Everton Taylor Poker
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Everton Taylor Poker Tournaments
Everton Taylor raised to 2,100,000 from the cutoff leaving himself just 175,000 behind. It folded to Ryan Tamanini in the big blind and he moved all in. Taylor put the last of his chips in turning. Total life earnings: $226,661. Latest cash: $5,000 on 24-Jan-2020. Click here to see the details of Everton Taylor's 61 cashes.
Everton Taylor opened in the hijack to 305k and was flatted by Jonathan Gonzalez on the button. The blinds folded out and they would see the flop heads-up.
Flop: 2♣4♠4♣ Pot: 940k
Taylor led out on the flop and Gonzalez put in a raise. Taylor then made a big move and shoved in his entire stack of ~4.9M and was immediately called by Gonzalez.
Taylor A♠5♣ vs Gonzalez 2♠2♥ Pot: ~10.8M
Turn: 10♠
River: 7♣
Gonzalez had flopped a boat and caught Taylor drawing nearly dead. The turn secured the pot for Gonzalez and he jumps into a commanding chip-lead with over 12M as six-handed play begins.
Everton Taylor is eliminated in 7th for $5,460.
Event 2 the $200+$30 Deeper Stack NLH drew a total of 139 entries and when the dust settled Everton Taylor was the last man standing. He was able to build a stack early and his aggressive style paid dividends here tonight.
When the final table was reached there were whispers about an adjusted payout deal but Taylor would have no parts of it. “I’m not making a deal” he persisted and he stuck to his guns.
Taylor chipped away at his opponents at the final table before eliminating Edan Sucov in 5th place. He never looked back from there and would come into heads up play with nearly a 5-1 chip advantage.
Heads up play lasted just one hand and Taylor was the winner earning $8,605 and his first Deepstacks Challenge trophy. This is Taylor’s first major title and brings his career earnings to the $60,000 mark.