There is a new member of the WPT Champions Membership after California poker professional Shawn Daniels defeated Harvey Castro on Wednesday to win $257,600 and the World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder title.
The $3,500 buy-in no-limit maintain’em match, which attracted 404 entrants, performed down to only six on Tuesday. These nonetheless standing returned to motion a day later on the Thunder Valley Poker Room in Northern California for the ultimate desk, which was livestreamed on the WPT’s YouTube channel.
Afriat Comes Up Quick Once more
Nobody was taking part in for extra on the remaining desk than Eric Afriat. That’s as a result of the Canadian poker professional, with three Important Tour titles, was only one win away from tying Darren Elias with the document of 4 WPT wins.
Afriat entered the ultimate desk third in chips and would do some laddering up after Benjamin Primus busted in sixth place ($53,000), David Ha went out in fifth place ($69,000), and Paul Richardson was eradicated in fourth place ($91,000). However the finish of the street was nearing for the record-typing hopeful as his stack had dwindled right down to lower than 10 large blinds.
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Afriat went out in the identical place he started the day in — third place. It paid $122,000, bringing reside match earnings to just about $6 million, in accordance with The Hendon Mob. The deep run was his third high three end in a World Poker Tour occasion the previous 12 months. He stays one shy of Elias.
Afriat’s elimination led to a heads-up match between Daniels and Csstro, each in search of their first WPT title. Castro, the chip chief at the beginning of the day, held higher than a 2-1 chip benefit when play started. Nevertheless it took little time for the pendulum to swing the opposite approach.
Issues received even worse for Castro, who’s simply 23 years previous, when his opponent check-raised a full home on the river, setting the lure for Castro who obliged with an enormous wager — about one-third his complete stack — with king-high. The lead had grown to over 5-1 in favor of Daniels.
On the next hand, Daniels limped with A♣Okay♥, once more setting the lure for Castro, who had J♣7♣, to maneuver all in. Daniels snap-called and the board ran out J♦9♦6♠4♥10♦, and identical to that the start-of-day chip chief was again in enterprise, albeit nonetheless trailing by a large quantity.
The match would proceed for fairly a while as Castro battled again to even up the rating. They’d get all of it in preflop with Castro holding Qâ™ 10â™ towards A♣5♣. The board got here 5♥7♦8♣6♣7♥, a monster pot for Harvey, which left his opponent with simply seven large blinds.
Castro would then suck out to double up again to round 15 large blinds, trailing solely 2-1 in chips. Moments later, Castro jammed from the button with J♣9♦ and was appeared up by A♠6♦. The younger poker participant would suck out as soon as once more because the group playing cards got here out 5♦7♦5♥Q♥9♥, and he had taken over the chip lead.
The luck reversed instructions on the subsequent hand when Daniels hit a straight towards two pair. A full double-up would happen, and the chip lead as soon as once more modified. They’d get all of it in shortly after, and the hand ended up in a chop. It was getting to a degree the place it appeared just like the match may by no means finish regardless that lower than 40 large blinds had been in play.
Daniels, a World Collection of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, would lastly put him away, nonetheless, when he turned journeys to beat queen-high. Castro acquired $165,000 for second place, and the brand new member of the WPT Champions Membership earned $257,600, bringing his profession reside match earnings over $3 million.
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*Photos courtesy of the World Poker Tour.
