What a present the excessive rollers gave the poker world this week on the World Sequence of Poker. The $250,000 buy-in Tremendous Excessive Curler occasion turned out to be an entertaining and compelling show of poker prowess and showmanship — and 10s of hundreds tuned in on PokerGO’s YouTube channel to observe Seth Davies win his first bracelet.
Starpower and Martin Kabrel’s incessant desk discuss made it the summer season’s first actual “should see” poker TV, and the all-star assortment of gamers delivered.
Love him or hate him, Kabrel, as traditional, sucked all the eye out of the air like some form of coffee-housing supervillain with a black-belt in annoyance.
The man merely can’t sit nonetheless or cease shifting his lips, whether or not he’s in a hand or not, and he doesn’t discriminate. Phil Ivey, Jason Koon, David Peters, Bryn Kenney, Alex Foxen, Daniel Negreanu and all the opposite tremendous excessive rollers had been pressured to cope with his barrage of baby-ness.
Newly nominated for the Poker Corridor of Fame Nick Schulman was a frequent goal of Kabrel’s needling, and he dealt with it like the professional he’s till he slipped and referred to as the Czech Republican motor-mouth a p*ssy, which Kabrel seemingly missed.
Kabrel made the ultimate desk of this occasion for the third time. His incessant commentary received himself in hassle in a hand on the cash bubble in opposition to David Peters. Kabrel saved reminding the desk that they want to pay attention to the bubble, which gave Peters a psychological leg-up that he used to drag off an enormous bluff that pushed Kabrel off a monster. The hand begins about 19 minutes in right here.
The occasion introduced in 63 entries who constructed a prize pool of $15,584,625. The highest 10 had been paid a minimal $516,393 with the highest 5 cashing seven-figures.
The heads-up match had the substances for a marathon battle. Each Davies and Foxen had been sitting fairly with 50-plus blinds, and the 2 gamers have loads of expertise taking part in one-on-one for ridiculous quantities of cash. This time, they had been taking part in for the $1.7 million distinction between first and second place.
The match lasted two palms.
Within the very first hand, Foxen, with a slight lead, raised a number of blinds with AQ. Davies took lower than 10 seconds earlier than shoving all his chips into the center with AJ, which Foxen snap-called. Foxen was in nice form to win his second WSOP bracelet, however a jack on the flop modified all the things for the 2 males.
The very subsequent hand, Davies discovered AA, which held up in opposition to Foxen’s K5, and identical to that, the occasion screeched to a halt and it was over.
“It’s form of fantasy-land stuff, you realize? You solely get so many excessive stake WSOP tournaments yearly. You solely get three or 4 pictures at it yearly. It’s one thing I wished for a very long time and to come back by means of within the greatest one, it’s insane,” he instructed PokerGO afterwards.
Davies is without doubt one of the hottest gamers presently engaged on the tremendous excessive curler path. The $4.75 million on this one beats his second-highest money of $4.1 million, which he received by ending second within the $212,000 buy-in occasion at Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Sequence in Montenegro simply 30 days in the past.
His lifetime match winnings presently sit at $44 million. Speak about fantasyland.
