As a battle rapper, Argentina’s Alejandro Lococo is used to performing below stress in entrance of enormous crowds with glory on the road. Tonight within the Bahamas, Lococo used that aggressive drive to take down Occasion #2: $1,000,000 Triton Million at World Collection of Poker Paradise for $12,070,000 and his first bracelet.
The distinctive collaboration between WSOP and Triton, which drew 96 entrants for a $44,603,000 prize pool, paired one of the best high-stakes gamers on the earth like Alex Foxen (sixth – $2,795,000) and runner-up Benjamin Heath ($8,160,000) with deep-pocketed VIPs like David Einhorn (14th – $865,000) and Sosia Jiang ($1,605,000).
With $2.8 million in earnings and a WSOP Major Occasion last desk look in 2021, Lococo, a VIP within the occasion, was someplace in between the 2 teams.
“I am a rapper. I do not examine the sport. I simply attempt to do one of the best in each single hand,” Lococo advised PokerNews in a winner’s interview. “I really like the sport and I attempt to win after all, however I am not utilizing solvers (or) … working sims. It’s a must to be actually, actually skilled and make investments loads of hours of your life to beat these guys.”
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Lococo’s palms weren’t sweaty as he battled on Day 3 of the $500,000 buy-in match. Nor had been his knees weak. However his arms had been in truth heavy as he hoisted the golden Triton trophy in triumph, alongside together with his first WSOP bracelet.
“I do not know learn how to clarify it,” he mentioned. “It is superb, like (I am) dreaming. I knew that in some second of my life, it was going to return, my bracelet. I used to be feeling actually (good) with my recreation.”
It was a victory that nearly by no means occurred because the PokerStars ambassador was initially planning on being at EPT Prague. “Typically the world (conspires) in your favor.”
The bluffs additionally helped. Lococo is not any stranger to going for the win and appeared to make all the proper selections as he raised and re-raised his opponents off arms. “In all probability if I play like 200 occasions with these guys, they are going to discover (an) superb technique (towards me). However fortunate for me, I beat them in my first Triton.”
A number of Spanish and South American execs cheered for Lococo and posed for winners pictures, together with Juan Pardo, Eleventh-place finisher Adrian Mateos and Argentina’s all-time cash chief Nacho Barbero.
Whether or not when battle rapping or working deep in a match, Lococo mentioned Argentinians again dwelling are consistently rooting for him. “I really like Argentina. I feel all of the Argentinians love Argentina.”
The victory places Lococo second on the nation’s all-time cash checklist, and he plans to meet up with Barbero. “After all, man. I’m a competitor. I am not f***ing stopping proper now.”
Day 3 Motion
Along with his darkish hoodie and a baseball cap masking his face, Lococo regarded like an Argentinian B-Rabbit as he went into battle on Day 3. The sphere of 14 gamers reached a last desk inside an hour with the eliminations of Stephen Chidwick, Esti Wang, Likelihood Kornuth and Einhorn, who was on the lookout for a implausible comeback story after being eradicated on the primary hand of the match and benefiting from his second bullet.
The high-VPIPing Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek dominated the primary two days of motion, however the back-to-back chip chief’s reign ended as he fell in ninth by the hands of Heath.
Jiang was subsequent to go after three-bet jamming with king-queen solely to be dominated by the ace-king of Daniel Dvoress. Issues continued to go the Canadian’s approach as he eradicated Aleksejs Ponakovs and Foxen.
Lococo took over from there as he eradicated Finland’s Elias Talvitie, who had a miraculous spin-up however finally fell in fifth as his prime pair was crushed by Lococo’s rivered straight. Lococo then eradicated Dvoress and Turkey’s Sinan Unlu to have a dominant chip lead over Heath.
The British high-stakes professional wanted loads of luck on his facet to beat Lococo and did not get it. Within the last hand, Heath had ace-king to dominate Lococo’s king-deuce however could not fade a deuce on the flop.
That wraps up PokerNews’ protection of a historic occasion within the Bahamas. Keep tuned for stay updates on different occasions all through WSOP Paradise.
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