Georgios Skarparis of Cyprus has received the 2024 World Sequence of Poker $1,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em ‘mini important occasion’, topping a subject of 6,076 entries to earn his first bracelet and $554,925. He informed WSOP reporters that the win was devoted to the reminiscence of his late buddy and scholar Kyriakos Oxinos, who tragically handed away in a site visitors accident in 2023.
This was the biggest match outcome but for Skarparis, topping the $167,070 he earned because the runner-up finisher in a $3,300 buy-in occasion on the 2022 Advantage Summer time Retro Sequence. He now has over $919,000 in profession match earnings.
The 1,320 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors awarded to the winner of this occasion had been sufficient to maneuver Skarparis inside hanging distance of the highest 200 within the 2024 POY standings offered by International Poker.
This occasion took three days to play all the way down to a champion. The highest 912 finishers earned a bit of the $5,346,880 prize pool, however solely 5 superior to the ultimate day. Among the many many notables that ran deep on this occasion had been Tony Miles (404th), Landon Tice (219th), Marsha Wolak (113th), Stoyan Madanzhiev (51st), James Carroll (thirty sixth), and Hunter Frey (ninth).
Kyle Williamson held the chip lead going into day 3, with Skarparis sizzling on his heels. Alexandre Barbaranelli scored the primary knockout of the day, profitable a flip with pocket eights in opposition to the A-Ok of Dirk Bruns (fifth – $158,191). Williamson ended up ending fourth after shedding a few all-in showdowns throughout four-handed play. In his remaining hand, A-Ok was outrun by the Q-J suited of Skarparis. Williamson earned $208,444 for his efforts.
Mikhail Zavoloka received the final of his brief stack in with 10-2, and was unable to beat the Q-6 suited of Barbaranelli and the 6-5 suited of Skarparis. Queen excessive performed in the long run to ship the pot to Barbaranelli. Zavoloka was awarded $276,695 because the third-place finisher.
Skarparis held greater than a 3.5:1 chip lead when heads-up play started. The final hand of the match noticed all the chips go in preflop with Skarparis’ A
9
main the A
3
of Barbaranelli. The board got here down 775102 and Barbaranelli was eradicated in second place ($369,994).
Here’s a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Georgios Skarparis
$554,925
1320
2
Alexandre Barbaranelli
$369,994
1100
3
Mikhail Zavoloka
$276,695
880
5
Kyle Williamson
$208,444
660
6
Dirk Bruns
$158,191
550
7
Josh Prager
$120,950
440
8
Kai Hu
$93,171
330
9
Stefan Widmer
$72,316
220
9
Hunter Frey
$56,557
110
Picture credit: WSOP / Hayley Hochstetler.
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