Kristen Bicknell is used to winning gold bracelets throughout the glacial slowness of live tournaments, so it must have felt slightly odd to wrap up her third gold bracelet in a little over nine hours.
That’s how long it took the Global Poker Index (GPI) World #1 Female Ranked Player to climb the granite peak of Event #44: $2,500 No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed on GGPoker.
The event attracted 892-entrants, and Bicknell laid her elaborate traps, galvanised her GTO, and tickled her rabbits’ foot with enough gall and grace to collect the $356,412 first prize after beating Belarmino De Souza, heads-up.
The Canadian has won close to $10m playing live and online poker tournaments. Amongst that haul sits two bracelet wins. She won the 954-entrant $1,000 No Limit Hold’em Ladies Championships in 2013 for $173,922, and then beat 2,158-entrants to win the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Bounty event for $290,768.
Bicknell is also a regular in the high stakes multi-table tournaments (MTTs) on GGPoker.
The only other recognisable face on the final table belonged to Simon Higgins. The man from Britain has earned $1.1m playing live tournaments and is also a regular in the high stakes MTTs online. Higgins finished fifth.
Here are the final table results.
Event #44: $2,500 No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed
892-entrants
Results
- Kristen Bicknell – $356,412
- Belarmino De Souza – $261,249
- Ilya Anatsky – $191,494
- Dong Jiang – $140,365
- Simon Higgins – $102,887
- Jerome Finck – $75,416
- Patrick Semrau – $55,280
- Paul Barnes – $40,520
- Nikita Kalinin – $29,701
Patrick Kennedy Wins Event #45: $840 Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Patrick Kennedy denied Josh Pollock a third gold bracelet with his victory in Event #45: $840 Bounty No Limit Hold’em. Kennedy overcame a field of 2,382-entrants to win the $245,448 first prize and his third bracelet.
Pollock came into this one with two Pot-Limit Omaha bracelets at his home, somewhere. Pollock won a $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha bracelet in 2013, and last year won a $600 Pot Limit Omaha 6-Handed bracelet competing on WSOP.com.
Here are the final table results.
Event #45: $840 Bounty No Limit Hold’em
2,382-entrants
Results
- Patrick Kennedy – $245,448
- Josh Pollock – $113,176
- Bernardo Dias – $80,303
- Franco Spitale – $63,078
- Chi Chung Ho – $40,790
- Arie Kliper – $45,139
- Ho Yin Tai – $34,918
- Francesco Favia – $29,350
- Jose Severino – $14,042