The World Poker Tour (WPT) topped a brand new Prime champion on Friday night time in Montreal!
The CAD $1,100 WPT Prime Playground Championship attracted 1,587 runners over 4 beginning flights, with simply 16 gamers returning for the third and remaining day of motion.
After roughly 10 hours of play, Yunkyu Music emerged victorious to assert a CAD $241,620 first-place prize plus a seat into December’s WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.
WPT Prime Playground Championship Closing Desk Outcomes
When the ultimate 16 gamers returned to motion at midday native time, every was assured CAD $12,700 ($9,178 USD) in prize cash. Hayk Hartounian and Day 2 chip chief Kevin Rivest sat atop the counts, and it didn’t take lengthy for the primary elimination to happen when the 2 black aces of Rishi Makkar have been cracked by the queen-ten of Hartounian, who flopped prime pair and turned two pair.
From there, the eliminations mounted as Baron Ha (fifteenth – CAD $15,400), Michael Farrow (14th – CAD $15,400), Raymond Carter (thirteenth – CAD $15,400), Scott Carragher (twelfth – CAD $18,700), Robin Wezelenburg (eleventh – CAD $18,700), and Bradley Dudeck (tenth – CAD $22,900) all exited earlier than the ultimate desk.
After the remaining gamers mixed right down to a remaining desk, it took however one hand for it to go from 9 to proper. That’s as a result of Matwej Troitschanski bought it in with an open-ended straight draw in opposition to Senthuran Vijayaratnam’s set of tens. A queen on the flip stuffed up Vijayaratnam and Troitschanski was ousted in ninth place for CAD $22,900.
David Quang was the following to go dropping a flip with ace-king to Alexander Wong’s pocket jacks, after which Hartounian, who started the day as chip chief, fell in seventh place dropping ace-jack to Large Slick.
Wong then dispatched Rene Gauvin in sixth place after the previous’s ace-nine held in opposition to king-three, and Vijayaratnam adopted him out the door in fifth place on Hand #38 of the ultimate desk when he ran ace-king smack dab into Zeyu Huang’s two crimson aces.
The four-handed battle lasted for a number of ranges, however ultimately Huang and Wong bowed out in fourth and third place respectively earlier than Music dispatched Rivest in heads-up play when his ace-jack bought fortunate to outdraw ace-queen.
Music hoisted the WPT Prime trophy whereas Rivest needed to accept a runner-up end and CAD $152,000 in prize cash.
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*Photographs courtesy World Poker Tour (WPT) / Alicia Skillman
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