Motoyoshi Okamura After seven hours of play on Day 3, it was music producer Motoyoshi Okamura who outlasted the other eight players to bring home his first WSOP bracelet in Event #72: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha . Prior to this event, Okamura had a career-best score of $122,000 after coming second in a $10,000 buy-in tournament at Aria earlier this month. Now with this score of $209,716 , he moves up to 25th on Japan’s all-time money list.
“Winning the bracelet has been a dream of mine,” said Okamura after winning heads up against Rafael Mota . Okamura has only been playing poker for just over a year. “This is my first time playing the WSOP, and I will surely be back next time.”
This is Japan’s second bracelet of the series after Kazuki Ikeuchi won Event #5: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em for an online bracelet, but it is Japan’s first live bracelet of the series. Final Table Results
1st Motoyoshi Okamura Japan $209,716 2nd Rafael Mota Brazil $129,621 3rd Nick Yunis Chile $91,989 4th Leonid Yanovski Israel $66,249 5th Mike Takayama Japan $48,428 6th Jordan Spurlin United States $35,942 7th Marc Lange Germany $27,088 8th Tim Grau Austria $20,737 Day 1
Phil Hellmuth didn’t make it past Day 1 The tournament field started with 846 entrants, creating a prize pool of $1,129,410 , which quickly got whittled down to the money on the first day of play with 126 players remaining at the end of Day 1. Many famous notables tried to get into the money but fell short like Jake Schwartz , Phil Hellmuth , Chino Rheem , and Michael Wang .
It was the dual elimination of Peter Wirth and Matt Higgins by Chris Ball and eventual winner Motoyoshi Okamura that brought the end of play on Day 1. Day 2
Nohad Teliani burst the final table bubble The first two levels of the day saw the original field of 126 quickly go down to 54, and the following levels of play saw eliminations at a quicker than normal pace. Players like Diogo Veiga (94th – $2,641), Robert Mizrachi […]
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