Aces, Kings, and Queens Clash at Final Table with Six Figures on the Line

After one other thrilling week of winners on the Wynn On line casino and Lodge throughout the Wynn Hundreds of thousands sequence, the motion peaked on the $1,100 NLH $500,000 GTD occasion.

The highest prize of $114,836 got here with one of many rarest — and most brutal — coolers you’ll ever see, proper on the closing desk.

Brutal Cooler at Wynn Hundreds of thousands

With six gamers remaining, Taylor Black, then the brief stack, shoved for roughly 2,500,000. The large blind, Norberto Lopez Rodriguez, shortly moved all-in for about 3,650,000, which the unique raiser and desk chip chief, Seth Jordan, snap-called.

Taylor Black: A♦A♣Norberto Lopez Rodriguez: Q♠Q♣ Seth Jordan: Ok♥Ok♣

The three greatest palms in poker collided, and gamers jumped out of their seat and couldn’t resist pulling out their telephones to document the insanely uncommon cooler.

Black, who was in prime place to triple up, flopped high set however now needed to sweat after the A♠10♠4♠ flop gave Rodriguez a flush draw.

The Q♦ on the flip solely made issues sweatier. It was bittersweet for Jordan, who picked up outs to scoop, however now trailed Rodriguez within the facet pot, who had turned a set.

Black might lastly breathe when the 7♥ accomplished the board, tripling up his stack, whereas Rodriguez scooped the smaller facet pot—protecting each gamers alive within the event.

After the large pot reshuffled the stacks, Rodriguez climbed to fourth place, taking house $46,587—practically $20K greater than he would have earned had he misplaced to Jordan’s kings.

Black, in the meantime, moved into the chip lead and navigated his method to heads-up play. Former chip chief Jordan additionally recovered from the cooler and dangerous beat on the identical hand, making it to the ultimate two simply shy of Black in chips.

Earlier than heads-up play started, the gamers agreed to an ICM chop, with Jordan receiving $93,675 and Black, the chip chief, taking $98,623 together with the Wynn trophy.

Remaining Desk Outcomes

*denotes ICM chop