Event #12: $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Sean Winter Wins U.S. Poker Open Event #12: $50,000 No Limit Hold’em for $756,000

Posted June 15, 2021 at 7:11 pm ET by Remko Rinkema

The U.S. Poker Open concluded with its $50,000 Main Event today and Sean Winter came out on top to claim the $756,000 top prize. Winter outlasted a field of 42 entrants and beat inaugural US Poker Open Champion Stephen Chidwick heads up. David Peters was crowned U.S. Poker Open champion for the second straight edition with the elimination of Sam Soverel in fifth place. Peters received the Golden Eagle trophy as well as a $50,000 cash prize.

On the first hand of note, about 30 minutes into to start of this final table, Jason Koon doubled up holding king-jack versus Sam Soverel’s ace-ten. The board gave Koon broadway and Soverel was left with just three big blinds. This, whoever, wasn’t the end for Soverel who managed to claw his way back into contention and Bill Klein ended up being the first player to bust. On Klein’s final hand, he raised with pocket sevens to 140,000 in the 30k/60k level and Sean Winter called from the big blind. The flop brought out five-queen-queen, giving Winter a full house holding two fives, and both players checked.

Winter lead out for 240,000 on the four that hit on the turn and Klein gave it some thought before making it 620,000. Winter paused before moving all-in and Klein called immediately. Klein was down to two outs and didn’t hit either which sent him to the rail in sixth place.

Soverel, who was down to just five big blinds, then moved all-in with ace-three offsuit and Stephen Chidwick made the call from the big blind. The inaugural US Poker Open champion made the call and spiked a queen to bring the field down to just four players. Jonathan Little busted in fourth place to Stephen Chidwick in a hand that started with him calling a raise from the big blind with ten-eight of spades.

The board brought out eight-six-three with two diamonds and Little check-raised a 500,000 bet all in for roughly 2,000,000 chips. Chidwick tabled king-eight and had his opponent dominated and after the nine on the turn and a four on the river he raked in this massive pot. Winter chipped up during three-handed play and raised again from the button when he picked up pocket kings. Koon, in the big blind, looked down on ace-queen suited, and three-bet to 580,000. Winter stared his opponent down for a bit before moving all in and Koon called right away. The board ran dry for Koon and Winter started heads-up play with a decent chip lead.

With fairly even stack sizes it took one enormous pot to swing things in Winter’s favor as two rather mediocre hands clashed. Chidwick raised to 200,000 from the button with queen-four and Winter called holding ten-six of clubs. The flop brought out jack-six-deuce and Winter check-called 375,000. On the turn, Chidwick hit top pair as a queen popped up and Winter check-called another 900,000. Then, the river gave Winter two pair as a ten peeled off, and he checked a third time. Chidwick glanced down at his chips before announcing, “All in,” and Winter snap-called for 2.5 million. Winter had his opponent covered by a slight margin and was crowned champion of this event.

The U.S. Poker Open has now been concluded but players are already gearing up for the PokerGO Cup and PokerGO Heads Up Championship starting in two weeks. More information on those events can be found here. The final standings of the U.S. Poker Open are as follows. All final table replays are available on-demand on PokerGO.

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Sean Winter Leads Event #12: $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em Final Table: Sam Soverel Still in Contention for the USPO Championship

Posted June 15, 2021 at 3:50 am ET by Keegan McCann

Sean Winter holds a slim chip lead over Bill Klein, and Jonathan Little as Event #12: $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em is down to the final table. Sam Soverel heads into the final table the short stack but is the only player who can catch David Peters for the U.S. Poker Open Crown. Soverel will need to come from behind and win the event, or Peters will become the back-to-back USPO Champion.

The final event of the 2021 U.S. Poker Open saw a 42-entrant field to create a prize pool of $2,100,000, and the final six players are guaranteed at least $105,000, with the winner taking home $756,000 and, in Soverel’s case, the Golden Eagle Trophy.

Joining Winter, Klein, Little, and Soverel at the final table are Stephen Chidwick and Jason Koon. Soverel and Chidwick make their second appearance of the series at the final table while the other four members make their first.

Getting to the final six proved quite tedious as the players played seven-handed for just over two hours, and while there weren’t many flops to be seen during those two hours of play, chips were still changing hands at a somewhat rapid pace as Chidwick doubled twice, while Koon and Little doubled once.

However, the final three hands of the evening proved to be the turning point as Koon, who had been sitting with just over a ten big blind stack for thirty minutes, would find his second double of the final table after flopping top pair against the second pair of Klein.

The next shuffle, Little would find himself all-in for his last 620,000 after flopping the nut-flush draw against the king-high flush draw of Vicent Bosca. Both players would make their flush on the river, but Little secured the one million chip pot and left Bosca with just 125,000.

Bosca would be all in the next hand, holding ten-nine against the king-seven of Winter. The board ran out all low cards, and Winter’s king-high held to eliminate Bosca and burst the money bubble. Other notables to finish outside the money included Seth Davies, Sergio Aido, Joe McKeehen, and Andrew Lichtenberger.

When play resumes the remaining six players will have 8:53 remaining in level 14 and the button will be in seat two.

The final six players will return to the PokerGO Studio on Tuesday, June 15, at 12 p.m. PT with the final table airing on PokerGO.com at 1 p.m. PT.

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