Because the World Sequence of Poker churns alongside in Las Vegas, Brian Rast and Adrian Mateos inched their means up the all-time bracelet leaderboard with victories.
Rast win seventh WSOP bracelet
Poker Corridor of Famer Brian Rast moved up a spot on the all-time WSOP bracelet listing with a win in yet one more Championship occasion. Rast gained his seventh bracelet within the $10,000 Restrict Razz Championship, including one other $306,644 to his lifetime event earnings of $28.3 million.
5 of his bracelets got here in Championship occasions — he’s gained the $50,000 Poker Participant’s Championship in 2011, 2016, and 2023, the $10,000 No Restrict 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship in 2019, and this one.
He talked to the WSOP afterwards about how he was feeling.
“Simply immense gratitude. I really feel like nobody ever deserves to win a event as a result of it’s so loopy what has to occur to win. I used to be very brief no less than twice, if not 3 times,” he mentioned.
“I actually appreciated my mindset on this one. I used to be simply telling myself, even earlier than the ultimate desk, simply focus in your play. In the event you bust at this level, it doesn’t matter what occurs, you could have an excellent life, you’re doing nicely, taking part in good poker. And that’s all I can management. I used to be very completely satisfied how I performed, and simply these ups and downs, emotionally. That was the longest heads-up battle that I’ve ever had. Andrew made it actually powerful.”
He’s the third participant this summer season who gained his seventh bracelet, becoming a member of Poker Corridor of Fame nominee Nick Schulman and Benny Glaser, who has already gained his eighth.
Adrian Mateos wins fifth bracelet
Spain’s all-time event money chief Adrain Mateos grabbed his fifth WSOP bracelet this weekend by profitable the $3,200 Excessive Curler that was a part of WSOP.com’s on-line slate. The event started on-line, however completed reside on the Horseshoe Las Vegas.
The occasion registered 444 entries and Mateos, who’s undefeated in heads-up WSOP play, gained a quarter-milly for beating Bulgarian professional Alex Kulev for the title.
Mateos gained his first WSOP bracelet on the tender age of 19 by profitable the European Foremost Occasion for €1 million in 2013. The person by no means appeared again, wracking up almost $54 million in event cashes since then, together with one other 4 WSOP titles in 2013, 2016 2017, and 2021, when he gained the $250,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler occasions for $3,265,362 -is – which one among his 5 tremendous excessive curler wins.
Folks, he’s simply 30 years previous.
