The 2024 World Poker Tour World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas is nearing its finish. The marquee foremost occasion wrapped up on Saturday night time, with Scott Stewart capturing the $2.6 million high prize. Whereas that occasion performed out, a number of different large tournaments additionally topped champions. Beneath is a take a look at the outcomes from these contests.
WPT World Championship $3,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em $3 Million GTD
A complete of 1,570 entries had been made within the $3,000 no-limit maintain’em occasion that ran from Dec. 18-21, simply surpassing the $3 million assure to construct a last prize pool of $4,317,500. The highest 195 finishers made the cash, with six-figure scores for the ultimate seven.
Ultimately, Adam Hendrix and Ian O’Hara struck a heads-up deal that resulted in Hendrix incomes the highest payout and the trophy. Hendrix walked away with $629,000 for the win, a brand new excessive rating for the Alaskan poker professional. He was additionally awarded 1,620 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors, sufficient to catapult him into thirty fifth place within the 2024 POY standings introduced by World Poker. This was his second title and eighth final-table end of the 12 months.
Hendrix now has greater than $7.7 million in lifetime earnings. O’Hara additionally secured his largest profession money, strolling away with $541,246. His lifetime haul grew to over $4.9 million.
Different notables that ran deep included WPT champion Qing Liu (Thirteenth), reigning World Sequence of Poker foremost occasion champion Jonathan Tamayo (twelfth), WPT champion Justin Younger (tenth), and rising match star Jeremy Becker (fifth). This was the twenty seventh POY-qualified rating of the 12 months for Becker, which is tied with Ari Engel for essentially the most of any gamers on the circuit. Becker now sits in sixteenth place because of his spectacular consistency.
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Adam Hendrix
$629,000
1620
2
Ian O’Hara
$541,246
1350
3
David McGowan
$354,316
1080
4
Cameron Rezaie
$277,939
810
5
Jeremy Becker
$217,907
675
6
Julio Fantin
$166,068
540
7
Derek Kwan
$124,789
405
8
Emmanuel Mckenzie
$91,686
270
9
Daniel Bekavac
$67,159
135
WPT World Championship $3,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Six Max $500K GTD
Ren Lin is closing out 2024 with a flurry of deep runs. The highest POY contender has made the cash in 11 dwell occasions for the reason that begin of November, together with making 5 last tables. Only a day faraway from a second-place end in a $5,000 turbo bounty occasion on the WSOP Paradise, Lin managed to journey all the best way from The Bahamas to Las Vegas and emerge victorious within the $3,000 six-max no-limit maintain’em occasion at this pageant.
Lin earned $180,000 and 900 POY factors for his second title and twenty third final-table end of the 12 months. He now sits in seventh place on the leaderboard heading into the ultimate week of the 12 months.
The match drew 373 entries to greater than double the $500,000 assure. The $1,025,750 prize pool was cut up up amongst 47 gamers that cashed, together with bracelet winner Cherish Andrews (nineteenth), bracelet winner Shawn R. Daniels (twelfth), WPT champion and bracelet winner Ryan Tosoc (tenth), 2024 Borgata Winter Poker Open champion Alex Queen (sixth), five-time bracelet winner Calvin Anderson (fifth), and bracelet winner Angel Guillen (third).
Craig Mason earned $156,455 because the runner-up, the second-largest match rating on his resume.
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Ren Lin
$180,000
900
2
Craig Mason
$156,455
750
3
Angel Guillen
$103,527
600
4
Tzur Levy
$81,133
450
5
Calvin Anderson
$62,944
375
6
Alexander Queen
$47,910
300
WPT World Championship $1,100 No-Restrict Maintain’em Seniors Championship $500K GTD
There are two seniors occasions on this sequence’ schedule, each with $500,000 ensures. Whereas the $10,000 buy-in seniors excessive curler is ongoing, the $1,100 buy-in wrapped up on Dec. 19.
Glenn Gillam overcame a subject of 939 whole entries, incomes $112,117 for the win. This was far and away his largest rating on the match circuit, blowing away the $8,220 he secured for a Twenty sixth-place displaying within the 2021 WSOP tremendous seniors occasion.
A number of extremely achieved gamers ran deep, together with Qing Liu (twenty second), bracelet winner Allyn Shulman (18th), two-time bracelet winner Barry Shulman (Thirteenth), and WPT and bracelet winner James Calderaro (fifth). This rating places Calderaro’s profession earnings at almost $6.2 million.
Place
Participant
Earnings
1
Glenn Gillam
$112,117
3
Kenneth Stacy
$91,526
4
David Swenson
$100,105
5
James Calderaro
$48,781
6
Greg Levine
$37,069
7
Jak Ferman
$28,067
8
Kym Attainable
$20,836
9
Sang Kim
$14,940
WPT World Championship $10,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Seniors $500K GTD
Keith Lehr got here out on high of a 127-entry subject within the $10,000 seniors excessive curler occasion, incomes $331,787 for the win.
This was the fourth-largest rating but for the two-time bracelet winner from Bossier, Louisiana. The massive payday sees him approaching $5 million in recorded earnings.
Solely the highest 15 finishers made the cash on this occasion, with notable deep runs made by bracelet winner and WPT champion Scott Eskenazi (sixth) and two-time bracelet winner Barry Shulman (fifth). Shulman recorded 4 cashes at this pageant, together with a fifth-place end within the $1,100 H.O.R.S.E. and his Thirteenth-place displaying within the earlier seniors $1,100 occasion. He now has virtually $6.3 million in cashes throughout greater than 300 in-the-money showings.
Place
Participant
Earnings
1
Keith Lehr
$331,787
2
Dianlei Zhang
$210,172
3
Paul Richardson
$145,383
4
Jordan Siegel
$106,172
5
Barry Shulman
$78,609
6
Scott Eskenazi
$60,505
7
Fiodor Lavagetto
$47,355
8
Steven Michaels
$38,608
9
Richard Kirsch
$32,575
WPT World Championship $10,500 Pot-Restrict Omaha
The ultimate few days of this pageant featured a trio of $10,000 buy-in occasions. Whereas Lehr took down the restricted-entry seniors occasion, the 2 open-field choices had been each received by three-time bracelet winner Jim Collopy.
On Dec. 20 he got here out on high of a subject of 84 entries within the $10,500 pot-limit Omaha occasion, incomes $209,628 and 480 POY factors for the victory.
The ultimate 11 cashed on this occasion, with bracelet winner James Chen (eleventh), bracelet winner Giuseppe Pantaleo (eighth), two-time bracelet winner John Riordan (sixth), and two-time bracelet winner Joao Simao (2nd) amongst those that secured a share of the $840,000prize pool.
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Jim Collopy
$209,628
480
2
Joao Simao
$195,000
400
3
Najeem Ajez
$108,780
320
4
Paul Gunness
$79,800
240
5
Jonathan Borenstein
$59,850
200
6
John Riordan
$46,662
160
7
Philip Shing
$37,380
120
8
Giuseppe Pantaleo
$30,660
80
9
Pedro Rodriguez
$26,040
40
WPT World Championship $10,500 No-Restrict Maintain’em Eight Max
The day after taking down the PLO occasion, Collopy bested a subject of 105 entries within the $10,500 no-limit maintain’em eight-max match so as to add one other $298,147 and 600 POY factors.
This was his sixth title and Twenty sixth final-table end of 2024. With 7,463 whole factors and greater than $3.7 million in POY earnings, Collopy is now ranked eighth within the general standings.
The highest 13 gamers cashed on this occasion, every incomes a chunk of the $1,050,000 prize pool. Two-time bracelet winner Sam Soverel (Thirteenth), WPT champion Matthew Wantman (twelfth), Xuan Liu (tenth), two-time bracelet winner Jesse Lonis (seventh), and Joao Simao (4th) had been among the many notables who ran deep.
Lonis sits in third on the POY leaderboard, having received three titles and made 23 last tables in 2024. He accrued almost $6.7 million throughout these scores this 12 months.
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Jim Collopy
$298,147
600
2
Qiang Xu
$187,950
500
3
Michael Berk
$130,725
400
4
Joao Simao
$95,812
300
5
David Chen
$72,188
250
6
Michael Jozoff
$55,125
200
7
Jesse Lonis
$43,838
150
8
Ky Nguyen
$35,700
100
WPT World Championship $3,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Progressive Bounty $300K GTD
The $300,000 assured $3,000 progressive knockout occasion ended with 296 entries, which made for an $814,000 prize pool.
The ultimate knockout of the match was secured by Matthew Sabia, who earned $92,056 and $69,500 in bounties to stroll away with $161,556 in whole prize cash.
The Pennsylvania resident now has greater than $1.2 million in earnings to his identify after this, his third recorded match victory.
The highest 39 finishers cashed, with large names like Arthur Morris (thirtieth), David Coleman (fifteenth), and Javier Gomez (sixth) making deep runs.
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Matthew Sabia
$92,056
684
2
Fred Li
$92,056
570
3
Alfie Poetra
$55,328
456
4
Joan Crespi
$41,008
342
5
Yuan Li
$30,362
285
6
Javier Gomez Zapatero
$22,530
228
7
Paul Fisher
$16,840
171
8
Can Miral
$12,841
114
9
Dustin Melanson
$9,999
57
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