Getting a Royal Flush in poker doesn’t occur all that always, and to flop one is even rarer. Nevertheless, one well-known poker professional did simply that for the primary time in his storied profession whereas on the 2024 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Paradise in Occasion #5: $25,000 Sellers Alternative Championship.
The participant in query has greater than $21.5 million in lifetime earnings relationship again to 2005 based on the Hendon Mob, which included a career-best $3,445,807 for ending runner-up within the 2023 Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection Occasion #7: $200,000 NLH 8-Handed. Are you aware who it’s?
Listed below are two extra hints – he’s a long-time sponsored professional and sits atop his nation’s all-time cash listing. Oh, and his fellow countryman, Alejandro Lococo simply received Occasion #2: $1,000,000 Triton Million for $12,070,000 and his first bracelet.
We’re speaking, after all, about Jose Ignacio “Nacho” Barbero, who’s a bracelet winner himself having taken down the 2022 WSOP Occasion #67: $10,000 Tremendous Turbo Bounty NLH Freezeout for $587,520.
The hand passed off with 12 gamers remaining – solely seven would make the cash – in Degree 14. The sport was no-limit maintain’em when reporter Brett Slezak watched motion fold to Aaron Kupin within the small blind who jammed for 88,000, and Barbero snapped it off within the massive blind.
Aaron Kupin: Ok♦6♥ Nacho Barbero: A♣Ok♣
Barbero was in nice form to attain the knockout because the vendor emphatically peeled the Q♣J♣10♣ flop to provide Barbero a Royal Flush. The 4♦10♦ runout was only a formality as Kupin hit the rail in ridiculous style.
After complaining about his luck for a lot of the previous hour, Barbero’s tablemates had been fast to emphasise how fortunate he simply acquired. It was Barbero’s first profession flopped Royal Flush based on the person of the hour, and accordingly he took out his cellphone to snap some photos.
Proper after, Mike Watson jammed for 150,000 from the small blind with the 8♣7♣ and Barbero known as from the large with the A♥9♠. The board ran out 9♥Ok♠6♠J♠6♦ and Barbero scored one other elimination and chipped as much as the center of the pack with the cash bubble approaching.
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