Matthew Lambrecht Wins 2024 World Series of Poker $10,000 Mystery Bounty

Mystery bounty mania continues at the 2024 World Series of Poker. The $10,000 buy-in version of this increasingly popular format drew 965 entries, creating a final prize pool of $8,974,500. With $3,000 from each buy-in being set aside for the bounty prize pool, that meant that $2,895,000 would be paid out to those who secured knockouts from day 2 on. There were 236 bounties up for grabs, ranging from 145 $5,000 tickets up to the lone $250,000 slip.

While much of the focus was on that side attraction, there was also plenty of money in the main prize pool. The largest chunk was ultimately captured by Matthew Lambrecht, who earned $1,018,933 and his first gold bracelet for the win.

This was far and away the largest score of Lambrecht, blowing away the $238,079 he earned as the third-place finisher in a $1,600 buy-in event at the Wynn Summer Classic just shy of a month earlier. The two-time WSOP Circuit ring winner now has nearly $2.6 million in career earnings after this massive victory.

In addition to the hardware and the seven-figure payday, Lambrecht was also awarded plenty of rankings points. This was his second title and 14th final-table finish so far. The 2,280 Card Player Player of the Year points he secured were enough to catapult him into eighth place in the 2024 standings presented by Global Poker. He also nabbed 1,100 PokerGO Tour points, enough to see him shoot up the standings and inside the top ten on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.

Plenty of big names were among the 145 that cashed in this event, including six-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb (20th), 2017 Poker Players Championship winner Elior Sion (18th), 2013 WSOP main event runner-up Jay Farber (15th), Ky Nguyen (13th), two-time bracelet winner Chris Brewer (12th), four-time bracelet winner Adrian Mateos (11th), and 2010 Aussie Millions $100,000 buy-in champion Dan Shak (10th).

The final day began with Brazil’s Tauan Naves in the lead and Lambrecht in a virtual tie for second place with nine remaining. Naves added to his lead by busting William Jia (9th – $80,238). Lambrecht then scored his first knockout of the day, with his AK holding against the A8 of 2019 WSOP main event 10th-place finisher Robert Heidorn (8th – $103,942).

Short stack Andrei Konopelko got all-in with J-9 facing the pocket kings of Naves. A king-high flop left Konopelko in rough shape. Naves held from there and Konopelko was eliminated in seventh place ($136,792).

Eshaan ‘Brown Balla’ Bhalla got all-in from the small blind with Q-3 for just over four big blinds. Damarjai Davenport called with A-2 and held through a jack-high runout. Bhalla, a regular on high stakes cash streams, earned $182,846 as the sixth-place finisher.

Vladimir Minko got all-in with pocket tens against the A-7 of Lambrecht. Minko still lead after Lambrecht paired his seven on the flop, but an ace on the turn left him in need of a two-outer on the river. A deuce rolled off instead and Minko was eliminated in fifth place ($248,174).

Simas Karaliunas, who won the $1,000 mystery bounty online event earlier this series for his first bracelet, was the next to find himself all-in and at risk. He was in bad shape, with A-9 trailing A-K for Lambrecht. The board brought four spades to see Lambrecht make the nut flush on the end. Karaliunas earned $341,963 as the fourth-place finisher, the largest score yet for the Lithuanian.

Naves bowed out in third place when his A-5 was unable to overcome the A-Q of a surging Lambrecht, who flopped top pair and held from there. Naves was awarded $478,247 for his third-place finish. This was his largest live result yet.

Heads-up play began with Lambrecht holding 41,000,000 to Davenport’s 16,000,000. Davenport was worn down to 5,400,000 before the final hand of the tournament was dealt. He shoved for seven big blinds with J9 and was called by Lambrecht’s K9. The board ran out AQ255 and Davenport was knocked out in second place ($678,707). This was his largest tournament score by more than $640,000.

Here is a look at the payouts and rankings points awarded at the final table:

Photo credits: WSOP / Alicia Skillman.

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