Thursday afternoon at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas saw US poker pro and coach Ryan Leng score his first winner’s bracelet and biggest yet pay day of $272,765 in taking down the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Bounty competition.
The event ran for an unscheduled fourth day and attracted 1,983 starters, generating a prize pool which with bounties was worth $2,677,050.
Leng and Estonian player Ranno Sootla dominated much of the third and fourth day action, eliminating several opponents to end up facing each other in the heads up.
Leng held a 2 to 1 chip lead, but Sootla staged a fightback based on a major double up around 30 minutes in and managed to reverse the chip counts, prompting Leng to respond by drawing level again at the first official break.
The duo duked it out for another two hours before Leng managed to gain the initiative long enough to eliminate the Estonian and send him home with the runner up prize of $168,464.
Other final table cashes included:
– Jay Farber – $121,932
4 – Christian Nolte – $89,151
5 – Javier Gomez – $65,851
6 – Russell Rosenblum – $49,146
7 – John Gulino – $37,063
8 – Mark Mazza – $28,247
9 – Mikhail Semin – $21,759