Venetian Poker Tournament 2020

1. Venetian Poker Tournaments June 2020
2. Venetian Poker Tournament October 2020
3. Venetian Blackjack Tournament 2020
4. Venetian Poker Tournaments 2020
5. Venetian Poker Tournament September 2020
6. Venetian Poker Tournament 2020

The World Poker Tour is back in action again, this time stepping back into the familiar stomping grounds of Las Vegas. The Venetian is playing host to the WPT Venetian for the next few days, marking the first major tournament schedule to resume under the COVID regulations in the city. The WPT is expecting a big crowd for this event and they have adjusted some of the terms of the event that were in effect last year, which should not slow down anyone from playing.

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Venetian Poker Tournaments June 2020

Kick Up the Buy-In…

When it was first announced, the WPT Venetian was set for a $3500 buy-in with unlimited reentries until the start of Level 9. The Venetian decided to change the entry fee for the tournament, however (the WPT has no call over the structures of any event on its schedule, including the buy-in), making it a $5000 buy-in event while keeping the unlimited re-entry intact. They also set a $1.5 million guaranteed prize pool, which should easily be crushed between the two-Day Ones.

On Friday, it became quickly evident that players, despite the mandated face masks and plexiglass separating the competitors, wanted to get on the felt. 123 players were on the tables when the call to action was heard and this number ratcheted up rapidly. Just before the dinner break, 327 entries were in the books, thrashing the $1.5 million guarantee and demonstrating that the WPT Venetian was going to be one for the record books.

Late registration/reentry ended with the start of Level 9 and the numbers were astounding. 378 entries were on the board, but perhaps most surprising was that there were still 176 players in their seats by Level 9. Over the final two levels of the night, however, the players began to drop by the wayside.

Stacked Leaderboard from Day 1A

Either because they could come back on Day 1B and try to run up another stack or they wanted to try to run up the one they had and failed, there were some very notable names sitting on the sidelines by the end of Friday night. Garrett Greer hit the rail late in the evening holding pocket nines, the victim of a race against Scott Stewart’s suited A♠ Q♠ when the Q♣ hit on the flop. Others who failed to reach the end of the night included PokerGO’s boss, Cary Katz and another fellow “High Roller” regular, Dan Shak.

The upper echelons of the leaderboard are replete with top professionals amongst the 79 players who will be happy with what they bagged (at least the Top Ten will): Dustin Dirksen will be the only player over the 500K mark on the Day 1A leaderboard, but there are plenty of challenges awaiting him, even without the Day 1B field added:
1. Dustin Dirksen, 566,000
2. Joseph Cheong, 390,500
3. James Carroll, 386,500
4. Dave Alfa, 382,500
5. Zhen Cai, 341,000
6. Jarod Ludemann, 335,000
7. Scott Stewart, 334,000
8. Shannon Shorr, 305,500
9. Nick Schulman, 280,000
10. Adam Hendrix, 277,000
Day 1B will go off at 11AM at The Venetian in Las Vegas with the same plan on Saturday – 11 levels of action, $5000 entry fee with unlimited rebuys. If the Day 1A crowd is any indicator, they might challenge 500 players on Saturday for the last shot at the crown, which would completely destroy the $1.5 million guarantee. With only 522 entries necessary to achieve 900 entries and an over $4 million prize pool, the only question other than who will be the champion of the WPT Venetian will be how high the prize pool will go.

Sung Joo Hyun has won the 2021 World Poker Tour DeepStacks $1,600 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event held at The Venetian® Resort Las Vegas. The South Korean defeated a field of 812 total entries to earn the title and the top prize of $208,335, the largest score of his career. Hyun had earned his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet just over half of a year earlier, coming out on top of a field of 2,307 entries in a $500 buy-in WSOP Online event to earn $161,898. He now has career tournament earnings of $699,320.

In addition to the title and the money, Hyun was also awarded 912 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion of this event. This win alone was enough to catapult him into seventh place in the 2021 POY race standings, which are sponsored by Global Poker.

Venetian Poker Tournament October 2020

The sizable turnout for this event saw the $500,000 guarantee more than doubled, with $1,161,160 ultimately paid out among the top 102 finishers.

Plenty of notables made deep runs in this event, including WSOP bracelet winner Ronnie Bardah (92nd – $2,585), WSOP Circuit main event winner Michael Trivett (90th – $2,835), Javier Zarco (81st – $3,090), WPT Championship winner Asher Conniff (76th – $3,090), Card Player Poker Tour main event winner Oddie Dardon (43rd – $4,635), Aaron Massey (38th -$4,635), three-time WPT champion and two-time bracelet winner Anthony Zinno (37th – $4,635), WPT champion Joe Tehan (31st – $5,330), and a pair of WSOP bracelet winners Erik Cajelais (17th – $11,120) and Joey Weissman (11th – $16,920).

The final day of this event began with eight players remaining, with Wayne Harmon in the lead and Hyun sitting on the third-shortest stack. he quickly began to climb up the leaderboard, starting by eliminating Iris Angeleri in eighth place ($27,495). Joris Springael was the next to fall. His pocket tens couldn’t hold up against the A-3 of Curtis Powell and he was sent to the rail with $34,560 for his seventh-place showing. Hyun found a double-up through Powell not long after that to continue his ascent up the chip counts. Powell got the last of his chips in not long after that with two pair against the flush draw of Hyun. The draw came in and Powell was knocked out in sixth place ($41,765).

Venetian Blackjack Tournament 2020

Hyun overtook the lead by winning a big pot off of Wayne Harmon with the nut flush against a lower flush. Harmon was left short, but managed to double up through WPT champion Dylan Wilkerson to regain his footing. He then busted Wilkerson in fifth place ($52,580), winning a race with pocket tens against the A-Q suited of the 2014 WPT Emperors Palace Poker Classic winner to send him packing.

Chris Doan’s run in this event came to an end when his KJ came up against the A9 of Hyun. Doan failed to improve and was eliminated in fourth place ($69,025), while Hyun extended his lead heading into three-handed action. Roman Shainiuk closed the gap by busting Wayne Harmon in third place. It was a preflop race, with Shainiuk holding A8 and Harmon the 77. The board brought a flush for Shainiuk and Harmon had to settle for $93,280 as the third-place finisher.

Venetian Poker Tournaments 2020

With that Hyun took 13,310,000 into heads-up play against Shainiuk, who sat with 11,050,0000. Hyun was able to extend his lead to nearly a 4:1 advantage by the time the final hand was dealt. Shainiuk raised to 500,000 from the button with K6 and Hyun three-bet all-in holding KQ. Shainiuk called and the board came down Q923A. Hyun made a pair of queens to lock up the pot and the title, while Shainiuk took home $144,480 as the runner-up.

Venetian Poker Tournament September 2020

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

Winner photo credit: World Poker Tour.

Venetian Poker Tournament 2020