Limestone is a tomb for creatures big and small. To acknowledge its grim reaper status, those in the know labelled it an organic sedimentary rock. Nick Petrangelo is no rock, but a few nights ago, he did spend the evening encasing creatures, big and small, in a tomb of his own.
He’s come close to a WPT title before, most notably, losing to Fedor Holz, heads-up, for the WPT Alpha8 title in the Bellagio back in 2015. He had to migrate to the online realm to claim a title finally.
Petrangelo didn’t just win a title, banking $494,550, a Hublot Classic Fusion Titanium watch, a seat in the $15,000 buy-in WPT Tournament of Champions, and had his name etched on The Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup.
The American high roller outlasted a 999-entrant field to win the $3,200 WPT World Championship NLHE Six-Max on partypoker.
Here is the nutshell action.
The Nutshell Action
Elior Sion was the first player to leave the final table after shipping his final five bigs into the middle holding a raggedy ace. Jiachen Gong didn’t leave him in solitude calling and winning with pocket jacks.
Those new five bigs didn’t have a wondrous effect on Gong as he ended up the next man out when Petrangelo’s JdTd cracked his aces, turning quads. We were three-handed when Patrice Brandt exited in fourth. Brandt flopped top pair with Ah5d, only for Artsiom Prostak to hit a set of eights on the turn, when the money went in.
The tournament entered the heads-up phase with Prostak holding a monumental lead when his pocket jacks held against Arsenii Karmatckii’s AK on a blind and blind battle.
Heads-Up
Artsiom Prostak – 79.6m
Nick Petrangelo – 20.3m
Few whispers around the rail mentioned the name of Petrangelo in connection to the title, but the American star ground out the lead. Prostak did double once, but it wasn’t enough. Petrangelo made his previous night’s prayers come true in the final hand of the competition.
Prostak raised to 2.8m, holding AcQs, and Petrangelo called holding KcTc, and the pair saw a ThTs2s flop. Prostak bet 1.4m and called when Petrangelo raised to 4m. The turn was the 5s, and Prostak called an 8.3m Petrangelo bet. The Ah hit the river, and Prostak made the call after Petrangelo had moved all-in, and just like that, it was over.
Final Table Results
- Nick Petrangelo – $494,550
- Artsiom Prostak – $368,250
- Arsenii Karmatckii – $278,448
- Patrice Brandt – $192,900
- Jiachen Gong – $128,100
- Elior Sion – $92,630
Three more high rollers who ventured deeper than the hospitality tent at a Guns and Roses concert were Jake Schindler (7th), Chris Hunichen (9th) and Sergio Aido (18th).