Jim Collopy Claims the Purple Jacket; Ben Tollerene Wins Poker Masters Finale

Jim Collopy wasn’t among the many 10 gamers who cashed within the 2024 Poker Masters Presented by PokerStars NAPT collection finale. However it did not matter as he’d locked up the Purple Jacket, awarded to the highest performer all through the collection, earlier than the $25,200 No-Restrict Maintain’em last desk concluded when Aram Zobian, his last challenger, busted in fifth place.

Ben Tollerene, nevertheless, took down the eighth and last match of the PokerGO Tour collection in Las Vegas for $510,000, beating out a subject of 68 entrants on the PokerGO Studio.

Collopy had a banner collection regardless of not successful a match. He cashed 4 occasions, ending runner-up in consecutive occasions, together with a heads-up defeat by the hands of Isaac Haxton within the $15,100 No-Limit Hold’em occasion earlier this week. The Purple Jacket winner additionally booked third and sixth place finishes, and he now has over $9.7 million in lifetime reside match cashes, in keeping with The Hendon Mob, $521,600 of which was earned over the previous week.

Powerful Ultimate Desk

The ultimate desk was fairly a battle, as was to be anticipated when six high-stakes crushers had been competing for a large payout. Andrew Lichtenberger entered Thursday’s Day 2 session within the chip lead with seven gamers left. He’d stay on the high, narrowly more often than not, however it wasn’t a straightforward job, nor may he get a lot separation from his nearest opponents, and he inevitably busted in third place for $229,500 when pocket aces had been cracked by Tollerene’s pocket queens.

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When heads-up play started between Tollerene and Taylor von Kriegenbergh, the previous, who busted “Fortunate Chewy,” held almost a 2-1 chip lead. Each gamers, nevertheless, had loads of dancing chips with the blinds at 40,000/80,000 (80,000 massive blind ante) and over 10 million chips in play.

The chip lead shortly shifted in the other way when von Kriegenbergh picked off a bluff with ace-high towards eight-high. However Tollerene would then pull off a stable bluff with 10-high to get again inside placing distance.

After which it was time to race as Tollerene put his stack in with 7♠7♣ towards A♦Ok♣. Massive Slick did not pair up on the board, and that put Tollerene into his largest chip lead of the day.

The heads-up gamers would then play probably the most essential pot of the match when von Kriegenbergh raised from the button to 200,000 with Ok♦J♥. Tollerene then jammed all in for two.5 million efficient with A♠6♠ and acquired a fast name.

There was fairly a sweat on the 3♦Q♦8♦ flop because the participant who wanted the double-up to remain alive had two reside playing cards and a flush draw. However he had too many outs because the flip and river bricked, placing an finish to the eighth and last 2024 Poker Masters occasion. Tollerene received $510,000 for first place, and von Kriegenbergh settled for $331,500 and a second place end.

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