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David Peters Banks $680,000 in Huge ARIA Weekend
- Updated: November 21, 2016
David Peters’ career year continued this weekend with a win in ARIA $50,000 Super High Roller 13 and a second-place finish in the ARIA $25,000 High Roller 51. He banked about $680,000 between the two scores.
Peters has now cashed for over $6.7 million in 2016 while also collecting his first career World Series of Poker bracelet in what’s surely been a year to remember for the pro from Toledo, Ohio.
Thursday, Nov. 17
Thursday’s event, the 50th edition of the ARIA $25,000 High Roller series, drew 40 entries for a prize pool of $960,000. This was the only tournament Peters whiffed on, according to the live updates, falling out of the money in 14th place.
At the final table, a few players were before the money. Ali Fazeli got it in with eights against the sevens of Tom Marchese and found a key double when both players bricked out. Fazeli then won a race with jacks against the ace-king of Brian Rast to get the field down to seven and Alan Smithee bubbled out.
Erik Seidel was first to go after the money bubble burst, failing to overtake the queens of Byron Kaverman with ace-ten. Kaverman, though, couldn’t keep the momentum going and busted a short time later when his ace-queen couldn’t fare against Fazeli’s eights.
Jake Schindler spent some time grinding a short stack but finally fell when his shove in the small blind was looked up by Sean Winter, who had in the big blind. The board brought a nine on the flop to send Schindler to the rail.
Marchese woke up with when Winter shoved on the button, only to see Winter turn over a dominating . After Winter doubled through, Marchese was busto 10 minutes later when his couldn’t find help against Winter’s .
Winter and Fazeli were left to battle heads up and the two big all-in pots went Fazeli’s way to ship the tournament and over $400,000. Winter got in ace-seven against ace-ten and couldn’t win after a flop gave him a gutshot. Then, a flip of sixes versus ace-nine went to Fazeli as well.
Friday, Nov. 18 …
