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After coming to the table as chip leader with more than twice his nearest rival, Joseph Hebert closed the show on Monday. He won the World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event US side at the live final table at the Rio in Las Vegas for $1.55 million.

The 38-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana, now has a shot to play the international final table winner, Argentina’s Damian Salas. That heads-up duel pays the winner $1 million, awarding the Main Event bracelet and champion’s title.

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Hebert’s mother Linda passed away recently and he dedicated his win to her.

“It still hasn’t hit me yet – this is a life-changing experience,” Hebert said after the win. “It feels like a dream. I felt like I was dreaming the whole time I was playing. I know my mom was here with me, and this was for her.”

Hebert takes title with single heads-up hand

With a sizable chip stack and large payout ladder jumps, Hebert was able to utilize his chip stack well. He dominated play from the beginning, eliminating four of the eight remaining players.

Runner-up Ron Jenkins scored the other three knockouts and certainly improved his standing at the final table. He entered seventh in chips and now takes home just over $1 million.

It took only one hand to end the heads-up play between Hebert and Jenkins. Hebert held about 27 million in chips to Jenkins’ 13 million with blinds at 150,000/300,00 with a 300,000 ante.

In the 98thhand, Hebert four-bet all in with A♣Q♠ and Jenkins called with Q♦Q♣. The flop brought K♦7♣A♦, hitting the Ace for Hebert.

Jenkins needed the final Queen in the deck or an unlikely Jack-10 runout. The turn brought the 4♥ with the river 8♣ to give Hebert the victory.

The win for Hebert comes after scoring his Main Event entry via a $300 satellite at WSOP.com. He greatly increases his career earnings, which included $668,000 in live tournament winnings before the final table. Hebert felt in control throughout the final day of action.

“I was just really confident,” Hebert told WSOP.com afterward. “I was excited to play and it was just a battle. It wasn’t easy, I tell you that much. The guys played great. It was just a battle the whole way through.”

Playing the final table for his mother

The win came with some emotions for Hebert. He unexpectedly lost his mother in September due to a pulmonary embolism. In their final text conversation, Hebert told her about his dream to win a WSOP bracelet.

He began a social media campaign #ForLinda before the final table. His dream ultimately became reality and Hebert said he could feel her presence throughout the competition.

“I really felt like I was dreaming,” he said. “And I thought about my mom, and I know that she was here and this was for her. She would be so excited to see it, so I’m just so happy I got it for her.”

Hebert has been a longtime grinder in mostly smaller stakes, regional tournaments. Back in Louisiana, he’s also worked part-time as a waiter at The Galley Seafood for 20 years. He has no plans to quit the job even if he adds another $1 million in the heads-up duel.

After the score, Hebert had a couple items on his shopping list. He planned to buy his father a new car. His 8-year-old son has been hoping for a pet bird and that is also in order.

COVID-19 issues create some obstacles

Getting to the heads-up matchup hasn’t come without issues. Three-time bracelet winner Upeshka De Silva was disqualified from playing the US final table after a positive COVID-19 test.

Per the tournament rules, anyone testing positive before play would receive ninth-place money. Hebert now faces Salas at the Rio, but that also faced some problems.

Due to pandemic travel complications, the heads-up finale was moved from Dec. 30 to Jan. 3. The two winners will play live at the Rio in Las Vegas with ESPN filming the action.

“Certainly 2020 has been a year of challenges for so many and we experienced them in organizing this unique format for a poker tournament on two continents,” WSOP executive director Ty Stewart said in a news release. “We are so proud of this event, and the showcase it will provide for poker on Jan. 3.

“We’ve seen memorable moments you can’t believe and discovered two central characters you can’t help but root for. A dream will be dealt on Jan 3, and that’s exactly what we need heading into 2021.”

The players weren’t the only ones who benefited from final table payouts in 2020. In the spirit of giving, eighth-place finisher Gershon Distenfeld has pledged to donate 100% of his winnings to charitable causes. Here’s a look at the complete payouts:

2020 WSOP Main Event US

Place	Name	Hometown	Payout
1st	Joseph Hebert	Metairie, Louisiana	$1,553,256
2nd	Ron Jenkins	South El Monte, California	$1,002,340
3rd	Michael Cannon	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania	$529,258
4th	Ryan Hagerty	Somerset, New Jersey	$387,130
5th	Ye 'Tony' Yuan	Madison, Wisconsin	$286,963
6th	Harrison Dobin	West Long Branch, New Jersey	$215,222
7th	Shawn Stroke	Lawrence, NY	$163,786
8th	Gershon Distenfeld	Bergenfield, New Jersey	$125,885
9th	Upeshka De Silva	Houston, Texas	$98,813

A look at the WSOP Main Event numbers

The 2020 Main Event brought some big numbers to the legal US online poker market. The tournament set a new benchmark for prize pools after generating $6.8 million.

That easily eclipsed the $2 million achieved for the WSOP Online championship in July. The Main Event attracted a total of 705 players.

This also becomes the first time an online event in the regulated US market has paid a winner $1 million. In this case, the first- and second-place finishers both scored more than a million.

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Damian Salas is gunning for the title of Super MILLION$ champion only a couple of months after becoming the 2020 WSOP Main Event champion. Salas enters the 36th Super MILLION$ final table second in chips and with a very realistic chance of getting his hands on the $408,406 top prize.

Super MILLION$ Final Table Chip Counts

Place	Player	Country	Chips
1	Bert Stevens	Mexico	4,563,971
2	Damian Salas	Argentina	4,018,564
3	Darren Elias	Canada	2,247,152
4	Aleksei Barkov	Russia	2,066,317
5	Guillaume Nolet	Canada	1,738,637
6	dimiasg	Cyprus	1,565,849
7	Arsenii Malinov	Russia	1,514,390
8	Sami Kelopuro	Finland	1,436,690
9	Adrian Mateos	Mexico	1,042,430

Salas doesn’t have the best Super MILLION$ record having only cashed in two of his previous 11 attempts. Those tournaments ended in a 15th and 20th place finish for combined prizes of $61,708. Even if the unthinkable happens and Salas finishes in eighth-place, he’ll more than double his Super MILLION$ winnings.

Eight talented players stand between Salas and his goal, meaning the Argentinian will have to be at the very top of his game to come away with the victory.

Bert Stevens, better known as “girafganger7” to some of you, is the man leading the finalists into battle at 6:00 p.m. GMT on February 16. Stevens won this tournament back in September 2020 and padded his bankroll with almost $395,000. He sits down with more than 90 big blinds and some will say it is his tournament to lose from this envious position.

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Darren Elias is another former Super MILLION$ champion at the final table. In fact, Elias has two outright victories in GGPoker’s biggest weekly tournament. Elias took down this event in June 2020 and won $393,262. He then won the first Super MILLION$ of 2021 and scooped another $448,842. Thirteen of Elias’ fellow GGPoker players are set for a windfall because they bought 8.2% of Elias at 1.17 markup before the tournament started on February 14.

Fourth place at the restart belongs to Aleksei Barkov who has navigated his way to what is a third Super MILLION$ final table appearance. The last time Barkov was here was the final event before Christmas 2020 and he finished in second for a $300,962 prize. The Russian, who has $3.82 million in GGPoker winnings, will be hoping to go one place deeper this time around.

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Super MILLION$ regular and former champion Guillaume Nolet returns to the action with enough chips to place him fifth when the final table commences. Nolet has played in all but five of the Super MILLION$ run to date. Ten of those tournaments have seen Nolet finish in the money, with four of those being final table appearances. His victory came in October 2020 and saw him carry off a $502,688 haul.

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Cyprus’ “dimiasg” won their seat to this tournament via a $1,000 satellite and is now guaranteed more than $51,000 which is some return on investment. This is the first time the Cypriot has played in this event and they’re now guaranteed their first cash and first final table appearance. Can they round off a perfect event and grab their first victory, too?

Arsenii Malinov is the second Russia star to progress to this week’s Super MILLION$ final table. He’s been here twice before, with those runs ending in fourth and eighth-place finishes. Malinov recently broke through the $1 million barrier for GGPoker winnings. Taking down this evening’s event would see him power through the $1.5 million mark.

The return to form for Sami Kelopuro has been nothing short of spectacular. He recently won three Sunday majors in a single night at GGPoker and is now gunning for glory in this event. The Finn returns eighth in chips so is at the wrong end of the chip counts, but he still has almost 29 big blinds at his disposal which is a playable stack. Kelopuro has never finished higher than seventh in this tournament, will that fact change on February 16?

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Adrian Mateos is the man bringing up the rear in ninth place, although with 21 big blinds in his stack. Mateos was the youngest player to win three WSOP bracelet but he’s never won the Super MILLION$ despite trying 36 times. He’s come close on three previous occasions, finishing sixth twice and fourth once. He needs a little help if he’s to triumph in this event, but everyone knows Mateos is capable of walking away from this event as its champion.

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