On Thursday night time, Ari Engel was at Resorts World Las Vegas competing within the PokerStars NAPT Las Vegas $550 Cardplayer Way of life H.E.R.O.S. occasion, which attracted 108 runners. Nevertheless, it wasn’t the one event he was enjoying.
Engel, who’s the WSOP’s all-time Circuit ring winner with 18, was additionally grinding on-line within the present WSOP On-line bracelet, a collection that started again on Sept. 29 providing up a 33-bracelet-event schedule that’ll wrap early subsequent week on Nov. 12.
In Occasion #29: $400 NL Maintain’em Turbo, 300 gamers accounted for 200 rebuys, and the 500-entry discipline created a prize pool of $180,000, which was paid out to the highest 64 finishers. It took simply over six hours of play for Engel to complete because the final participant standing to say gold and a $34,200 first-place prize.
WSOP On-line Occasion #29 Last Desk Outcomes
Engel, who went on to money the H.E.R.O.S. occasion in ninth place, really fired six bullets within the event, which he joked about in mild of Norman Chad’s controversial rebuy feedback when Maria Konnikova gained her bracelet earlier within the collection.
To his credit score, Norman Chad was first to remark: “CONGRATS! It’s arduous having to beat your self 5 occasions.”
Others had been fast to congratulate Engel together with David “ODB” Baker, Joe McKeehen, Michael Trivett, Julie Anna Cornelius, and the aforementioned Maria Konnikova.
It marked the second on-line bracelet for Engel, who on October 13, 2023 gained WSOP On-line Bracelet Occasion #28: $500 NLH Turbo 6-Max for $38,197. His first bracelet got here again in 2019 when he gained Occasion #48: $2,500 No-Restrict Maintain’em for $427,399, and two years later he adopted it up by successful his second in Occasion #9: $10,000 Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher Championship for $317,076.
As for Resorts World and blended video games, Engel has had success there earlier than, most particularly final December when he gained the CardPlayer Way of life The Combined Recreation Pageant VI for $4,858 prime prize plus a $5,000 bundle to the WPT Voyage. It was a little bit of redemption for Engel, who again in March completed as runner-up to Cernuto within the Combined Recreation Pageant IV.
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