Sherman Wu Wins Mid-States Poker Tour Bally's Black Hawk Showdown Main Event

Sherman Wu Wins Mid-States Poker Tour Bally’s Black Hawk Showdown Main Event

The 2024 Mid-States Poker Tour Bally’s Black Hawk Showdown Collection $1,100 buy-in $300,000 assured no-limit maintain’em major occasion attracted a discipline of 602 complete entries, practically doubling its assure within the course of. The $586,320final prize pool was paid out among the many high 65 finishers, with the most important share going to eventual champion Sherman Wu. The Boulder, CO resident earned $123,059 for the win. This was his first recorded money in a MSPT match.

Wu additionally earned 840 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors, sufficient to maneuver him to 652nd place within the 2024 POY standings offered by World Poker.

The ultimate day of this match started with the 65 in-the-money finishers returning to Bally’s On line casino in Black Hawk as a way to play all the way down to a champion.

We was among the many large stacks to begin, having bagged up the second-largest stack on the third and remaining beginning flight for this occasion. By the point the ultimate desk was set, Wu sat in fourth chip place.

Wu’s pocket kings held in opposition to the open-ended straight draw of Corey Dodd (seventh – $18,108) to earn him his first knockout on the remaining desk. He additionally had A-2 suited beat 9-8 for Matthew Rice (fifth – $31,007) to proceed his climb up the leaderboard.

Vladas Tamasauskas picked up pocket kings in opposition to the pocket queens of Thomas Fuller (4th – $40,974). He then noticed his pocket queens maintain going through the pocket sixes of Paul Gibbons (third – $55,046) to present the Lithuanian the chip lead going into heads-up play.

Yu had edged his method in entrance forward of the ultimate hand. The chips all obtained in with Wu holding 98 going through the two2 of Tamasauskas. The board ran out J65A7 and Wu rivered a straight to safe the victory.