Faraz Jaka grabbed one other title so as to add to his trophy chest near dwelling in Colorado by successful the Mid-States Poker Tour Bally’s Black Hawk essential occasion on Jan. 26. This was the 39-year-old’s twenty first recorded victory on the circuit, together with a win within the 2023 World Collection of Poker $1,500 shootout occasion. The highest prize for this newest triumph was $127,849, which grew the poker coach {and professional} participant’s profession earnings above $8.3 million.
“I believe I’ve performed 4 tournaments right here at Black Hawk and gained two of them, in order that’s cool. I really feel like I ought to play extra right here as a result of I reside right here. I sometimes play greater buy-ins however since this was in my yard and I had some college students taking part in I assumed I ought to pop in,” stated Jaka after the win.
“I’m tempted to play extra MSPT stops as a result of so most of the folks I coach that is the prize level they play in, and I need to be aware of the gamers right here so I can higher information them… so possibly you’ll begin seeing me at a number of extra of those,” Jaka mused.
“This was a very cool second, I had three of my Jaka Teaching college students right here on the closing desk with me whereas one other (Kaushik Kannan) gained the ultimate occasion, in order that was superior,” he concluded.
The $1,110 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion drew a discipline of 636 entries, making a closing prize pool as much as $615,420 to greater than double the assure of $300,000. The ultimate 68 gamers all cashed for at the least $2,058. That’s what number of gamers got here again for the ultimate day of play for the standard lengthy march all the way down to a champion.
Acquainted faces misplaced alongside the best way on the ultimate day included Mo Nuwarah (54th), Nick Barksdale (fiftieth), DJ Buckley (forty fifth), Steve Wilkie (thirty fourth), Angela Jordison (twenty second), Alex Cruz (twenty first), Justin Lynch (seventeenth), and Antonio Vargas (14th). In any case of that the ultimate 9 had been set, with Jaka on the high of the chip counts.
Jaka then took out Dainwei Solar in ninth place, and Ross Babel in seventh place. Mike Wheeler fell in eighth place in between these bookends. Kelly Mahana was out after that in sixth place, and Jaka obtained again in motion once more when he busted Caden Coleman in fifth place.
Again-to-back MSPT participant of the yr Umut Ozturk then fell by the hands of Jaka in fourth place to take motion all the way down to three-handed. Zach Gutierrez then eradicated Michael Banducci to tug near Jaka earlier than the beginning of heads-up play.
Jaka held a slight 11:9 chip benefit when playing cards obtained into the air between the ultimate two gamers, they usually traded chips backwards and forwards earlier than the ultimate hand of the match performed out.
That hand noticed Gutierrez get all in with A-5, however he was dominated by the A-10 of Jaka. The superior kicker made the distinction in the long run, securing one other match victory together with the MSPT trophy and high prize cash for Jaka. Gutierrez was awarded $77,952 in prize cash because the runner-up, which propelled his profession earnings previous the $700,000 mark.
Right here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Faraz Jaka
$127,849
840
2
Zach Gutierrez
$77,952
700
3
Michael Banducci
$58,000
560
4
Umut Ozturk
$43,032
420
5
Caden Coleman
$32,430
350
6
Kelly Mahana
$24,322
280
7
Ross Babel
$18,710
210
8
Terry Wheeler
$14,968
140
9
Dianwei Solar
$11,226
70
The MSPT tour will proceed with one other essential occasion at Potawatomi On line casino & Resort in Milwaukee, Wisconsin operating from Jan. 30- Feb. 2.
Picture Credit score: Mid-States Poker Tour.
