Qui Nguyen emerged victorious from the Main Event of the 2016 edition of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). The 39-year-old US player took home the tournament’s prize which was worth $8,005,310 as well as first-ever WSOP bracelet.
The last day of the 2016 WSOP Main Event was marked with action and a lot of drama, no matter there were only three players left.
As a matter of fact, this was not an easy victory for the American, who still managed to hold the chip lead for most of the final day. At the beginning of the third, and final day of the competition, Qui Nguyen started as a chip leader with a total of 197,600,000 in chips. Gordon Vayo was second with 89,000,000, followed by Chiff Josephy who had 50,000,000 in chips.
The wild action at the final table started relatively early as Cliff Josephy doubled up in the first hand but unfortunately lost as total of 90% of his stack several hands later. Still, he managed to pull himself together and finished on the third position. His departure from the tournament left Qui Nguyen and Gordon Vayo face each other in a heads-up battle for the title, out of which it was Nguyen who emerged as the crowned winner.
At one time of the game, it was Gordon Vayo who took the chip lead and managed to keep it until the heads-up battle. As soon as the last two players standing faced each other, Vayo had about 60% of the chips in play and had the lead to Nguyen with 200,300,000 to 136,300,000. The two of them played for several hours before Nguyen took control of the situation and finally emerged as the winner of 2016 WSOP Main Event.
With Qui Nguyen occupying the first place in the 2016 WSOP Main Event, Gordon Vayo remained on the runner-up position, getting a prize of $4,661,228. Other two US players occupied the third and the fourth position in the ranking – Cliff Josephy and Michael Ruane, respectively.
Vojtěch Růžička took the fifth place, followed by the Belgian player Kenny Hallaert. The seventh position was occupied by the Canada-based player Griffin Benger, who took home a prize of $1,250,190 for his participation in the event. The eighth and ninth position of the ranking were occupied by Jerry Wong from the US and Fernando Pons from Spain, respectively.
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Harry Evans
