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Roy D'Silva By Roy D'SilvaOn 22 Aug, 2024
By Roy D'SilvaOn 22 Aug, 2024
Jereld Sam Ships 2024 WPT Prime Taiwan Championship
The 2024 World Poker Tour (WPT) Prime Championship broke records and crowned a new champion, Jereld Sam, who defeated a record-breaking 1,666 entries. The festival kicked off on 15th August and concluded at the Chamada Prestige Hotel & Casino.
Sam took home a career-best cash prize of TWD 8,065,000 ~($250,000) and a shiny new WPT Prime Championship trophy. Along with this, the winner also gets an entry to the WPT World Championship, to be held in December 2024.
Sam and eight other competitors crushed the competition to compete at the Final Table, out of the final 13 who returned to the felts on the last day of the Championship Event. The final play saw Sam and Oguri at the heads-up. The entire day’s play took around 10 hours, with a prize pool of TWD 51,389,500 (~$1,597,500).
Congratulations to Jereld Sam, our newest @WPTPrime Champion! 🇹🇼🏆
Next stop: @WPTPrime Cyprus 🇨🇾 pic.twitter.com/U7VLREUPqz
— WPT Live Updates (@WPTlive) August 20, 2024
In the heads up, in the final hand, Jereld Sam’s K ♣ J ♣ were higher than Oguri’s Q ♣ J ♦
On the occasion of his win, he said, “It was my tournament to win. I was the short stack with nothing to lose, so I was just aiming to win.” He also said that he was looking forward to the Vegas trip but would take a break first so that he would be settled for his next outing.
Also Read: Live Poker Series to Play in Asia – August 2024
2024 WPT Prime Taiwan Championship Final Table Payout
| No | Name | Cashout |
| 1 | Jereld Sam | TWD 8,065,000 ~$250,000 |
| 2 | Kosei Oguri | TWD 5,390,000 ~$167,547 |
| 3 | Ka Shun Tsang | TWD 3,995, 000 ~$124,184 |
| 4 | Jun Li | TWD 2,990,000 ~$92,944 |
| 5 | Yuva Arito | TWD 2,260,000 ~$70,252) |
| 6 | Junya Yamaguchi | TWD 1,720, 000 ~$53,466 |
| 7 | Tomoyuki Yoshimiya | TWD 1,325,000 ~$41,187 |
| 8 | Wei Chun Cheng | TWD 1,029, 500 ~$32,002 |
| 9 | Paul Hong | TWD 810,000 ~$25,179 |
About Jereld Sam
Sam is a prolific poker player from Singapore. His total live earnings before this event were $208,625.This one event has now almost doubled his total live earnings. His best live cash, before this event, was $52,435, earned when he placed first at Event #9 of Asian Poker Tour APT Hanoi Billions held in Vietnam in 2023. Jereld’s first recorded cash-out, according to Hendonmob, was when he placed 3rd at Event 3 of the Asian Poker Tour held at APT Cambodia in 2014. He cashed out $1660.
Gutshot Magazine congratulates Jereld Sam and wishes him the best of luck on his future outing.
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Roy D’Silva is a published author and has covered various beats in his decade-long experience, including Bollywood, OTT and now poker. An avid cyclist and documentary buff, Roy’s looking to be right, front, and center of that one big story in the poker world.
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