Adrian Mateos earned his sixth vocation World Series of Poker rubric precocious Monday, becoming the youngest subordinate ever to execute the feat.
Mateos, 31, topped a star-studded last array to triumph the $250,000 buy-in Super High Roller No-limit Hold’em event, which is the highest buy-in of the summertime astatine the WSOP.
The nonrecreational poker subordinate from Spain claimed the $4,334,411 archetypal prize, defeating Bryn Kenney during heads-up play.
“When I travel to this tournament, it’s my favourite of the bid due to the fact that it’s ace costly and besides due to the fact that the operation is amended than the others. It’s 3 days, we play deeper, and I conscionable emotion it,” Mateos told PokerNews. “I was ace excited to travel contiguous and compete. Everything went my way, and I was capable to triumph the race.”
Mateos’ archetypal bracelet, which are awarded for tourney victories, came successful 2013 astatine the WSOP Europe Main Event. He besides won the WSOP Super High Roller lawsuit successful 2021.
The poker prodigy is present seventh connected the all-time wealth database with much than $67 cardinal successful vocation unrecorded tournaments earnings, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database.
The triumph besides continued Mateos’ caller heater aft helium won the Triton Super High Roller No-limit Hold’em lawsuit for $6.37 cardinal successful May. He has astir $12 cardinal successful tourney winnings since May.
Mateos was liable for 4 of the last 5 eliminations astatine the Super High Roller last table, including Jason Koon successful 5th spot and Sean Winter successful fourth. He went into heads-up play with a tiny spot deficit, but rapidly took the pb and eliminated Kenney successful a manus with two-pair against Kenney’s apical pair.
Kenney, the all-time starring wealth winner, earned $2.77 cardinal his runner-up finish.
Phil Ivey made his archetypal last array of the summertime and was looking for his 12th vocation bracelet but finished eighth.
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