Poker pros Igor Kurganov and Liv Boeree, who have been dating for several years, have won their first WSOP career bracelets in Event 2 of the 2017 series, the $10,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold’em event.
The duo defeated a field of 102 teams to take home $273,964, half of which they have pledged to donate to the charity they co-founded, Raising for Effective Giving (REG).
“The charity was basically our third and fourth player,” Kurganov, said.
The event featured teams of 2-4 players that would rotate in and out at any time. Every player on the team was forced to play at least one orbit of poker at some point in the tournament and pay the blinds at least once.
Kurganov played almost the entirety of the final table for the team, with Boeree sitting in when Kurganov needed a quick break from the table.
Kurganov defeated Ankush Mandavia heads-up to take down the tag team title. Mandavia was representing a team comprising himself and Joe Kuether.
Final Table Results were:
1 Igor Kurganov/ Liv Boeree – $273,964
2 Ankush Mandavia/ Joe Kuether – $169,323
3 Daniel Negreanu/ Eric Wasserson/ David Benyamine/ Mark Gregorich – $119,753
4 Anthony Ajlouny/ David Fong/ Mike McClain – $86,237
5 Lander Lijo/ Javier Gomez – $63,253
6 Martin Jacobson/ Mark Radoja – $47,271
7 JC Tran/ Nam Le/ Antonio Gutierrez – $36,008
8 Connor Drinan/ Michael Aron – $27,967
9 Moritz Dietrich / Dietrich Fast/ Jan Scwippert – $22,156