Former Main Event Champion Koray Aldemir Wins Second Bracelet at WSOP Paradise

2021 WSOP Foremost Occasion champion Koray Aldemir has earned his second gold bracelet, defeating Felipe Ramos heads-up to win Occasion #12: $10,000 8-Sport Combine 6-Handed.

He turns into the primary former Las Vegas Foremost Occasion champion to win a bracelet since Phil Hellmuth in 2023.

After taking footage together with his second WSOP bracelet, and evaluating it to his 2021 WSOP Foremost Occasion bracelet, Aldemir joked with reporters: “This one feels a bit smaller!” The German outlasted a discipline of 115 entries and an additional day on the schedule to take residence $287,800, denying Ramos his first bracelet.

Occasion #12: $10,000 8-Sport Combine 6-Handed Closing Desk Outcomes

Closing Day Motion

13 gamers returned for an unscheduled third day within the $10,000 8-Sport, led by Chris Klodnicki on the hunt for his third WSOP bracelet.

It did not take lengthy to get right down to a remaining desk, and Klodnicki nonetheless led the best way forward of Philip Sternheimer and Felipe Ramos.

Aldemir would double with aces by Sternheimer in Pot-Restrict Omaha, earlier than Sternheimer doubled again towards Klodnick with kings versus queens.

Arieh’s quest for an eighth WSOP bracelet was dashed in seventh place, falling to Aldemir in Seven Card Stud earlier than Klodnicki had each Dan Shak and Mike Watson drawing useless by sixth road in Razz, to get rid of them in the identical hand.

Klodnicki, nonetheless, would fail to kick on and exited in fourth place in 2-7 Triple Draw by Ramos who had stormed up the counts. Ramos additionally eradicated Sternheimer in third place and held a greater than 3:1 chip lead over Aldemir heads-up.

The stacks leveled out because the time approached 3:00 a.m. within the Bahamas, earlier than Aldemir began to dominate. First, scoop an Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher hand, and at last selecting up kings in No-Restrict Maintain’em to knock out the Brazilian in second place and safe the title together with $287,800 in prize cash.

Primarily based in the UK, Will began working for PokerNews as a contract dwell reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time employees in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor.

He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He additionally holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism.