The American poker pro Joe McKeehen won his second WSOP gold bracelet by conquering the 2017 WSOP Event #38. McKeehen, who previously won the 2015 Main Event of the World Series of Poker, also got the largest cash portion of the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em Championship event.
The player was granted with a first-place prize estimated to $311,817, which is currently the fourth-largest cash prize in the American’s WSOP career. So far, his WSOP earnings amount to more than $10,000, while the cash generated in WSOP Circuit events amount to $327,885. Joe McKeehen’s total live winnings are estimated to $13,598,884, with best live cash of $7,683,346 which was generated by him winning the 46th WSOP Main Event in 2015. Now, his two WSOP Circuit rings will be accompanied by two bracelets.
Joe McKeehen took the lead over the three-handed play after making his way up the leaderboard over most of the final day’s play. At the last day of the 2017 WSOP $10,000 No Limit Hold’em event he was near the bottom of the counts, but he expanded his chip stack to finally end up on top of the ranking. The American started Day 3 with less than 100,000 in chips and was at the 14th place out of the 15 players who got to Day 3 of the event.
The extended heads-up play of McKeehen with his last standing opponent Jared Talarico started with a small chip lead for McKeehen, and was played at relatively fast pace. The runner-up position taken by Talarico was the second one for him at the WSOP in many years. The player is known for his affection for limit and mixed-games events, and finished as a runner-up in the WSOP $3,000 H.O.R.S.E tournament.
At the time when the heads-up play between McKeehen and Talarico began, McKeehen had a 5:3 advantage in chips, and his promising performance continued. At the end, he emerged victorious from the competition, being crowned as the winner of the 2017 WSOP Event #38. Commending on his victory, McKeehen explained that he was very happy with the title won, and praised his last standing opponent Talarico for the great performance and aggressive play.
With Joe McKeehen occupying the first place in the ranking, taking home a gold bracelet and a $311,817 cash portion of the guaranteed prize pool, it was Jared Talarico who finished second, with a prize of $192,717. Sorel Mizzi remained at the third place, taking the third, and last, three-digit prize estimated to $135,985.
Ben Yu was fourth, followed by JC Tran. The sixth place was taken by Robert Campell, followed by Raymond Henson who was eliminated at the seventh position. The eighth and ninth place in the ranking were occupied by Terrence Chan and Aaron Sacks, respectively.
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Harry Evans
