After practically seventeen hours of play right now, Occasion #4: €2,000 Pot Restrict Omaha lastly got here to its conclusion on the 2024 World Collection of Poker Europe. Brazil’s Vivian Saliba emerged victorious outlasting a area of 229 entrants to seize her first WSOP bracelet right here on the King’s Resort in Rozvadov.
Saliba takes dwelling the €91,400 first-place prize cash from the €398,231 prize pool after defeating Germany’s Markus Anheier in a brief heads-up battle that spanned over two ranges. This marks Saliba’s second-biggest profession rating and sees her lifetime event earnings transfer over the seven-figure mark.
Runner-up Anheier needed to accept a payday of €59,700, which is roughly twenty occasions his greatest profession money to this point. Closing out the rostrum was final 12 months’s champion Hokyiu Lee.
2024 WSOPE Occasion #4: €2,000 Pot Restrict Omaha Closing Outcomes
Winner’s Response
Saliba mentioned she was relieved to lastly get her palms on a bracelet, after making her fifth reside WSOP closing desk.
“I used to be identical to okay, please do not come second,” she informed PokerNews. “I used to be actually aiming for the bracelet. After all I really feel completely happy, however to summarize my emotions in a single phrase, it is relieved.”
“It was an actual marathon”
The Brazilian skilled mentioned she was capable of focus and play at her finest for each days of the event as a consequence of her expertise and starvation for the bracelet.
“It was an actual marathon, we performed lots yesterday and I went to mattress round six within the morning. I may focus because of my expertise and motivation, simply because I actually, actually wished to win. I am very aggressive and never even drained proper now, I am hyped!”
Salaba talked about her plans for the remainder of her keep right here on the WSOP Europe she mentioned “Nicely, tomorrow I’ve Day 2 of the Mini Important beginning at 2.p.m, so I must go to mattress and I’ve some relaxation to be at my finest”
Closing Day’s Motion
Simply 50 gamers from a area of 229 gamers returned for Day 2, all hoping to be topped champion, however the first goal in everybody’s sights was the cash bubble, the place a minimal money of €4,130 awaited the final 35 gamers within the area.
It took simply ninety minutes of play for the bubble to burst, with Javier Francort, Vladimir Troyanovskiy, and bracelet winner Gabi Livshitz falling simply quick and leaving with nothing.
After three palms of bubble play, Austria’s Harry Casagrande grew to become the final participant to go away the event empty-handed when his ill-timed bluff was picked off by Fahredin Mustafov with aces.
With everybody now within the cash, the motion moved at a a lot sooner tempo. Gamers resembling Kai Lehto, Stanislovas Vinicenka, and Rostyslav Sabishchenko bought their quick stacks within the center however couldn’t spin them as much as make a push for the ultimate desk.
Three-time bracelet winner and two-time champion of this occasion, Anson Tsang busted in twenty-fifth place simply earlier than the redraw for the ultimate three tables. With the ultimate desk now inside attain, it was the defending champion Hokyiu Lee who held the chip lead, and was the one remaining participant within the area with a gold bracelet.
By the point the event reached the unofficial closing desk of 9, after short-stacked Goran Urumovic failed to enhance when all-in preflop towards David Sosic, Lee retained his chip lead and held nearly double the quantity of chips as any of his opponents.
Thomas Hueber entered because the desk’s quick stack with 13 huge blinds and instantly put them to work, doubling up with aces. Sosic wasn’t so lucky with aces as his have been cracked by Samuel Albeck‘s kings, making him the primary casualty of the ultimate desk. Milan Skacel adopted quickly after, busting to Lee, who additional prolonged his chip lead.
With seven gamers remaining, the short-stacked Albeck, Anheier and Hueber continued to double up. On the similar time, Lee continued to use most ICM stress on the middling stacks together with his relentless aggression. Eran Carmi was finally the following to bust in seventh place when his aces bought cracked by the straight of Saliba. Albeck adopted carefully behind earlier than Hueber, who got here into the ultimate on the backside of the chip counts, exited in fifth place.
Throughout four-handed play, the chip lead moved backwards and forwards with every participant holding it in some unspecified time in the future. Lee took the highest spot again when he rivered a straight flush in a multi-way pot however was unable to receives a commission by Saliba’s jack-high flush.
Anheier appeared to achieve a second wind after twelve hours of play, going from the shortest stack to the chip lead in only a few palms, thanks largely to flopping prime set in a single hand after which doubling up by Sabic with pocket kings within the subsequent.
Sabic narrowly missed out on a podium end as Anheier rivered a flush to complete him off in fourth. When three-handed play started, the typical stack was simply 19 huge blinds with Saliba because the clear quick stack, holding lower than half the chips of her closest rival, Lee.
Nonetheless, Saliba doubled up twice by Lee, sending him into the hazard zone earlier than he finally busted in third place to Anheier’s kings. There could be no back-to-back bracelets from this occasion for the Hong Kong participant.
Saliba began heads-up play with a commanding 3:1 chip lead over Anheier. Nonetheless, after only a few palms, Anheier was all-in and behind towards Saliba’s pocket kings, solely to discover a lucky ace on the flip to double up and take the chip lead. Saliba then discovered herself in danger, however a rivered flush saved her alive, permitting her to reclaim the lead. Within the closing hand of the event, Saliba turned one other flush to beat Anheier’s two pair, then averted a board-pairing river to safe the bracelet in Occasion #4: €2,000 Pot Restrict Omaha.
That concludes the PokerNews reside protection for this occasion. Keep tuned all through the 2024 WSOP Europe at King’s Resort for steady updated protection.
