EVENT #42 |
2,500 OMAHA / SEVEN-STUD HI-LOW 8-OR BETTER |
393 ENTRIES | 894K PRIZEPOOL
Five, count 'em, five tournament victories in the past 16 months ... including two WSOP bracelets ... most elite players would kill for five significant scores in that time-frame, let alone five victories.
Who is this person that holds this resume? Ivey? Nope. Mercier? Try again. Gotta be ElkY, right? Wrong. It's Ukrainian poker pro Oleksii Kovalchuk.
Kovalchuk (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 13th) was named PTPRpoker Rookie of the Year for 2011 when he collected three tournament victories including his first bracelet. Kovalchuk is continuing the trend in 2012, after a win earlier this year, Kovalchuk had added a second bracelet to the mantle.
Kovalchuk defeated George Danzer (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-168th) heads-up in the Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or Better bracelet event.
ESPN poker analyst Norman Chad (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-632nd) was the chip leader for a long time during final day play. Unfortunately for Chad, a sixth place finish is the best he could do.
Mark Gregorich (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-312nd), Daniel Ratigan (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 283rd) and Yuval Bronshtein (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-360th) also final tabled the event.
FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (USD) Oleksii Kovalchuk $228,014 George Danzer $140,825 Mark Gregorich $90,829 Daniel Ratigan $65,812 Yuval Bronshtein $48,387 Norman Chad $36,093 Wing Wong $27,313 Tim Burt $20,966 RELATED POSTS > HEARTBREAK FOR GLAZIER > EAST COAST REPRESENT! > JACHTMANN PLO CHAMPION > DUNG NGUYEN WINS BRACELET > DAVID BAKERS RULE! > MCCORKELL PULLS THE UPSET > GOOD GUY TRYBA WINS BIG > KIHARA WINS JAPAN'S FIRST > STEINBERG WINS THE 1K! > SHAKE AND BAKES! > NO ONE CAN GET CARTER! > SHULMAN SHOWS THE BOYS > CASSIDY-NGUYEN GO TO EXTRAS > HELLMUTH LEGEND GROWS, EARNS #12 > MAKE IT TWO FOR MONNETTE > CAZALS, MAD MARVIN MOVE UP > BLOCH WINS BRACELET | PTPR PREMIER EVENT 2012 World Series of Poker Event #42 : 2,500 Omaha/7-Stud Hi-Low 8-or Better June 22-24, 2012 Rio All-Suite Hotel | Las Vegas Buy-in: $2,500 | Prizepool: $894,075 Entries: 393 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION OLEKSII KOVALCHUK 128 GEORGE DANZER 78 MARK GREGORICH 48 DANIEL RATIGAN 38 YUVAL BRONSHTEIN 33 NORMAN CHAD 28 WING WONG 28 TIM BURT 13 BRANDON GUSS 13 JEFF LISANDRO 13 PERRY FRIEDMAN 13 BRYAN DEVONSHIRE 11 TOM SCHNEIDER 11 TIMOTHY FRAZIN 11 MIKE KRESCANKO 11 DALE PHILLIPS 8 JOSEPH WEINBERGER 8 DANIEL HARMETZ 8 |
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