Just five players remain in Event #2: $100,000 High Roller Bounty No-Limit Hold’em with a gold bracelet and $1,166,810 plus bounties slated to head the eventual winner’s way.
Leading the pack of elite poker pros is Chance Kornuth (14,265,000) who, thanks to a heater on Day 2 that saw him eliminate Daniel Negreanu among others, has put some distance between himself and the other four players. Closest to catching him is David Peters (8,920,000) who built up a large stack during bubble play courtesy of a huge confrontation with Koray Aldemir (860,000) whose flopped set of eights fell to the rivered straight of Peters. Rounding out the final five are Ali Imsirovic (1,815,000) and Dario Sammartino (1,740,000).
Final Five Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Chance Kornuth
United States
14,265,000
143
2
David Peters
United States
8,920,000
89
3
Ali Imsirovic
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1,815,000
18
4
Dario Sammartino
Italy
1,740,000
17
5
Koray Aldemir
Germany
860,000
9
Play resumes at 1 p.m. PDT Thursday, June 2nd at level 17 with blinds of 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 big blind ante at which point the tournament will play down to a winner. Levels will continue to be 40-minutes long through to the conclusion of the event with 15-minute breaks after every third level.
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Chance Kornuth raised to 1,500,000 from the button, Ali Imsirovic folded his small blind, and Koray Aldemir called in the big blind for his remaining 860,000.
Koray Aldemir:
Chance Kornuth:
The flop paired Kornuth's seven, and the turn and river didn't bring enough help to Aldemir, who bowed out on the first hand of the day.
Action folded to Chance Kornuth on the button who raised to 240,000. Ali Imsirovic three-bet to 1,400,000 out of the small blind, leaving himself just 185,000 behind. David Peters opted to call and Kornuth folded to send Imsirovic and Peters heads up to the flop.
Imsirovic moved all in on the flop and Peters called to put him at risk.
Ali Imsirovic:
David Peters:
Imsirovic was way behind and would need running cards to survive. The brought no help, rendering the river meaningless and Imsirovic headed to the payout desk to collect $350,158 for his efforts.
David Peters opened to 460,000 on the button and Chance Kornuth three-bet to 1,800,000 out of the big blind. Peters responded with a four-bet to 3,900,000 only to see Kornuth move all in for 12,000,000. Peters snapped it off to put Kornuth at risk.
Chance Kornuth:
David Peters:
Peters was in prime position to eliminate Kornuth and capture the gold bracelet but the flop did give Kornuth an open ended straight draw. The turn and river brought no further help to the start of Day 3 chipleader, however, forcing him to settle for 2nd place and a $721,144 consolation prize.
Peters, meanwhile, walks away with $1,166,810 and his fourth WSOP bracelet.
In one of the fastest final tables in World Series of Poker (WSOP) history, David Peters defeated Chance Kornuth heads up to claim his fourth gold bracelet and a $1,166,810 first-place prize in the 2022 WSOP Event #2: $100,000 High Roller Bounty. Kornuth, who began the final table as chip leader and was fresh off capturing his first World Poker Tour (WPT) title less than two weeks ago, earned $721,144 for his runner-up finish.
It took just 26 hands and a little over an hour to whittle the final five players down to a winner, with heads-up play lasting under ten minutes.
The win moved Peters up to $40,165,579 in lifetime tournament earnings according to The Hendon Mob, which saw him pass Erik Seidel to move into fifth place on poker's all-time money list.
2022 WSOP Event #2: $100,000 High Roller Bounty Payouts
RANK
PLAYER
COUNTRY
EARNINGS
1
David Peters
United States
$1,166,810
2
Chance Kornuth
United States
$721,144
3
Dario Sammartino
Italy
$498,686
4
Ali Imsirovic
Bosnia and Herzogovina
$350,158
5
Koray Aldemir
Germany
$249,693
6
Matthew Steinberg
United States
$180,872
7
Phil Ivey
United States
$133,127
Winner’s Reaction
After his victory, which was live-streamed on PokerGO, the now four-time bracelet winner was asked of the significance of the win.
“It feels great, especially the first event of the series, first event being away from the Rio, it’s such a prestigious tournament, so many great players," he said. "Getting number four is big. There are not too many people who have four. It’s a very, very nice start to the series."
Peters’ win comes with a bit of extra significance, as while it was a quick heads-up match, it came against one of the hottest players in poker in Kornuth.
“It’s always nice to beat someone that’s hot, and someone that’s a great player. It wasn’t exactly a super long battle heads-up, but it was nice to beat a player like that for sure.”
More bracelets and the WSOP Player of the Year race are also on Peters' radar as he says he’ll be firing plenty more events this summer in search of more WSOP glory.
Final Table Action
The tone for the blazing fast final table was set on the first hand as Kornuth eliminated reigning WSOP Main Event champ Koray Aldemir when the latter’s king-high couldn’t hold against Kornuth’s jack-high.
Less than ten minutes later, Ali Imsirovic was the next player out the door as his king-queen smashed into Peters' aces and sent him away in fourth place.
That set up the lightning-quick heads-up match which lasted just a couple of hands despite each player beginning play with over 100 big blinds. It was a quick pair-over-pair confrontation leading to all the chips going in the middle with Peters’ kings holding against Kornuth’s eights to give him the victory.
This concludes our coverage of Event #2: $100,000 High Roller Bounty No-Limit Hold’em. Congratulations to David Peters on the victory and collecting his fourth gold bracelet.
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