WSOP REPORTS
Call an ambulance! But not for Brek Schutten, because the ICU nurse and accomplished poker player won his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet by taking down Event #21: $25,000 High Roller for $1,405,641.
The second-ever $25,000 six-handed event drew 272 runners, a nearly 30% increase from the 207 players who played last year’s inaugural event, for a prize pool of $6,392,000. The field included many of poker’s biggest names like Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu and Erik Seidel.
But the last player standing inside Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas was Schutten, who has plenty of experience battling with poker’s most accomplished in between hospital shifts. Schutten won a World Poker Tour (WPT) title in 2021 and finished runner-up in the WSOP $50,000 High Roller a year later.
This time around, Schutten defeated heads-up opponent Tyler Stafman, who had just $203,810 in live earnings before picking up the career-best score of $938,775.
For full report and results click here.
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