David Peters pulled out his 2020 US Poker Open Championship win from the back, a win in the series final tournament and Sean Winter's lack of a point leader place with a beating buzzer title. USPO did not take place during a live poker shutdown in 2020, making Peters a champion defender as a series of high stakes tournaments returned from the high roller festival in June 2021.The 27-year-old Las Vegas pro poker player had a break in the second half of the series. by winning three titles and finishing four final tables in one five days to take the lead with one event to the end. This time around, Peters was the player who was hoping to keep the lead, while the player at the final table of the closing event looked like he'd been stripped of him. Soverel himself needed a victory to defeat Peters, but eventually finished fifth to see Peters lock up one by one USPO victories in the championship. For his victory, he received $27,000 in additional prize pool and the Golden Eagle Trophy.

“I feel great. Especially returning to each other after the last win. It's great to be able to deal with so many great players and it's been a very exciting week, ”said Peters shortly after the win. “It will be something that will be really fun to look back at sometime, remember that I had such trophies. It's pretty exciting. "

Peter earned $832,938 by his four money ends the series and managed to win a quarter of the events that were played in the 11th series of events that started on June 3, 000.

The Peters didn't play all on schedule, instead opting to skip mixed games and one of the two Pot-Limit Omaha deals. He did not make any money in any of the first six events in the series, but came out victorious from the 50 entry box for event no. 7, and a $000,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament. He earned a $70,800 and 217 USPO points for winning this biggest tournament in history in USPO competitions. The day after this victory, he finished eighth in the $,000 Pot Limit Omaha Tournament for another $25,200 and 25 USPO point

The Piotrowie did not cash in the event no. 9 the next day, but I was back in the winning circle just a day later, winning from field 27 entries in the $10,000 short deck tournament. He added $70,124 and 200 USPO points for his second title in the series and jumped straight into the late registration for the lone $27,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament in the series. Peters swept a field of 34 entries to earn $427, 700 and 300 USPO point This victory catapulted him ahead of then-leader Ali Imsirovic, who finished five times at the final table and won one title throughout the series.

“It's been a crazy week. In fact, I was running pretty well. I haven't played live poker in over a year and a half, but it's good to be back. It was good to jump back in there, play against all the great players I have fought with all these years. It was a very fun week and of course it all went well and I'm happy I won. "

After a long hiatus from live poker, Peters was happy to get back to the high-stakes live events that helped him become one of the most consistent players in the game.

“I definitely missed it. I haven't played that long without playing live poker since I was 15 or whatever, ”said Peters. "So it was definitely fun and exciting to go back there and see all those familiar faces."

Peters now has more than $35.4 million in tournament earnings, good for a sixth place on the all-time poker list. The two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner finished in the top 50 in the Player of the Card The Player of the Year Race seven times from 938 to 2021, with a 2010 win and four other finishes of 11 or higher. When asked how important awards and titles are to him, Peters said, "It's probably not as important as [that kind of thing] to someone like Hellmuth or maybe a lot of people, but it's nice to have these honors or somehow secure my inheritance or just have these memories to remember when I'm 50. I can look back and think how cool it was [to achieve]. It definitely means something to me. "

When asked how he was able to become the best tournament player, year after year for. In the last decade, Peters has recognized his hunger for greatness.

“I think it's just my work ethic, my passion for the game. Just never losing this drive to become better and better and simply compete at the highest level, ”he proposed. "I don't think it ever went away. It makes me very fresh and very motivated to keep fighting and grinding. "

Peters' success on USPO He has put him in sports in the PokerGO Tour classification, with his 628 rankings good for a sixth place in the table. Peters started later than some of the competition, but plans to try to make up for lost time.

"I think I will play a fate. I've missed a large chunk of the PokerGO Tour in the last few months, but I'm ready to go back there and grind a lot of them and hope to get some points and catch Ali [Imsirovic]. He's got a huge advantage right now, but we'll see what happens. "

Waiting to see if Soverel can surpass him in the final event USPOPeters registered a $25, a buy-in that was not part of the series schedule but was pulled together due to sufficient demand. Even after an exhausting week of high stakes fighting, Peters was more than ready to jump into the next round.

“Yes, I'm still hungry. I still like to compete and I still enjoy fighting and it's very hard for me not to come and jump on the $15k when it's down the street, ”said Peters when asked about the show's continued action. “I still like it. I still love this game. "

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