On Thursday, the ultimate desk of the 2024 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Paradise Occasion #6: $5,000 Deepstack No-Restrict Maintain’em returned to motion.
The event attracted 363 entrants and awarded a $1,815,000 prize pool, and when play resumed China’s Lei Yu, a part of the Purple Dragon Poker Workforce, was the brief stack with simply 9 huge blinds. Because of a pair of early doubles proper out of the gate, Yu discovered himself in place to make a run, and after 5 hours of play he had all of the chips!
“I’m so excited. So pumped,” Lu instructed reporters through a translator. “Not an excessive amount of when it comes to plans [for the money]. I’ve been enjoying for years and what issues is the bracelet.”
Previous to the win, Lu had $1,071,665 in dwell event earnings in line with The Hendon Mob, together with a previous career-best $135,186 for successful the WPT Korea Single Day Excessive Curler again in March. He celebrated his victory with fellow Purple Dragon Poker Workforce members and GGPoker Ambassador Ren Lin, who took a break from high-stakes motion to congratulate the 38-year-old champion.
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Amongst these to complete within the high 51 and make the cash main as much as the ultimate desk had been John Ripnick (eleventh – $23,890), Frank Bannan (nineteenth – $15,300), Nick Maimone (twentieth – $15,300), Christoph Vogelsang (twenty eighth – $13,190), Zhen Cai (thirty eighth – $11,370), Hossein Ensan (fortieth – $11,370), and Ana Marquez (forty first – $11,370).
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Ultimate Desk Motion
Argentina’s Ezequiel Kleinman was the primary participant eradicated on the remaining desk after flopping high pair solely to be arrange by Blaz Zerjav’s deuces. Kleinman turned a flush draw to present him hope, however the river was a brick to ship him out the door in ninth place.
The short-stacked Archibald Seaton then fell by the hands of Yu earlier than Gleb Tremzin tangled with Zerjav. Tremzin had flopped to pair and shoved on the flip, however Zerjav had flopped a set of fives that improved to quads. Tremzin, who vlogged his demise, needed to accept seventh place and $61,530 in prize cash.
Bulgaria’s Fahredin Mustafov exited in sixth after shoving the flip with a double gutter and failing to get there in opposition to Zerjav, who had flopped one other set. Brazil’s Bruno Volkmann then obtained his brief stack all in with ace-six and was forward of Vlad Darie’s ace-five, however a 5 spiked on the flop to finish the Brazilian’s run in fifth place.
Sadly for Darie, he adopted him out the door in fourth place when he obtained aggressive with king-queen suited solely to run it smack dab into the ace-king of Rokas Asipauskas. Darie was the final remaining bracelet winner within the area, so his elimination ensured a first-time bracelet winner can be topped for the sixth straight event at WSOP Paradise.
Three-handed play was a battle with Zerjav and Asipauskas not shying away from butting heads. In arguably the largest hand of the event, and one certain to make PokerNews’ ‘Palms of the Week’ recap, Asipauskas noticed his chips go to Zerjav, who took a greater than 2:1 chip lead into heads-up play in opposition to Yu.
Yu gained a flip with ace-queen in opposition to pocket tens to double into the lead, however Zerjav clawed it again. Upon getting back from a break, the 2 obtained it in as soon as once more and Zerjav was one card away from successful, however Yu spiked the river to remain alive and take a 2:1 chip lead.
Within the remaining hand of the event, Zerjav obtained his chips all in with high pair and an open-ended straight draw, whereas Yu held pocket aces and a spade flush draw. An eight on the flip gave Zerjav the lead with journeys, however a fourth spade peeled off on the river to present Yu the flush and the win.
Zerjav Denied Once more
For Zerjav, it was one other shut name to victory. He started 2024 with an enormous rating on the EPT Paris within the €1,100 FPS Primary Occasion ending second for $316,484, and as soon as once more he needed to accept a runner-up end. Notably, the $225,720 in prize cash put him over $1 million in lifetime earnings turning into simply the third participant from Slovenia to cross that seven-figure mark behind Rok Gostisa ($2,438,553) and the late Casey Kastle ($2,201,725).
All of that’s along with Zerjav’s on-line prowess, the place he is called ‘Scarmak3r’. Again in 2018, when he turned a $5.50 satellite tv for pc seat into $1,364,688 by ending third within the MILLIONS On-line. In September 2020, he would end fourth within the WPT On-line World Championship Primary Occasion for $552,006.
Regardless of not claiming his first bracelet, the long run is actually vibrant for the younger Slovenian participant.
That does it for PokerNews’ protection of Occasion #6: $5,000 Deepstack No-Restrict Maintain’em, however you may nonetheless observe dwell updates from all the opposite occasions by visiting our WSOP Paradise hub right here.
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