Chino Rheem Beats Fellow WPT Crusher Darren Elias in Heads-Up Finale

Two of the best performers in Planet Poker Tour background — Chino Rheem and Darren Elias — achieved the finals of the $25,000 purchase-in PokerGO Tour Heads-Up Showdown Saturday, with the former coming out victorious for $400,000.

The two finalists had been joined by Isaac Kempton and Justin Youthful in the semifinals. Elias clipped Kempton and Rheem took out Young to set up the fifth and closing round. The two semifinalists been given $100,000 as a consolation prize.

Two Greats Go at It

Elias and Rheem have been previously off to sturdy begins to 2022 prior to the heads-up function in Las Vegas. They experienced combined for around $1.2 million in cashes this 12 months coming into the match.

In the closing round, Elias jumped to a sizable early lead, extending his starting up stack from 250,000 to in excess of 300,000 promptly. But his opponent would turn it all around and acquire a 340,000-chip pot with best pair on an all in bet that Elias, holding 2nd pair, couldn’t fold.

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With the blinds at 3,000/6,000, Elias decided to consider a stand with and moved all in on the button for 70,000. Rheem promptly termed with . The board ran out , placing an close to the 32-player heads-up no-restrict hold’em event.

The champion took home $400,000, and next location earned $200,000 of the $800,000 prize pool. Equally gamers shook fingers and then PokerGO’s Jeff Platt interviewed the individuals.

“It truly is seriously special, my hats off to Darren, he played terrific,” Rheem reported in his article-game job interview. “We went back again and forth. Me and Darren have recognised each individual other for a prolonged time, and we’re equally pretty instinctual gamers. We both equally made some bad calls versus just about every other. Which is because we get sticky with every single other when we have pairs.”

Achievement Outdoors the WPT

The finalists the two have an comprehensive background of WPT results, but also somewhere else. Rheem now has about $12.3 million in are living event cashes according to Hendon Mob, and Elias just about strike the $10 million mark.

Again in March, Rheem received a $15,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha party at the US Poker Open for $271,350, and took next for $210,000 in a $15,000 no-restrict hold’em match in the same collection.

Even though these two have remarkable final results in a variety of tournaments all over the globe, which includes the World Series of Poker, they’re going to forever be hooked up to Planet Poker Tour greatness.

Elias retains the WPT history with four titles, but he will go for his fifth subsequent thirty day period in Las Vegas when the Seminole Tough Rock Poker Showdown final table resumes. He’ll enter that final table with the chip lead and is presently assured at the very least $215,000, but would get about $1 million if he ended up to get his fifth title.

Elias also prolonged his report to 13 WPT last desk appearances and ranks 10th all-time in Entire world Poker Tour job earnings, though he could crack the top five should really he win at the Could 25th final desk.

Rheem is a single of just 7 players to achieve three WPT titles. He ranks eighth with just below $4.1 million in earnings and has designed five closing desk appearances.

Two of the most effective Earth Poker Tour performers battled it out for the PokerGO Tour Heads-Up Showdown crown, and this time close to it was the guy they connect with Chino taking it down.

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