David Coleman did not win his first live championship title until 5,055 days after earning his first money in the ring. It seems that this long-awaited breakthrough has opened the floodgates. After more than 13 years on the scene with plenty of success but no outright victories, Coleman has four wins already in 2024, with earnings of $766,000 across eight final appearances in the money.
Coleman’s latest victory saw the 30-year-old former online grinder from New Jersey beat 63 entries in the first of two $15,700 buy-in tournaments on the 2024 schedule. Poker Joe Cup. He earned $302,400 for the win, increasing his career income to over $4.4 million in the process.
This hotline was started by winning a $1,600 buy-in Poker player tour of venice The main event is for $115,989. He then took four cashes and won two events in the Go poker tour Intilaaqah Festival. He has now set up two end tables during poker go cup, Including this win.
Coleman has already received 2,156 Card player He earned Player of the Year points, with three qualifying wins and six final table finishes. One of his four titles came in an event that was not awarded Boy Points for not meeting the minimum prize pool requirements. However, Coleman moved up to number one in 2024 Boy Ranking provided by World poker Thanks to his great start to the year. He also leads 2024 Go poker tour Points race with a total of 937 points in this high-stakes competition.
Coleman entered the second and final day of the event in second chip position among the seven competitors who survived the first day. A total of nine players cashed in at the event thanks to a good turnout at Bookergo studio in ARIA Las vegas resort and casino. Four-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman (ninth) and two-time bracelet winner Sam Souvrell (eighth) took the money before hitting the rail late on the first day.
The AQ of Jeremy Ausmus, a six-time bracelet winner, was unable to hold off the A-5 of chip leader Dylan DeStefano in an all-out early showdown, resulting in the first knockout at the final table. Ausmus earned $37,800 for his seventh-place finish.
Michael Brinkenhoff scored a double knockout with a blundering set of four, sending two-time bracelet winner Justin Saliba (6th – $51,975) and two-time bracelet winner Aram Zobayan (5th – $70,875) to the rail to move into second place out of the final four in contention.
There was a lot of action around the leaderboard during four-handed play. Brinkenhoff slid to the bottom of the charges after Coleman forced him out of a big bet. Brinkenhoff then got it all out with J-8 facing off against the AK of DeStefano. He failed a pair of lifts to take the lead, but DeStefano grabbed the running cards to make five straight lifts. Brinkenhoff earned $94,500 as fourth place finisher.
The next hit was also scored by a player making the wheel. World Poker Tour Champion Seth Davies took it all in with KJ facing off against the right A-4 for Coleman, who failed to hit a double draw in a row and hit a tiebreaker at the end to secure the elimination. Davis went to the railroad with $132,300 for his efforts.
DeStefano had 4,100,000 to Coleman’s 3,775,000 when singles play began. It didn’t take long for Coleman to move into the lead. Then he won a huge hand of pocket cards. Hand saw DeStefano limping as he asked for a 4x raise from Coleman with the K
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From the button. The flop decreased 86
4 Coleman checked a $275,000 bet from DeStefano. 5 Turning the corner saw Coleman check the connection again, this time as much as 500,000. c He completed the painting and Coleman examined it again. DeStefano bet 2,475,000, leaving only 50,000 behind. Coleman made the call and showed A
a to win the aggregate, leaving DeStefano on fumes.
DeStefano soon had it all down 6-5 against Coleman’s J-4 right. Coleman failed to draw and got there on the turn to claim the pot and the title. DeStefano earned $189,000 as runner-up. He now has over $1.6 million in earnings recorded to his name.
Here’s a look at the payouts and ranking points awarded in the final table:
| place | player | Profits | Boy points | Bgt points |
| 1 | David Coleman | $302,400 | 432 | 302 |
| 2 | Dylan Di Stefano | $189,000 | 360 | 189 |
| 3 | Seth Davis | $132,300 | 288 | 132 |
| 4 | Michael Brinkenhoff | $94,500 | 216 | 95 |
| 5 | Aram Zobayan | $70,875 | 180 | 71 |
| 6 | Justin Saliba | $51,975 | 144 | 52 |
| 7 | Jeremy Ausmus | $37,800 | 108 | 38 |
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