{"id":7064,"date":"2018-05-25T13:50:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2018-05-25T14:25:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:25:38","slug":"darren-elias-wins-record-fourth-world-poker-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/darren-elias-wins-record-fourth-world-poker-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Elias Wins Record Fourth World Poker Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

The $10,000 Bobby Baldwin Classic<\/strong> at ARIA<\/strong> in Las Vegas, Nevada<\/strong> put together a loaded field of 162 entrants for the last open event of Season XVI on the World Poker Tour<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The final table was one of the most decorated in the history of the World Poker Tour with eight combined WPT titles and a WSOP<\/strong> Main Event bracelet sitting among them.<\/p>\n

WPT Champions Club member Darren Elias finished the job he started in Jacksonville<\/strong> earlier this season and won his record fourth title.<\/p>\n

Final table lineup<\/span><\/h2>\n

Seat 1: Dietrich Fast \u2013 801,000
\nSeat 2: Jonathan Little \u2013 300,000
\nSeat 3: Sam Panzica \u2013 566,000
\nSeat 4: Darren Elias \u2013 2,127,000
\nSeat 5: Kitty Kuo \u2013 683,000
\nSeat 6: Joe McKeehen \u2013 385,000<\/p>\n

Close but no cigar for many of poker\u2019s best<\/span><\/h2>\n

Only 21 players made the money in the Bobby Baldwin Classic but the list of players who cashed reads like a Hendon Mob all-time money list rundown. Among those who almost made the final table were WPT Champions Jared Jaffee<\/strong> and Kevin Eyster<\/strong>. 2017 World Series of Poker<\/strong> Main Event final tablist\u00a0Bryan Piccioli<\/strong> bowed out in 14th place, shy of his third career WPT final table.<\/p>\n

U.S. Poker Open Champion Stephen Chidwick<\/strong> took ninth, setting himself up for a potential run in Super High Roller Bowl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Phil Hellmuth<\/strong> almost made his second final table of Season XVI. Hellmuth lost with pocket tens to Elias\u2019 queens to exit in seventh. Always entertaining, Hellmuth and Ray Qartomy<\/strong> exchanged words as captured by Little.<\/p>\n

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Still playing with 11 players in the @WorldPokerTour<\/a>. At 700k. pic.twitter.com\/IBpqABYgfq<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jonathan Little (@JonathanLittle) May 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fast, Little, and Panzica fall shy of another title<\/span><\/h2>\n

The odds favored a repeat WPT winner based on the lineup of the Bobby Baldwin Classic final table. Elias was the only player with three but Panzica and Little both had the chance to win their third. Fast won the L.A. Poker Classic in Season XIV and the Bobby Baldwin Classic represented his first final table since.<\/p>\n

Little took sixth after entering the final table as the shortest stack. Panzica took out Little when his ace-four paired up against Little\u2019s ace-jack to send Little to the payout desk.<\/p>\n

Panzica peaked when he busted Little and had a chance to accumulate more chips versus McKeehen. The two players flipped for 650,000 and McKeehen came out on top when his deuces beat Panzica\u2019s ace-queen. McKeehen flopped a set and faded the broadway draw of Panzica by filling up on the turn. Panzica lost another flip to Elias a few orbits later to earn fifth place.<\/p>\n

Second in chips when the final table started, Fast gained little traction and was eliminated by Kuo is rough fashion. Fast was all-in with pocket aces against Kuo\u2019s nut flush draw on the flop. Kuo hit her flush on the turn and Fast waits another day for his second title.<\/p>\n

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