Seonguk Huh – Image source: World Poker Tour
Seongguk Huh won a race Master World Poker Tour The main event in Taiwan hosted by WPT and the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association. The poker player from South Korea returned home for the first time WPT prime minister title and the jackpot of $197,741, which was the largest cashout of his career in poker tournaments. Huh also took a seat worth $10,400 in the WPT World Championship In December at Wayne Las Vegas.
33,000 New Taiwan Dollars (1,064 USD). American dollar) The No-Limit Hold’em Tournament saw a huge turnout of 1,359 entries over three starts, setting a record for the largest tournament WPT prime minister Main event field ever. The top 173 players took home a minimum of $821 in prize money out of a total prize pool of $1,237,387, which easily exceeded the $1 million guarantee. The leading players all the way to the final table were eliminated before the last day of play WPT Beijing Champion Pete Chen (94), ex- WPT prime minister Cambodian champion David Irquiaga (161).
Players from six different countries were among the final nine players when the cards appeared in the air at the final table, and Huh was in the middle of the stack when play began. Huh wasted no time getting in on the action by eliminating Guillem Segura in ninth place to begin his climb up the leaderboard.
Huo maintained that momentum by taking Feng Wen Chen into eighth. Huh was at it again when he beat Dongkyu Kim for sixth. Huh also played a role in getting Jacky Wang out of the fourth, and had about three-quarters of the chips in play at that point. Huh beat Seung Hun Ko into third to take a nearly 4:1 lead in the final against Yannick Leonard.
Huh made quick work of the heads-up final that lasted under half an hour as he won all of the heads-up points en route to victory. The last hand saw Leonard share everything with Kcand Huo woke up with aK against him. Read the final painting83a2And Leonard was eliminated in second place with a good $131,790. It was also the biggest championship result ever for the Frenchman thanks to his deep run in the event.
Here’s a look at the batches Boy Points awarded at the final table:
place | player | profits | Boy points |
1 | Seungok huh | $197,741 | 960 |
2 | Yannick Leonard | $131,790 | 800 |
3 | Seung Hoon Ko | $97,559 | 640 |
4 | Jackie Wang | $72,935 | 480 |
5 | Tong Wing Wong | $55,069 | 400 |
6 | Dongkyu Kim | $41,990 | 320 |
7 | Tao Chang | $32,353 | 240 |
8 | Feng Wen Chen | $25,147 | 160 |
9 | Guillem Segara | $19,806 | 80 |
Next stop in WPT prime minister The schedule will take the tour to Grand Casino Liechtenstein for a major event in Europe from September 6-11. The entire tournament series takes place from August 30th to September 11th, and you can see the schedule here.