- David Peters won his 4th gold bracelet and a $1.16 million top prize at the second event of the 2022 WSOP.
On June 2 (Thursday), David Peters bested Chance Kornuth heads up to claim his fourth gold bracelet and over $1 million first-place prize in the Event #2 of the 2022 WSOP. The battle for first place in this event was regarded one of the fastest final tables in WSOP history.
2022 WSOP Event #2: $100,000 High Roller Bounty
- Buy-in: $100,000
- Date: May 31 to June 2, 2019
- Entries: 46
- Prize pool: $3,300,500
David Peters outlasted a player field of 46 to take home the prize money worth $1,166,810.
Peters, who taught himself how to play poker in 2004 and has risen to the highest ranks of the game, scooped up his very first gold bracelet in 2016 when he won Event #56: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em for $412,557.
In 2020, he claimed his second after winning an online bracelet in the GGPoker.com Event #54: $10,000 Heads-Up Championship for $360,480, and last year claimed another online bracelet by taking down the WSOP.com Event #25: $7,777 NLH Lucky 7's High Roller for $283,940.
Final Table Action
It only took 26 hands and just more than an hour to have the final five players whittled down to the last two contenders, with heads-up play lasting just under 10 minutes.
The blazing fast final table was set on the first hand as Chance Kornuth eliminated reigning WSOP Main Event champ Koray Aldemir, when the latter's king-high could not hold against Kornuth's jack-high.
After a mere ten minutes, Ali Imsirovic was out next, as his king-queen collided into Peter's aces, which sent him in fourth place.
Peters was in the chip lead and he continued collecting $25k bounties, as he eliminated Dario Sammartino in the third spot with his pocket jacks against the Italian's unimproved ace-eight.
Despite each player starting play with over 100 big blinds, the lightning-fast heads-up match only lasted just a couple of hands. It was a swift pair-over-pair confrontation leading to all the chips going in the center, with Peter's king winning against Kornuth's eights to give him the final victory.
The final hand of the event was between Peters and Kornuth.
This is Peters' 4th gold bracelet in his poker career. This win moved Peters up to $40,165,579 in lifetime tournament earnings, according to The Hendon Mob.
2022 WSOP Event #2: $100,000 High Roller Bounty - Final Table Results
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Player
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Country
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Prize (USD)
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1
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David Peters
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USA
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$1,166,810
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2
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Chance Kornuth
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USA
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$721,144
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3
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Dario Sammartino
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Italy
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$498,686
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4
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Ali Imsirovic
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Bosnia and Herzogovina
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$350,158
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5
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Koray Aldemir
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Germany
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$249,693
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6
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Matthew Steinberg
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USA
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$180,872
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7
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Phil Ivey
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USA
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$133,127
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*Phil Ivey graced this year's WSOP, settling on 7th place in Event #2. He is one of just four players to reach the 10-bracelet milestone, tied with Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan, and six behind Phil Hellmuth. However, it's been eight years since the last time he won a WSOP event. How will he fare on this year's 53rd WSOP? We have yet to see how the 2022 WSOP will turn out for "the best all-round player in the world".
After his triumph, the now four-time bracelet winner was asked of the importance of his win.
Peters said, "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. 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 importance, as while it was a fast heads-up match, it came against Kornuth, one of the hottest players in poker.
"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 gold bracelets and the WSOP Player of the Year race are also locked in on Peters' radar - he says he will be firing many more events this summer, in search for more WSOP glory.
Source:
https://www.wsop.com/tournaments/updates/?aid=2&grid=4943&tid=20302
https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2022-wsop/news/david-peters-wins-2022-wsop-event--high-roller-bounty-40308.htm
