Isaac Baron Wins Opening Event of the 2019 Poker Masters
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Isaac Baron got his 2019 Poker Masters off to a flying start with a victory in Event #1: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em.
2019 Poker Master Event #1: $10,000 NLHE Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isaac Baron | United States | $223,100 |
| 2 | Chance Kornuth | United States | $164,900 |
| 3 | Ralph Wong | United States | $116,400 |
| 4 | Jeremy Ausmus | United States | $97,000 |
| 5 | Sam Soverel | United States | $77,600 |
| 6 | Scott Blumstein | United States | $58,200 |
| 7 | Dan Shak | United States | $48,500 |
| 8 | Thai Ha | Vietnam | $38,800 |
The opening event of the 2019 Poker Masters saw 97 entries at the PokerGo Studio, and they were reduced to the final table of eight after nineteen levels of intense poker action. Only the top 14 finishers won a share of the $970,000 prize pool.
J.J Feregrino finished in fifteenth place, bubbling the opening event. Baron opened to 50,000, Ralph Wong called on the button before Feregrino shoved for 55,000 from the small blind. Chance Kornuth called in the big blind, with Baron and Wong also calling. The flop fell king-nine-eight, Kornuth checked, Baron bet 50,000, and Wong shoved for 260,000. Only Baron called.
Baron showed pocket aces, but Wong had flopped a set with his pocket eights. All Feregrino could muster was the lowly queen-seven. Wong’s set held, and he climbed to 530,000 chips, while Feregrino busted in fifteenth place for the unwanted title of bubble boy.
Poker Masters regular Stephen Chidwick was the first player to collect some prize money from this event, his fourteenth-place finish netting him $19,400. Randall Emmett, Alex Foxen, Joseph Orsino, Antonios Roungeris, and Sean Winter all busted after Chidwick, the latter falling in ninth-place for $29,100 and setting the final table.
2019 Poker Master Event #1: $10,000 NLHE Final Table Seat Draw
| Seat | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chance Kornuth | United States | 455,000 |
| 2 | Thai Ha | Vietnam | 655,000 |
| 3 | Jeremy Ausmus | United States | 1,955,000 |
| 4 | Isaac Baron | United States | 3,055,000 |
| 5 | Dan Shak | United States | 480,000 |
| 6 | Ralph Wong | United States | 1,770,000 |
| 7 | Scott Blumstein | United States | 765,000 |
| 8 | Sam Soverel | United States | 630,000 |
The final table, which was streamed on PokerGO, saw a flurry of eliminations as the shorter stacks attempted to double up.
Vietnam’s Thai Ha crashed out in eighth for $38,800 and was joined soon after by Dan Shak and the former World Series of Poker Main Event champion Scott Blumstein who collected $48,500 and $58,200 respectively.
Sam Soverel, who excelled at the recent British Poker Open, fell in fifth-place when his eights proved no match for Baron’s aces. Soverel collected $77,600 for this result, taking his earnings for 2019 to almost $4 million.
Baron then put his foot firmly on the gas and busted Jeremy Ausmus in fourth place in what was a battle of the blinds. Ausmus jammed fewer than ten big blinds with queen-seven, and Baron called with queen-nine. Baron’s nine kicker played, and that was it for Ausmus.
The penultimate elimination was that of Wong, again at the hands of Baron. Wong collected $116,400, the first six-figure prize of the event.
Heads-up only lasted one hand, such was the enormity of Baron’s chip lead. Baron moved all-in with five-three of clubs, and Kornuth called with ace-nine. Baron caught a three to bust Kornuth and to claim the top prize for himself.
Ha and Kornuth Reach Second Final Table
Ha and Kornuth have a chance to make amends for not winning the opening event as they have both reached the final table of Event #2: $10,000 PLO. Ryan Laplante leads the final six, where the winner takes home $186,000.
Lead image courtesy of Poker Central
