The 2021 Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio played host to 13 high roller events from Dec. 2-14. The baker’s dozen of high stakes events paid out nearly $7.7 million dollars, with an average prize pool of just over $690,000. Plenty of big names emerged victorious in the final handful of events (#9-13), which will be recapped below. Make sure to also check out Card Player’s recaps of events #1-4 and events #5-8.
Bellagio High Roller #9
The first of four $26,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em events on the schedule took place on Friday, Dec. 10. A total of 21 entries were made, building a prize pool of $525,000 that was divvied up among the top three finishers. The largest chunk was ultimately awarded to Rok Gostisa, who is having a breakout year on the tournament circuit.
Gostisa earned $283,500 and 252 Card Player Player of the Year points for his second POY-qualified title and sixth final-table showing of the year. Thanks to another deep run he made after this score, he now sits in 140th place in the 2021 POY race, which is sponsored by Global Poker.
He also secured 170 PokerGO Tour points for the win. With seven figures in qualified earnings, Gostisa has climbed into 48th place in that points race.
While it didn’t qualify for rankings points, Gostisa did also took down the WPT World Online Championship event this fall for a career-best payday of $959,493.
Alex Foxen finished as the runner-up, earning $157,500, 210 POY points, and 95 PGT points for his second-place showing. Foxen was not yet done putting up results in this series, though.
2018 POY award winner Jake Schindler finished third for $84,000, 168 POY points and 50 PGT points. This was his 16th qualified final-table finish of 2021, and it moved him into 28th place in the POY rankings and 15th in the PokerGO Tour race.
Bellagio High Roller #10 The next $26,000 buy-in event on the agenda drew a smaller turnout of just 13 entries. The $325,000 prize pool was split between just the final two, with France’s Arthur Conan coming […]
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