Punnat Punsri wins PokerGO Final Cup 2023 worth $26,000

The penultimate event of 2023 Poker Joe Cup The High Stakes Festival saw a $26,000 buy-in. Thai Punnat Punsri emerged victorious from 31 posts that turned out to be PokerGO Studio in ARIA Resort and Casino, earning $310,000 for winning.

This was the third largest live cash tournament ever for a rising high roller star. Bonseri came into 2021 just shy of $80,000 in registered results. Now, less than a full month into 2023, he has more than $4.8 million in cash to his name. The biggest part of that came when he earned $2.6 million as a $100,000 Buy Event Champion in 2022 Mediterranean Triton Poker Party.

Bonsri presented a previous final table in this year poker go cup, Finishing second in event no. 2 for $149,400. With $459,400 in total series earnings across those two funds, he now sits in third place in the player points race. Likewise, it climbed to third place in the overall PokerGO Tour Ranking thanks to its strong start to 2023.

This victory also saw Boonsri hit by 336 card player Player of the Year points, which are enough points to move him to 15th place in 2023 POY Leaderboard submitted by Global Poker.

Only the top five finishers cashed in this two-day event. Day one drew to a close when Shaun Winter’s pocket scores were smashed by eight-pocketer Daniel Colpoys, who fired a group on the river.

The last day started with four overs World Series of Poker Bracelet winner David Peters is in the lead and six-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu is hot on his heels. Ponceri entered the day as the shortest chip stack, but it was the ultimate of 2019 poker masters Sam Sovrell, winner of the purple jacket, who was the first to fall. Soverel’s AK was passed by Negreanu’s AQ, who paired up his queen on the turn and held on from there. Soverel earned $54,250 as the fifth-place finisher.

Playing in four hands lasted nearly two hours. Early on, Bonsri won a big pocket-handles flip against Peters’ KQ for a double, knocking out a huge hole from Peters to see him fall to the bottom of the leaderboard. Peters’ run came to an end when he pushed a proper Q-6 from small blind for big 12 blinds and took a call from Poonsri, who was holding a KQ. Peters fumbled a flush draw and turned into a straight draw, but the void in the end sent Peters home $85,250 for his fourth-place appearance. He now has over $44.7 million in career tournament winnings, good for fifth on the all-time poker money list.

The next player to hit the rail was one of four ahead of Peters on the tournament earnings leaderboard. Negreanu got it all from the button with A.s driving A10 From Punsri, who paid out three bets from the big blind. Opening for more than a minute over, Negreanu called it all out for 27 big blinds. Download board 108842 and Negreanu was eliminated in third place ($124,000). He remains third on the money list as well, with $49.4 million in recorded tournament results.

The argument between Punsri and the Colpoys was a fleeting affair. Punsri started shyly taking a 2:1 lead. He extended that advantage by winning the big pot, leaving Colpoys with only 15 big blinds. In the final hand, Colpoys is out of button by ten8 For 40,000 in total and Punsri checked out the big blind with J9. The flip came down J.82 Bonsari checked the minimum bet 40,000 with the higher pair. 2 In turn saw both players check. 4 Complete the painting and check your bonsri for the third time. Colpoys bets 80,000 out of a total of 530,000 with eights and a draw. Bonseri check everything. Colboys thought about it before making the call, just to show you a better pair. Colpoys earned $201,500 as runner-up, the fourth most in his career.

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

Here are the current top ten contenders in the PokerGO Cup points race:

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