Poland<\/a> already had a WSOP bracelet, but through an online tourney. Dominik Panka won it in the $2,100 No-Limit Hold’em – Bounty Championship online event in 2021.<\/p>\nMoldova in the Books<\/h2>\n Moldova never had a WSOP bracelet winner until Pavel Plesuv, although plenty of his compatriots have tried. Dragos Trofimov is probably the most recognizable, having spent a long time close to the top of the country\u2019s all-time moneymakers.<\/p>\n
When Plesuv sat down for the WSOP $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold’em event, he probably didn\u2019t expect to emerge as the winner. He\u2019s Moldova\u2019s leading poker player and had around $5 million in winnings before the game. However, he’s never managed to find a WSOP bracelet event title.<\/p>\n
After five days spent navigating through a field of 10,430, that all changed. Plesuv began to realize what was in the cards when he made it to the final table, and the potential outcome became clearer on one massive hand.<\/p>\n
In a massive coup, Plesuv scored a straight holding A-2 when the board gave him the runners he needed. He was heads-up against Andreas Kniep, who had baited him into going all-in and began to gloat.<\/p>\n
The German poker pro\u2019s reaction turned solemn as the cards were revealed. He realized his pocket Aces were dead and was about to leave in fourth place.<\/p>\n
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That gave Plesuv a huge boost, which he used as a springboard to keep control of the board. He eventually met France\u2019s\u00a0 Florian Ribouchon in the final heads-up battle for the title.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Only a few short hands later, Plesuv hoisted the bracelet as he celebrated with his friends and family, $1.2 million richer. Ribouchon would take $1 million for his second-place finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The US may be the country with the most World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, but it can\u2019t claim all of them. The list of winning countries just grew a little longer this week, adding Moldova and Poland with their first two live-poker tournament wins. The US tops the WSOP bracelet list with 1,453, according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":279458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,14],"tags":[82776,81907,81909],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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