One of the crucial well-known poker tournaments on the earth, the World Poker Tour (WPT), has been held in Cambodia for the primary time in historical past. Konstantin Held received the match and earned his first title in WPT tournaments. Held earned an enormous prize as nicely: the payout of the primary WPT in 2024 was $361.310, together with a seat on the subsequent match, the 2024 WPT World Championship, which can happen at Wynn Las Vegas. The seat for the brand new match will likely be $10,400.
The primary occasion in Cambodia:
Held hasn’t hidden his pleasure about successful the championship. He commented on how he felt after an excellent win: “Over the moon. Truthfully, over the moon. It has been an insane journey to finish up heads up with an excellent good friend of mine. We simply loved our time. We have been all having a blast. And the expertise right here was nice. I really like the venue. I believe NagaWorld is nice. It’s been superb to return to Cambodia.”
The occasion was held at NagaWorld Built-in Resort in Cambodia. At the start of the championship, 760 gamers have been there. On Day 1A, 373 of them participated, and on Day 1B, 387 contestants performed. The buy-in was $3.500, and the prize pool within the discipline was $4.630.400. In the long run, the highest 95 gamers received beneficiant prizes.
Adam Pliska, the CEO of WPT, mentioned: “WPT Cambodia was a particular competition. Not solely did it open the 2024 season, however it additionally marked the primary time the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup was introduced in Southeast Asia. Konstantin will eternally be the primary participant to assert a WPT Champions Membership title within the area.”
Nice prizes:
Ending just under Held, the second place took Joshua McCully. He received $277.291. Florent Remi completed in third place, successful $302.019. That win was a results of the deal made by the ultimate three gamers who wished to even out the remaining payouts throughout the championship.
On the ultimate desk have been additionally Motoyoshi Okamura, who took fourth place with a prize of $157.858, Amit Kaushik who completed fifth and earned $118.906, and Kyle Bao Diep, who was sixth and earned $90.532.
At the match many well-known faces from the business may very well be seen, together with a former WPT Champion and WPT Commentator Tony Dunst, who completed in 14th place, Valeriy Pak, who received the 2018 Korea WPT and completed at 57th place, and Masato Yokosava (61st place) and Punnat Punsri (89th place), who beforehand received the championship.
The followers are wanting ahead to the second occasion at Season XXII, the WPT Prime Aix-en-Provence competition held at Pasino Grand.
