The winning moment came when Ilk called an all-in on the flop with pocket nines after Lane shoved with a double-gutter straight draw. Ilk managed to erode Lane’s stack and took the chip lead after hitting an ace on the river to beat Lane’s pocket jacks.

Ilk doubled up after spiking a seven on a flop to beat Lane’s ace-high. 2023 WSOP Super Seniors Final Table Resultsįrom that moment on, Ilk hardly lost a pot heads up against Lane. The board was clean for Lane who went heads-up with Ilk with a four-to-one chip lead while Davoudzadeh settled for third place. However, his momentum came off the tracks after moving all in preflop with ace-jack and running into Ronald Lane’s pocket kings to play for a third of the chips in play. Throughout the day it looked like Farhad Davoudzadeh would steamroll his opponents to victory with an aggressive brand of poker that catapulted him into the chip lead. With this win, he also increased his recorded lifetime winnings tenfold with his previous biggest cash coming last year for $11,351. It was the 66-year-old’s biggest cash by far. Ilk is only the seventh Austrian to lay their hands on the most coveted prize in poker - a WSOP gold bracelet! Ilk, who started the day with only eight big blinds, managed to outlast 12 other competitors to land the first prize. After four grueling days of poker, and outlasting 3,121 opponents, Klauz Ilk of Austria won the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #61 $1,000 Super Seniors No Limit Hold’em tournament for $371,603, and a gold bracelet at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

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