Tirza Sanders Wins World Poker Tour World Championship Ladies Title

Tirza Sanders first cashed in a reside poker match occasion in 2011, ending fifteenth in a low-stakes affair at that 12 months’s Aussie Thousands and thousands competition down underneath. The Arizona resident has managed 14 extra in-the-money finishes since then, together with her newest being by far her greatest.

On Sunday, Dec. 15 Sanders took down the 2024 World Poker Tour World Championship $1,100 no-limit maintain’em women championship, incomes her first reside title and the highest prize of $90,432. Sanders is now approaching $130,000 in complete match cashes because of this massive win at Wynn Las Vegas.

This was the third annual operating of this occasion. This 12 months the match sported a $250,000 assure. With 485 entries, the ultimate prize pool swelled to $479,450. The highest 60 finishers made the cash, with massive names like Alexandra Loveless (forty eighth), 2022 champion of this match Lina Niu (twenty eighth), bracelet winner Allyn Shulman (twelfth), and Mid-States Poker Tour champion Kyna England (eleventh) all making deep runs.

The ultimate day started with all the 60 gamers who cashed remaining, with Jenny Ding out in entrance. By the point the ultimate desk was set, Sinead Davenport had overtaken the highest spot whereas Sanders had climbed to take a seat in fourth chip place.

Sanders’ first knockout noticed her win a three-way all-in with pocket jacks towards the pocket eights of Sara Ralston and Ok-10 of Mikiyo Aoki. Sanders’ hand-held to see her eradicate Aoki in seventh place ($15,522) and take a bit out of Ralston’s stack. After Krisha Augerot bowed out (sixth – $20,770), Sanders received one other all-in with Ok-J besting the Q-8 suited of Ding to slim the sphere to 4. Ding earned $27,318 for her fifth-place end.

The knockouts simply stored coming for Sanders. She subsequent flopped with nut flush with A10, leaving Ralston and her A3 drawing lifeless. The flip and river have been mere formalities and Ralston was eradicated in fourth place ($35,833).

Sanders then received a preflop race (pocket fives vs. J-8 suited) to eradicate Sinead Davenport in third place, giving her 9,150,000 to the 5,000,000 of Jana Delacerra when heads-up play started. The ultimate showdown for the title lasted a few hours, with the ultimate hand pitting Sanders’ OkQ towards the A9 of Delacerra. The board got here down Ok867J and Sanders’ flopped pair of kings earned her the victory. Delacerra walked away with $58,987 because the runner-up.