Leo Wolpert, a former professional poker player, has won Event 29 at the WSOP - the $10,000 Heads – Up World Championship.
Wolpert took home $652,682 in the heads-up poker tournament by defeating some of the best poker players in the world in a series of eight matches, with the final victory coming in heads-up play against John Duthie, the founder of the European Poker Tour. This event marks Wolpert's eighth WSOP cash, and his second final table. His first final table was last year at the Shootout Event.
Of his win, Wolpert said “I can't really even describe it. I actually didn't really expect to win, I mean I always enter a tournament hoping to win. But with a tough field like this I wasn't even really thinking about it until today. The goal was just to play against whoever I was going to play and run good against them, see if they had some leaks, and try to exploit those – and I happened to run really, really good during the entire tournament. Now here I am.”
Wolpert lost the first match of the finals, but managed to come back to take the best-of-three for the win. He explained “I was steaming a little bit, I'm not going to lie. I just decided 'I have to grind back and get the best two out of three.' So I stayed calm and remembered there was another match coming up. And hopefully I could run a little better the next time. I would not say it strengthened my resolve. I would say I was already pretty resolute.”
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