Vladas Tamasauskas Wins Event #1 $10,000 No Limit Hold’em

Vladas Tamasauskas came into the Final Table of the record-setting Event #1 $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em six of seventh in chips and, despite back-and-forth swings all day, emerged victorious after defeating start-of-day chip leader Aram Zobian heads-up for the $239,000 first place prize.

Heads-up play began as a methodical affair as both players traded the chip lead on multiple occasions, but with the close of registration for Event #2 looming, the pace of play quickened, and the deck began to favor the young Lithuanian with three straight hands to close out the tournament.

With Zobian holding a two-to-one chip lead, the tide quickly turned in Tamasauskas’ favor as he won a race with ace-five off against the king-seven suited of Zobian with an ace on the flop to double into the chip lead.

The deck again would favor Tamasauskas, as his king-eight would out turn the ace-eight of Zobian on an eight-jack-jack-king board to give the Russian twelve-to-one chip lead.

The final hand in the sequence saw Tamasauskas limp the button with nines as Zobian moved all-in for his last 2,125,000 with queen-duece off. Following a snap call by Tamasauskas, the board ran out clean, and Zobian collected the $171,000 second-place prize.

The always entertaining Ren Lin came into the day third in chips and, despite taking the chip lead on several occasions, saw his tournament end in third place when the king-queen of Zobian outkicked his king-ten as the Chinese Poker Pro walked away with $125,400.

Start-of-day short stack Filipp Khavin found momentum early and never looked back, as he would eventually fall in fourth place for $102,600 when his ace-ten failed to improve against Zobian’s pocket kings.

Rounding out the payouts from the final table, Victoria Livschitz finished in 5th for $79,800, Samuel Laskowitz in 6th for $68,400, and Scott Jacewicz-O’Kelly in 7th for $57,000.

Event #1, $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em, saw a record-setting 114 entrants pass through the PokerGo Studio, with the top seventeen players finding a cash, collecting the PGT points, and earning their share of the $1,140,000 prize pool. Notables to finish just outside the final table included Jesse Lonis in 8th place for $45,600, Dylan Linde in 11th place for $34,000, Ryan Riess in 15th place for $22,800, and Anthony Zinno in 17th place for $17,100.