Maxim Pisarenko wins the PGT Mixed Games HORSE title

2024 PokerGO Mixed Games Tour The series kicked off this week with the first 10 events. A total of 87 entries were made in the $5,100 HORSE Kickoff Tournament, creating a prize pool of $435,000 paid out among the top 13 finishers. Among dozens of bakers, Russian Maxim Pisarenko got the largest slice of the pie. Pisarenko defeated five-time bracelet winner Benny Glaser to take home the trophy and the $117,450 grand prize.

It was the second-biggest result to date for Pisarenko, trailing only the $189,840 payday he received as third place finisher in 2019. European poker tour sochi The main event. He now has approximately $740,000 in total lifetime earnings.

384 Card player The Player of the Year points Pisarenko earned as champion were enough to move him into the top 400 in 2024. Boy Ranking provided by world poker game, While 117 Bgt Points moved inside Top 30 on that leaderboard.

This event took place over two days Bookergo studio in ARIA Resort and casino in Las Vegas. Five-time bracelet winner John Monett exited seventh to conclude the first day. Denis Maschke leads the final six, with the bracelet winner six times and twice World Poker Tour Champion Daniel Negreanu is in second place on chips to start day two.

Three-time bracelet winner Mike Gorodinsky was the first to fall, with Negreanu beating him in the eight-or-better Omaha bet to finish sixth with $21,750. Despite scoring that knockout, Negreanu was ultimately the next to hit the rail. He lost a large portion of his collection in a confrontation with Glaser to land on the bottom of the charges.

These two matched up in the same match in Negreanu’s final hand, as Jack Glaser’s level was low enough to fold the pot and narrow the field to four. Negreanu earned $30,450 as the fifth-place finisher. With lifetime earnings of $51.1 million, the player remains seventh on the all-time poker money list.

Pisarenko sent Andrew Kelsall home in fourth place ($39,150), winning a big pot with a pair of jacks to move into second place in chip count. He then had a triple-A finish of eighth or better with nine consecutive highs and an 8-7-6-5-A low, eliminating third-place finisher Dennis Maschke ($54,375) in the process.

Thus, Pisarenko entered the head-to-head game holding 7,725,000 to Glaser’s 5,475,000. Glaser lost a big bet early when his failed draw failed to yield hold’em and Pisarenko showed a straight line. Glaser then doubled down twice, but was soon in danger again. The final hand saw his last chips on 4th Street go into stud with his high ace driving Pisarenko’s king high. Both players ended up hitting straights, with Pisarenko’s king-level double beating Glaser’s high six. The UK poker pro earned $76,125 in second place. He now has nearly $7.5 million in career earnings after this latest deep run.

Here’s a look at the payouts and ranking points awarded in the final table:

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