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Top high-stakes pro Dan “Jungleman” Cates has added “World Series of Poker bracelet winner” to his resume.
Cates won the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship aboriginal Saturday astatine the Rio, defeating a tract of 63 entries to gain his archetypal bracelet and $954,020. He prevailed heads-up against Ryan Leng aft a marathon last time that didn’t decorativeness till aft 3 a.m.
Leng, who was denied his 4th WSOP bracelet and 2nd of this series, won $589,628. (The WSOP awards trophy bracelets for tourney victories.)
“I said I was gonna win, truthful I won,” Cates told PokerNews. “But it was beauteous important due to the fact that present I person much wealth to assistance the satellite and to proceed a vocation extracurricular of poker.”
Cates has astir $10 cardinal successful vocation tourney earnings, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database, but helium is known much for high-stakes currency games, particularly heads-up online.
The colorful Cates, who played dressed arsenic the quality Son Goku from the Japanese anime bid “Dragon Ball Z,” was astir retired of the tourney three-handed, but helium was capable to bluff Leng successful a Limit Hold’em manus to enactment alive.
Paul Volpe finished 3rd for $404,243.
The Poker Players Championship is simply a rotation of 9 games.
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