Fashionable poker vlogger Brad Owen busted the 2024 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship at Seminole Exhausting Rock Hollywood in sickening vogue as he ran pockets kings into aces.
The “brutal cooler,” documented within the WPT reside updates, occurred on Day 2 inside the cash after beginning the day brief and battling again from beneath 5 large blinds. To make it even sicker, Owen’s opponent, Roman Korenev, flopped a set of aces as Owen turned a set of kings earlier than failing to hit a miracle one-outer.
The WPT World ambassador filmed his elimination in 119th place for $7,000. He additionally performed a $100/$200 no-limit Maintain’em money recreation session on the South Florida property, so count on to see footage of each in an upcoming vlog.
PokerNews caught up with Owen lately on the WPT bestbet Scramble Championship earlier this month, the place he opened up a couple of critical well being scare involving his 8-month-old son.
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There have been 485 gamers who returned for Day 2 and solely 180 of them made the cash.
The bubble burst with the eliminations of Nguyen Le and Jorge Aristizabal throughout Stage 17, organising for a rapid-fire run of eliminations that included WSOP Most important Occasion champions Martin Jacobson (177th – $6,400) and Hossein Ensan (a hundred and seventy fifth – $6,400), all-time Seminole Exhausting Rock title holder Raminder Singh (one hundred and sixty fifth – $6,400), Jessica Dawley (122nd – $7,000) and Aaron Massey (117th – $7,000).
The day ended with Roman Korenev bagging the chip lead as one in all solely two gamers with greater than 100 large blinds, the opposite being Iulian Blebea. Different large stacks embody 2015 WSOP Most important Occasion champion Joe McKeehen and Stephen Tune, who two years in the past clinched the GPI Participant of the Yr distinction with a victory within the WPT Prime Championship for $712,650.
Additionally amongst those that nonetheless have chips is the 2022 GPI POY runner-up Adam Hendrix because the Alaska all-time cash chief seems to be for his first WPT title after a third-place end within the WPT Choctaw Championship earlier this 12 months for $175,000.
The identical is true for Jesse Lonis and Landon Tice, who respectively completed third and second within the WPT Seminole Exhausting Rock Poker Open Championship the identical month for $410,000 and $550,000. The participant who beat them, Josh Reichard, was eradicated on Day 2.
Different gamers who made it to the bagging time embody six-time bracelet winner Jason Mercier, Jeremy Becker, Andrew Voor and Ren Lin.
Day 3 will choose up at midday native time on Dec. 2 with blinds of 15,000/25,000/25,000 with round 90 gamers remaining. Every returning participant will probably be assured a payday of a minimum of $9,600, although all eyes are on the $662,200 up prime for the eventual winner.
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