Ari Engel Ships 4th WSOP Gold Bracelet While Playing at PokerStars NAPT
On Thursday night, Ari Engel was at Resorts World Las Vegas competing in the PokerStars NAPT Las Vegas $550 Cardplayer Lifestyle H.E.R.O.S. event, which attracted 108 runners. However, it wasn��t the only tournament he was playing.
Engel, who is the WSOP��s all-time Circuit ring winner with 18, was also grinding online in the current WSOP Online bracelet, a series that began back on Sept. 29 offering up a 33-bracelet-event schedule that��ll wrap early next week on Nov. 12.
In Event #29: $400 NL Hold��em Turbo, 300 players accounted for 200 rebuys, and the 500-entry field created a prize pool of $180,000, which was paid out to the top 64 finishers. It took just over six hours of play for Engel to finish as the last player standing to claim gold and a $34,200 first-place prize.
WSOP Online Event #29 Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ari ��BacBillNat9�� Engel | $34,200 |
| 2 | ��TakeMyMoneey�� | $25,200 |
| 3 | ��Liopleurodon�� | $18,468 |
| 4 | ��Firebird24�� | $13,500 |
| 5 | ��IBackgammonU�� | $9,000 |
| 6 | ��Meekmills�� | $6,300 |
| 7 | ��ARRRR_INNNN�� | $4,500 |
| 8 | ��marioparty�� | $3,600 |
| 9 | ��Knickstape�� | $2,682 |
Engel, who went on to cash the H.E.R.O.S. event in ninth place, actually fired six bullets in the tournament, which he joked about in light of Norman Chad��s controversial rebuy comments when Maria Konnikova won her bracelet earlier in the series.
To his credit, Norman Chad was first to comment: ��CONGRATS! It��s hard having to beat yourself five times.��
Others were quick to congratulate Engel including David ��ODB�� Baker, Joe McKeehen, Michael Trivett, Julie Anna Cornelius, and the aforementioned Maria Konnikova.
It marked the second online bracelet for Engel, who on October 13, 2023 won WSOP Online Bracelet Event #28: $500 NLH Turbo 6-Max for $38,197. His first bracelet came back in 2019 when he won Event #48: $2,500 No-Limit Hold��em for $427,399, and two years later he followed it up by winning his second in Event #9: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship for $317,076.
As for Resorts World and mixed games, Engel has had success there before, most specifically last December when he won the CardPlayer Lifestyle The Mixed Game Festival VI for $4,858 top prize plus a $5,000 package to the WPT Voyage. It was a bit of redemption for Engel, who back in March finished as runner-up to Cernuto in the Mixed Game Festival IV.
