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Kahle Burns Wins Second WSOP Bracelet at WSOP Europe

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Kahle Burns Wins Again

Earlier this week, Kahle Burns won his first career WSOP bracelet in the Platinum High Roller at the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe. Now, he has won his second career bracelet after taking down the €2,500 Short Deck NL Hold’em Event.

Burns survived a stacked field that included Phil Ivey, John Cynn, Ryan Riess, Benny Glaser, and Julien Martini. This was the second bracelet for Burns and the fourth overall for Australia in 2019.

Kahle Burns Wins €2,500 Short Deck

Short Deck NL Hold’em has been all the rage in the high stakes world and the popularity of those events at the 2019 WSOP Europe highlights this fact. Event #13, the €2,500 Short Deck drew a field of 179 entries and made one of the stronger fields of the event.

Phil Ivey has been killing it at the short deck tables during this series and continued his hot streak during this event. He ultimately finished 18th but has won over $1.4 million in Short Deck events this month.

Former Main Event Champions John Cynn and Ryan Riess also cashed in this event. Riess finished 21st while Cynn finished 11th.

The final table of this event was a stacked one, including Vladimir Peck, Felix Schulze, Manig Loeser, and Kahle Burns. Out of all the players at this final table, Loeser and Burns had the most experience. As a result, the two managed to make it heads-up for the bracelet.

At the start of heads-up play, Burns had a 2 to 1 chip lead on Loeser and it wasn’t long before all of Loeser’s chips were at risk. He was all-in with Kh-Jc and found himself dominated by the Ah-Jh of Burns. An ace on the flop proved enough to give Burns his second WSOP bracelet of this series.

Burns only earned $112,835 in this event, less than what he pays to play in some High Roller poker tournaments. However, the big prize for him was his second career WSOP bracelet. Earlier this week, he called winning a bracelet one of his bucket list items for poker. Now that he has his second bracelet, what are the odds he will chase for more or will he move on to other bucket list endeavors?

Daniel Negreanu Now Leads WSOP Player of the Year

In case you missed it, Daniel Negreanu is now the overall leader for WSOP Player of the Year. He took over the top spot after finishing 6th in the €25,500 Mixed Games Championship earlier this week. He tacked on a few points to his lead in the €2,200 PL Omaha Event after finishing 20th.

Negreanu now has 3,971.54 points and the lead. Robert Campbell has 3,857.97 points and needs a deep run in either the WSOP Europe Main Event or the Colossus Event to close out the season. Shaun Deeb still has a shot at Player of the Year, but trails with 3,710.65 points. He also needs a strong finish in one of the last two events and both Campbell and Negreanu to whiff those events.

To date, Negreanu is the only poker player in history to win the WSOP Player of the Year twice. The award was instituted in 2004 and Negreanu was the inaugural winner. He then won Player of the Year again in 2013.

Shaun Deeb won Player of the Year in 2018 and was second overall heading into the WSOP Europe. He held the overall lead for a time during the series but quickly lost it back to Campbell and now Negreanu.

Robert Campbell is not known for his NL Hold’em prowess and has only ever cashed in one NL Hold’em Event in the past. With the last two events being NL Events, he is somewhat of a longshot to make a comeback.

However, the same can’t be said for Shaun Deeb. While he is a mixed games player, he has enough ability in NL Hold’em to make a run in one or both of the final events. Of course, the same is true for Negreanu. At this point, he controls his own destiny and even a min-cash, in either event, may be enough to seal his third WSOP Player of the Year title.

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