Nishijima Claims One for Brazil
Five weary players returned for Day 4 of Event #38: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em, and Thiago Nishijima emerged as the winner to take home $546,843 and his first bracelet, backed by a raucous Brazilian rail that left piles of empty Corona bottles in their wake.
After Yun Fan busted in fifth, Nishijima won a huge race against Samad Razavi, spiking a king on the river with to outrun Razavi's two sevens. That gave Nishijima half of the chips in play three-handed, much to the delight of his crowd.
Jesse Sylvia, who finished runner-up to Greg Merson in the 2012 Main Event, made a notable run at his first bracelet but busted in third when he three-bet shipped against Nishijima's . Sylvia outflopped the Brazilian with three diamonds and a pair, but an turn doomed him. That left Nishijima heads up with Sotirios Koutoupas, and he came out victorious after a couple of hours for the biggest live score of his professional career.
Final Table Results
Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
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1 | Thiago Nishijima | Sao Paulo, Brazil | $546,843 |
2 | Sotirios Koutoupas | Greece | $338,414 |
3 | Jesse Sylvia | Las Vegas, NV | $211,731 |
4 | Samad Razavi | Brighton, UK | $153,682 |
5 | Yun Fan | Taipei, Taiwan | $113,452 |
6 | Alexander Freund | Austria | $85,049 |
7 | Alexander Keating | Saratoga, CA | $64,691 |
8 | Duncan McCallum | Lexington, MA | $49,868 |
9 | Steve Brecher | Reno, NV | $38,960 |