A younger man turns into a millionaire and luggage his first World Collection of Poker bracelets whereas a not-so-young man wins his seventh because the WSOP finishes its first week.
Hennigan grabs #7
Poker Corridor of Famer John Hennigan grabbed his seventh WSOP bracelet within the $1,500 vendor’s selection six-max occasion. The win places him in a three-way tie for fourth most bracelets alongside Billy Baxter and Males Nguyen. The match attracted 530 entries and Hennigan took $138,296 for the win.
“Very blissful to win the match. I imply to me, the perfect factor about profitable the match is just not shedding it. Not getting second, or figuring out they’re nonetheless taking part in and wandering round after you go broke,” Hennigan informed WSOP reporters afterwards. “It’s simply very satisfying to come back out on high.”
Hennigan, 53, has performed it six instances prior, all in occasions that characteristic video games aside from no-limit video games. he began his run 24 years in the past with a victory within the 2002 $2,000 stud hi-low occasion for $117,320. He scored his second two years later in a $5,000 restrict maintain’em occasion for $325,360.
It took one other 10 years earlier than Hennigan received his third bracelet, and his largest WSOP money, within the 2014 $50,000 Poker Participant’s Championship, good for $1.5 million. He received three extra within the $10,000 “championship” occasions: 2016 triple draw deuce-to-seven lowball championship ($320,103), the 2018 H.O.R.S.E. championship ($414,692), and the 2019 stud championship ($245,451).
He additionally received the $5,000 Ante up for Africa occasion on the 2008 WSOP, nevertheless it wasn’t a bracelet occasion. In complete, he has 55 WSOP cashes for $6.3 million.
He was inducted into the Poker Corridor of Fame in 2018.
New millionaire minted
Malcolm Trayner was born the yr Hennigan received his first bracelet. The 24-year-old from Turramurra, Australia by no means even performed in a WSOP occasion in Las Vegas earlier than getting into the $1,000 Thriller Hundreds of thousands, which has shortly turn out to be one of many extra common occasions of the WSOP.
Trayner received his first bracelet and the $1 million high prize yesterday, topping a gargantuan subject of 18,409 entries who constructed a prize pool of $16,199,920. Caesars took $300 of every entry for a gross of $5,522,700.
Though that is Trayner first time on the Large Kahuna that’s the WSOP, he has 71 cashes in reside and on-line occasions, in line with the Hendon Mob. The 70 cashes earlier than his largest totaled near $500,000.
Right here’s what he informed WSOP reporters on how he felt after his win:
“A little bit of combine, every part. A lot of pleasure. Overwhelmed. I simply I can’t consider what’s occurred. A number of happiness as properly.
I imply, not gonna lie, I used to be a bit nervous getting in, like, I made a number of errors earlier on with falling out of flip and issues like that.
However as soon as I bought used to it and settled, then it was only a matter of doing what I’ve performed a number of instances or many instances earlier than, on-line and reside as properly. Simply taking part in last desk and simply attempt to disassociate from the cash and simply take into consideration the chips you’ve in entrance of you and simply attempting to win everybody else’s chips. That was my purpose.”
Aim achieved.
