It is not usually {that a} $2.2 million victory is not the biggest of a poker participant’s profession. However that is the standard of the poker resume that Nick Petrangelo has amassed over the past 15 years.
Petrangelo now has over $37 million in reside earnings, in line with The Hendon Mob, after taking down the $10,400 Wynn Summer time Traditional Championship for $2,221,775.
He defeated a Gustavo Ortega Jimenez heads-up to high a 1,440-player discipline. Jimenez needed to accept second-place ($1,516,617) whereas third-place finisher Lewis Spencer additionally took dwelling seven figures ($1,123,597).
2024 Wynn Summer time Traditional Championship Closing Desk Outcomes
Winner’s Response
The ultimate day started with six gamers, and after start-of-day brief stack Rehman Kassam and Kurt Jewell have been eradicated, four-handed play was comparatively even.
“It is cool to get a break from streams and simply play within the nook of the room and nobody is aware of what is going on on!”
Nevertheless, Petrangelo surged and eradicated each Selahaddin Bedir and Lewis Spencer in fast succession, earlier than ending off Gustavo Ortega Jimenez heads-up.
“I actually love enjoying in Vegas in these occasions that begin actually deepstacked and keep deep for a very long time,” Petrangelo instructed PokerNews after his win. “It is cool to get a break from streams and simply play within the nook of the room and nobody is aware of what is going on on!
“It is fairly uncommon for me that there is 220 buy-ins for first. Often I play for like eight so it is fairly cool.”
Petrangelo says that regardless of his latest poker resume being affected by numerous excessive curler event wins and cashes, occasions like this remind him of earlier in his poker profession.
“I’ve performed so many tournaments like this over the course of my profession, so I do really feel like I’ve really feel for the fields. Though now I do play a few of the greater stuff, folks overlook that a few of us have been enjoying for 17 years and once we have been developing these items have been the most important factor we performed all yr.
“I do not overlook what I realized from all these reps enjoying these items.”
With loads of poker nonetheless to play, Petrangelo says he is trying ahead to taking a while off earlier than heading to Europe to renew Triton and PokerGO event motion.
“These days with the best way the schedule is, there’s all the time one thing. It is one lengthy sport!”
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