Florida pro collects $600K in WSOP $3K NLHE event

Name: Harrison Gimbel
Nationality: American
Birthplace: n/a
Current Residence: Jupiter, Florida
Age: 26
Profession: Poker player
Number of WSOP Cashes: 20
Number of WSOP Final Table Appearances: 2
Number of WSOP Gold Bracelet Victories (with this tournament): 1
Best Previous WSOP Finish: 4th – 2012 WSOP: Event #49: $1,500 Ante Only No-Limit Hold'em ($72,155)
Career WSOP Earnings: $853,528
Personal Facts: Gimbel has won over $5 million in live tournaments around the globe since 2009. He can be found as @Harrison_Gimbel on Twitter.

Poker has a new triple crown winner, and his name is Harrison Gimbel. After a near 14-hour grind on Day 3 of Event #68: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em, where Gimbel returned as the second shortest stack out of 37 players, Gimbel defeated Chance Kornuth heads-up to claim his first World Series of Poker bracelet and the last missing piece of poker's triple crown.

Gimbel earned a score of $645,922, but, most importantly, he won his first WSOP gold bracelet. Kornuth received $399,132, just missing out on his second WSOP title.

"It was a swingy day," Gimbel said when asked about Day 3. "I was anywhere from chip leader to down to four bigs maybe 12 times I felt like in this tournament. It's nice to get a win; it's my first at the World Series. I'm happy. Chance is a hell of a player. It was a really fast heads up; I wasn't expecting that."

With the win, Gimbel more than triples his career WSOP earnings. Currently sitting at $207,606, the best of Gimbel's 19 cashes came with his deepest run when he finished fourth in a $1,500 Ante Only event back in 2012.

Entering the day at the very bottom of the leaderboard, Gimbel found aces early to double through Konstaninos Nanos and a little while after came from behind to double through Matt Salsberg, finding a jack with king-jack against Salsberg's ace-ten. Gimbel then leaped up the board with a massive pot against Jia Liu. Gimbel four-bet jammed all-in with ace-eight, and Liu put him at risk with ace-queen. Gimbel made a miracle straight on the turn and took over the chip lead.

Many notables fell as the field thinned before the final table. Ryan Laplante (32nd - $15,806) went out early, as did Daniel Negreanu (29th - $15,806) and Kevin Saul (28th - $15,806). Nanos (15th - $29,878) and Salsberg (13th - $29,878) made it a bit deeper, but ultimately fizzled out.

Action at the final table got underway quickly. Before the official final table could even be set, two players were busted on the same hand. Falling toJohn Griffin, both Florentino Coalla and James Gilbert were removed when they ran into Griffin's pocket kings.

On just the second hand of the final table, Kris Homerding fell to Chris Farmer. Twelve hands later the first of the two Brazilians were eliminated as Vinicius De Silva was busted by Griffin. Quite a while passed before Enio Bozzano departed, becoming Gimbel's first casualty.

Gimbel went right back to work, taking out Farmer in fifth. One-time chip leader Griffin was the next to go; he made a move on the river after flopping a pair of aces, but Kornuth flopped a set, and Griffin was snuffed. Ryan Van Sanford was the last player to be eliminated before the heads-up battle began. Van Sanford got his chips in good with ace-queen, but Kornuth flopped a pair with ace-jack and his run came to an end.

The heads up battle only lasted seven hands. Gimbel doubled up on the third hand to draw even, and a few hands later, a sick cooler ended it all. Kornuth ran pocket tens into Gimbel's pocket queens and Gimbel had Kornuth out chipped by a single ante to claim the win.

1. Harrison Gimbel, U.S. - $645,922
2. Chance Kornuth, U.S. - $399,132
3. Ryan Van Sanford, U.S. - $285,148
4. John Griffin, U.S. - $206,119
5. Christopher Farmer, U.S. - $150,772
6. Enio Bozzano, Brazil - $111,619
7. Vinicius De Silva, Brazil - $83,644
8. Kris Homerding, U.S. - $63,457
9. James Gilbert, U.S. - $48,745

(Article courtesy of World Series of Poker)