Garth Yettick Wins First Bracelet in $1,500 8-Game Mix For $131,061
One of the last mixed game events of the 2024 World Series of Poker saw Event #83: $1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed attract 494 entrants. That field generated a prize pool of $659,490, as some of the game��s greats battled it out for $131,061 and the WSOP bracelet. The final table of seven players returned today with a combined 14 bracelets, soon to be 15.
After nearly a 20-year gap from his last live tournament cash, Garth Yettick defeated Josh Arieh heads-up to win his first WSOP bracelet. ��I definitely feel like I was super lucky. I was very short stacked through the majority of yesterday. Whenever the chips did go in, I just won the races. It feels great, winning the bracelet and winning the money too. I��m just always happy to be playing poker.��
This is only his second recorded cash ever on The Hendon Mob, with one other worth $20,370. Though not playing too many tournaments, Yettick is very familiar with all of the games after playing in cash games for many years. ��My favorite game is deuce, I love it in the cash games.��
Coming into the day, Yettick was the third-shortest at the final table and one of only two players without a WSOP bracelet to their name. ��I did look into everyone��s Hendon Mob record prior to the day, it was definitely the toughest table of opponents that I had sat down with. I thought that everyone played great at this final table, I just got the better cards.��
During the heads-up match with Arieh, Yettick had to overcome what was a five-to-one deficit and was all in for his tournament life a couple of times. ��All you need is a chip and a chair, and thankfully, today, I was never in that situation. I��ve seen a lot of tournaments on tv and I am very familiar with tournament strategies. I got lucky with the cards I was dealt and ended up winning.��
Yettick will be firing the first-ever iteration of the $10,000 8-Game starting on Wednesday.
$1,500 8-Game Mix Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garth Yettick | United States | $131,061 |
| 2 | Josh Arieh | United States | $85,667 |
| 3 | "Miami" John Cernuto | United States | $57,249 |
| 4 | John Racener | United States | $39,135 |
| 5 | Maxx Coleman | United States | $27,379 |
| 6 | Marco Johnson | United States | $19,614 |
| 7 | Xiaochuan Zhang | China | $14,397 |
Final Table Action
It took a very short amount of time for the final table to lose a player as the short stacks of Yettick and Xiaochuan Zhang collided in a hand of PLO, when Zhang��s kings ran into Yettick's pair of queens and a flush draw. The completion of that flush saw Yettick begin his upward climb while Zhang collected $14,397 for his seventh-place finish.
After that, Marco Johnson would be next to fall as he lost a sizeable 2-7 Triple Draw hand to Yettick who made an eight-six in a big three-bet pot. That left Johnson short, and shortly after that, he got in his final chips with an eight-seven, and Yettick held a seven-six to take a near-chip lead while Johnson collected $19,614 for his sixth-place finish.
Maxx Coleman was left short after a few pots did not go his way; one of the bigger ones saw Arieh look him up in No-Limit Hold��em with a pair of fives. He got in his final chips in a PLO hand with ace-high and queens against Yettick��s ace-king high. This all went up in smoke as the board ran out king-high to leave Yettick��s top pair superior, and Coleman exited in fifth place for $27,379.
Not much went the way of the start of day chip leader John Racener, as his clashes with Yettick and ��Miami�� John Cernuto saw him getting shorter and shorter. His second to last hand saw him double up Cernuto when his ace-six could not hold up against Cernuto��s ten-nine in No-Limit Hold��em. After that, Cernuto moved all in with pocket sevens and Racener moved all in with ace-king. Yettick called with queens to put them both at risk. The board ran out to give Cernuto a straight to triple up while Yettick scooped the side, and Racener collected $39,135 for his fourth-place finish.
Despite that triple-up, the legendary three-time bracelet winner Cernuto found himself getting shorter after a few confrontations didn��t go his way. He eventually got in his final chips with king-four in No-Limit Hold��em against Arieh, who held with pocket nines. A very supportive rail of friends clapped for Cernuto on the way out, chanting ��Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame,�� before he collected $57,249 for his third-place finish.
Arieh came into heads up with the lead as it quickly grew to a five-to-one lead over Yettick. Eventually, all of the chips got in during the PLO round, where Yettick held the top two against Arieh's open-ended straight draw. No help was brought to Arieh, and Yettick survived the all in to fight on in the heads-up match. The next all-in confrontation came in No-Limit Hold'em, where Yettick got in his ace-queen against Arieh's nines and the ace on the flop gave Yettick the chip lead.
After that, Yettick applied pressure until the five-to-one lead was in his favor. Arieh found a double up in 2-7 Triple Draw with an eight-six, but in the following No-Limit Hold'em round, Arieh got all of his chips into the middle holding ace-queen and Yettick held ace-king. The board held for Yettick, as Arieh collected $85,667 for his runner-up finish.
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