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Alexander Yen wins WPT Lucky Hearts with a dream flop

Alexander Yen wins WPT Lucky Hearts with a dream flop

The main event of the WPT Lucky Hearts 2022 was decided this night in Florida and the first place in the tournament with almost 2,000 entries went to Alexander Yen, who outplayed Sweden's Anton Wigg in the heads-up with a dream flop.

WPT Lucky Hearts 2022 - Key Facts

Alexander Yen
  • Venue: Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Florida
  • Date: 21 - 26 January 2022
  • Buy-In: $3,200 + $300
  • Entries: 1,928
  • Prize pool: $6,342,400
  • Winner: Alexander Yen ($975,240)

Guarantee easily exceeded

The Main Event of the Lucky Hearts Open in Florida was a complete success. The tournament guaranteed $2,000,000 in prize money. More than three times that amount was played out. The tournament had almost 30% more participants than last year and was thus one of the largest WPT tournaments in Florida.

Familiar faces in the field

248 places were paid out and numerous well-known players made it into the money. Triple bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus was eliminated in 7th place right before the final table, last season's WPT Player of the Year Jacob Ferro finished ninth, Shannon Shorr was eliminated in 35th place and veteran high roller Erik Seidel made it to the 128th place.

The best-known face at the final table was Sweden's Anton Wigg (he won EPT Copenhagen in 2011 and finished third in the $25k WPT Highroller final last year). He started the final table placed third in the chip count behind Josh Kay and eventual winner Alex Yen.

WPT Lucky Hearts Final Table

Josh Kay can't flip

Josh Kay
Josh Kay: All-In with the better hand twice is sometimes not enough

The final table was a rather unlucky affair for for Josh Kay. In a hand where over 100 big blinds went all-in preflop, Kay lost most of his stack. He held Q Q , opening with it from late position, and from the blinds Anton Wigg reraised with A K . A four-bet, an all-in and a call followed and after the board fell 9 5 2 K 10 Wigg managed to double his (already quite substantial stack).

Josh Kay was left with only a handful of big blinds and he lost them a little later - again to Anton Wigg. In this hand, too, all the chips went into the middle before the flop and Kay was favourite over Wigg, this time with AJs against KQo. However, the board brought two queens and sealed Kay's dimise in 5th place.

Shortly after, Nicholas Verderamo was eliminated in fourth place against the clear chip leader Alexander Yen and almost 50 hands three-handed play followed without any elimination. Finally it was short stack Daniel Lazrus, who lost a flip with 6-6 against Alexander Yen's K-J.

Wigg briefly takes control

Anton Wigg
Anton Wigg

The heads-up between Yen and Wigg started with a 3:1 lead for Yen. He even extended that lead. Then Anton Wigg found A-T on the button, raised to 2 big blinds and Yen reraised to 8 big blinds with K-Q. Wigg called and hit the board perfectly: T-8-6. Yen shoved all-in for effectively 27 big blinds and Wigg called his opponent's bluff. The turn and river didn't help Yen and after that hand the stacks were almost even.

Briefly Wigg even took the lead over the next 20 hands, but then lost several medium-sized hands in a row and Yen quickly regained a comfortable lead.

One perfect straight and it's all over

For the final hand of the tournament, Yen then hit a dream flop to end it all.

Alexander Yen limped from the button with 9 7 and Wigg raised to 4 big blinds with Q Q . The flop fell 10 8 6 and gave Yen a perfect straight. Wigg bet pot and Yen called. After the 6 on the turn, Wigg shoved all in for almost double the pot with his overpair and Yen called immediately. Wigg had a few outs, but the 4 on the river was not one of them.

With that, Alexander Yen secured the title and almost one million dollars in prize money. Having already finished second place twice in the WPT, this was his first win in a major WPT tournament.

After the tournament, Yen was happy about his victory and had only good things to say about his Swedish opponent: "He is an incredible player. I really felt like the king-queen vs. ace-ten hand, I was going to give it away to him. I felt like at that moment he hand a lot of momentum and was out playing me, but I hit the dream flop and won."

Alexander Yen celebrates after the victory
Alexander Yen celebrates after the victory

Final Results WPT Lucky Hearts 2022

#PlayerPrize Money
1Alexander Yen$975,240
2Anton Wigg$650,180
3Daniel Lazrus$482,380
4Nicholas Verderamo$361,130
5Josh Kay$272,830
6Omar Lakhdari$208,025
7Jeremy Ausmus$160,095
8Jake Daniels$124,365
9Jacob Ferro$97,525
10Saber Salum Penayo$97,525
11Thomas Carroll$77,215
12Matt Bond$77,215
13Joseph Crowley$61,725
14Andrew Esposito$61,725
15Matthew Zarcadoolas$49,825
16Jose Montes$49,825
17Ronnie Abro$40,615
18Carlos Rodriguez$40,615
19Manuel Amaro$40,615
20Yuriy Kozinskiy$40,615
21Howard Feingold$33,440
22Francis Anderson$33,440
23Jason Hickey$33,440
24Artur Rudenkov$33,440
25Cherish Andrews$27,810
26Loni Hui$27,810
27Nitis Udornpim$27,810
28James Carroll$27,810
29Danny Panagatos$27,810
30William Eitze$27,810
31Lazaro Hernandez$27,810
32Andrew Brinkley$27,810
33Corey Hochman$23,360
34Daniel Beers$23,360
35Shannon Shorr$23,360
36Galen Hall$23,360
37Kyle Bowker$23,360
38Daniel Starkey$23,360
39Carl Bevilacqua$23,360
40Robert Noel$23,360
41Min Zhang$19,825
42Bin Weng$19,825
43Lanny Vaysman$19,825
44Dan Stavila$19,825
45Jaime Cervantes$19,825
46Jean-Louis Santoni$19,825
47Lateshia Mullings$19,825
48Christopher Meyers$19,825
49Scott Zakheim$17,000
50Michael Gathy$17,000
51Frederic Normand$17,000
52Steve Blackmon$17,000
53Arian Stolt$17,000
54Michael Lech$17,000
55Ricky Flach$17,000
56Ian Gillespie$17,000
57Jay Sharon$14,730
58T.K. Miles$14,730
59Blake Whittington$14,730
60Ivan Saul$14,730
61Alex Nguyen$14,730
62Rommel Liscano$14,730
63Jonathan Kramer$14,730
64Frank Weigel$14,730
65Senhao Cao$12,900
66Ryan Stoker$12,900
67Dennis Stevermer$12,900
68Chad Himmelspach$12,900
69Athanasios Polychronopoulos$12,900
70James Pillon$12,900
71Gary Beller$12,900
72Jeffrey Epstein$12,900
73Alberto Destrade$11,420
74Ren Lin$11,420
75Matthew Holmquist$11,420
76Michael Miravi$11,420
77Matt Higgins$11,420
78Sumeet Wayachal$11,420
79Donald Stetzer$11,420
80Lunique Petiote$11,420
81Conor Hannan$10,215
82Cangir Elcin$10,215
83Scott Baumstein$10,215
84Badr Imejjane$10,215
85Spiro Mikrogianakis$10,215
86Frank Funaro$10,215
87Arthur Azen$10,215
88Michael Graffeo$10,215
89Carlos Bermudez$10,215
90Lester Rainey$9,240
91Jonathan Tamayo$9,240
92Jordan DeGrenier$9,240
93Matthew Ahmed$9,240
94Dmitry Savelyev$9,240
95Ioannis Patsourakis$9,240
96Michael Newman$9,240
97Trung Pham$9,240
98Raj Vohra$9,240
99Mike Gao$8,450
100Tommy Tran$8,450
101Chad Deberry$8,450
102Colby Covington$8,450
103Eric Afriat$8,450
104Aleksandar Petrovic$8,450
105Charles Joseph Jr Johnson$8,450
106Jeff Madsen$8,450
107Lazaro Rojas$8,450
108Brock Wilson$8,450
109David Forbes$8,450
110Naoum Zarcadoolas$8,450
111Michael Merisier$8,450
112Daniel Kusnerak$8,450
113Frank Stepuchin$8,450
114Endri Foto$8,450
115Jordan Semel$8,450
116Benjamin Scrogins$8,450
117Vincent Fiorenza$7,815
118Alex Jim$7,815
119Joseph Drory$7,815
120Edward Hislop$7,815
121Gueorgui Gatchev$7,815
122Z Stein$7,815
123Alon Yehudai$7,815
124Noam Muallem$7,815
125Bradley Rogoff$7,815
126Landon Tice$7,815
127-$7,815
128Erik Seidel$7,815
129Steven Richardson$7,815
130Fares Santana$7,815
131Brian Gabriel$7,815
132Edward McPike$7,815
133Scott Hall$7,815
134Lee Markholt$7,815
135Armando Figueroa$7,310
136Jonathan Dokler$7,310
137Mike Vela$7,310
138Nick Pupillo$7,310
139Marc Sacheli$7,310
140Daniel Couzens$7,310
141Nghia Le$7,310
142Jon Borenstein$7,310
143J.J. Liu$7,310
144Chris Basile$7,310
145Sheddy Siddiqui$7,310
146Tyler Rueger$7,310
147Antonio Justiniano Santos$7,310
148Eric Salazar$7,310
149Mohammad Khan$7,310
150Joel Harwood$7,310
151David Goodis$7,310
152Justin Carey$7,310
153David Guay$6,915
154Leon Toledo$6,915
155Bradley Butcher$6,915
156Ken Weinstein$6,915
157Anthony March$6,915
158Paul Staples$6,915
159Jerry Wong$6,915
160Sean Shah$6,915
161Jarod Ludemann$6,915
162Marc Evanier$6,915
163Jeffrey Meyers$6,915
164Zachary Fischer$6,915
165Ilir Rugova$6,915
166Isaac Rcom$6,915
167Jean Gaspard$6,915
168Farhad Jamasi$6,915
169Catherine Griffin$6,915
170Timothy Capretta$6,915
171Joey Couden$6,615
172William Watson$6,615
173David Albrecht$6,615
174Marco Rodriguez$6,615
175Gregory Nerenberg$6,615
176Ory Hen$6,615
177Charles Odenz$6,615
178Vladislav Mezheritsky$6,615
179Daniel Swartz$6,615
180Georges Boyadjian$6,615
181Christopher McNamara$6,615
182Michael Gonzalez$6,615
183Chris Moorman$6,615
184Ali Turkan$6,615
185Jeffrey Tomlinson$6,615
186Hal Rotholz$6,615
187Anibal Salazar$6,615
188Michael Weber$6,615
189Chad Wassmuth$6,405
190Iuri Leite$6,405
191Calais Campbell$6,405
192Jesse Lonis$6,405
193Mark Wahba$6,405
194Rodney Turvin$6,405
195Greg Himmelbrand$6,405
196Mark Wiser$6,405
197Nicholas Immekus$6,405
198Nikita Kalinin$6,405
199Carlos Guerrero$6,405
200Roberly Felicio$6,405
201Lumni Zhuta$6,405
202Daniel Wirgau$6,405
203Christopher Dandrea$6,405
204Arturas Astrauskas$6,405
205Nadya Magnus$6,405
206Matvey Tevlin$6,405
207Michael Stonehill$6,405
208Yan Neiman$6,405
209Brian Nerney$6,405
210Philip Shing$6,405
211Angelina Rich$6,405
212Jeffrey Rolland$6,405
213Gregory Wilson$6,405
214Tim Reilly$6,405
215-$6,405
216Jeff Platt$6,275
217Michael Tait$6,275
218Akash Seth$6,275
219Ryan Eriquezzo$6,275
220Paul Leckey$6,275
221Randy Sim$6,275
222Alexander Farin$6,275
223Hassan El Hakim$6,275
224Mitchell Garshofsky$6,275
225David Berman$6,275
226Joseph Di Rosa Rojas$6,275
227Vincent Chauve$6,275
228Justin Saliba$6,275
229Akran Batu$6,275
230Luke Blindert$6,275
231Juan Endara$6,275
232Nicholas Bond$6,275
233Nicholas Nieto$6,275
234Valerie Novak$6,275
235Sheldon Gross$6,275
236Nicholas Potestio$6,275
237Jeremy Becker$6,275
238Ali Imsirovic$6,275
239Richard Basile$6,275
240Darryll Fish$6,275
241Chad Eveslage$6,275
242Nick Yunis$6,275
243Peter Kim$6,275
244Michael Laufer$6,275
245Tom Thomas$6,275
246Tyler Hirschfeld$6,275
247Thomas Vandenberge$6,275
248Tarun Gulati$6,275

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