Dylan Wiseman came out at the top of a field of 89 entries in event no. 2 of 2024 Poker Joe Cup Festival, and won the title and the grand prize of $240,300. His win in $10,500 No-Limit Hold’em earned him his second-biggest career tournament score.
This was also Weisman’s largest unlimited payday. He has found most of his success on the circuit by playing pot-limit Omaha events, including his own event World Series of Poker Win bracelet. Thanks to this two-card title, Wiseman now has over $2.8 million in winnings recorded to his name.
It was Wiseman’s second title of 2024, having also won a $5,300 buy-in event during Bgt Starting series. He already got 912 Card player MVP points this year, good for 21st in 2024 Boy Ranking provided by World poker. 505 were also imprisoned Go poker tour Ranking points across these two wins and three finals are in the money. As a result, it sits in second place on Bgt Leaderboards.
This event lasted over two days Bookergo studio in ARIA Las vegas resort and casino. Wiseman entered the final day in fifth place among the six competitors who survived the first day’s competition. He worked his way to the top of the leaderboard early, finding a key double with poker aces to start his climb. He then made the big call of his life in the tournament by facing pocket cards facing chips from chip leader Byron Caverman. Wiseman canceled the small blind and stuck with the Q-9 suit of Coverman, who got a flash pull on the turn to make him sweat. A gap at the end led to Wiseman passing for the chip lead, while Caverman fell to second chip position.
Before Wiseman took the lead, short-stack David Coleman was eliminated from sixth place ($44,500). This was already his fifth Boy– Qualifying for the final table, winning two titles along the way. He remains the outspoken leader Boy Rated 1,724 points and over $381,000 so far Boy Profits.
Weisman’s K-3 is drawn on the KJ of World Poker Tour Winner twice European Poker Tour Champion Michael Watson (5th – $62,300) narrows the field to four. Caverman also won with a controlled hand to score the knockout, as K-7 edged out Anthony Ho’s KQ (4th – $80,100).
The next big clash saw Caverman open up on the button with A
s. Wiseman was knocked out by three bets from the small blind of 10
9 Short mound Daniel Smiljkovic got out of the way from the big blind. Contact Caverman and J
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7 The flop gave Wiseman a straight rise. 10 In turn Caverman gave some higher straits, but 2 The river sent him to third place ($111,250). The winner of the bracelet now receives approximately $19.1 million in lifetime earnings.
The heads-up game began with Wiseman holding a more than 10:1 lead over Smiljkovic. An early brace by Smiljkovic closed that gap slightly, but he was soon on the ropes and vulnerable again. This time around 98 He couldn’t beat AC From Weizmann. The Kss310 The runout gave Wiseman a straight high for the win.
Smiljkovic took home $155,750 as runner-up. 2023 Bgt championship The winner now has more than $6.1 million in registered cash under his belt.
Here’s a look at the payouts and ranking points awarded in the final table:
| place | player | Profits | Boy points | Bgt points |
| 1 | Dylan Weisman | $240,300 | 480 | 240 |
| 2 | Daniel Smiljkovic | $155,750 | 400 | 156 |
| 3 | Byron Caverman | $111,250 | 320 | 111 |
| 4 | Anthony is | $80,100 | 240 | 80 |
| 5 | Michael Watson | $62,300 | 200 | 62 |
| 6 | David Coleman | $44,500 | 160 | 45 |
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