John Monnette earns 4th WSOP bracelet, denying Nate Silver

John Monnette climbed different rung connected the all-time World Series of Poker leaderboard, earning his 4th vocation bracelet aboriginal Sunday astatine the Rio.

Monnette won the $10,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em Championship, defeating a tract of 92 entries to instrumentality location $245,680. He won heads-up against Nate Silver, the governmental polling expert who founded the website FiveThirtyEight.com. Silver earned $151,842.

Only 26 players person claimed much bracelets than Monnette, who antecedently won the $2,500 Eight-game Mix successful 2011, the $5,000 Seven-card Stud successful 2012 and the $10,000 No-limit 2-7 Lowball Championship successful 2017. (The WSOP awards trophy bracelets for tourney victories.)

“The archetypal (bracelet) is ever the astir special, but this is awesome,” Monnette told PokerNews. “I had a mates of atrocious years wherever I did nothing, truthful to yet get backmost and bash thing is great.”

Monnette has much than $2.8 cardinal successful vocation tourney earnings, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database.

Silver, a erstwhile poker pro, was seeking his archetypal WSOP bracelet. He had 3 WSOP cashes for $9,310 coming into the event.

“So … ended up successful 2nd place, which someway feels worse than 3rd place, but *does* wage $152,000,” Silver said connected Twitter. “Congrats to my hostile John Monnette, who played a large heads-up lucifer and truly earned the bracelet.”

So… ended up successful 2nd place, which someway feels worse than 3rd place, but *does* wage $152,000. Congrats to my hostile John Monnette, who played a large heads-up lucifer and truly earned the bracelet.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 10, 2021

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