World Series Of Poker -- Brian Yoon Wins $1,111 Rebuy 'Little One For One Drop'Captures First Bracelet And $663,727 |
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California poker pro Brian Yoon outlasted one of the largest tournaments of the summer when he took down the “Little One for One Drop” title. Yoon, a 23-year-old poker pro, had just a handful of career World Series of Poker cashes prior to his win on Sunday, July 7th.
“I haven’t really had a breakthrough win or anything like that,” Yoon told the WSOP. "So, this is great to put on my resume, and have people take me a lot more seriously now.”
Yoon grinds cash games in California and sometimes makes trips up to Vancouver, Canada in order to be able to play online poker tournaments.
The final table Yoon beat out was relatively inexperienced, but it did contain veteran grinder Roland Israelashvili, who now has nearly $2 million in career earnings. It was Yoon who busted Israelashvili. The hand started with Yoon raising to 325,000.
Israelashvili reraised all in for 2.2 million. Yoon called, and the two players revealed their hands. Yoon tabled the A
Q
, while Israelashvili flipped over the K Q.
The board offered no help for K-Q.
Yoon won the hand with an ace-kicker to take a chip lead of more than 14 million into a heads-up final against Cuong Van Nguyen (5 million). The heads-up match lasted 11 hands.
On the final hand of the match, Van Nguyen raised to 450,000 and Yoon moved all in. Van Nguyen called all in and they flipped over their cards.
Yoon held the K
Q and was ahead of his opponent’s 10 8
. The board ran out A 10 6 9 K, giving Yoon the title. Van Nguyen was eliminated in second place and took home $408,264 in prize money. Yoon was awarded a gold bracelet and the top prize worth $663,727.
Card Player’s own Allyn Jaffrey Shulman made a deep run, finishing in 46th place.
Here is a look at the final table results.
| Place | Player Name | Payout | POY Points |
| 1 | Brian Yoon | $663,727 | 1320 |
| 2 | Cuong Van Nguyen | $408,264 | 1100 |
| 3 | Roland Israelashvili | $295,433 | 880 |
| 4 | Justin Zaki | $218,771 | 660 |
| 5 | Nghi Tran | $163,340 | 550 |
| 6 | Joseph Morneau | $122,933 | 440 |
| 7 | Kevin O’Donnell | $93,269 | 330 |
| 8 | Alexander Case | $71,311 | 220 |
| 9 | Adriano Santa Ana | $54,960 | 110 |
For complete coverage of the summer poker festival. check out our WSOP landing page.
Photo Credit: Joe Giron/WSOP
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