Portuguese poker pro Diogo Veiga is enjoying a good run at the poker tournament tables this year with two big six-figure cashes in the past three months.
Back in April he took home Euro 555,000 after a sixth placing in the PartyPoker Millions Barcelona Grand Final, and on Friday he claimed the Euro 522,715 main prize in the World Series of Poker $3,000 buy-in Big Blind Antes NLHE competition, along with his first WSOP bracelet.
1,020 entries were recorded for the event, creating a prize pool worth $2,754,000 from which 153 players cashed.
US poker pro and WSOP bracelet holder Barry Hutter looked the most likely winner at the very international final table as he eliminated Bulgaria’s Radoslav Stoyanov at third for $228,241 and Belgian player Jonathan Abdellatif at fourth for $163,404 to enter the heads up against Veiga with a 3 to 2 chip lead.
Veiga was far from done, however, and courtesy of a major double up was able to get back in the game. Thereafter the lead see-sawed between two aggressive and talented players until Veiga established dominance and was able to dispatch Hutter with a second placing pay day of $323,019.
The rest of the final table cashed:
Tom McCormick $118,552
David Yan $87,179
Anna Antimony $64,991
Cathal Shine $49,126
Todd Ivens $37,660