This year's WSOP schedule includes a number of new features and improvements, but one of them was definitely the $100,000 High Roller, which directly seconded the traditional opening employees event. Out of 46 players, the final five consisting of Koray Aldemir, Ali Imsirovic, Dario Sammartino, Chance Kornuth and David Peters formed in two days.
Chance Kornuth was a massive chip leader at the starting line, but this day belonged to David Peters. He turned on the incredible god mode and in one hour and 26 hands completely wiped out this table. The reward for this performance is not only a great entry into the entire festival, but also a bonus of $1,166,810 and the fourth bracelet as well!
The third event, the $2,500 NLH Freezout, was also full of good poker. The much larger field of 752 entries was eventually dominated by high-stakes professional Scott Seiver, who enriched his 24-million poker resume with a fourth bracelet and an extra $320,059 cash prize.
The sixth event, which was the $25,000 Heads-up Championship, took the audience's attention in its last three days. A total of 64 professionals entered the men-to-man fights, waiting for a busy tennis spider with names such as Ali Imsirovic, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Chino Rheem, Shaun Deeb, Koray Aldemir, Mikita Badziakouski, Phil Galfond, Alex Foxen, Dan Smith and David Peters.
Two playing days and four rounds formed the last four, which took a break for the final day. No less interesting fights awaited us in it, on the one hand Dan Smith against Darius Sammartin, on the other hand Kevin Rabichow faced Christoph Vogelsang.
From these pairs, the last final was finally formed, in which Vogelsang and Smith played for the bracelet. The players played their A-game, the chips flew from side to side and the chip leader seat still changed its owner. In the end, everything was decided by the duel A4 vs AT, where Smith happily hit a four on the flop and decided his overall win.
For many years, Smith was considered one of the best players in the world who do not yet have a bracelet, but he is certainly satisfied that he got rid of this title. "The bracelet was always something I had in my subconscious and I still thought about it. But I never stressed or changed my game because of it. I'm not usually sentimental, but today I'm very happy that I managed to end this wait, even though it wasn't easy at all." And that it was not easy is confirmed by the list of Smith's defeated opponents: Jake Daniels, Laszlo Bujtas, Alex Foxen, Jonathan Jaffe, Dario Sammartino and Christoph Vogelsang.
Source: PokerNews.com
