Bryce Yockey Wins World Series of Poker Dealers Choice For Third Bracelet - Poker News

Bryce Yockey took down one of the vital prestigious mixed-game poker tournaments of the 12 months, and he did so in dominant trend. The 38-year-old poker professional from Southern California ran away with the title down the stretch within the 2026 World Sequence of Poker $10,000 sellers alternative championship, topping the sector of 163 entries to earn $371,664 and his third profession gold bracelet.

Six of the seven gamers who made the ultimate desk on this distinctive format, which permits gamers to select from greater than 20 completely different video games, already had a WSOP bracelet of their trophy case. The lone exception was Schwartz, who has over $4.9 million in earlier cashes on the circuit to his identify. 5 of the seven already had a number of wins on the sequence below their belts.

Yockey’s two earlier wins each got here in pot-limit Omaha variants. He took down the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better championship in 2017, and a $5,000 PLO in 2024. Whereas he has had loads of deep runs in different combined sport occasions, together with ending second within the 2024 $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship, he’d been eying an outright win on this explicit occasion for some time now.

“I’ve needed to win this match for a extremely very long time,” Yockey advised PokerNews reporters. “By way of, like, combined sport tournaments, this one’s actually distinctive as a result of there’s simply lots of technique past simply enjoying the sport that goes into it. Folks really attempt to decide on video games to focus on you. No matter they suppose you’re unhealthy at, no matter they suppose they’ve a bonus at. A part of the sport can also be simply studying to play that sport, too, and simply avoiding them in these conditions when you may. I needed to win this one for a very long time.”

This triumph elevated Yockey’s lifetime match earnings to almost $8.4 million. It additionally got here with 780 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors. This was his first qualifying final-table finiosh in direction of the year-long race introduced by CoinPoker. The 372 PokerGO Tour factors moved him inside the highest 40 on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.

Yockey’s Ascent Begins

The ultimate day started with 11 gamers remaining and Schwartz within the lead and Yockey in the midst of the pack. Duane Fontenot (eleventh), Koji Fujimoto (tenth), and Tomasz Gluszko (ninth) hit the rail within the first couple of hours of day 3 motion.

Throughout that point, Yockey overtook the lead, together with his surge up the leaderboard beginning together with his elimination of Fontenot. He quickly took all however a number of massive blinds from Lawrence Brandt to arrange the subsequent elimination. Owais Ahmed landed the ultimate blow, making the nut flush in Large O to scoop the final of Brandt’s stack. He earned $35,253 for his eighth-place exhibiting.

Ahmed was the subsequent to fall. He acquired all-in on fifth road in stud eight or higher with a pair of sevens and 4 to a low. Ryan Miller got here alongside and wound up making the wheel to win each the excessive and low sides. Ahmed earned $44,592 because the seventh-place finisher.

As six-handed play wore on, Yockey continued to tug away from the remainder of the sector. At one level, not too lengthy earlier than the subsequent elimination passed off, he had greater than six occasions as many chips as the closest competitor. He skilled a number of small setbacks forward of six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus’s exit in sixth place, although. 4-time bracelet winner Chad Eveslage referred to as Ausmus’ shove in no-limit maintain’em with A♦J♣ and held in opposition to A♣4♣ to slender the sector to 5. Ausmus earned $58,460 for his efforts, surpassing $29.7 million in profession cashes within the course of.

Extra Heavyweights Hit The Rail

Nick Schulman

Poker Corridor of Famer Nick Schulman was despatched packing in a hand of razz. The seven-time bracelet winner dedicated his closing guess after the deal and was referred to as by Eveslage, who wound up with a 10-9-8-4-3. Schulman was drawing dwell with one card to come back holding J-7-5-3-A, however drew a king on the top to complete fifth ($79,331).

This was Schulman’s second closing desk of the sequence, having positioned second within the $1,500 badugi to Michael Casella. With one title and eight final-table finishes on the 12 months, Schulman has climbed to twenty second within the POY standings. He’s additionally ranked sixteenth on the PGT leaderboard.

Yockey put a long way between himself and the remainder of the sector once more throughout four-handed motion. Each Schwartz and Eveslage have been left on fumes in his wake. Eveslage quickly made his closing stand throughout a spherical of restrict Omaha, getting all-in preflop with A♦Q♣3♠3♦. Yockey confirmed down the winner on a Okay♣Q♥6♦J♦6♥ runout with A♠10♠8♣7♣ making broadway. Eveslage settled for $111,305 because the fourth-place finisher. The 2-time World Poker Tour champion now boasts almost $13.3 million in recorded scores.

From Three To One In A Flash

Schwartz quickly adopted, replicating his third-place end within the 2021 operating of this occasion. He acquired all-in with three to a low on third road in stud eight-or-better and was up in opposition to cut up jacks for Yockey. Schwartz improved to threes and deuces by fifth, however Yockey had made jacks up on fourth. Neither participant improved on sixth or seventh and Schwartz headed to the payout desk to gather $161,292. This was the sixth-largest payday of his profession.

Heads-up play started with roughly an 8:1 chip lead for Yockey over Miller. The 2-time bracelet winner fell even additional behind when he bumped into journey queens for Yockey in a hand of restrict Omaha. His closing few chips quickly went in after a J♠8♠8♥ flop in the identical sport. Miller held Okay♠7♥3♦3♣ and was trailing the Okay♣J♦9♥6♣ of Yockey. The Q♥ flip and 5♥ river modified nothing and Miller was eradicated because the runner-up. The $241,152 payout was his third-largest but.