Chance Kornuth Chance Kornuth claimed his third World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet after winning Event #29: $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em for the $194,670 top prize at the Rio Convention Center.
His first came in 2010 when he won Event #50: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha . His second was just three years ago in Event #63: $3,200 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em High Roller where he took first place and $341,599 for his efforts.
He joins an elite club of players and was obviously delighted. “It feels great. Also, the fact that during the last WSOP I finished fourth in this was really good to get a little redemption,” Kornuth said with his trademark smile on his face.
While heading into the final table as the chip leader, the previous close call in this very specific tournament format was in the back of his mind for just a short period, he admitted.
“It only crossed my mind once when there were like three players left. Ah, I improved on last year! But obviously, anything other than first was going to be somewhat disappointing. I am not great at the game by any means but still very competitive and wanted to do my best. Fortunately, things went my way today,” Kornuth added.
Kornuth conquered a field of 66 players and a final table including Dan Shak , Chad Campbell , and Joao Vieira . Event #29: $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold’em Final Table Results
1 Chance Kornuth United States $194,670 2 Chad Campbell United States $120,316 3 Dan Shak United States $82,678 4 Moshe Gabay Israel $58,601 5 Joao Vieira Portugal $42,885 6 Thomas Kysar United States $32,437 The game of short deck has a very special appeal to Kornuth: “You get to play so many hands, and you get to play aggressively, you always have equity and it’s just fun. You can think of a lot of concepts of No Limit and PLO, which are my two best games, and a lot of them apply here like range advantage and stuff like that,” the freshly minted three-time WSOP bracelet winner said.
Kornuth was certainly one […]
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