The World Poker Tour took its present to the excessive seas and it was Aram Oganyan who’s the winner of the WPT Voyage Championship, a $5,000 buy-in occasion that attracted 263. He took the lion’s share of prize pool and the title after agreeing with Carlo Basurto and Austin Srur to a three-way chip stack chop, with the title the bonus that got here with it on the road.
Aram Oganyan received a spot on the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup and $214,245, which features a $25,000 seat within the 2024 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas that might be held in December.
“I really feel wonderful. That is so enjoyable. That is unbelievable. I received some flips on the finish, obtained some bluffs by, and right here we’re. We obtained our title on the trophy. RIP Mike, the legend,” Oganyan instructed the WPT following his victory.
An amazing 30 days
That is Oganyan’s first WPT title, and pushes his match winnings mark over $1 million — within the final 30 days. The win is coming off his finest lifetime money of $989,501 for ending third within the $26,500 occasion on the Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection in Korea March 7.
“I went to play poker at Triton three, 4 weeks in the past. I had a good time there, and I did rather well. I suppose I used to be feeling scorching, and I simply wished to maintain it going. And I used to be like, ‘What’s the subsequent poker factor occurring?’” he instructed the WPT.
It simply so occurred to be the WPT Voyage sequence on the Virgin cruise ship Valiant Woman, which left Miami March 31. The $5,000 championship was one in all three huge buy-in occasions which are happening this week. The $25,000 high-roller occasion is scheduled to complete right now, whereas the $10,000 begins.
“I nearly didn’t even play this,” mentioned Oganyan. “Had I completed higher on Monday on-line — as a result of I had some Monday stuff on-line — (who is aware of?). After which fortunately, I busted out, and right here I’m successful this. However I primarily play the larger occasions. I simply wished to run it up, hearth extra bullets and get in there.”
Though that is the American’s first piece of main {hardware}, he’s come shut as attainable in two World Collection of Poker bracelet occasions, ending second within the $10,000 secret bounty tourney and a $3,000 occasion, each in the identical week in 2023.
Oganyan’s title might be on the Mike Sexton Cup, however he want he received the title purely, he mentioned.
“I really feel prefer it’s good to win it, however I nonetheless don’t 100% really feel like I truly received it, due to the flipping,” mentioned Oganyan. “I really feel like it could have been good to play it out, and it could have felt extra of like an actual deal championship. However they wished to cut it, and I all the time take somebody asking to cut as a praise, like, ‘Hey, I believe you’re good at poker and I don’t assume I’ve an enormous edge over you.’ So we simply agreed to chop the variance down, flip for the championship and right here we’re.”
Oganyan hopes his run of fine luck and wonderful play continues within the one-day $10,000 occasion right now.
“It’s a film – not even a dream, it’s a film. However yeah, nice ending.”
Subsequent up on the WPT Foremost Tour is the $3,500 buy-in WPT Seminole Exhausting Rock Poker Showdown Championship April 19-23 with its $3 million assure.
