Some issues in life come straightforward. Nick Schulman’s seventh World Collection of Poker bracelet wasn’t considered one of them.
Schulman was the ultimate participant standing within the $10,000 No-Restrict Deuce-to-Seven Single Draw Championship, including $497,356 to his $23.7 million lifetime match money pile. He additionally gained this very occasion in 2009 and 2012.
The win places him in a seven-way tie for seventh of the all-time bracelet listing with Males Nguyen, Daniel Negreanu, Billy Baxter, John Hennigan, Scott Seiver, and most just lately Benny Glaser, who gained two bracelets in a row final week.
The occasion attracted 233, a file for the Championship, and required an additional day to run to completion. Not solely that, the heads-up battle with Darren Elias was a real slog , taking eight hours with no dinner break. Schulman in contrast Elias to the “finish boss” of a online game, and have become emotional afterwards giving kudos to him.
“Darren is sort of the most effective at this sport, you recognize? I imply, it was actually an honor to play with him. I really feel somewhat bit emotional about it, simply because I’ve by no means felt like, if I lose heads up or are available in second, prefer it’s simply, it’s all good, you recognize? As a result of this man is simply, he’s tremendous powerful and only a nice man, you recognize.”
I wouldn’t be stunned if he wins a match each summer season for the following six years. It’s all sort of loopy. It grew to become very crap-shooty on the finish, however that’s actual end-boss territory. I’m honored to by some means come out on high, in opposition to him, within the greatest no-limit deuce match ever. And it’s simply no shock that he was there.”
However because it stands right now, Elias is on the shortlist for finest participant with out a WSOP bracelet. This was the third time he got here near profitable one on this occasion. Elias now has a runner-up, two third place finishes, and a ninth-place end within the $10,000 No-Restrict Deuce-to-Seven Single Draw Championship.
As a poker commentator for the WSOP and PokerGO, Schulman is considered one of poker’s bigger and well-liked personalities. Wining his seventh WSOP bracelet got here at an ideal time for the 40-year-old poker skilled as a result of that is the week gamers are being nominated for the Poker Corridor of Fame.
That is the primary 12 months of his eligibility, and it’s a very good wager that Schulman will a minimum of make this 12 months’s shortlist, and has a very good likelihood as anybody to be enshrined within the Poker Corridor of Fame after all of the votes are tallied subsequent month (nominations are open till June 15 through the WSOP’s webpage discovered right here).
It doesn’t matter what occurs with that vote, Schulman resides a kind of poker dream.
“I’ve simply been round so many nice gamers, and I’ve simply simply sort of seen all of them,” he stated. “It’s my favourite sport to play. And I feel anytime you’re doing one thing that you simply’re actually having fun with, it’s, you recognize, it’s good.”
