Damjan Radanov has made a number of deep runs this previous month in varied tournaments all through Las Vegas, together with ending runner-up within the 2025 Chainsaw Blended Sequence of Poker (CMSOP) $600 Restrict Omaha 8 or Higher/Stud 8 or Higher Championship. Right this moment, Radanov noticed victory at Planet Hollywood as he defeated heads-up opponent Dean Joe within the CMSOP $1,100 H.O.R.S.E. Championship to win $16,479.
“Seventh time’s the appeal,” he instructed PokerNews in a winner’s interview. “Final month I had a run, it was like six remaining tables.”
Radanov, a combined video games and Pot-Restrict Omaha (PLO) specialist who fittingly received with seven playing cards throughout a sport of Stud Hello-Lo, bested an esteemed remaining desk that included seven-time World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Josh Arieh (seventh – $2,551) and 2023 International Poker Index (GPI) Mid-Main Participant of the 12 months Nick Pupillo (fifth – $3,747), who additionally had a remaining desk look in final evening’s $1,100 Omaha 8 or Higher Championship.
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Taking part in for His Daughter
The 2-day $1,100 H.O.R.S.E. Championship drew 54 runners for a prize pool of $52,920. 9 locations paid and people 9 gamers returned on Day 2 to be assured a payout of $2,307.
Brief stacks Carol Anderson and Patrick Hu-A-Kam each busted out early the opening orbit of Seven Card Stud earlier than a roller-coaster journey for Arieh.
It began in Omaha Hello-Lo as the long run Poker Corridor of Famer doubled in a full-house-nut-low scoop, however a ship then sank him in a Razz hand the place he crammed up on seventh avenue in opposition to the 2 pair of Pupillo to exit in seventh place for $2,551. CMSOP founder Allen Kessler known as it a “very uncommon” hand to lose to in Razz.
Pupillo went out in fifth place quickly after, however not earlier than impressing the desk by flopping a metal Wheel in Omaha Hello-Lo to triple up a brief stack.
Radanov put a troublesome beat on third-place finisher Tom McCormick as he rivered Broadway in Omaha Hello-Lo to crack aces and had much more fortune throughout heads-up play.
“You ran over me throughout heads-up,” Joe instructed Radanov proper earlier than a fateful hand of Stud Hello-Lo.
In that remaining hand, Joe wanted to dodge Radanov’s gutshot outs, however he could not accomplish that as Radanov continued his scorching streak by binking a straight on seventh avenue.
“Man, nobody can cease Damjan!” Kessler mentioned earlier whereas trying out the ultimate desk.
Radanov, who’s from Serbia however now lives in Tennessee and who has $2.2 million in Hendon Mob earnings, had his younger daughter in thoughts after closing out the event. As he posed for winner’s images, he propped up his telephone on full brightness with a photograph of her.
“I wished to take one image with my child. It feels good, however nothing feels (like) simply being subsequent to her,” mentioned a reflective Radanov.
Connor Richards
Senior Editor U.S.
