The $777 LUCKY SEVENS No-Limit Hold’em or the last event on this year’s WSOP schedule before the Main Event Championship was completed a few hours ago. Poker pro Connor Berkowitz from Manalapan, New Jersey topped the event’s large field to capture his first-ever WSOP cash and gold bracelet.
This was the first time that a LUCKY SEVENS event was held at the Annual WSOP. It attracted a field of 4,422 entries who created a prize pool of $3,095,400. The first 468 finishers collected a share of the prize pool. As for the champion, he added $487,784 to his poker bankroll.
Instead of three days, the event went into an unscheduled fourth one. David Yu dominated most of the final table. However, he lost momentum towards the end of the day and eventually took 3rd place. Thus, Berkowitz faced Texan John Armbrust heads-up. The two-handed play started with the eventual champion holding four time more chips than his opponent and lasted no more than 15 minutes.
Hand #110 turned out to be the last one for the day and the tournament as a whole. Berkowitz moved all his chips in and Armbrust called. The first tabled [10s][9h] against his opponent’s [6c][5d]. The board ran out [5h][8s][2c][10d][7c] securing Berkowitz with a top pair.
Armbrust, on the other hand, collected $301,615 for his runner-up finish. This was his 5th WSOP cash and now, he has a little less than $1 million in career WSOP earnings.
As mentioned above, California-based player David Yu captured his 2nd WSOP cash of $217,173 for finishing 3rd in the event. Jeffrey Dobrin from Las Vegas, Nevada took 4th place for $160,496. He is a former WSOP Circuit gold ring winner.
Faraz Jaka from San Jose, California finished 5th to scoop $119,606. He has cashed in a total of 28 WSOP events. John Gallaher from Lebanon, Tennessee took 6th place, which paid $89,890. The player holds two Circuit gold rings.
John Zimmerman from Las Vegas, Nevada collected $68,098 for his 7th place in the event. This was his first-ever WSOP cash. Three-time bracelet winner Matt Matros from Brooklyn, New York took 8th place for $52,033.
Italian player Massimo Mosele finished 9th to round out the final table. His share of the prize pool amounted to $40,085.
