A Florida poker participant who failed to point out up on Day 2 of a $500,000 assured occasion with one of many greater stacks had an excellent cause — the beginning of his son.
Nick Yunis constructed a tower of 505,000 chips within the $1,100 Triple Stack No-Restrict Maintain’em on the Seminole Onerous Rock Poker Open in Hollywood, Fla., on Sunday, anticipating to return on Wednesday’s Day 2 to attempt to win his second occasion of the sequence, however his new child boy determined to point out up two months early.
The times after Yunis bagged the eleventh greatest stack of the match on Sunday, his spouse, Katerina, start to expertise issues, and a “final minute” C-section was scheduled for Wednesday morning. The skilled participant with greater than $2.3 million in lifetime cashes deliberate on attempting to get again to the Onerous Rock in time to compete, however it wasn’t meant to be.
Each mother and their child boy, Matthew James, are doing nicely.
Yunis simply gained the $1,100 8-handed Deep Stack occasion on the identical sequence of $34,000 earlier this month. Katerina, carrying Matthew, was there to look at him win.
Yunis, who was born in Chile however makes his dwelling in Miami, has 51 cashes in World Sequence of Poker occasions. His finest money is $249,152 for profitable the $5,000 World Poker Tour 5 Diamond World Poker Traditional in 2015. He got here as shut as potential to profitable a bracelet in 2022, when he completed second in a $1,500 8-handed occasion.
The occasion he gained the primary week of April attracted 120 entries. The $1,100 Triple Stack occasion attracted 823 entries and the 105 gamers who bagged a stack for Day 2 earned no less than $1,940. Yunis’s title isn’t listed within the outcomes, however two stacks went “unclaimed,” they usually completed in twenty fifth and thirty fifth. If Yunis’ stack completed thirty fifth, he gained $3,850. If his stack did 10 spots higher, he cashed $4,500.
The winner of the occasion, Johnny Bromberg, cashed $99,427 after a four-way chop.
The 2024 Seminole Onerous Rock Poker Showdown started April 3, and ends with occasion #130 April 23. The primary of two beginning flights of the $3,500 $3 million assured WPT Showdown Championship begins Friday, and can play right down to the ultimate six on Tuesday, April 23. The gamers will then be flown to Las Vegas on the finish of Might the place a number of closing tables can be filmed for broadcast on the WPT studio within the Luxor.
