Maurice Hawkins gained his 18th World Sequence of Poker Circuit ring in Baltimore by taking down the $1,700 Essential Occasion final week, which briefly put him right into a tie with Ari Engel with probably the most ever, however it got here in an occasion marred by a critical mistake with three gamers left that left the poker world collectively wringing their palms and shaking theirs heads.
Divyam Satyarthi was knocked-out in third place in a hand he ought to have gained. Brief on chips, he jammed from the small blind with QcTh, and Hawkins referred to as with Ah3s. Satyarthi hit his 10 on the flop, that additionally contained two golf equipment. A 4c on the flip gave Hawkins the wheel draw, which he hit on the river with the 5c.
This additionally gave Satyarthi a queen-high four-flush. However the vendor declared Hawkins the winner whereas rapidly scooping up Satyarthi’s playing cards and mucking them, and that was it for Satyarthi, who failed to note he ought to have scored a double-up and stay to struggle.
As an alternative, he headed to the cage together with his pay-slip for $64,458, about $30,000 lower than second, and just below $80,000 lower than what Hawkins would win for taking down his sixth WSOPC Essential Occasion.
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Vendor errors occur, and that is one more reminder that gamers are accountable to guard their palms, even from those that are purported to be in cost. Nonetheless, it’s obvious that the event administrators at Baltimore Horseshoe made a mistake by not assigning a ground individual to place one other pair of eyes on the ultimate desk to make sure one thing like this wouldn’t occur.
Because it was, solely the gamers, the vendor and a WSOP event reporter have been watching, and everybody missed it. Dropped at the eye by the event reporter and Hawkins lengthy after Satyarthi was incorrectly knocked-out (the heads-up match went 5 hours), the ground dominated that nothing could possibly be achieved and reminded everybody that it’s the payer’s duty to guard their palms always.
Satyarthi did communicate up instantly, however was incorrectly corrected by the vendor, who mucked the playing cards extraordinarily rapidly. Ground was then referred to as to assist Satyarthi together with his pay-out, however the hand was not reviewed as heads-up play started.
‘Take that, haters’
The elimination gave the ultimate two gamers about the identical stacks of eight million with blinds at 40K/80K/80K. It could take about 5 hours earlier than Hawkins had all of the chips of the 468 entries.
Whereas Hawkins was attempting to tie the WSOPC Ring report, Chalifour was working laborious to get his second one. He gained a $580 buy-in occasion at Foxwoods in 2016. And he gave arguably the perfect WSOPC participant a run for his cash by turning heads-up play right into a marathon.
“He saved getting fortunate on me. I couldn’t bluff him, I couldn’t make the perfect hand and I couldn’t suck out, in order that was the state of affairs,” he instructed the WSOP. “However I’m going to the zoo loads and the one factor I discovered on the zoo; it’s important to play along with your meals earlier than you kill it. And that’s what I did.”
Hawkins will not be shy about reminding folks he’s one of many greats presently working.
“Put me up in opposition to anyone. I’m probably the most constant poker participant that ever gonna stay,” he instructed WSOPC reporters. “I received persistence. I’m a psycho. I received recreation idea, I received luck and I received God. Can’t be stopped. I really feel like I’m in a category of my very own. No disrespect to Ari, I really like the man. However I’m the place I’m purported to be.”
It’s laborious to argue with that sort of logic, or that among the best poker rivalries now going down are between Hawkins and Engel.
Hawkins’ win in Baltimore put the 2 in a tie — but once more, on the highest of the WSOPC wins listing — which was instantly damaged this weekend by Engel in a $500 buy-in occasion that passed off on-line in Pennsylvania. Engel gained his nineteenth ring, beating Michael “ArnoldSlick” McNeil heads-up. His username is “Ngingn,” and he gained $10,140 within the occasion that attracted solely 86.
McNeil himself has 5 WSOPC rings — all gained on-line taking part in on WSOP’s shopper in Pennsylvania.
Engel will not be solely within the lead over Hawkins with {hardware}. He additionally has 4 bracelets to Hawkins’ none, and his $8.9 million lifetime cashes beats Hawkins’ lifetime tourney earnings of $6.2 million.
“In case you are in opposition to me, you higher bounce on the bandwagon now. Both that or flip off the information! Oh and yet one more factor, I again myself. So take that haters,” he instructed the WSOP.
