Poker professional Mark Herm became the second player to win two Globe Series of Casino poker arm bands this year after it was exposed Wednesday that he won the $500 no-limit hold ’em online occasion in the early hours of Monday morning.
Herm beat a field of 742 entries to win $89,356 in addition to the title. His initial bracelet came throughout the Pennsylvania-only online collection, removing the $500 no-limit hold ’em Keystone start event for $48,420.
With the success, the Pennsylvania native and also longtime casino poker professional bumped his job revenues to greater than $2.1 million.
Herm signs up with Martin Zamani as the only 2 gamers with multiple bracelets thus far this year with their 2nd wins happening just hrs apart and both occurring on the virtual really felt. Zamani beat 156 access in the $5,300 no-limit hold ’em online freezeout yet offered the dimension of the $500 buy-in event, it took the WSOP longer to confirm the names of players linked to each account as well as introduce that Herm was the person behind the “NJ_AcesmarkA” display name.
Herm beat Steven Rivero heads-up for the title and bested a last table that featured competition regular and also two-time WSOP Circuit ring champion Jesse Yaginuma, along with long time texas hold’em professional Karina Jett.
Herm and Rivero began the final table neck-and-neck for the chip lead, and also both placed on dominating efficiencies throughout. They stayed near the top of the leaderboard throughout of it before Herm retreated during three-handed play.
Stephanie Baker was removed in ninth place when she was all in preflop with QcQd against Matthew Zazaian’s AdJs. The flop was risk-free for Baker, however the Ac fell on the look to get rid of one of 3 ladies at the last table.
An extremely short-stacked Giovanni Balistreri was out next after he got his last two huge blinds into the middle from the tiny blind with J-4 against Jeremy Pekarek’s A-A. Balistreri really did not strike any miracles and made $8,541 for his final table appearance.
Melissa Hawkins was removed in 7th prior to Herm began making his move to the top. Yaginuma relocated all in on the button with A-8 yet faced Herm’s pocket kings in the big blind. Yaginuma transformed a flush draw after Herm flopped leading set to provide him a glimmer of hope but bricked the river as well as was out in fifth.
From there, Rivero as well as Herm fled from the pack. Rivero busted in Pekarek in fifth and after that Herm sent out Jett packing in 4th. Herm won a number of non-showdown pots three-handed to open a large margin. Zazaian wound up as the brief pile after losing a large pot to Rivero and was rounded off by Herm when Herm’s As8s stood up against Zazaian’s J-3.
Herm started head-up play with concerning a 2.5-to-1 chip lead and rounded off the tournament soon after heads-up started. The entire heads-up fight lasted less than 20 mins.
Final Table Results:
| Place | Player | Earnings |
| 1 | Mark Herm | $89,356 |
| 2 | Steven Rivero | $55,217 |
| 3 | Matthew Zazaian | $39,084 |
| 4 | Karina Jett | $28,041 |
| 5 | Jeremy Pekarek | $20,358 |
| 6 | Jesse Yaginuma | $14,981 |
| 7 | Melissa Hawkins | $11,187 |
| 8 | Giovanni Balistreri | $8,451 |
| 9 | Stephanie Baker | $6,482 |
