650,000
1260
7
Justin Bonomo
$1,300,000
945
8
Vadzim Lipauka
$1,000,000
630
9
Georg Lehmann
$750,000
315
Photograph credit: WSOP Reside stream / X account.
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