
A WSOP.com match long-established took down the third on-line bracelet of this tumble’s World Sequence of Poker as Pete Chen won the $400 no-restrict preserve’em extremely deepstack.
The native of Taiwan netted $82,559 after defeating a 1,023-entry discipline to fabricate his first WSOP bracelet. Whereas Chen plays most of his match quantity on-line, he’s an executed live expert with $3.1 million in live match earnings. Outside of a runner-up pause in the $5,000 no-restrict preserve’em at the 2017 WSOP, most of Chen’s live match scores came in Asia.
He bested a final desk that featured on-line story Amit Makhija. Regardless of bigger than $3 million in live earnings, Makhija became as soon as also procuring for his first WSOP bracelet, however busted in eighth region for $8,305.
Chen came into the final desk in the center of the pack and stayed alive while about a gamers hit the rail. Stephen Wieczorek became as soon as the quick stack and eradicated by Melody Mckee. McKee raised from early space and Wieczorek moved all in from center space. Mckee known as with QQ
and became as soon as in mountainous shape in opposition to Wieczorek’s 7
7
.
Mckee’s queens held up and Wieczorek became as soon as out in ninth. Correct a pair minutes later, Makhija adopted him to the virtual rail. But in the few hundred seconds in between those bustouts, Chen doubled up and moved into the chip lead.
His heater persevered when he eradicated Robert Thomas in seventh. Chen raised from early space and Thomas moved all in from the mountainous blind. The shove became as soon as known as by Chen with AQ
and became as soon as in the lead in opposition to Thomas’ K
8
.
The board ran out 106
2
A
5
and Chen won the pot to lengthen his chip lead, which he wouldn’t relinquish for the relaxation of the match.
Eventual runner-up Tzur Levy eradicated Kari Johnson in sixth with A-K in opposition to Johnson’s A-Q and then knocked out Dustin Bush in fifth to tug him shut to the chip lead, however Chen dominated four-handed play, elimination the final three gamers in a span of 15 minutes to rep the title.
In a battle of the blinds, Chen drilled a 3-outer with Ad5h in opposition to Mckee’s AK
to dispose of her in fourth for $26,624. Chen stored up the escape helpful when his Q
8
bested Todd Rodenborn’s A
6
to ship him to the rail in third and exercise a bigger than 2-to-1 chip lead into heads-up play in opposition to Levy.
Correct about a palms into heads-up play, Levy limped in on the button and at final known as a shove from Chen out of the mountainous blind. Chen showed AJ
and became as soon as in a dominating region in opposition to Levy’s A
4
.
The flop became as soon as KQ
4
and Levy took the lead with a probability to on the total flip the chip counts. The 7
came on the turn, leaving Chen dreary to a jack or a 10 on the river. The J
came on the river, which gave Chen a bigger pair, the pot and his first bracelet.
Remaining Desk Results:
Relate | Player | Earnings |
1 | Pete Chen | $82,560 |
2 | Tzur Levy | $50,904 |
3 | Todd Rodenborn | 36,639 |
4 | Melody Mckee | $26,624 |
5 | Dustin Bush | $19,590 |
6 | Kari Johnson | $14,558 |
7 | Robert Thomas | $10,943 |
8 | Amit Makhija | $8,305 |
9 | Stephen Wieczorek | $6,400 |