When analyzing the yearly success of a tournament poker player, the three main statistical categories that need to be measured are: relatively obvious: cash prizes won, final tables won and titles won. Ali Imsirovic now leads all three categories in 2021 after his recent victory in a high-stakes live tournament, with over $ 2.3 million in earnings since the start of the year, 11 final tables and six titles won.

Imsirovic's last victory secured him the victory in tournament no. 9 for 2021 US Poker Open, $, No-Limit Hold'em Buy-In Tied 79 Total Entries. The 11-year-old Bosnian-born American poker player earned $158,708 as a champion, boosting his lifetime tournament income to nearly $. 8 million in progress.

In this title race, Imsirovic also earned 540 Card Player Player of the Year points, which was enough to catapult him to first place in 2019 POY race with 3,600 total points scored in the first half of the year. He outstripped Qing Liu, who had been in the lead from the first weeks of March, to take first place on the POY ranking presented by Global Poker. He currently has two more titles to his name, another final at the table and about half a million dollars more POY-qualified earnings than any other player in the race.

This victory allowed Imsirovic to increase his lead in the PokerGO Tour classification and take first place in the USPO rider of the series race, with 225 ranking points earned in both races. Now sitting in pole position with 406 points across four payouts, and by the end of the series with the series leader scoring, they will be awarded the Golden Eagle Trophy and $912,000 in an additional prize pool.

This was Imsirovic's first victory in the USPO Event. He has already won major PokerGO titles, including the first two placements that helped him win the purple jacket as a player of the 2021 series. Poker Masters.

The last day of this event has started, with Imsirovic at the top, the chip counts, and there are seven players left. 990 Card player Winner of the Year Jake Schindler was the first to be knocked out when he lost a pre-flop coinflip to Carym Katz, who killed the set on the river, sending Schindler onto the stage with $39, 360 as seventh. Thomas Winters was eliminated next as his A-3 flush hit AK Katz and did not improve.

Eightfold World Series of Poker bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Fame member Erik Seidel in this event came to an end when his AQ he didn't win the race with Katz's pocket jacks. Seidel earned $50,217 for his fifth-place finish, boosting his lifetime tournament income to over $15.9 million over the course.

Vanessa Kade stayed short stack after Seidel left. The Canadian poker player beat the PokerStars Sunday Million 10th anniversary for 1.5 million $ earlier this year and was at his first live final table in 2021. Kade called all-in with KQ opposite A5 Andrew Lichtenberger. Kade took the lead with King on the flop, but the ace on the river sent her to the exit of $94, 31 for the highest live score of his career.

Katz lost some key pots in a three-handed game to drop to the bottom of the leaderboard. On his last hand he pushed all-in with lowest pair and a flush draw, and was called by top pair Imsirovic. Katz's outs never materialized and he was sent home in third place ($119,500). The result increased Katz's lifetime earnings to $11,236,914.

Consequently, Imsirovic came heads-up with Lichtenberger with a slight advantage. The two played some exciting hands during the last showdown, including the one where Imsirovic returned to the lead when he took down quad kings on the river with a card that gave Lichtenberger kings full of aces. Imsirovic moved all-in on the river on that hand and doubled to a 2-1 advantage which he managed to increase even further on the last hand. Lichtenberger moved all in from the last eight big blinds from the button on KJ. and Imsirovic called with J6. There were no 9 on the board546Q and Imsirovic picked up a pair of sixes to secure the title.

Lichtenberger earned $158,400 as the runner-up. It was his third final appearance in the series, and 158 points scored was enough to move him into second place in USPO points are racing after Imsirovic. WSOP The bracelet winner increased his career earnings to almost $11. 4 million with this latest deep mileage.

Here is a breakdown of the payouts and ranking points awarded at the final table: $119,270

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	Place	Player		) Payment POY Points PokerGO Tour 540 1 Ali Imsirovic $218,500 218	2 2021	Andrew Lichtenberger 2021
		119

3 Cary Katz $119,911 360 119 4 Vanessa Kade 2021 $ 90,50 225 79 5 Erik Seidel $50, 218 218 74 6 Thomas Winters 2021 $50,225

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40 2021 7

Jake Schindler 2021

$49,360 2021 135 40 8 Mazen Abdallah $37,540 89 31

Photo winner and trophy: PokerGO / Antonio Abrego.

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