Yunkyu Song Wins WPT Prime Playground Championship

The 2024 WPT Prime Playground $1,150 CAD buy-in no-limit maintain’em championship drew a large discipline of 1,587 entries, blowing away the $800,000 CAD assure to lead to a prize pool value greater than $1.1 million when rendered in USD.

After 4 beginning flights and two extra days of motion, it was American Yunkyu Music who emerged victorious. The Washington State resident walked away with the trophy and the highest prize of $164,251. He now has greater than $1.1 million in profession cashes to his title.

This was the third-largest rating but for Music, who’s having fairly the yr on the circuit. He has made 9 closing tables up to now, with this being his first outright victory. Amongst these deep runs have been his two largest stay cashes. The primary of these noticed him earn $197,443 for a third-place end in a $2,000 buy-in at this yr’s World Sequence of Poker. He added one other $181,430 for one more third-place displaying, with this one coming in a $800 buy-in on the Borgata Winter Poker Open.

This newest triumph got here with 1,080 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors. With 3,804 complete factors, Music has surged up the leaderboard and into thirty sixth place within the 2024 POY race standings introduced by International Poker.

Previous to this breakout yr on the stay scene, Music had solely eight recorded cashes for round $60,000 in complete earnings.

Music got here into the ultimate day of this occasion in the midst of the pack with 16 remaining, and was the second-shortest stack when the ultimate desk of 9 was set. He beat A-Okay with A-Q throughout eight-handed motion to double out of the hazard zone, then cracked the pocket aces of Rene Gauvin, flopping journeys and rivering quads with 10-9 earlier than all of the chips went in. Gauvin was left on fumes and was eradicated in sixth place ($35,413) quickly after.

Music doubled with pocket jacks towards the pocket sevens of Zeyu Huang throughout four-handed play. He then bought all-in with a set of sixes towards the overpair of kings for Huang, holding via the flip and river to ship Huang packing in fourth place ($61,430).

Music’s A-J held towards the Okay-J of Alexander Wong (third – $81,666) to provide him 37,500,000 to the 27,300,000 of Kevin Rivest going into heads-up play. Music was in a position to pull even additional forward by the point the ultimate hand was dealt. Rivest raised to 1,500,000 from the button with AQ and Music three-bet to five,500,000 with AJ. Rivest four-bet shoved for 12,500,000 and Music referred to as. The board got here down OkayJ534 and Music’s pair of jacks earned him the pot and the title. Rivest acquired $109,852 because the runner-up finisher.