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Jeremy Ausmus prevailed three-handed against poker stars Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu to triumph his 3rd World Series of Poker bracelet aboriginal Sunday astatine the Rio.
Ausmus won the $50,000 buy-in Pot-limit Omaha High Roller, earning $1,188,918. It was his 2nd bracelet of this year’s series, arsenic helium besides won the COVID 19 Relief No-limit Hold’em event. (The WSOP awards trophy bracelets for tourney victories.)
“It feels truly good,” Ausmus told PokerGO. “My archetypal bracelet was successful Europe extracurricular of Paris, truthful until this twelvemonth I had ne'er won a bracelet present astatine the Rio. I’ve had a batch of heavy runs, truthful it’s chill to instrumentality a mates down. As agelong arsenic the WSOP has existed arsenic acold arsenic I’ve been a portion of it, it’s been here. It’ll beryllium absorbing to accidental goodbye to this place.”
The WSOP is moving from the Rio to Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas adjacent year.
Ausmus’ triumph denied Hellmuth his grounds 17th bracelet and Negreanu his seventh. Hellmuth earned $734,807 for his 2nd second-place decorativeness of the WSOP, and Negreanu got $519,764 for third.
Hellmuth won his 16th bracelet earlier successful this WSOP.
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