Lower than a 12 months after profitable his first World Collection of Poker Circuit gold ring, Chicago’s Michael Estes emerged victorious within the 2024 WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Hammond $1,700 no-limit maintain’em predominant occasion together with his second piece of WSOP {hardware}.
Estes beat out a discipline of 746 entries to earn $198,576. This was his second-largest rating but, trailing solely the $293,032 he earned because the fifth-place finisher in a $3,000 buy-in occasion ultimately 12 months’s World Poker Tout World Championship collection at Wynn Las Vegas. His earlier ring was earned for taking down a $400 buy-in occasion on the WSOPC Grand Victoria On line casino cease final November. That victory got here with $48,464 in prize cash.
Estes now has greater than $1.1 million in profession cashes to his title, with 70 in-the-money finishes and three whole titles.
This newest victory additionally noticed him awarded 912 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors. This was his first title and fifth final-table end of 2024. His 1,748 whole factors put him only a few spots shy of the highest 200 within the POY rankings offered by World Poker.
This occasion featured three staring flights and two extra days of motion at Horseshoe Hammond in Illinois, not removed from the Illinois border and Chicago. The ultimate day started with six gamers remaining and Estes atop the chip counts. Max Sheridan was the primary to fall, together with his closing few blinds moving into with A-8. He was bested by the A-Ok of Kris Magruder, which amounted to prime pair, prime kicker by the tip. Sheridan earned $33,426 because the sixth-place finisher.
Magruder additionally scored the second knockout of the day. All the chips went in after a flop of 10
5
5 with Magruder holding A
5
in opposition to the pocket fours of Mark Cahill. The 8 flip and 10 improved Magruder to a full home, whereas Cahill was eradicated in fifth place ($45,789).
Sargon Guliana’s run got here to an finish in fourth place when his prime pair ran right into a turned straight for Estes. The chips went in on the Ok436 board with Guliana’s Ok2 drawing useless in opposition to Estes’ 75. The A on the tip was a mere formality and Guliana was despatched packing with $63,981 for his efforts.
Three-handed play lasted roughly a pair hours, with the stalemate breaking due to the elimination of Kris Magruder in third place. Estes moved all-in on a Q95510 board and Magruder referred to as all-in with 88. Estes rolled over Q10 for queens and tens and Magruder headed to the rail with $91,159.
Estes held almost a 2:1 chip benefit getting into the ultimate showdown in opposition to Keller. The ultimate hand noticed Keller transfer all-in after a Q-10-2-J-2 runout with pocket fours. Estes referred to as with Q-7 to seize the title. Keller walked away with $132,386 because the second-place finisher, his first recorded six-figure rating.
Here’s a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Michael Estes
$198,576
912
2
Grant Keller
$132,386
760
3
Kristopher Magruder
$91,159
608
4
Sargon Guliana
$63,981
456
5
Mark Cahill
$45,789
380
6
Maxwell Sheridan
$33,426
304
7
Mykhailo Lendel
$24,901
228
8
Christopher Weber
$18,937
152
9
Jacob Fishbein
$14,709
76
Photograph credit score: WSOP/ Poker.org, Hayley Hochstetler.
