'It made the whole experience a thousand times better.” Final Table ResultsĪccording to updates from the event, Lima began the final table on the short stack with 24 big blinds. The hands I wasn’t in, they were making noise. Every hand I won, they were making noise. “My friends and family came out and everybody was great. “It was the loudest thing I’ve ever witnessed live,” he said of the support. Lima was cheered on by 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Scott Blumstein and several other friends and family. 'I just battled and was very fortunate to have won this thing. “I was very fortunate to have good energy with me and ran good at good times, and when I was all in, I held up.
“Step one was planning on never going broke today,” Lima told WPT officials after the win. After a marathon 10-hour final table that spanned 236 hands, it was 24-year-old Vinicius “Viny” Lima coming out on top to win the title, $728,430 top prize, a Hublot Big Bang Steel Watch, and a $15,000 entry into the season-ending Baccarat Crystal Tournament of Champions.
The tournament began with 1,415 entries last month but played down to the final six, who were each guaranteed $154,734 in prize money. It was the last of three WPT final tables over three days to play to a winner. On Wednesday, the World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open final table played at HyperX Esports Arena inside the Luxor in Las Vegas.
