331 Spieler hatten sich beim vorletzten Turnier der WSOP 2018, dem $1.500 Closer, für den Finaltag qualifiziert und kämpften um eine Siegprämie von fast $613.000.
Mit von der Partie waren auch einige deutschsprachige Spieler, die wie Enrico Rudelitz, Martin Finger oder Jonas Lauck teilweise ausgezeichnet klassiert waren.
Tatsächlich gelang es Lauck und Finger, einen echten Deep Run hinzulegen, der dann leider auf den Plätzen 20 bzw. 13 endete.
Mit gut $20.000 bzw. $32.000 Preisgeld feierten die beiden aber einen guten Abschluss der WSOP 2018.
Ein Mann aber, der vorgestern noch beim Main Event am Finaltisch gesessen hatte, drückte diesem Turnier seinen Stempel auf.
Joe Cada nahm seine glänzende Form vom Main Event und einem fünften Platz mit in den Closer und zog gegen den Inder Paawan Bansal ins Heads-Up ein.
Mit fast identischen Stacks legten die beiden das kürzeste Heads-Up der diesjährigen WSOP hin. Bansal 4-bet-shovte 98s und bekam von Cada den Call – das Board brachte 952TT und Cada hatte mit Quads sein viertes Bracelet gewonnen.
WSOP Event #75, $1.500 No-Limit Hold’em Closer, Endstand
| 1 | Joe Cada | United States | $612.886 |
| 2 | Paawan Bansal | India | $378.765 |
| 3 | Jeffrey Tanouye | United States | $278.774 |
| 4 | Richard Ali | United States | $206.813 |
| 5 | Eric Afriat | Canada | $154.660 |
| 6 | Richard Cox | United States | $116.595 |
| 7 | Jimmy Poper | United States | $88.615 |
| 8 | Brayden Gazlay | United States | $67.904 |
| 9 | Joshua Turner | United States | $52.465 |
| 10 | Sam Simmons | United States | $40.876 |
| 11 | Avery Bass | United States | $40.876 |
| 12 | Mark Babekov | United States | $40.876 |
| 13 | Martin Finger | Austria | $32.115 |
| 14 | Thi Nguyen | Vietnam | $32.115 |
| 15 | Tobias Peters | Netherlands | $32.115 |
| 16 | Andrew Hedley | United Kingdom | $25.446 |
| 17 | Tristan Wade | United States | $25.446 |
| 18 | Christopher Conrad | United States | $25.446 |
| 19 | Nishant Sharma | United States | $20.336 |
| 20 | Jonas Lauck | Germany | $20.336 |
| 21 | Leif Force | United States | $20.336 |
| 22 | Benjamin Zamani | United States | $20.336 |
| 23 | Jeff Siegal | United States | $20.336 |
| 24 | Edouard Echinard | France | $20.336 |
| 25 | Will Givens | United States | $20.336 |
| 26 | Joshua Abady | United States | $20.336 |
| 27 | Bob Shao | United States | $20.336 |
| 28 | Jonathan Tamayo | United States | $16.392 |
| 29 | Scott Horvath | United States | $16.392 |
| 30 | Andrew Brokos | United States | $16.392 |
| 31 | Jerry Robinson | United States | $16.392 |
| 32 | Jared Hamby | United States | $16.392 |
| 33 | Haixia Zhang | United States | $16.392 |
| 34 | Martin Jacobson | Sweden | $16.392 |
| 35 | Erik Lemarquand | Canada | $16.392 |
| 36 | Allen Kessler | United States | $16.392 |
| 37 | Casey Johnson | United States | $13.328 |
| 38 | Raghav Bansal | India | $13.328 |
| 39 | Narimaan Ahmadi | United States | $13.328 |
| 40 | Richard Fassett | United States | $13.328 |
| 41 | Javier Gomez | United States | $13.328 |
| 42 | Derek Bowers | United States | $13.328 |
| 43 | Frank Stepuchin | United States | $13.328 |
| 44 | Michael Wasserman | United States | $13.328 |
| 45 | David Paredes | United States | $13.328 |
| 46 | Tyler Patterson | United States | $10.933 |
| 47 | Marius Kudzmanas | $10.933 | |
| 48 | Rocco Palumbo | Italy | $10.933 |
| 49 | Patrick Truong | United States | $10.933 |
| 50 | Javier Montano | United States | $10.933 |
| 51 | Neng Lee | United States | $13.175 |
| 52 | Bertrand Grospellier | France | $10.933 |
| 53 | Brandon Eisen | United States | $10.933 |
| 54 | David Thoret | France | $10.933 |
| 55 | Grzegorz Wyraz | Poland | $9.047 |
| 56 | Dylon Chafin | United States | $9.047 |
| 57 | Kevin Wang | United States | $9.047 |
| 58 | Oleksii Kravchuk | United Kingdom | $9.047 |
| 59 | Evan Schwartz | United States | $9.047 |
| 60 | Mukul Pahuja | United States | $9.047 |
| 61 | Aaron Rivero | United States | $9.047 |
| 62 | Miguel Vazquez | United States | $9.047 |
| 63 | Ryan Olisar | United States | $9.047 |
| 64 | Peter Moore | United States | $7.554 |
| 65 | Samuel Phillips | United States | $7.554 |
| 66 | Timothy Nauheim | United States | $7.554 |
| 67 | Jeffrey Dambrosia | United States | $7.554 |
| 68 | Kolade Akadiri | United Kingdom | $7.554 |
| 69 | Chad Layne | United States | $7.554 |
| 70 | Philip Ford | United Kingdom | $7.554 |
| 71 | Dustin Lee | United States | $7.554 |
| 72 | Nelson Resendiz | United States | $7.554 |
| 73 | Aditya Agarwal | India | $6.365 |
| 74 | Luis Pinho | Portugal | $6.365 |
| 75 | Scott Bohlman | United States | $6.365 |
| 76 | Joe Kuether | United States | $6.365 |
| 77 | Andrey Pateychuk | Russian Federation | $6.365 |
| 78 | Longsheng Tan | China | $6.365 |
| 79 | Chang Liu | United States | $6.365 |
| 80 | Vasili Firsau | Belarus | $6.365 |
| 81 | Pedro Padilha | Brazil | $6.365 |
| 82 | Mike Allis | United States | $5.411 |
| 83 | Daniel Zack | United States | $5.411 |
| 84 | Ricardo Utida | Brazil | $5.411 |
| 85 | Rep Porter | United States | $5.411 |
| 86 | Hector Ziperovich | United States | $5.411 |
| 87 | John Dombroski | United States | $5.411 |
| 88 | Sai Chiu | Canada | $5.411 |
| 89 | Terrence Byrnes | United States | $5.411 |
| 90 | Zi Li | United States | $5.411 |
| 91 | Antonio Della Sciucca | Canada | $4.643 |
| 92 | Joseph Liberta | United States | $4.643 |
| 93 | Darren Rabinowitz | United States | $4.643 |
| 94 | Jimi Chanthamixay | United States | $4.643 |
| 95 | Gaurav Raina | United States | $4.643 |
| 96 | Daniel Vampan | United States | $4.643 |
| 97 | Christopher Herrin | United States | $4.643 |
| 98 | Yoon Kim | United States | $4.643 |
| 99 | Mohsin Charania | United States | $4.643 |
| 100 | Lee Watkinson | United States | $4.021 |
| 101 | Christopher Staats | United States | $4.021 |
| 102 | Gianluca Speranza | Italy | $6.342 |
| 103 | Federico Butteroni | Italy | $4.021 |
| 104 | Dana Muse | United States | $4.021 |
| 105 | Joe Serock | United States | $4.021 |
| 106 | Kiryl Radzivonau | Belarus | $4.021 |
| 107 | David Mai | United States | $4.021 |
| 108 | Sebastian Kos | Slovenia | $4.021 |
| 109 | Jeff Gross | United States | $4.021 |
| 110 | Thomas Boivin | Belgium | $4.021 |
| 111 | Tomas Soderstrom | Sweden | $4.021 |
| 112 | Richard Dixon | United States | $4.021 |
| 113 | Vittorio Faricelli | United States | $4.021 |
| 114 | Robert Spano | Australia | $4.021 |
| 115 | Jesse Yaginuma | United States | $4.021 |
| 116 | Tobias Ziegler | Germany | $4.021 |
| 117 | Dan Iman | United States | $4.021 |
| 118 | Bruce McPhillips | United States | $4.021 |
| 119 | Ilkin Amirov | Azerbaijan | $4.021 |
| 120 | Scott Sanders | United States | $4.021 |
| 121 | Brian Richardson | United States | $4.021 |
| 122 | Brandon Shack-Harris | United States | $4.021 |
| 123 | Mitch Garshofsky | United States | $4.021 |
| 124 | Jonathan Rotonda | United States | $4.021 |
| 125 | Kyle Shigano | United States | $4.021 |
| 126 | Jaspal Brar | Canada | $4.021 |
| 127 | Paul Vacchio | United States | $4.021 |
| 128 | Ludovic Geilich | United Kingdom | $4.021 |
| 129 | Aaron Frei | United States | $4.021 |
| 130 | Veronica Dunn | United States | $4.021 |
| 131 | Michel Akrich | France | $4.021 |
| 132 | Nicholas Verderamo | United States | $4.021 |
| 133 | Dominykas Mikolaitis | Lithuania | $4.021 |
| 134 | Ioannis Angelou Konstas | Greece | $4.021 |
| 135 | Jung Woo | United States | $4.021 |
| 136 | Walter Chambers | United States | $4.021 |
| 137 | Chris Ferguson | United States | $4.021 |
| 138 | Andrew Hulme | United Kingdom | $4.021 |
| 139 | Manuel Martinez | United Kingdom | $4.021 |
| 140 | Kevin Kanda | United States | $4.021 |
| 141 | Loni Harwood | United States | $4.021 |
| 142 | Dan Heimiller | United States | $4.021 |
| 143 | Denis Timofeev | Russian Federation | $4.021 |
| 144 | Scott Peterson | United States | $4.021 |
| 145 | John Courtney | United States | $4.021 |
| 146 | Matt Glantz | United States | $4.021 |
| 147 | Robert Nehorayan | United States | $4.021 |
| 148 | Sriharsha Doddapaneni | India | $4.021 |
| 149 | Josh Prager | United States | $4.021 |
| 150 | Tony Scherer | United States | $4.021 |
| 151 | Michael Solarsh | United States | $4.021 |
| 152 | Bryan Veach | United States | $4.021 |
| 153 | Minh Tran | France | $4.021 |
| 154 | Enrico Rudelitz | Germany | $4.021 |
| 155 | Isaac Hagerling | United States | $4.021 |
| 156 | Farhintaj Bonyadi | United States | $4.021 |
| 157 | Fredrick Andersson | Sweden | $4.021 |
| 158 | Chris Dasilva | United Kingdom | $4.021 |
| 159 | John Hennigan | United States | $4.021 |
| 160 | Daniel Pauly | France | $4.021 |
| 161 | Alberto Ortiz Such | United States | $4.021 |
| 162 | John Zentner | United States | $4.021 |
| 163 | David Baker | United States | $3.515 |
| 164 | Elia Brigante | Canada | $3.515 |
| 165 | Alex Bolotin | United States | $3.515 |
| 166 | Yongjun Lu | United States | $3.515 |
| 167 | Brian Berlin | United States | $3.515 |
| 168 | Jose Nadal | Mexico | $3.515 |
| 169 | Danny Wong | United States | $3.515 |
| 170 | Jorge Pena | United States | $3.515 |
| 171 | Caleb Rapoport | United States | $3.515 |
| 172 | Will Berry | United States | $3.515 |
| 173 | Chase Bianchi | United States | $3.515 |
| 174 | Viliyan Petleshkov | Bulgaria | $3.515 |
| 175 | Daniel Fuhs | United States | $3.515 |
| 176 | Jaroslaw Jaskiewicz | Canada | $3.515 |
| 177 | Adam Owen | United Kingdom | $3.515 |
| 178 | Zachary Gruneberg | United States | $3.515 |
| 179 | Gregory Carlson | United States | $3.515 |
| 180 | Haral Tsivicos | United States | $3.515 |
| 181 | Scott Gnau | United States | $3.515 |
| 182 | Javier Fernandez | United Kingdom | $3.515 |
| 183 | Gloria Whimper | United States | $3.515 |
| 184 | Ryan Buckholtz | United States | $3.515 |
| 185 | Perati Muhamet | Italy | $3.515 |
| 186 | Kristen Bicknell | Canada | $3.515 |
| 187 | Giovanni Lucente | Brazil | $3.515 |
| 188 | Chris Moorman | United Kingdom | $3.515 |
| 189 | Jamie Kerstetter | United States | $3.515 |
| 190 | Georgios Angelo Tavoularis | Greece | $3.515 |
| 191 | Richard White | United States | $3.515 |
| 192 | Troy Quenneville | Canada | $3.515 |
| 193 | Barry Hutter | United States | $3.515 |
| 194 | Allan Le | United States | $3.515 |
| 195 | Adam Richardson | United States | $3.515 |
| 196 | Matthew Lambrecht | United States | $3.515 |
| 197 | Niall Farrell | United Kingdom | $3.515 |
| 198 | Piotr Szczygielski | Poland | $3.515 |
| 199 | Brent Wheeler | United States | $3.515 |
| 200 | JC Tran | United States | $3.515 |
| 201 | Luiz Carnasciali | Brazil | $3.515 |
| 202 | Tara Dunn | United States | $3.515 |
| 203 | Rex Clinkscales | United States | $3.515 |
| 204 | Diogo Veiga | Portugal | $3.515 |
| 205 | Farah Galfond | United States | $3.515 |
| 206 | William Steffin | United States | $3.515 |
| 207 | Jason Song | United States | $3.515 |
| 208 | Donis Agnelli | Italy | $3.515 |
| 209 | Scotty Nguyen | United States | $3.515 |
| 210 | Veerachai Vongxaiburana | United States | $3.515 |
| 211 | Ben Keeline | United States | $3.515 |
| 212 | Benny Glaser | United Kingdom | $3.515 |
| 213 | Gary Hasson | Belgium | $3.515 |
| 214 | Jose Luis Calvo Rodriguez | Spain | $3.515 |
| 215 | Phil Laak | United States | $3.515 |
| 216 | Amir Mirrasouli | United States | $3.515 |
| 217 | Jakob Miegel | Germany | $3.515 |
| 218 | Adrian Moreno | United States | $3.515 |
| 219 | Ryan Hong | Australia | $3.515 |
| 220 | Nick Binger | United States | $3.515 |
| 221 | Julius Malzanini | Germany | $3.515 |
| 222 | Matthew Stein | United States | $3.515 |
| 223 | Brock Parker | United States | $3.515 |
| 224 | Ozgur Arda | Turkey | $3.515 |
| 225 | Justin Ligeri | United States | $3.515 |
| 226 | Tom Cage | United States | $3.102 |
| 227 | Johan Guilbert | France | $3.102 |
| 228 | Kevin Eyster | United States | $3.102 |
| 229 | Richard Kirsch | United States | $3.102 |
| 230 | Kelly Minkin | United States | $5.345 |
| 231 | Jesse Martin | United States | $3.102 |
| 232 | Artur Koren | Austria | $3.102 |
| 233 | Sean Legendre | United States | $3.102 |
| 234 | Tuvya Felt | United States | $3.102 |
| 235 | Renato Nomura | Japan | $3.102 |
| 236 | Bryan Piccioli | United States | $3.102 |
| 237 | Bryce Landier | United States | $3.102 |
| 238 | Richard Bianchi | United States | $3.102 |
| 239 | Kfir Nahum | United States | $3.102 |
| 240 | Andrew Kelsall | United States | $3.102 |
| 241 | Joseph Hebert | United States | $3.102 |
| 242 | Franklin Sears | United States | $3.102 |
| 243 | Negie Marucci | United States | $3.102 |
| 244 | Russ Krueger | United States | $3.102 |
| 245 | Joshua Rhodes | United States | $3.102 |
| 246 | Aaron Mermelstein | United States | $3.102 |
| 247 | Jeremy Dresch | United States | $3.102 |
| 248 | Michael Gagliano | United States | $3.102 |
| 249 | Yves Rolland | France | $3.102 |
| 250 | Michael Meyer | United States | $3.102 |
| 251 | Jonathan Zarin | United States | $3.102 |
| 252 | Aoi Oyama | United States | $3.102 |
| 253 | Jeff Katz | United States | $3.102 |
| 254 | Joseph Cheong | United States | $3.102 |
| 255 | Phong Than Nguyen | United States | $3.102 |
| 256 | Jeremy Ausmus | United States | $3.102 |
| 257 | Jonathan Parrott | United States | $3.102 |
| 258 | Brett Feder | United States | $3.102 |
| 259 | Pojana Jenne | United States | $3.102 |
| 260 | Scott Davies | Canada | $3.102 |
| 261 | Justin Zaki | United States | $3.102 |
| 262 | Alexander Greenblatt | United States | $3.102 |
| 263 | Esther Taylor-Brady | United States | $3.102 |
| 264 | Ryan Skop | United States | $3.102 |
| 265 | Kenneth Coop | United States | $3.102 |
| 266 | Karen Sarkisyan | Russian Federation | $3.102 |
| 267 | Nikolai Yakovenko | Russian Federation | $3.102 |
| 268 | Ronnie Bardah | United States | $3.102 |
| 269 | Allen Pock | United States | $3.102 |
| 270 | Amnon Filippi | United States | $3.102 |
| 271 | James Clendening | United States | $3.102 |
| 272 | Potito Martire | Italy | $3.102 |
| 273 | Krzysztof Stybaniewicz | United States | $3.102 |
| 274 | Todd Butts | United States | $3.102 |
| 275 | Max Lehmanski | Germany | $3.102 |
| 276 | Larry Nance | United States | $3.102 |
| 277 | John Dolan | United States | $3.102 |
| 278 | Jonathan Abdellatif | Belgium | $3.102 |
| 279 | Ravi Raghavan | United States | $5.550 |
| 280 | Keith Donovan | United States | $3.102 |
| 281 | Ryan Milisits | United States | $3.102 |
| 282 | William Migely | United States | $3.102 |
| 283 | Aaron Miles | United States | $3.102 |
| 284 | Jeff Dargah | United States | $3.102 |
| 285 | Terry Schumacher | Belgium | $5.423 |
| 286 | Mike Chau | United States | $3.102 |
| 287 | Yan Shing Tsang | Hong Kong | $3.102 |
| 288 | Heroico Aguiluz | United States | $3.102 |
| 289 | Simon Deadman | United Kingdom | $2.763 |
| 290 | Paul Balzano | United States | $2.763 |
| 291 | Cory Waaland | United States | $2.763 |
| 292 | Albert Ng | United States | $2.763 |
| 293 | Adam Glassman | United States | $2.763 |
| 294 | Jesus Romero | United States | $2.763 |
| 295 | James Romero | United States | $2.763 |
| 296 | Yang Zhang | China | $2.763 |
| 297 | Benjamin Dobson | United Kingdom | $2.763 |
| 298 | Danny Noam | United States | $2.763 |
| 299 | Quoc Vu | United Kingdom | $2.763 |
| 300 | Dan Shak | United States | $2.763 |
| 301 | Jeremy Saderne | France | $2.763 |
| 302 | Yuval Bronshtein | Israel | $2.763 |
| 303 | Joshua Armiger | United States | $2.763 |
| 304 | Thomas Difrancesco | United States | $2.763 |
| 305 | Scott Vetter | United States | $2.763 |
| 306 | Louie Cohen | United States | $2.763 |
| 307 | Alexis Fleur | France | $2.763 |
| 308 | Riley Keohen | United States | $2.763 |
| 309 | Gregory Bock | United States | $2.763 |
| 310 | Ryan Anderson | United States | $2.763 |
| 311 | Park Yu Cheung | Hong Kong | $5.098 |
| 312 | Rose Mcgillis | United States | $2.763 |
| 313 | Terry Fleischer | United States | $3.884 |
| 314 | Ofir Mor | United States | $2.763 |
| 315 | Kurt Jewell | United States | $2.763 |
| 316 | David Chen | United States | $2.763 |
| 317 | Raghuram Jonnalagedda | United States | $5.084 |
| 318 | Nacho Barbero | Argentina | $2.763 |
| 319 | Tuan Mai | United States | $2.763 |
| 320 | Shaun Deeb | United States | $2.763 |
| 321 | Fabien Perrot | France | $5.084 |
| 322 | Sergio Grosso | Italy | $2.763 |
| 323 | Georgy Philippovich | Russian Federation | $2.763 |
| 324 | Peter Svoboda | United States | $2.763 |
| 325 | Molly Mossey | United States | $2.763 |
| 326 | Alex Foxen | United States | $2.763 |
| 327 | Vincent Li | China | $2.763 |
| 328 | Randall Wilson | United States | $2.763 |
| 329 | Ramin Hajiyev | Azerbaijan | $2.763 |
| 330 | Adam Maginot | United States | $2.763 |
| 331 | Pakinai Lisawad | Thailand | $2.763 |
