Two stars of the game win their first bracelets after James Calderaro takes down the $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller, and Chris Klodnicki wins a $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event.

I wouldn’t like to be in an interrogation room with James Calderaro and Alexy Rybin either side of me, but I bet that’s how the dealer felt during the heads-up phase of Event #67: $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller.

The two businessmen, who view poker, in the same way, a random visitor to a beach views water-skiing, cut an impressive pair when they made the heads-up stage of one of the largest buy-in events of the summer.

205 players posted the $25,000 buy-in hoping to recycle it into a gold bracelet and seven-figure score, 11% more than when Jens Kyllonen took the gold in 2016.