Vikenty Shegal Wins Venetian Las Vegas High Roller Event #5: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em for $136,000
Vikenty Shegal got hot at the right time eliminating six of the final seven players en route to the $136,000 first place prize and the title in Venetian Las Vegas High Roller Event #5: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em.
Shegal started the final table of nine with a slight chip lead but watched four players double in the first hour and a half of the final table action before Michael Rossitto would get his last 230,000 into the middle holding pocket fives against the pocket kings of Alex Foxen. Rossitto couldn’t find one of the last two fives in the deck and was eliminated in ninth place.
Following another double-up, Shegal would score his first elimination of the final table when he turned two pair to eliminate Nitis Udornpim in 8th place. Moments later, Shegal found himself holding pocket jacks against the pocket kings of Sam Soverel. Soverel was the player at risk for his last 345,000, and Shegal flopped a full house to crack Soverel’s kings, cross one million in chips and send Soverel out the door in seventh place.
After dipping below one million shortly after that, Shegal found himself in a flip to burst the money bubble holding ace-queen against Elvis Toomas’ pocket sevens. Shegal turned the nut flush, and Toomas was eliminated in sixth place, just shy of the money.
After surviving the money bubble, Daniel Colpoys found himself in the middle of the pack five-handed, but after suffering a cooler against Dylan Linde, he was left with just 50,000, good for just two big blinds. On the next hand, Colpoys was out the door in fifth place for $23,800 after Shegal’s rivered flush bested his rivered two pair.
Linde would find his first elimination of the final table a short while later when Foxen got his last 160,000 into the middle with jack-nine against Linde’s pocket nines. Linde flopped a set and held to eliminate Foxen in fourth place for $37,400.
Three-handed play would be a short affair as Isaac Kempton found himself staring at two stacks over a million chips. Shegal would knock both players down to around 600,000, and Kempton would be the first to fall after getting it all-in, holding ace-three of hearts against the pocket jacks of Shegal. A heart on the flop gave Kempton hope, but he could not improve and finished in third place for $54,400.
Shegal started heads-up play with a four to one chip lead over Linde and, after whittling Linde down to just ten big blinds, got it in holding pocket tens against Linde’s pocket nines. A nine on the turn gave Linde a set, but Shegal had outs to a heart flush. The queen of hearts hit the river, and Linde was out the door in second place for $88,400.
The Venetian Las Vegas High Roller Event #5 Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1 | Vikenty Shegal | United States | $136,000 |
| 2 | Dylan Linde | United States | $88,400 |
| 3 | Isaac Kempton | United States | $54,400 |
| 4 | Alex Foxen | United States | $37,400 |
| 5 | Daniel Colpoys | United States | $23,800 |
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