Justin Pechie Wins Second WSOP Bracelet within the $1,500 Freezeout

An action-packed Day 3 of the 2022 World Series of Poker Event #34: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em has come to an finish with Justin Pechie taking house his second WSOP bracelet.

A complete of 1,774 gamers began the match creating a complete prize pool of $2,368,290, and there have been simply ten remaining firstly of Day 3 to battle it out for the lion’s share of the prize cash and the coveted gold bracelet.

Pechie was the chosen one which the celebrities and playing cards aligned for to take house the highest prize of $364,899. He additionally added a second gold bracelet to his assortment, together with his first one being from 2011 in Occasion #41: $1,500 Restrict Maintain’em Shootout.

Occasion # 34: $1,500 Freezeout No Restrict Maintain’em Ultimate Desk Outcomes

Winner’s Response

When speaking to PokerNews about how his win felt, Pechie stated, “I haven’t actually processed it. I by no means actually seemed on the quantities or payouts; I simply got here in and performed how I felt I ought to play, and now it’s type of sinking in.”

Pechie began the third day in chips however steadily climbed to the highest. He was hovering round second in chips for many of the day earlier than taking the lead shortly after Stage 34 with 5 gamers remaining. He was then backwards and forwards with France’s, Maxime Parys all through the subsequent two ranges earlier than he caught a double up off Parys and had almost three-quarters of the chips in play for a dominating lead that carried him to victory.

Ultimate Day Recap

Ten gamers began the ultimate day with Orson Younger getting eradicated shortly after play started in Stage 28, however there was not one other one till two hours later when a double elimination occurred, and Pechie took out Dwayne Sullivan and former bracelet winner, Jeremy Wien.

The following elimination was France’s Michel Leibgorin who was taken out by David Dibernardi. The French brigade was out in full drive on the rail, cheering on the three gamers from France who have been sitting on the ultimate desk and with one down, they solely had two left.

Dibernardi chipped up from taking out Leibgorin was it was quick lived and he was the subsequent one out. Quickly after, fan favorite and poker legend Steve Zolotow fell sufferer to Pechie and obtained applause as he left the desk.

Kenny Robbins was the subsequent to go, after which there have been three. Pechie versus the 2 Frenchman, and he didn’t again down, getting an enormous dent out of the stack of Maxime Parys and buying 70% of the chips in play.

Parys was knocked out by fellow Frenchman, Samuel Bifarella, which took it right down to the ultimate two.

Pechie and Bifarella then battled backwards and forwards, with Pechie by no means actually relinquishing his huge chip lead. All of it ended when Bifarella, with king-deuce, was all in on the flop and Pechie snap-called with five-six for 2 pair. Bifarella had 19 outs to hit on the river however missed all of them, ending the lengthy 3-day battle to be topped champion.

This concludes PokerNews‘ protection of the occasion, however there’s nonetheless loads extra to come back from the 2022 WSOP, so you should definitely hold it locked in.