Andrew Rodgers wins the 2024 Card Player Poker Tour Main Event in Venice

2024 Poker player tour of venice The $1,600 No-Limit Hold’em main event attracted a field of 458 entries, eliminating a $400,000 guarantee to create a final prize pool of $650,360. After three starting flights and one day of combined field work, it was Andrew Rodgers who emerged victorious with the title and the grand prize of $103,936. He has an individual deal in place for 2021 CPPT Venice Champion Ankush Mandaviya to win.

“It was a bit of a knock, so I couldn’t quite finish it, but yeah, it feels good,” Rodgers said after taking the top step.

The 40-year-old poker player from Henderson, Nevada, moved to the lower 48 of his home state of Alaska to follow the game. This was his biggest payday in the live tournament, surpassing the $62,319 he received for the runner-up bid in The beauty of DeepStack $600 buy-in event here at The Venetian® Resort Las Vegas in 2022. He now has $598,000 in tournament winnings throughout his career.

In addition to the title and money, Rodgers also won 720 trophies Card player Player of the Year points for winning. This was his first Boy– He had a qualifying year result, but that alone was enough to get him to 77th place in 2024 Boy Ranking provided by World poker.

This event reduced the money raised by each of its three flights, which ran from February 15 to 17. A total of 59 players advanced to Day 2, all of whom raised at least $3,391. A lot of big names fell at the start of day two, including Farrah Galfond (41) and bracelet winner Ryan LaPlante (39), World Poker Tour Champion James Romero (35), bracelet winner Mitch Halvorson (31), 2019 CPPT Venice Champion Valentin Shapilnyk (29), WPT Champion Lee Markholt (19th), two-time bracelet winner Scott Paul (17th), 2022 CPPT Venice Champion and two-time bracelet winner John Riordan (16th place) in 2021 CPPT Venice Runner-up Anselmo Villarreal (13), bracelet winner Evan Sandberg (12), and Aaron Massey (11).

The final table began with judging WPT World Championship Winner Dan Sepiol is in the lead, with Rodgers in seventh place when the cards are back in the air. Edward Holstein (9th – $11,790) and Dan Celtan were the first to go down, with Rodgers scoring the knockout against Celtan to begin his climb up the leaderboard.

Rodgers then made an eight-pocket big champion call on a board with two overcards beating a big river bet from Zichuan Huang, which was one of the largest piles at the time. That hand pushed Rodgers further up the leaderboard, and led him to pick eight pockets for the winner’s photo.

Zachary Donovan was next to hit the rail, as his A-3 suit was unable to withstand the K-9 of Richard Collins, who started the second day as foil leader. Donovan earned $19,046 for finishing seventh.

Jeremy Baker’s race in the event ended in sixth place ($24,788). ran 108 into Sepiol’s pocket jacks and failed to connect to a high-level runout. Becker is now the 12th seeded player in the 2024 tournament Boy standings, with six finals in the table and one Boy-The qualifying title has already been won this year. He now has over $1.1 million in reported profits after this latest result.

The classic race marked the end of Zichuan Huang’s quest for the title in this tournament. He earned $32,766 as the fifth-place finisher when the A-10 couldn’t get past the pockets of rookie Collins.

Rodgers halted that momentum a bit when he won a big bet on Collins with a flowing set of deuces to move beyond the chip lead. Rodgers moved forward more when his player KK I stood against aK From Sepiol in a huge pre-flop clash. Board 10 ran out6294 Rodgers Kings expected to see it exceed 10,400,000.

Sebiul soon joined A.I3 The Pocket Queens face Collins. The final panel read J6379 Sepiol was eliminated in third place for a payout of $43,976. He now has more than $6.9 million in lifetime earnings, a large portion of which comes from winning $5,282,954 in WPT World Championship In December of 2023.

The next big showdown saw all the chips come into the middle after the A92 flop. Collins took it all in for par on the hole and found himself facing No. 96 From Rodgers. 3 Rodgers gave flash, and 4 River kept him in the lead to send Collins to the rails with the best payday of his career of $59,914.

The final two players paused the action to discuss the deal, with Rodgers receiving 11,580,000 to Ankush Mandavia’s 6,755,000.

They eventually reached an agreement that saw Rodgers win and pay the aforementioned $103,936. Mandavia earned $95,149 in second place. The bracelet winner and former champion of the event now has more than $6.6 million in lifetime bonuses to his name.

Here’s a look at the payouts Boy Points awarded at the final table: