Six years ago, Israel’s Timur Margolin won World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets with his first taste at WSOP gold achieved in the 2018 WSOP $2,500 No Limit Hold’em for his biggest cash haul of his poker career of $507,724. He followed this up a few months later at King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic with his second bracelet of the year after shipping the €1,100 Monster Stack for €134,407.
Margolin once again found himself in the winner’s circle after he defeated Azerbaijan’s Agharazi Babayev heads-up in the three-day Event #36: $800 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack for $342,551 at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas on Saturday. He is now just one bracelet shy of the Israeli record of four bracelets won by Asi Moshe. He is in second place on the local WSOP leaderboard, separating himself from the likes of two-time WSOP champions Rafi Amit and Yuval Bronshtein. The victory also catapulted Margolin to sixth place on The Hendon Mob’s Israel All-Time Money list with nearly $2.6 million in live poker tournament earnings.
The Israeli entered the final table with the chip lead before coughing it up to Michael Allen. Margolin regained the chip lead and never looked back, putting on a dominating performance en route to victory.
“I wanna thank my wife and kids for being so supportive of my decision to travel and play poker,” Margolin shared with PokerNews after his victory. “To live a family life and grind tournaments is not an easy lifestyle to manage.
The $800 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack boasted one of the more affordable buy-ins on the schedule. Players reacted enthusiastically with a new event record established with a massive field of 4,278 entries creating a $3,011,712 prize pool.
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Event #38: $800 Deepstack Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Timur Margolin | Israel | $342,551 |
| 2 |  Agharazi Babayev | Azerbaijan | $228,321 |
| 3 |  Michael Allen | United Kingdom | $168,276 |
| 4 |  Adam Hendrix | United States | $125,074 |
| 5 | Joseph Couden | United States | $93,758 |
| 6 |  Francisco Riosvallejo | Mexico | $70,890 |
| 7 | Cole Uvila | United States | $54,066 |
| 8 | Vaughan Machado | United States | $41,597 |
| 9 |  Jeremy Chen | Taiwan | $32,288 |
Event #36: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack Final Table Recap
The PokerGO stream began on the final day with just nine hopefuls remaining in the hunt for the coveted gold bracelet, with Margolin in the lead and Allen on his coattails. It was one of the fastest final tables at the WSOP lasting just four hours from start to finish with Margolin sailing along to win the title.
Allen briefly had his time in the sun as the table captain after four-betting with cowboys and getting Margolin to fold after three-betting his queen-jack suited.
Taiwan’s Jeremy Chen found himself short on chips before dusting off his stack with ace-seven suited to hit the rail in ninth place for $32,288 after Babayev woke up with queens and held.
Margolin then regained the chip lead before storming ahead with a commanding performance by eliminating four players in a row including Joseph Couden (fifth – $93,758), Francisco Riosvallejo (sixth – $70,890), Cole Uvila (seventh – $54,066), and Vaughan Machado (eighth – $41,597).
It appeared destiny was on Margolin’s side to win his third bracelet as he held more than half the chips with four players left. His strong chip lead held up as the formidable Adam Hendrix (fourth – $125,074) lost his short stack when his queen-four suited proved to be no match to Babayev’s cowboys.
After doubling with ace-trey against Margolin’s king-jack, Allen was on the comeback trail. However, this was short-lived as ace-trey did him in at the end. Allen committed his bigger stack in again with ace-trey, and this time exited on the podium in third place for $168,276 after not improving against Margolin’s ace-queen.
Margolin had nearly 10 times the stack of Babayev to begin the quick heads-up battle. Babayev was on the ropes quickly before doubling to nearly back to what he began the heads-up action with when his nine-trey held against four-trey. A potential comeback for Babayev was quickly halted by Margolin as shortly after Babayev was left one player shy of a bracelet after his pocket eights were unable to hold against jack-six. While Babayev was unable to earn any WSOP hardware in this event, he did go home with a handsome $228,321 runner-up prize.
Meanwhile, a massive congratulations to Timur Margolin for winning his third WSOP bracelet and the $342,551 top prize. Stay tuned at PokerPro for your WSOP updates throughout the summer.
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