Jake Daniels Claims First Occasion Title Of 2021 U.S. Poker Open Sequence In Las Vegas
A record-breaking 95 entries had been made in occasion no. 1 of the 2021 U.S. Poker Open, a $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em match held on the PokerGO studio at Aria in Las Vegas.
After two days of play, it was Texas poker professional Jake Daniels who got here away with the victory, together with $218,500 of the $950,000 prize pool.
This was Daniels’ third last desk of the 12 months, and continues the new streak he began in December of 2019 with a win on the WPT 5 Diamond World Poker Basic. Final 12 months, he picked up victories on the Aria Winter Excessive Curler Sequence, in addition to the L.A. Poker Basic Excessive Curler earlier than the dwell match circuit was shut down. He now has practically $1.6 million in profession match earnings.
With a purpose to declare the title, Daniels needed to overcome a troublesome last desk that included excessive rollers Sergi Reixach and Barry Hutter, Card Participant columnist Steve Zolotow, 2018 USPO champion Stephen Chidwick, and day 1 chip chief Dan Shak.
Daniels knocked out Chidwick in fourth place, earlier than Shak busted Hutter to arrange a heads-up showdown. Shak held a virtually 2:1 chip result in begin, however a cooler when each gamers made straights flipped the benefit to Daniels.
It wasn’t lengthy after that when Daniels was in a position to shut out the match and safe the title.
Listed below are the ultimate desk outcomes.
| Place | Participant | Payout | POY Factors |
| 1 | Jake Daniels | $218,500 | 540 |
| 2 | Dan Shak | $152,000 | 450 |
| 3 | Barry Hutter | $114,000 | 360 |
| 4 | Stephen Chidwick | $95,000 | 270 |
| 5 | Steve Zolotow | $76,000 | 225 |
| 6 | Sergi Reixach | $57,000 | 180 |
| 7 | Tim McDermott | $47,500 | 135 |
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