The 2024 World Sequence of Poker Europe is within the last stretch. The 15-event collection kicked off on Sept. 24, and can conclude later this week on Oct. 9. The marquee €5 million assured €10,350 no-limit maintain’em principal occasion is presently ongoing, with simply over 100 contenders remaining from the 768 that entered.
Whereas that match continues its march in the direction of deciding a champion, one other a lot brisker affair performed out elsewhere contained in the match space at Kings Resort Rozvadov. The €1,000 no-limit maintain’em turbo freezeout drew 152 entries, and took only a single day to slim that area all the way down to a winner.
When the mud settled, Zewei Ding was the one participant left standing. The Chinese language participant earned his first WSOP gold bracelet, the highest prize of $39,240, and 288 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors. This was Ding’s first-ever WSOP money.
The highest 24 finishers earned a share of the $156,510 prize pool on this occasion, with notables like bracelet winner Bernd Gleissner (twenty third) and Or Nezer (nineteenth) amongst those who ran deep.
Ding was virtually left on fumes early on the last desk. He bought all-in with pocket kings towards the pocket aces of Dirk Schumacher, who then hit high set on a A
Q
J flop. The flip introduced the ten
to offer Ding the broadway straight and the lead. The 6 on the tip modified nothing and Schumacher was eradicated in tenth place ($2,922).
Ding scored a double-knockout of Maximilian Huber (ninth – $3,296) and Erik van Hulst (eighth – $3,894) to slim the sphere to seven. His subsequent elimination got here when his A
5 beat the A4 of De Han Kim, with 4 diamonds on the board giving him the ace-high flush. Kim earned $11,597 for his robust exhibiting. This was his second last desk of the collection, having additionally positioned ninth within the turbo bounty occasion just some days earlier.
The ultimate two knockouts have been made with premium fingers for Ding. His A-k held towards the A-2 of Gal Naim (third – $16,799) to set a heads-up conflict towards Stepan Khachaturyan. Only a handful of offers after that, Ding limped from the button with OkOk and known as the shove of Khachaturyan, who held 53. The board got here down Ok75103 and Ding’s high set of kings secured him the pot and the title. Khachaturyan walked away with $25,230 because the runner-up.
Here’s a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on this occasion:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Zewei Ding
$39,240
288
2
Stepan Khachaturyan
$25,230
240
3
Gal Naim
$16,799
192
4
De Han Kim
$11,597
144
5
Pel Nieuwenhuis
$8,313
120
6
Marco Jansen
$6,195
96
7
John Trast
$4,809
72
8
Erik van Hulst
$3,894
48
9
Maximilian Huber
$3,296
24
Picture credit score: WSOP, Kings Resort / Tomas Stacha.
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