Daniel Maor Claims PGT True Classic Rags to Riches Title and $110,000

Daniel Maor defeated a tricky ultimate desk on his approach to victory within the PGT True Traditional Rags to Riches event for $110,000.

The World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner outlasted a discipline of 164 entrants within the $3,300 buy-in no-limit maintain’em event at PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. That discipline included some heavy hitters, a number of of whom he needed to battle towards on the ultimate desk.

Maor Will get it Performed

Maor was an unknown within the poker world earlier than taking down the WSOP On-line Championship for $330,000 final yr. Since then, he is gone on to construct fairly a formidable resume that had reached over $1.3 million in dwell event cashes, based on The Hendon Mob. He added on one other six-figure money on Friday due to a stellar ultimate desk efficiency.

The champion bested a WPT Champions Membership member (Jared Jaffee) and two multiple-times WSOP bracelet winners (Calvin Anderson and Michael Wang) on the ultimate desk. However it wasn’t a simple process.

Closing Desk Outcomes

Maor got here again for the finale in a good place with a mean stack, however solely had about half the chips that Anderson, Jaffee, and Terry Fleischer every held. The eventual winner did not have a lot success early on the ultimate desk. By the point Wang busted in sixth place ($20,000), he’d misplaced about one-third of his beginning stack from the start of the session.

Anderson, a five-time bracelet winner, then despatched Anthony Hu house in fifth place ($25,000). Maor was far and away the shortest stack among the many 4 remaining gamers. However he’d start to chip up earlier than doubling via Anderson when Ax10x cracked AxQx in an all-in-preflop hand.

Fleischer than took down a monster pot to maneuver right into a commanding lead. Jaffee, who misplaced most of his stack in that hand, fell in fourth place ($35,000) after dropping a race towards Anderson, who then doubled into the chip lead towards Fleischer with pocket kings holding up towards a weaker pocket pair.

Maor lastly moved into the chip lead when he flopped a full home towards Anderson’s prime pair for a monster pot. He then started to drag away and claimed all of Anderson’s remaining chips with pocket kings holding up towards a suited ace. Anderson went house in third place for $50,000.

Fleischer started heads-up play down almost 3:1 in chips, and the match did not final lengthy. Maor referred to as an all-in guess with 9x9x towards AxKx, and the pocket pair gained the race, sending Fleischer house in second place for $74,000.

PGT will host a Final Likelihood Sequence beginning Jan. 5, giving event grinders one final alternative to earn their approach into the season-ending $1 million PGT Championship freeroll on Jan. 12.

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