Event #14: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout attracted a massive field of 2,639 players, generating a prize pool of $2,322,320. Given that it was a one-day World Series of Poker (WSOP) event, it was known that a new champion would be crowned late at night. The event started at 10 a.m. local time and concluded just before 3 a.m., with France’s Thibault Perissat emerging as the last man standing.
Perissat’s victory earned him $197,308, and his first-ever gold bracelet in what seemed like a destiny win for him. He entered the tournament as a birthday gift and survived a crucial river three-outer to avoid finishing as the runner-up to Ron Schindelheim, who ultimately lost the heads-up battle to the Frenchman.
Perissat doesn’t have much live tournament experience and hasn’t recorded a win until now. His prior poker results primarily came from local tournaments in Toulouse, France, but he did cash in one WSOP event before entering the Super Turbo Bounty event. Winning the WSOP bracelet and $197,308 on top of it marks the best poker results of his career by far. Not bad for a single day’s work, if we may add.
Super Turbo events like this one require a significant amount of luck in order to go deep in the tournament, but several big names were still in contention in the late phase. Six-time WSOP bracelet winner Josh Arieh exited not far from the final table in 14th place, bracelet, and ring winner James Anderson finished 39th, two-time bracelet winner David Jackson placed 42nd, and 2009 WSOP Main Event winner Joe Cada ended in 54th.
Event #14: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty NLHE Freezeout Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1 |  Thibault Perissat | France | $197,308 |
| 2 |  Ron Schindelheim | United States | $131,571 |
| 3 |  Nevan Chang | Taiwan | $96,965 |
| 4 | Jesse Yaginuma | United States | $72,115 |
| 5 | Gary Leibovitz | United States | $54,129 |
| 6 | Cole Griffith | United States | $41,007 |
| 7 |  Dinesh Alt | Switzerland | $31,358 |
| 8 |  Hrair Yapoudjian | Canada | $24,207 |
| 9 | Anthony Monin | France | $18,866 |
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Event #14: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty NLHE Freezeout Final Table Recap
It’s impressive that a 2,639-player field could come down to a winner in just one day, and that’s what happened in Event #14: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty NLHE Freezeout. After fifteen hours of play, the final table formed, with everyone tired but aware that the super turbo structure meant it would go quickly from here, given the shallow stacks.
Ron Schindelheim entered the final table as the chip leader with 23 big blinds, followed by Nevan Chang with 20 and Thibault Perissat with 18 big blinds. The rest of the players were operating on single digits.
First to go was Samuel Porta, who brought one big blind to the final table and was happy with a tenth-place finish as his first WSOP cash. Only a few minutes later, Anthony Monin pushed with king-jack suited but was ousted by Jesse Yaginuma’s ace-queen.
Hrair Yapoudjian probably wasn’t expecting such a quick exit as he saw his ace-king suited going against Chang’s king-jack, but the cards had other ideas, with a jack on the flop sealing his fate. Chang eliminated another player, this time Dinesh Alt, in eighth place with ace-nine against queen-nine.
Cole Griffith went all-in from a late position, and Jesse Yaginuma called with ace-four suited. Griffith couldn’t hit the board, including a gutshot straight draw on the turn, and hit the rail in seventh.
Big stacks began consolidating their stacks, but Schindelheim returned to the top of the leaderboard by eliminating Gary Lebiovitz in fifth place. Lebiovitz paired his nine with ace-nine on the flop but so did Schindelheim with a king with ace-king. The turn and river blanked, leaving only four players after a marathon-long day.
Chang claimed another victim after calling an all-in from Yaginuma. The Taiwanese player held K♠Q♠ while the American was ahead with A♦J♣. The flop came Q♣5♣9♣, giving Chang a top pair but still plenty of outs for Yaginuma. The turn brought an additional open-ended straight draw, but the river blanked, sending Yaginuma to collect $72,115.
Chang then lost most of his chips to Perissat, who doubled up, and the rest went to Schindelheim. All the chips went into the middle, with Chang tabling ten-nine against Schindelheim’s pocket threes for a surprise flip. The board missed Chang, leaving him as the third-place finisher.
Heads-up started with a big chip lead from Schindelheim, who put his stack to good use. In a crucial hand, Schindelheim went all-in to continue pressure on Perissat, who decided to call with queen-ten, only to see Schindelheim show ace-ten. Schindelheim was one card away from the bracelet and a win when a queen rolled on the river, making the Frenchman a big favorite.
In the final hand, Ron Schindelheim pushed all-in with jack-ten, and Thibault Perissat called with queen-five suited. The board came K8A99, missing Schindelheim, and Thibault Perissat won the $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty bracelet and $197,308.
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