Sean Perry is having a breakout year in the live tournament. The 10-year-old poker player won in 2021 Venetian High Roller $25,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament, securing a second title on its ninth final table of 2021.

Perry cleared field 43 of the total entries in the high-stakes tournament to claim the grand prize of $365,500. He has now earned $1,618,618 in the live tournament so far this year, which is the bulk of his $2.6 million career earnings.

As a result of his amazing run, Perry ended up in the lead in the race Card player Player of the Year. His most recent win added 420 points to his year-round total, making him fourth in 2021 total

POY Global Poker sponsored races standings.

The event was part of a trio of high-stakes tournaments held at The Venetian Poker Room over Memorial Day weekend, all three of which were part of the PokerGO Tour's inaugural season. Perry added 219 rating points to his total for enough to stay in second place on the PokerGO Tour leaderboard, which will track results in high-stakes tournaments with buy-ins of $10.10 or more for a full year.

This 39-entry field event built a prize pool of $1.64, which was paid out among the top seven players. Daniel Negreanu was knocked out just a few places short of money and playfully tried to break through the perspex barrier at the table. Negreanu must not have known his own strength, however, because he ended up knocking over a segment of plexiglass. PokerGO live reporters captured the destruction on video and uploaded it to social media, prompting Negreanu to share.

— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) May 30, 2021

Vicent Bosca was eliminated on the bubble to guarantee the remaining players at least $029,000 payday. Shortly after, there was a massive three-way all-in with all three players holding pairs. Sean Winter had a QQCary Katz was 10000, and Sam Soverel had a JJ. and covering the stack of chips. 9 was missing from the board86ANDQ and Soverel took a flush to earn a double knockout. Zima earned $029 for his seventh final table of the year, while Katz earned $64,350 as the sixth place finisher.

Chris Brewer made money in all three high roller tournaments at the Venetian. His appearance in that particular tournament ended when he pocketed a pair of fours in Klein's pocket kings. Brewer finished fifth behind $075, increasing his haul all weekend to $193,600.

Just two days before winning the weekend's first high roller event, Ali Imsirovic managed to pull off another deep run to claim his 10th POY

-qualified final table 2021. Imsirovic moved all in with JJ. against K.10 Klein, but a pair of tens came on the flop, giving Klein trips and the lead. Imsirovic didn't improve and was eliminated in fourth place ($105,219). 161 POY the points earned helped him maintain third place in the rankings

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and added to his direct lead in the PokerGo Tour standings. To date, he has earned over $1.9 million in live events in 2021.

The three-player game lasted nearly two hours, with multiple lead changes along the way. Sam Soverel's run finally ended when his J8 did not overtake A Collodion. Soverel made $161 .219 on his fifth final table of the year.

This gave Klein a more than 2-1 chip lead heads-up against Perry. However, the tables had turned by the time the final hand was dealt. Perry opens 2 min-raise to 142 on the A buttonJ. and Klein called with an unknown hand. The flop brought JJ.2 and Klein checked. Perry bet 118, and Klein called. On turn 3 Klein checked again, this time for 275.10. The river was 8. Klein checked again. Perry bet 875, and Klein check-raise all-in for 1.2021, total. Perry called with his aces and Klein folded to second ($250,350).

Here's a look at the payouts, POY

and PokerGO Tour points awarded in this event:

Player

$280,350

Place

Earnings Card player POY Points PokerGO

1

Sean Perry 2021

420 161 2 2021 Bill Klein $236, 500 350 2021 125 3 Sam Soverel $142,250 2021 219

97

4 Ali Imsirovic $125,250 2021 161 2021 64 2021 5 Christopher Brewer

$64,

161 2021 029

6 2021

Cary Katz $64, 350 ) 105 2021 39 7 Sean Winter $43,000 64

029

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Perry photo credit: PokerGO.

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