Nick Petrangelo Books His First WSOP Bracelet Win in the $3,000 Shootout
Nick Petrangelo continued his blazing hot year with his first WSOP gold bracelet win in Event #4: $3,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout on Saturday. The Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, pro pushed over the $1 million mark in 2015 tournament earnings after booking the $201,812 win. He defeated high-stakes online grinder Jason Les heads up.
"I was feeling good coming in, especially about my live game," Petrangelo said. "I'm really happy to get one out of the way early. It'll make the rest of the summer a lot easier for sure. In the past, I had a lot of chances. I think maybe I'm making better decisions later on. But obviously there's so much variance in tournament poker."
The final table of the event began just after 2 p.m. local time with two-time Academy Award nomineee and long-time poker enthusiast James Woods' name on the marquee after he defeated high-stakes heads-up specialist Doug Polk Friday to book a spot in the final 10.
An ill-timed bluff from 2013 WSOP bracelet winner Loni Harwood shot David Peters into the early lead and she was out soon after in 10th place. Peters added to his lead sending 2009 WSOP $10,000 Heads-Up Championship winner Leo Wolpert home ninth with queens over tens all in preflop. Then, Peters, the man with over $1 million in earnings at the WSOP to date, looked like a shoe-in to win his first bracelet, also sending WSOP bracelet winner Brian Lemke out eighth and Woods home seventh.
However, it was Petrangelo who busted Norweigian Andreas Hoivold sixth to push over the one-million chip mark, and after taking big pots off Jeffrey Griffiths and Peters, Petrangelo suddenly found himself in the lead. Petrangelo continued to chip up, moving over the two-million mark when he sent Derek Bowers out fifth, outflopping his jacks with big slick.
But after Les put Griffiths on the rail fourth and Peters beside him third, the two pros entered heads-up play in a dead heat. Petrangelo and Les then took a dinner break, but when they returned it was Petrangalo pushing into a 2-1 lead when he rivered two pair in a big pot. Les snatched the lead back, picking off a Petrangelo king-high bluff with just third pair, but Petrangelo pulled ahead again when his flopped pair of aces turned two and held against Les' rivered tens up. Back and forth they went with Les pulling into the lead again and Petrangelo fighting back to move ahead, finally taking a commanding 8-1 lead after flopping top pair twice and holding.
In the end, despite one double from Les, Petrangelo got him to call it off pre flop with the 
and held on for the win with the 
following a board of bricks.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nick Petrangelo | $201,812 |
| 2 | Jason Les | $124,696 |
| 3 | David Peters | $91,575 |
| 4 | Jeffrey Griffiths | $67,788 |
| 5 | Derek Bowers | $50,576 |
| 6 | Andreas Hoivold | $38,039 |
| 7 | James Woods | $28,832 |
| 8 | Brian Lemke | $22,021 |
| 9 | Leo Wolpert | $16,951 |
| 10 | Loni Harwood | $13,150 |
"The shootouts are always tough because you're playing short-handed and they bring out tough fields, so you're playing short-handed against really good players," added Petrangelo.