Magnus Edengren Wins WSOP Bracelet “For Enjoyable” in Occasion #43: $1,500 Combined Omaha ($196,970)

It solely took barely longer than half an hour to crown a winner in Occasion #43: $1,500 Combined: Pot-Restrict Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher; Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher; Large O (7-Handed) and the primary participant from Sweden posed for the winner photographs this summer season right here on the 2024 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

Out of a area of 853 entries, it was Magnus Edengren who defeated James Juvancic and Tim Seidensticker in fast succession because the trio shared the most important slice of the $1,138,755 prize pool.

Edengren solely had 5 WSOP cashes for $59,649 to his identify prior and greater than tripled that quantity at present, as he notched up the highest prize of $196,970. Runner-up Seidensticker collected $131,308 for the efforts, and Juvancic walked away with a comfort prize of $91,132. For all three of them, it was the most important WSOP rating by some margin, however solely considered one of them might earn the gold bracelet.

The Swede began taking part in poker within the early 2000s and competed for round ten years earlier than he just about stopped taking part in. Nonetheless, some occasional journeys to Las Vegas are nonetheless a part of the routine.

“I have never began taking part in once more. I simply come to Vegas yearly to have enjoyable, after which I play some tournaments,” Edengren mentioned with a giant smile on their face earlier than including, “I do not actually play poker anymore in any respect. I finished a very long time in the past and simply play for enjoyable.”

Occasion #43: $1,500 Combined Omaha Last Desk Outcomes

Edengren’s first three WSOP cashes got here in 2013 and 2018, respectively, each in 4 and five-card break up pot sport variants, that are the popular sport varieties for the Swede. He did not come near profitable a bracelet again then, although he completed nineteenth in Occasion #40: $2,500 Combined Large Guess six years in the past for a small money prize of $4,470.

Nonetheless, not way back, Edengren made a deep run in Occasion #24: $10,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher Championship the place he completed in twelfth place for $28,891. He additionally cashed in Occasion #37: $10,000 Large O Championship for $20,306 and has now been in Las Vegas for 2 weeks with plans to remain for one more week.

“I’ve not been near profitable a bracelet but, however this 12 months I’ve been nice. I used to be twelfth within the PLO8 and thirty-something in Large O”.

The totally different Omaha variants have been his favorite sport, as that is what he specialised in when he began his journey in poker. “I knew all the maths, and now I do know nothing; I simply have enjoyable”. For the Swede, the Cadillac of poker with simply two playing cards is boring, however he would soar into any event that has 4 playing cards to supply, and a few of them are arising in a number of days.

“Simply 4 playing cards for me; if there are any of these tournaments whereas I’m in Las Vegas, I’ll play them.”

The harder resolution seems to be what he’ll do for the remainder of the day, because the unscheduled Day 4 concluded after solely half an hour.

“I do not know, truly; I’m in type of a bubble proper now. Possibly I’ll go watch my buddies play poker and have enjoyable,” Edengren concluded earlier than heading to the payout desk.

Motion of the Last Day

After a gruelling Day 3 through which the sector was decreased from 22 contenders to the ultimate three and all eyes had been on eventual fourth-place finisher Phil Hellmuth, the unscheduled further day was over shortly after it started on the left aspect function desk within the Horseshoe Occasion Heart.

Edengren began because the chip chief, and with the boundaries already very excessive, he utilized stress along with his massive stack. The primary one to endure was Juvancic, who couldn’t hit a flopped wheel draw and misplaced a giant chunk of his stack. Seidensticker additionally needed to bow to the aggression of Edengren as effectively with the latter pulling additional forward.

In two Large O arms, it was then throughout. Juvancic bought it in in opposition to Edengren on a nine-eight-seven flop with each holding the flopped jack-high straight and room for additional enchancment to the next straight. Working golf equipment adopted, and as an alternative of a probable chop, Jucanvic was left empty-handed whereas Edengren entered heads-up with a lead of greater than five-to-one over Seidensticker.

They bought it in quickly after on a ten-high flop with two spades, nonetheless within the five-card variant, and Seidensticker was forward with two pair and a queen-high flush draw. Edengren held prime pair with a king-high flush draw and as an alternative of spades, he caught a king to make higher two pair. No low got here in with a deuce on the river, and similar to that, a winner was topped.