Giuseppe Iadisernia led getting into Wednesday’s remaining desk within the $3,500 buy-in WPT Fortunate Hearts Poker Open Championship, and he held on to win it for $611,700.
The defending champion, Martins Adeniya, almost went back-to-back, however was eradicated in fourth place out of 1,229 entrants for $220,000. Thomas Boivin, one of many hottest gamers in match poker the previous month, additionally reached the ultimate desk.
But it surely was Iadisernia, who defeated Jorge Gomez in an intense heads-up match, who could not be stopped.
Aggressive Closing Desk
The ultimate desk was extremely aggressive and there was loads of back-and-forth motion. It was no cakewalk for the champion on the Seminole Onerous Rock Resort & On line casino in Hollywood, Florida.
Eddie Blumenthal got here into the session — Day 5 — with the smallest stack at 18 large blinds, sufficient chips to make a run. However he by no means acquired something going, and went out simply 10 palms into the day with a small pocket pair shedding to Boivin’s superior pocket pair. He was eradicated in sixth place for $127,000.
About an hour later, Anatoly Nikitin, one of many large stacks getting into play, ran out of chips in fifth place for $167,000 when his pocket 9’s could not crack the pocket 10’s Gomez held.
Closing Desk Outcomes
1Giuseppe Iadisernia$611,700
2Jorge Gomez$395,000
3Thomas Boivin$295,000
4Martins Adeniya$220,000
5Anatoly Nikitin$167,000
6Eddie Blumenthal$127,000
The four-handed remaining desk would quickly flip right into a two-way battle, with Gomez and Iadisernia having all of the chips. Adeniya’s chase for a repeat title got here to an finish in fourth place for $220,000. He outlasted 1,162 entrants final yr to win $512,600 in the identical occasion, though it wasn’t a World Poker Tour-branded match.
Boivin was the brief stack getting into three-handed play. He’d shortly double-up, however was nonetheless caught properly behind the chip leaders and would inevitably bust in third place for $295,000 when he jammed Ax7x and bumped into Iadisernia’s AxAx. Boivin gained a $25,500 Excessive Curler for $310,255 earlier within the collection and had two remaining desk finishes final month in the course of the World Sequence of Poker Paradise (WSOPP) collection within the Bahamas.
Iadisernia held higher than a 2:1 chip lead when heads-up play began. It took him little time to considerably improve his lead. Gomez would battle, nonetheless, and refused to provide in. However he’d fall to only seven large blinds earlier than 9♠5♣ could not suck out in opposition to JxJx. Gomez was eradicated because the runner-up for $395,000.
Iadisernia earned his first WPT Principal Tour title and now has over $3.5 million in dwell match cashes, The Hendon Mob database reveals. He additionally gained a facet occasion — $10,000 Excessive Curler — on the 2021 WPT 5 Diamond World Poker Basic. The victory on Wednesday makes the champ $611,700 richer and offers him a ticket into the season-ending $10,400 buy-in WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas in December.
*Photographs courtesy of the World Poker Tour/Omar Sader.
