WSOP 2017: Nipun Java Wins 2nd Bracelet After Taking Down Event 71 For $237,668, Aditya Sushant Finishes 8th in Event 66 For $44,255

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It’s been a historic WSOP in more ways than one for Team India. The duo of Nipun Java and Aditya Sushantthe first Indians to ever win a WSOP bracelet, were at it again this time in separate events.

While Java collected his second bracelet at the series in Event #71: $1,000 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em Championship, Sushant was busy hunting his second piece of gold in Event #66: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em but exited just a few places shy of the title at eighth place.

Sushant was fifth in chips at the end of Day 2 with 23 survivors remaining and stormed into the final table as the chip leader. However, a few big pots didn`t exactly go his way and he hit the rail at eighth place. Apoorva Goel also managed to cash in the event finishing 125th for $3,213. Akshay Nasa picked up his first score at the series finishing 206th for $2,679.

Sachit Kapur too scored his first cash this summer and that too a fantastic one. He finished 39th in Event 68 for $13,129. Nikita Luther continued to impress with another deep run and finished 71st for $8,173 while Amit Jain banked $4,496 from his 189th place finish in the event.

Meanwhile, the last entry flight of the month-long The GIANT event saw a number of our Indian challengers in attendance and as expected many among them made the money. The newly arrived Lakshya Khurana emerged as one of the top stacks at the end of Day 1E with 400,000 in chips. Another new entrant – Sanjay Taneja also made Day 2 with 322,000 in chips. Muskan Sethi was the other Indian player to make the cut albeit with a short stack of 20,000.

In side events, Jasven Saigal finished 87th in the Wynn Main Event while another first timer at Vegas – Sharad Rao made it through to Day 3 and presently holds 564,000 in chips with 75 players remaining!

 

Event #71: $1,000 WSOP.com Online Bracelet

The third and the final online bracelet event i.e. $1,000 WSOP.com Online Bracelet drew a field of 951 entrants with the top 153 spots assured a piece of the prize money.

This is the second year running for this event and saw “Forthekids” eliminated in 154th place, bringing the rest of the players into the money.

Nipun “Javatinii” Java was the only Indian in the field and entered the history books as the only Indian ever to win two bracelets, with his latest triumph netting him $237,668.

Java was top of his game from the word go and by the time the field was down to around 50 players, he was clearly one of the front runners with over 550K in chips. Java kept himself among the top five stacks for most of the remainder of the event.

Java was also responsible for taking down “topkoks” in 20th place after picking up the latter’s bluff. “Javatinii” opened for 56,000 and next to act “topkoks” three-bet it to 147,545. Action folded back to “Javatinii” who called. The flop was checked around with the turn card opening . “Javatinii” checked again, but this time “topkoks” decided to fire a bet of 151,474 and Java called. On the river Java again checked only to see “topkoks” moving all in. The bracelet winner went into the tank and it wasn’t until the very end of his timebank that he decided to call showing against the of “topkoks”.

With that pot, “Javatinii” moved into the chip lead with a massive 2,434,704 stack and further managed to make the 9-handed final table as the second largest stack.

 

Final Table Recap

The first elimination on the final table was “stanman420” and soon to join him was “meditations” who took the eighth spot.

Java was responsible for the next casualty i.e. “Hurricane27” whose pocket kings were no good against Java’s pocket Aces.

“Jeffrey27rj” was the next to fall followed by “Mr Sinister” who settled at fifth place.

Java’s next victim was “YUDUUUUUUUUU” who busted at fourth place making Java the chip leader! “YUDUUUUUUUUU” open shoved holding and Java snap called tabling . The board threw no surprises and Java took down the pot eliminating his rival in the process, collecting over half the chips in play just a few minutes later.

The next elimination was “jklolz” whose exit set up the heads-up battle between Java and “jadedjason”.

Both players started the match with nearly equal stacks with Java leading slightly but “jadedjason”quickly managed to double up and took an almost 3:1 chip lead. Java was in no mood to give up and doubled up shortly thereafter, to take the lead back and soon finished it off.

The last hand of the event saw Java betting 400,000 on a flop and his opponent three-bet it to 1.2 Million. Java wasted no time and announced all-in holding and got the call from “jadedjason” who was chasing an open ended straight flush draw with . Fortunately the remaining streets bricked out and Java claimed the bragging rights of becoming the only Indian player to win two WSOP bracelets.

Nipun Java
Nipun Java

Final Table Results

1. “Javatinii” – $237,668

2. “jadedjared” – $146,202

3. “jklolz” – $103,326

4. “YUDUUUUUUUUU” – $73,911

5. “Mr_Sinister” – $53,595

6. “Jeffrey27rj” – $39,510

7. “Hurricane27” – $29,415

8. “meditations” – $22,185

9. “stanman420” – $17,075

10. “AznBlazer469” – $13,211

 

Event #62: $50,000 Poker Players Championship (6-Handed)

One of the most prestigious events at the series – $50,000 Poker Players Championship attracts the crème de la crème of poker world and this year the event drew a total of 100 runners.

The event saw 93 entries on Day 1 with the late registration period open till start of the next day. Seven late entrants on Day 2 made for a total prize pool of $4,800,000. The event saw the top 15 places being paid with the min cash being $77,320.

Outlasting one of the toughest fields possible was a British player who is seldom seen in live tournaments – Elior Sion. Sion it has been told looks forward to just one event every year i.e. $50K PPC at WSOP and this year he made it count by besting some of the toughest poker players on the planet and took home a well-deserved $1,395,767 in prize money, a gold WSOP bracelet and a place in poker lore with his name written on the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy.

Sion finished off Johannes Becker in a grueling heads-up battle that lasted almost five hours.

In fact, Sion made a heroic comeback as he fell down to almost one big bling on Day 3 when he lost a huge pot to Mike Wattel. The eventual champion doubled back through Wattel itself and then doubled up again in a flip against James Obst. That’s not all, as he then climbed up all the way to the top to take the chip lead when the field was trimmed down to just three tables.

All eyes however, were on six-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu. The ultra-popular Canadian superstar was gunning for perhaps the greatest single accomplishment of his career, coming in as the chip leader on the final day but unfortunately it just wasn’t his day.

 

Final Table Recap

“Kid Poker” had the loudest rail in the event but as fate would have it he couldn’t manage to win a single big pot that he got involved in and exited the event massively disappointed, having outlasted only short-stacked Paul Volpe for a fifth-place finish.

Next to fall was Austria’s Ivo Donev who was then followed by Isaac Haxton. Haxton was looking like the man to take it down but fell victim to a massive cooler and exited the event in third place.

German pro Johannes Becker started the heads-up battle with a solid 3-1 chip advantage but after almost four hours of trading chips it was Sion who had Becker on the brink and took down the title!

Elior Sion
Elior Sion

Final Table Results

1. Elior Sion – $1,395,767

2. Johannes Becker – $862,649

3. Isaac Haxton – $595,812

4. Ivo Donev – $419,337

5. Daniel Negreanu – $300,852

6. Paul Volpe – $220,111

 

Event #66: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

The $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em attracted a strong field of 1,956 runners taking the prize pool to $2,640,600. The play is now down to the final two contenders who will play down to a winner today.

Jamaican/Dutch player Emile Schiff is ahead with 9,760,000 and is up against American Chris Klodnicki, who bagged a stack of 4,910,000.

India’s first bracelet winner Aditya Sushant was chasing his second bracelet and displayed an impressive run yet again. Sushant was fifth in chips at the end of Day 2 with 23 survivors remaining and entered the final table as the chip leader. The Chennai pro got unlucky in a few spots that cost him some big pots and ultimately resulted in him missing out on the chance to collect a second bracelet. Nevertheless, Sushant collected a consolation $44,255 in prize money for his eighth place finish.

Apoorva Goel also managed to cash in the event finishing 125th for $3,213 while Akshay Nasa made his first WSOP score finishing 206th for $2,679.

 

Day 3 Recap

Sushant lost a pot to Brian Hastings early on in the day when the short stacked Hastings moved all in with and Sushant who had him covered easily called holding . The board favored Hastings and Sushant took a big dent to his stack.

Sushant`s stack was still at a comfortable level hovering over the 1.5 million mark when play got down to the final two tables.

Sushant was going strong and managed to double up through Kenny Hallaert when the latter’s failed to catch up against the Chennai pro’s and just like that Sushant reclaimed the chip lead.

By the time the play got down to the 10-handed unofficial final table, Sushant had a stack of 2.15 million that put him in second position in chip counts.

Final Table Chip Counts

1. Chris Klodnicki – 2,970,000
2. Aditya Sushant – 2,150,000
3. Darren Elias – 1,900,000
4. Dylan Hortin – 1,600,000
5. Schuyler Thornton – 1,450,000
6. Emile Schiffe – 1,060,000
7. Ulrich Schnetter – 920,000
8. Kenny Hallaert – 910,000
9. Ben Zamani – 680,000
10. Justin Conley – 400,000

 

Final Table Recap

It was a downward slide for the Indian who was down to 1,680,000 by the first break and went on to give up another big pot when he folded his hand on the river.

A few hands later, Sushant received a bad beat from American player Justin Conley () who managed to clip a King besting Sushant’s .

In another big hand, Jamaica’s Emile Schiff raised to 90,000 and Sushant three-bet to 245,000. Schiff moved all in for 855,000 holding and Sushant called tabling but lost the flip to come down to 675,000.

After Dylan Hortin exited the event in ninth place, the players went for the dinner break and the next to fall was Sushant. Sushant moved all-in holding and got the call from Schiff who tabled . The board bricked and Sushant`s tournament run was cut short at eighth place.

Aditya Sushant
Aditya Sushant

Kenny Hallaert was the next casualty followed by Darren Elias who took sixth place.

Schiff was completely dominating the table at this point and busted Ulrich Schnetter next, who was soon joined at the rails by Ben Zamani.

Schuyler Thornton became Schiff’s next victim setting up the heads-up battle between Schiff and Chris Klodnicki. The duo traded chips for more than 60 hands and eventually decided to resume play the next day.

Final Table Results

1. To be Announced – $428,423

2. To be Announced – $264,692

3. Schuyler Thornton – $191,453

4. Ben Zamani – $139,896

5. Ulrich Schnetter – $103,281

6. Darren Elias – $77,047

7. Kenny Hallaert – $58,083

8. Aditya Sushant – $44,255

9. Dylan Hortin – $34,083

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