Along with the CAD $1,100 Prime Championship and CAD $3,500 Championship Occasion, the World Poker Tour (WPT) Playground additionally hosted a CAD $10,500 Excessive Curler, a event that attracted 31 entries and awarded a CAD $640,000 prize pool, greater than triple the CAD $200K assure.
The ultimate desk was dominated by Canadians with one exception, Australia’s Cooper Henry Bryant. Nonetheless, the Aussie ended up falling in third place, one spot higher than Chanracy Khun, who poker followers could keep in mind defeated Doug Polk heads-up to win the 2023 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Occasion #8: $25,000 HU NLH Championship for $507,020 and a bracelet.
Talking of WSOP bracelets, Canada’s Pascal Lefrancois gained one by taking down the 2010 WSOP Occasion #8: $1,500 NLH for $568,974. As well as, Lefrancois gained the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS in Barcelona in 2018 and was runner-up within the 2012 WPT Montreal, and he truly took down the 2020 $25,500 WPT Tremendous Excessive Curler at Seminole Laborious Rock for $315,812.
Lefrancois made a deep run within the Playground Excessive Curler, however finally fell to Kevin Rabichow in heads-up play.
Previous to the win, Rabichow had $4.15 million in lifetime event earnings relationship again to 2011 in accordance with The Hendon Mob, although he has been taking part in on-line since 2005. That features a career-high $1,210,487 for ending second to Michael Addamo within the 2021 WSOP Occasion #87: $100,000 Excessive Curler. Rabichow additionally positioned second to Ethan Yau within the 2022 WPT Wynn $25,000 Excessive Curler for $518,940.
It wasn’t Rabichow’s first style of success at Playground. Again in Could 2019, he took second within the partypoker MILLIONS North America CAD $10,300 Predominant Occasion for $484,460.
A College of Chicago graduate with a level in economics, Rabichow headed north to Toronto after Black Friday with a view to proceed taking part in on-line the place he’s gained tens of millions. He’s additionally established himself as one of many business’s premier coaches, and in 2022 he launched a poker coaching course “The Recreation Plan” on Run It As soon as, which he talked about on this episode of the PokerNews Podcast.
2024 WPT Playground Excessive Curler Outcomes
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