A first bracelet and almost $3 million for ‘Big Huni’ at a stacked final table at the World Series of Poker.
112 entries in the $100,000 High Roller at the World Series of Poker, making it the biggest field yet in this particular event.
It was another star-studded finale that included Chance Kornuth, Viktor Blom (both of whom made the $50,000 final table last week), Justin Saliba, Jeremy Ausmus and Isaac Haxton.
But it would be Chris ‘Big Huni’ Hunichen who took it down for his first career bracelet and $2,838,389 – the biggest prize awarded so far this year at the World Series.
The atmosphere was wild and in particular, the final hand, which denied Ausmus his 7th career bracelet:
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?
⚡️⚡️⚡️@BigHuni pic.twitter.com/tw9bUIPEbp
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) June 21, 2024
“No one’s ever due in poker, but I feel like I was due,” Hunichen told PokerNews after the win. “And I’ve been in this position a couple times, got unlucky, a couple seconds. It was my time.”
No rest for the High Rollers as the $250,000 Super High Roller – the biggest buy-in of the series – gets underway from today.
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Hunichen | United States | $2,838,389 |
| 2 | Jeremy Ausmus | United States | $1,892,260 |
| 3 | Viktor Blom | Sweden | $1,311,091 |
| 4 | Chance Kornuth | United States | $932,725 |
| 5 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | Latvia | $681,796 |
| 6 | Justin Saliba | United States | $512,465 |
| 7 | Daniel Aharoni | United States | $396,396 |
| 8 | Isaac Haxton | United States | $315,805 |
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