Daniel Vampan Wins $3,000 Limit Hold’em 6-Max

The ultimate day of Occasion #25: $3,000 Restrict Maintain’em (6-Handed) has concluded on the 2024 World Collection of Poker at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. After the mud has settled, Las Vegas native Daniel Vampan has emerged victorious after a dominant remaining desk efficiency to take residence $148,635 and his first gold bracelet.

The occasion attracted 248 whole entrants to generate a complete prize pool of $662,160. Solely 10 of these preliminary entrants discovered a bag for Day 3 to battle it out for the highest prize.

Winner’s Response

Vampan recalled a pivotal second from Day 2 that helped enhance him to victory.

“I had 2,000 chips, at 3,000/5,000 limits, and I tripled as much as 6,000, then I had like six-nine off within the massive [blind], and it got here ten-nine-five flip 9 and I beat queen-ten… it was at that second that I used to be like, oh, I’m going to win this event… I simply had this bizarre feeling, like I simply knew it was going to occur…”

Though his greatest money based on The Hendon Mob is $345,000 as a consequence of a Twenty fourth-place end within the 2023 WSOP Fundamental Occasion, the 35-year-old California native is usually a restrict money sport participant.

“Yeah, my dad is definitely an ex-professional restrict maintain’em participant so , I might sneak into the Commerce and the Bike once I was like 18/19 so I have been taking part in restrict for a really very long time.”

Vampan does admit that he hasn’t been capable of play as a lot as he used to, nonetheless, as he has been busy engaged on a enterprise he and his pal are creating within the agricultural sector, with a launch date nonetheless TBD.

Day’s Motion

Ten gamers took their seats right this moment for Day 3 (4 of them named Daniel), nevertheless it wasn’t very lengthy earlier than Daniel Idema hit the rail in tenth ($11,157), adopted by Daniel Budovsky in ninth ($13,276). Then Yi ‘Kat’ Klassen (Eighth-$13,276) and Daniel Maczuga (Seventh-$17,704) busted nearly concurrently at separate tables to carry the remaining six to the official remaining desk.

First to exit after that was Frank Yakubson who obtained all of it in with pocket sixes on the flip, however Vampan had made a pair of sevens to ship him residence after the river offered no assist.

Subsequent to go was legend Roland Israelashvili who simply made his 501st WSOP money however fell simply wanting a bracelet when he tangled with Nick Caltabiano. Each gamers flopped a pair of threes and obtained all of it in, however Roland’s six-kicker was no good towards the kin-kicker of Caltabiano and he was despatched to the payout desk in fifth place.

After that, there was a whole lot of chip-trading happening and at one level, three of the 4 gamers had been just about even, with Robert Wells forward by a great margin. After one other degree or so, it was Lucas Wagner who had dwindled to turn out to be a brief stack and obtained all of it in preflop towards Caltabiano and Vampan. After checking via the flop, Caltabiano guess Vampan out on the flip and tabled a pair of queens towards the seven-five suited of Wagner. A 5 appeared on the river nevertheless it was too little too late and Wagner was despatched out in fourth place.

A 3-handed battle then ensued as every participant took turns holding the chip lead, however earlier than lengthy, it was Vampan who began operating away with the lead after making some massive key arms. Caltabiano then turned very brief and obtained all of it in preflop towards Wells who lined. Caltabiano’s queen-ten had Wells’ jack-ten dominated, however Wells ended up making a straight on the flip and the clean river despatched Caltabiano out because the third-place finisher.

Vampan Closes Out

Wells and Vampan then went into heads-up play with an enormous chip disparity, as Vampan held a 6:1 chip lead. As everybody is aware of, something can occur heads-up, however that was not the case as each gamers obtained all of it in on the flip with a pair and straight draw, however the river bricked out and Vampan’s superior pair secured him the victory and left Wells because the occasion’s runner-up.

This obtained an enormous response from Vampan’s rail, who had been current for the reason that late Ranges of Day 2 yesterday, and so they all swarmed the desk to have fun their pal’s first bracelet, chanting “{Hardware}! {Hardware}!”

That wraps up the protection for Occasion #25: $3,000 Restrict Maintain’em, however make sure to hold a tab open on PokerNews for all 2024 WSOP motion and extra!