Yettick and Heidemann Latest Bracelet Winners At 2024 WSOP

The 2024 World Series of Poker is entering its final week of action, with just 16 live bracelets left to award. As the record-setting main event played on, two bracelets were awarded elsewhere at Horseshoe Las Vegas in recent days. Below we take a closer look at those tournaments.

Event #83 – $1,500 Eight Game Mix Six Max

The $1,500 eight-game mix event drew a field of 494 entries, resulting in a prize pool of $659,490 that was paid out across the top 73 finishers.

In the end, it came down to a back-and-forth heads-up match between six-time bracelet winner Josh Arieh and Garth Yettick. Ultimately it was Yettick who triumphed, earning $131,061 and his first bracelet as the champion.

Arieh settled for $85,667. There were several other big names that made it down to the final day in this event, including a trio of two-time bracelet winners in Marco Johnson (6th), Maxx Coleman (5th), and John Racener (4th).

Three-time bracelet winner and 2024 Poker Hall of Fame nominee ‘Miami’ John Cernuto placed third for $57,249.

Arieh entered heads-up play with the lead, and was able to stretch his advantage to greater than 5:1 before Yettick mounted his comeback. Yettick was able to move ahead before the final two took a dinner break. He had built a 5:2 lead of his own by the time the final hand arose in a round of no-limit hold’em. All the chips got in with Arieh’s A-Q trailing the A-K of Yettick. Both players paired their kicker on the floop and Yettick held from there to score the knockout and end the tournament.

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

Event #84 – $600 Ultra Stack No-Limit Hold’em

Germany’s Carsten Heidemann played in his first WSOP main event this year, and was eliminated when his top set of aces were beaten by a backdoor flush. He hopped into the $600 Ultra stack no-limit hold’em event and managed to overcome the field of 6,628 entries to earn $343,010 and his first bracelet with his first recorded live tournament cash.

Heidemann was one of 791 players to earn a piece of the $3,380,280 prize pool. Among the notables that ran deep in this event were Andrey Pateychuk (136th), bracelet winner Jim Willerson (125th), bracelet winner Jordan Hufty (97th), and Daniel Rezaei (15th).

Day 3 of this event began with 19 players remaining and Axel Orellana in the lead. Heidemann was one of the short stacks to start, with just 10 big blinds in front of him when play resumed. He knocked out Lawrence Barber (10th – $26,910) to take a healthy stack into the official final table.

Heidemann then busted Phuoc Nguyen (4th – $127,950) and Albyn Bello (3rd- $170,410) to set up a heads-up showdown with Ramana Epparla. Heidemann jumped out to an early lead, then had top pair hold agains an open-ended straight draw to close out the win. Epparla earned $228,670 for second place.

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

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Winner photo credits: WSOP / Hayley Hochstetler, Regina Cortina.

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