A 35-year-old poker professional from Atlanta is on high of the poker world. Daniel Weinman received $12.1 million, the most important prize in World Collection of Poker (WSOP) historical past, and his second bracelet on Monday afternoon. Weinman outlasted a record-breaking subject of 10,043 entrants who generated an enormous $94 million prize pool for the Horseshoe Las Vegas match.
Daniel Weinman poses together with his $12.1 million on Monday night after successful the WSOP Principal Occasion at Horseshoe Las Vegas. (Picture: Poker Information)
Weinman beat Steven Jones, a 35-year-old actual property dealer from Scottsdale, Ariz., in a battle of high pair (J-J-8) vs. high pair with a greater kicker (J-J-Okay). When the ace of hearts hit the river, Weinman turned to his ecstatic rail to rejoice.
Jones nonetheless received $6.5 million, his first money in a $10K occasion, and a rare displaying for an beginner participant.
The ultimate desk restarted a bit of greater than two hours earlier, with Weinman and Jones going through Las Vegas poker professional Adam Walton. Jones had been in first place with 40% of the chips with Weinman trailing and Walton, who had been the ultimate desk chip chief, in control of a brief stack that wasn’t all that quick. He held 83 massive blinds to Jones’ 119.
Steven Jones and Daniel Weinman over the last hand of this yr’s Principal Occasion. (Picture: PokerGo display screen shot)
Aggressive play despatched Walton to the rail inside an hour of the sport’s restart. He completed the day $4 million richer than when he began when his pocket 8s failed to enhance in opposition to Weinman’s pocket aces. This gave Weinman 74% of the chips in play, a lead he by no means relinquished to Jones.
With greater than $3.7 million in profession earnings, Weinman beforehand received the 2015 WSOP Circuit Cherokee Principal Occasion. His earlier greatest WSOP Principal Occasion end was 173rd place.
Weinman’s win ends the longest WSOP streak with out an American Principal Occasion champion: 4 years.
On Sunday night time, throughout the first day of final-table play, Jones received a large pot from Germany’s Jan-Peter Jachtmann throughout four-handed play to vault into the lead for just a few fingers earlier than Walton lastly despatched Jachtmann to the rail.
That ended the probabilities of a possible champ from Germany for the third time within the final 5 years.
