England’s Edward Jackson-Spivack flew over 5,200 miles for the 2025 Chainsaw Blended Collection of Poker (CMSOP) in Las Vegas and has made the many of the sequence. Only a few days after successful the $600 Restrict T.O.R.S.E., Jackson-Spivack took down the $1,100 Omaha 8 or Higher Championship for $18,411.
It was no straightforward path to victory as Jackson-Spivack conquered 2006 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Participant of the Yr Jeff Madsen throughout heads-up play, whereas the ultimate desk additionally included 2023 GPI Mid-Main POY Nick Pupillo (sixth – $3,354) and Los Angeles combined recreation crusher Shirley Rosario (third – $7,808).
“I’ve performed with him (Madsen) a bunch. I often get the higher of him,” Jackson-Spivack instructed PokerNews in a winner’s interview. “I suppose I attempted to get higher playing cards towards him at the moment, for probably the most half.”
$1,100 Omaha 8 or Higher Championship Outcomes
Flying from England for Blended Video games
The 2-day occasion at Planet Hollywood drew 62 runners for a prize pool of $60,760 and noticed 12 gamers return for Day 2. Nathan Dewitt was the primary to go earlier than Joshua Chudnovsky’s elimination on the cash bubble as his flopped pair of kings could not pull forward of Adam Walter’s aces.
Bracelet winner and World Poker Tour (WPT) champion Tyler Patterson was the primary to go within the cash to type the nine-handed unofficial remaining desk.
Regardless of being a split-pot recreation, the excessive limits meant fast play and the occasion shortly reached its previous few gamers.
Pupillo ran up a brief stack on the remaining desk and in addition did so earlier within the match. CMSOP founder Allen Kessler instructed PokerNews that Pupillo had been right down to his remaining 8,000 on Day 1 earlier than in the end bagging 186,000. However the 2023 GPI Mid-Main POY could not preserve the momentum going as his set of kings was crushed by the Broadway of Jackson-Spivack.
Madsen, a daily within the Las Vegas combined video games scene, then knocked out Benjamin Miner in a blind-versus-blind confrontation earlier than Jackson-Spivack eradicated Rosario in the identical configuration.
Heads-up play solely lasted a number of fingers and Madsen obtained his remaining chips in solely to have run into the turned journeys of Jackson-Spivack.
Jackson-Spivack, who had $347,416 in Hendon Mob earnings heading into the occasion and mentioned he’s primarily a PLO 8 participant, stored his winner’s interview brief as he was desirous to hop proper into the $1,100 H.O.R.S.E. Championship. He did, in any case, fly midway all over the world to be right here, and emphasised that he deliberate on enjoying “actually the whole lot.”
As he walked away to register the H.O.R.S.E. Championship, Jackson-Spivack did what could possibly be regarded as an impression of Scott Seiver impersonating Babe Ruth and known as his shot.
“I will attempt to win that one as properly,” he instructed PokerNews.
Connor Richards
Senior Editor U.S.
