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Craig Varnell managed to defeat a massive player field of 2,419 entries to win his first ever bracelet in Event #19: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha event for $181,790. This was his third final-table finish at the WSOP series.

Varnell entered the final table in second chip lead behind Maxime Heroux, with 2010 WSOP main event winner Jonathan Duhamel very close to his chip stack number.

Varnell managed to defeat Duhamel who settled in 6th place, securing the chip lead in the process. He accumulated a dominant lead after knocking off Heroux in 4th place, entering three-handed play with 75% of the chips in his possession.

Varnell knocked off Omar Mehmood in 3rd place and he has 6-to-1 advantage into the heads-up match against Seth Zimmerman.

In the final hand, it was Varnell's K-J-9-5 against Zimmerman's A-K-Q-4, with the board revealing Q-J-3-6-9, giving Varnell two pair for the win.

Varnell said after he won, "It felt good to finally close one out. I almost didn't play this event. But when I did, and I got a stack, I had a big advantage over the other players."

He almost did not participate in the event after his terrible run in the Colossus event. The poker player from Colorado assumed he fired eight bullets in that event but everything was a miss.

Craig Varnell is a former car wash attendant, but those difficult days are way behind him now as he relishes his first WSOP bracelet and the $181K prize money. He said as he claimed his bracelet, "You never think when you play poker for a living you're going to get this moment. To win a tournament is so hard to do. This is the monumental moment, you made it."

Event #19: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Results

Source:
https://www.pokernews.com/news/2018/06/adam-friedman-wins-second-bracelet-10k-dealers-choice-31073.htm?itm_content=pn-hp-hero-4