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Ori Hasson Claims First Live WSOP Bracelet & Largest Cash to Date in Taking Down The Closer
After a calm and smooth ride at the final table, Ori Hasson battled his way through a fast and furious final day in Event #93: $1,500 The Closer No-Limit Hold’em to take home a handsome $582,800 first-place pay slip and claim his first live World Series of Poker bracelet and largest career cash to date.
Event #93 attracted a massive field of 3,724 entries over two starting flights, generating a huge total prize pool of $4,526,376.
421 players returned to battle it out in Day 2 for the title, with Hasson entering heads-up play against Kevin Song with a near 2-1 chip lead, before closing out victory under the lights of the Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ori Hasson | Israel | $582,800 |
| 2 | Kevin Song | Korea, Republic of | $388,550 |
| 3 | Maurice Tan | United States | $290,000 |
| 4 | Dragos Anton | Romania | $217,500 |
| 5 | Yita Choong | Australia | $164,600 |
| 6 | Safwane Bahri | France | $125,550 |
| 7 | Todd Lewis | United States | $96,550 |
| 8 | Arturas Astrauskas | Lithuania | $75,000 |
| 9 | Stephen Decker | United States | $58,500 |
Winner's Background
Hasson is no stranger to deep tournament runs and has a plethora of final table appearances to his name, along with numerous first-place finishes. His previous highest recorded live cash before taking down this event was for $460,570 at The Wynn Summer Classic in 2024, according to The Hendon Mob.
Day Two Action
421 players returned for Day 2 after bagging up in one of the event’s two starting flights.
David Yue came into Day 2 as the chip leader and the only player to cross the two million chip mark in either of the opening flights. Yue couldn’t hold on to his chip lead, though, and was eventually sent to the rail in 54th place.
Action was lightning fast from the off, as would be expected with 30-minute levels, and the field was whittled down to under one hundred players before the third break of the day.
A long list of big-time WSOP names bit the dust before the unofficial final table of ten was formed. Anthony Marquez, Nick Guagenti, Brent Gregory, Andrew Kelsall, David "ODB" Baker and Alen Bakovic to name just a few, were all sent packing before the last three tables were reached.
Song came into the final table as the chip leader, with a sizeable lead over his opponents, and only relinquished the lead just before going into heads-up play.
Hasson came into the final table second in chips and stayed away from trouble, biding his time and looking for spots to add to his stack.
Maurice Tan went on a roll at the start of the final table, sending both Stephen Decker and Arturas Astrauskas packing in ninth and eighth places, respectively.
Then it was Yita Choong’s turn to go on a tear. He came to the final table as one of the shorter stacks, but gradually picked his spots to build his stack up nicely. He jumped up into third spot when he sent Todd Lewis to the rail in seventh place. Choong’sre-jam with ace-jack suited flopped a flush to leave Lewis drawing dead.
Hasson got a big boost to his stack when he sent Choong home in sixth place, Choong’s jam with king-six suited getting no help against Hasson’s ace-king.
Hasson’s stack then grew some more when he rivered a straight against Song to pick up yet more chips.
Hasson then took over the chip lead when he spiked the river against Song to hit second pair and get paid off.
Hasson’s chip lead swelled even further to nearly 2-1 when he sent Tan to the rail in third place. Tan’s jam with ace-seven ran into Hasson’s ace-nine and got no help.
Heads-up play was a bit of a lowball affair, with neither player really hitting any high pairs or getting any assistance from low-card flops.
Song never really got anything going, and the final hand occurred when both players flopped a middling pair. All the money went in the middle after Song put in a large raise that left him pot committed. Hasson had hit the higher pair, which turned into two pair on the turn.
This concludes coverage of Event #93: $1,500 The Closer No-Limit Hold’em.
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