Ethan Yao roars to win his first title at the 2022 World Series of Poker

Ethan Yau is one of the biggest names in poker vlogs, with over 163,000 fans subscribed to his YouTube channel. Yau is known to these subscribers as “Rampage”. He rose to that title when he knocked out four of his five opponents at the final table en route to a Runaway win in the second event of 2022. poker masters High Roller Festival, $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Tournament. He earned $19,600 as a champ.

This was Yau’s first win in the High Roller Poker Championship. He will join his rapidly expanding poker resume which already includes a profile Online World Series of Poker Win the bracelet and the main event title in 2021 Poker Tour Mid States Venice Stop. Yau’s lifetime earnings now exceed $960,000.

In addition to the title and money, Yao scored 420 points card player Overall player points to win. This was the third POY– Qualifying score of the year, having reached two final tables with one more win over the WSOP . World Series of Poker Circuit Stopped by at the Parkwest Bicycle Casino back in March. With a total of 852 points, Yao now sits inside the top 600 of 2022 POY sponsored race Global Poker.

Yao also scored 198 points PokerGO . Tour points. This was his first qualifying result for that round, which focuses on high-stakes events. These points were enough to take him to second place in the Poker Master Purple Jacket points race, only falling behind event number no. First winner Jeremy Osmos. The Chain Endpoint Leader will also receive a reward of $50,000.

The turnout of 76 entries into the event built up a $760,000 prize pool that was split among the top 11 contestants. A lot of big names made money, but they couldn’t join Yao on the second day POY Race leader Stephen Chedyuk (11th), recently Seminole Hard Rock World Poker Tour Tampa Main event winner Corey Wade (10th), six-time bracelet winner and 2021 PokerGo Cup The winner is Daniel Negriano (ninth), and the aforementioned Jeremy Osmos (seventh).

The second and final day began with six players remaining and Michael Brinkenhoff, founder of Executive Director Athena Cosmetics, in the lead. Yao sat second from the chips to start, but quickly overtook the lead when his AK held out against Masashi Oya’s AQ in the pre-match. Oya earned $45,600 as the sixth place finisher.

Dylan Distefano was the only player sent to the railroad on day two by someone other than Yao. Called All-In with the A-2 leading Stephen Song winning the Q-6 bracelet in the Battle of the Curtains. Song fumbled from six and contracted from there to send DeStefano to the railroad for $60,800.

Yao had more than twice as many chips as his nearest opponent when the next elimination hand was dealt. Yao open the incision of the button with the A-5. Brinkenhof, who was second in chips with 21.5 big blinds, looked at the Pocket Kings and made the call. Yao hit the ace on the spot to take the lead, and two safe cards saw a huge bet blasting his way. Brinkenhoff earned $76,000 for his fourth-place appearance in the event.

Yau was pushed out of the button again in the next switch clash, but this time the Q-5 was torn apart. A song with eight pockets was called from the small curtain and was a roughly 2:1 favorite for the double. Flipping gave Yao a slight draw, though, filling him in on the turn to leave Song Draw dead. Song got $98,800 and $280 POY Points for his deep career. This was his 14th place on the final table of the year, with over $1.2 million POY Earnings accumulated along the way. As a result of his consistency, he climbed to fifth in the POY Ranking, with a total of 4,622 points.

With that said, the head-to-head game started with Yau holding 8,800,000 against Alex Foxen’s 700,000 for the bracelet winner. Foxen was able to quickly roll his stack to 2.5 million, which gave himself room to play. It fell just under 1.8 million by the time the last hand was dealt. Foxen limps inward from the button that holds the AK Yao moved everything from his big 8 . blind8. Foxen called everyone in his blind group of 14.2 and they were out of the races. The board ran out o91067 And Eight Yao pocket held out to earn him the bet and the title.

Foxen earned $144,400 as a runner-up. This was his 18th show on the 2022 final schedule, winning four titles and nearly $6.6 million POY earnings so far. The regular high stakes system now ranks sixth in the POY The leaderboard after this last deep run. He also got 144 PGT points, bringing his total score in that race to 2,356, which is good for third place.

Here is a look at the payments and rating points awarded in the final table:

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