December 2021 was when Any Moc took down the £2,000 GUKPT Grand Final, and saw £265,350 land in his bank account. At the time, Moc’s payout was the largest ever issues by the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour. Fastforward to March 2023, and another Moc has broken the record for the largest-ever Grosvenor prize. Man Moc triumphed in the £1 million guaranteed UK Poker Open in Coventry, and reeled in £325,190. Talk about keeping it in the family.

UK Poker Open Main Event Final Table Results

*reflects a three-way deal

The £1,500 buy-in UK Poker Open drew in 1,086 entrants, which meant everyone was vying for a slice of a guarantee-busting £1,466,100. Any lingering thoughts of the £1 million guarantee being too ambitious were quickly dashed. The top 110 finishers saw a return on their investments, and there were some stellar names among the list of in-the-money finishers.

Such luminaries as Tom Hall, Dominik Nitsche, Brandon Sheils, Euan McNicholas, Robbie Bull, Ben Jackson, the aforementioned Andy Moc, and Leo Worthington-Leese, all cashed but failed to reach the final table.

Moc Wins £265K After Dramatic GUKPT Grand Final Conclusion

Former online poker tournament world number one and WSOP bracelet winner Christopher Brammer was the first of the eight finalists heading to the cashier’s desk. Brammer three-bet shoved with ace-queen, only to run square into the pocket aces of Lukas Kuliesis. Brammer collected £20,400 for his efforts.

Seventh place and £23,930 went to David Greene, who suffered a similar fate to Brammer. Greene committed his last seven big blinds with ace-six, only for Chris Yong to snap him off with a pair of aces in the hole. Yong faded a flush draw to reduce the player count.

Grosvenor Pro Trigg Bows Out

The final six became five when Team Grosvenor Pro Rick Trigg‘s run ended. Down to eight big blinds, Trigg jammed all-in with eight-seven of diamonds from the button, and Kuliesis called in the big blind with king-ten. Trigg flopped an open-ended straight draw, but missed his outs on the turn and the river, meaning he had to make do with a £33,780 consolation prize.

The pay jumps were growing huge by this point. Where Trigg took home £33,780, fifth-place finisher Michael Brown collected £52,070! Brown came unstuck in a battle of the blinds with Moc, Brown’s 18 big blind stack in the middle while holding a pair of threes against Moc’s pocket eights. No help arrived for Brown, and he busted.

The last five-figure prize, £78,810, went to Yong when he fell in fourth. Yong shoved from the small blind with king-eight, and got a taste of his own medicine because Moc woke up in the big blind with a pair of aces. Those aces held, and Yong headed into the cold Coventry night.

Richard Trigg Wins Third Main Event Title at GUKPT Reading (£78,260)

Possibly The Best Chip Leader Deal in the History of Poker

It is not uncommon for tournaments to end in a deal of some sort because of the massive prizes offered in some events. However, the deal in the UK Poker Open will likely be talked about for some time. Moc held a commanding lead going into three-handed play; he held 120 big blinds. Both Kuliesis and Majid Nadeem had stacks of around 14 big blinds each, and were understandably keen to make a deal. Moc was more than happy to play on as intended and wield his big stack, but eventually agree to giving away a mere £10,000 from the first place prize, leaving Nadeem and Kuliesis to chop up second and third-place prize money! With the prize money accounted for, the tournament continued.

Kuliesis became the third-place finisher when he ripped in his stack with queen-jack, and found callers in the shape of Nadeem holding ace-deuce, and Moc with his queen-nine. Nadeem moved all-in on the deuce-ten-three board, Moc folded, and Kuliesis bowed out after missing the turn and river.

The contest did not last much longer after Kuliesis’ exit. The final hand saw Nadeem rip in his short stack with king-ten, and Moc call with the superior ace-nine. Nadeem missed the board, with the nine on the river gifting Moc an unnecessary pair of nines and the title of UK Poker Open champion.

UK Open Side Event Round-Up

Although he did not win as much money as Moc, Italian Calogero Morreale padded his bankroll with £58,480 after taking down the Mini Main Event. Morreale has been in scintillating form in 2023, especially in Grosvenor-run events. He finished second in the 2023 GUKPT London Main Event for £65,950 and won the GUKPT Manchester Main Event for £106,700 in early February. Now Morreale has a UK Poker Open Mini Main Event on his poker resume.

Brandon Sheils edged ever closer to £1 million in live poker tournament cashes by winning the Mystery Bounty event for £21,260 plus £9,600 worth of bounties. Ron Musson‘s luck was in during the Mystery Bounty event as is evident by his opening envelopes containing £5,000 and £10,000 prizes! Shout out also to Sean Mills, who won a £4,000 Vegas package. Mills will join Team Grosvenor and 25 other Road to Vegas promotional winners this summer.

There were also wins for Gary Thompson and Franky Green in the High Roller and UK Ladies Championship, respectively. Thompson defeated Jon McCann heads-up after McCann made an ace-high hero call only to discover Thompson was sat there with flopped trips!

The UK Ladies Championship saw 108 players outlasted by Franky Green, who flopped a set and faded the flush draw of Samantha Kelly to become the worthy champion of this inaugural event.

Grosvenor has not yet said if the UK Poker Open will run in 2024, but after the incredible turnouts for all of the events, it would be a significant shock to not see this festival become a mainstay on the United Kingdom poker calendar.

The PokerStars Bounty Builder Series may be a few events into its bustling schedule, but the PKO festival has already created some massive scores, including one worth more than $129,000. The first of four $1 million+ guaranteed tournaments crowns its champion on March 6, but before that happens, let us take a look at some of the biggest PokerStars results of the weekend.

The $5,200 Titans Event became a progressive knockout tournament on March 5, as PokerStars made it part of the Bounty Builder Series. Eighty-nine players bought in and created a $445,000 prize pool, with half going on each entrants head and the other half shared among the top 11 finishers.

Mario “MB TREMENDO” Bonanata was the unfortunate bubble boy, although they did collect $5,000 worth of bounties, so it was not too much of a bad day at the office. Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson busted in 11th, and Felipe “ketzerfelipe” Ketzer in tenth, which set the final table.

Bounty Builder Series 8: $5,200 NLHE 8-Max Titans Event Final Table Results

Brazil’s Dennys “dennysramos2” Ramos ($14,588) was the first of the nine finalists heading for the exits. Swedish pro “WhatifGod” ($9,950) and Ognyan “cocojamb0” Dimov ($18,143) followed suit before “hello_totti” ($14,593) and Javier “que_te_crio” Fernandez ($22,649) were relieved of their stacks.

The exit of Pascal “Pass_72” Lefrancois ($38,538) left the waters slightly less shark-infested, with the untimely demise of the United Kingdom’s “foxjoke” in third ($34,200) setting up a heads-up battle between “SerVlaMin” and Georgi “millennial” Sandev.

It was Sandev that emerged from the fight relatively unscathed and with a first-place prize worth $129,143 with bounty payments included. The runner-up walked away with $76,048, which is still a healthy return for a few hours of grinding.

Brooks Bags Bounty Builder Series Title

British grinder Patrick “thebigdog09” Brooks became a Bounty Builder Series champion when he came out on top of a 692-strong field in the $530 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Max Event. Having a prize pool of $346,000 attracted some of online poker’s biggest stars, with several of them navigating their way to the final table where the big buck lay in wait.

“Rebel FishAK” ($4,815), Rui “Silden4filho” Bouquet ($5,904), and Sweden’s “flerrehuve” ($6,459) bowed out in succession, leaving only six players in the hunt for the title, all six locking in five-figure prizes.

Pascal “Päffchen” Hartmann ($10,632) saw his tournament end in a sixth-place finish, while “Eller77” ($13,581) and Thailand-based “belthazorrrr” ($12,628) dusted off their stacks. Montenegro’s “Shemowna” crashed in third ($18,501), which left Brooks one-on-one against Ukraine’s “234241234214432” for the glory and the lion’s share of the prize pool.

Brooks got the job done and his hands on the $52,703 top prize, resigning his Ukrainian opponent to a $35,357 consolation prize.

Bounty Builder Series 4-H: $530 NLHE 8-Max Final Table Results

Multiple $1M GTD Events Scheduled for Returning PokerStars Bounty Builder Series

Other PokerStars Results Worth More Than $10,000

Plenty of other establish pros helped themselves to titles at PokerStars over the weekend. “hello_totti” made up for the disappointment of finishing sixth in the $5,200 Titans Event by taking down the $1,050 NLHE 8-Max Freezeout tournament for $34,679.

It was a similar story for “WhatifGod,” who finished eighth in the title but then went on to triumph in the $1,050 Sunday Supersonic for $14,376.

*includes bounty payments

Angelou Konstas Captures The Grand Title at PartyPoker

Ioannis Angelous-Konstas is the latest poker superstar to take down The Grand at PartyPoker, a $1,050 buy-in affair that saw 74 players pony up the asking price, and fight it out for the largest slice of the $75,000 prize pool.

The top 13 finishers won some prize money, so spare a moment’s thought for Charalambos Patakos, who fell in 14th and popped the all-important money bubble. Alexandre Lemay, Theo Bijaoui, Andrei Kotelnikov, and French star Sylvain Loosli all busted before the nine-handed table, but they had some return on their investment at least.

Ali Akok ($2,890), Artjoms Visockis ($3,184), and Niklas Astedt ($3,483) saw their quest for glory halt during the early stages of the final table. Andrea Radicchi ($4,011) and Emil Olsson ($4,912) joined the ever-growing list of eliminated players, as did Casepr Jensen ($6,382) and Team PartyPoker pro Jaime Staples ($8,684).

Angelou Konstas and Matthew Stumpf, the latter being in superb form of late, struck a deal when heads-up that brought the curtain down on proceeding. Angelou Konstas collected $16,017, with Stumpf securing a $15,134 payout.

$1,050 The Grand Final Table Results

*reflects a heads-up deal

“blend84” Binks The Big Saturday

Although not a Sunday major, The Big Saturday is one of three new PartyPoker weekly events. Exactly 150 players bought in for $215, each vying for their piece of the $30,000 pot.

All but two of the finalists turned their $215 investments into four figures. “antiZZZ” fell in ninth for $771 but then went on to win The Super $530 for $8,848! “euS2pessagno” was the other player to collect a three-figure score, namely $894.

Everyone else locked in $1,044 or more for their efforts, but the night belonged to “blend84,” who defeated “Brelarssssss” heads-up to reel in $5,882, resigning the runner-up to $4,104.

The Big Saturday Final Table Results

Other PartyPoker Results

While Jaime Staples finished third in The Grand his brother Matt Staples won The Super $215 for $7,306! Shout-out also to “OTmaskiner” who won The Super $320 for an impressive $9,403.

*includes bounty payments

The fastforward cash game lobbies on PartyPoker are some of the most popular on the platform, and now players on the site can play for a share of over P$1,000 thanks to the daily fastforward leaderboards.

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Leaderboard Rewards

Two daily fastforward leaderboards run from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. (GMT/BST)., with points for the leaderboards accrued through rake contribution ($1 rake = four points).

Anyone who finishes in the paid places on the leaderboard will receive their reward in the form of partydollars (P$), which can be used for future online cash games and tournament buy-ins.

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PartyPoker Revamps MTT Schedule; Launches Two New Sunday Majors

fastforward Tips From Jaime Staples

PartyPoker ambassador Jaime Staples shared some top tips for fastforward cash games earlier this year and now is the perfect time to refresh your memory for the format.

Staples expands on the tips he provides below, so be sure to check out the full article in the link above:

• Don’t Be Afraid to Use the Fast Forward Button
• Steal More From Late Positions
• Stick to Fundementals

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Calum has been a part of the PokerNews team since September 2021 after working in the UK energy sector. He played his first hand of poker in 2017 and immediately fell in love with the game. Calum’s proudest poker achievement is winning the only tournament he has ever played in Las Vegas, the prestigious $60 Flamingo evening event.

The inaugural 888poker Mystery Bounty Festival is rapidly nearing its conclusion, with only two more numbered events and the final few Main Event flights remaining on the schedule. Only three Day 1s are left in the $160 buy-in $300,000 guaranteed Main Event. They take place at 3:30 p.m. GMT, 5:00 p.m. GMT, and 6:00 p.m. GMT on March 6, with Day 2 shuffling up and dealing at 8:00 p.m. GMT, also on March 6.

So far, 1,490 players have bought in, making up $223,500 of the $300,000 guarantee. Of those starters, only 273 have punched their Day 2 tickets and will fight it out for a slice of the main prize pool and have a golden mystery bounty envelope placed on their heads. One of those prize-awarding envelopes contains a massive $30,000 payout, which will be worth more than the first-place prize money!

MB Festival $300,000 Main Event Top 10 Chip Counts

“pinvoypuzec” of Montenegro is the player to catch in the Mystery Bounty Festival Main Event right now. They turned their 10,000-starting stack into a tournament-leading 236,134, or 94 big blinds if you prefer.

The player just behind the leader needs no introduction because they have been a top-tier online poker grinder for the best part of two decades. Chile’s Nicolas “PKaiser” Fierro has accumulated more than $13 million in cashes during his long and illustrious career, with approximately $550,000 of that princely sum stemming from his play on 888poker. Fierro looks set to nudge that figure towards the $600,000 mark if he continues his impressive early form in the Main Event. Fierro returns to the action second in chips with a 218,719 stack, or 87 big blinds.

Play on Day 2 continues until only nine players remain, and those finalists enjoy a brief rest before returning to the action from 7:00 p.m. GMT on March 7 under the watchful eyes of the 888poker Twitch viewers.

888poker Ambassador Kara Scott Breaks Down Tips For Your First Live Poker Tournament

“hell0_brotti” Reels in $6,700 Score

Seventh 888poker players bought into the $525 Mystery Bounty event, ensuring the $35,000 guarantee was met. Only the nine players that navigated their way to the final table received a slice of the main pot, and nobody secured more of that prize money that the United Kingdom’s “hell0_br0tti.” First-place prize money weighed in at $5,250, a prize that swelled to $6,708 with the addition of $1,458 worth of bounties.

The player who finished as the runner-up, Belarus’ “GoodStoryDMG” actually won almost double the money of the champion! GoodStoryDMG scooped $12,045 in total, thanks, in part, to helping themselves to $8,545 from the bounty prize pool, including the $3,500 jackpot bounty!

$35,000 MB Festival Mystery Bounty 525 Final Table Results

Swede Secures Event 27 Title

The 27th event of the Mystery Bounty Festival may have only cost $55 to enter, yet it paid out $50,000! Some 964 players bought in, and Sweden’s “Walkeer_Boh” outlasted them all, capturing a $7,474 payout, which gave their bankroll a serious boost.

This event had a top-paying mystery bounty that tipped the scales at $5,000. That prize went to fifth-place finisher “dukacgl” of Brazil, who walked away with a total haul worth $6,439, a sum only surpassed by the worthy champion.

Anywayz Takes Down Largest 888poker Mystery Bounty Event So Far

MB Festival #27 – $50,000 6-Max Final Table Results

Mystery Bounty Results So Far

Check out the full list of numbered Mystery Bounty Festival results so far. The numbered events go up to 30, so are only two more events, plus the Main Event, waiting to crown their champions.

Both Events #29 and #30 take place on March 6. The former, an $11 buy-in $15,000 guaranteed affair, starts at 5:00 p.m. GMT. The latter, a $109 buy-in $15,000 guaranteed tournament, starts promptly at 7:30 p.m. GMT.

There’s been plenty of action this past week on PokerStars Pennsylvania as several players picked up big online tournament scores. One of those winners was Chris “petcheetah101” Bilinsky, who took down the $100 buy-in PokerStars PA Sunday Special for $11,309 after defeating heads-up opponent “flyhigh8375,” who in turn earned $8,207.

The No-Limit Hold’Em event, one of multiple Sunday tournament offerings on the Pennsylvania online poker site, smashed the $50,000 guarantee with a prize pool of $65,178. Other players who made deep runs in the event include “plo_head” (3rd – $5,956), “RJH2428” (4th – $4,322) and “Reckoner55” (5th – $3,136).

PokerStars PA Sunday Special – $100 NLHE Final Table Results

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Bilinsky has had his share of five-figure online poker scores. In February 2022, he finished runner-up in the World Series of Poker Online Circuit Pennsylvania $215 No Limit Hold’em – Sunday Special for $12,366. A few months later, he took down a WSOPC $215 Monster Stack event for $10,190.

In addition to his online tournament hauls, Bilinsky has racked up $19,588 in live earnings on Hendon Mob, including a sixth-place finish in a $260 Borgata Poker Deepstacks Challenge event in 2017 for $4,950.

Other PokerStars PA events that took place this Sunday include a $10,000 guaranteed $100 Sunday Marathon that drew 147 runners for a prize pool of $13,495 and a $20,000 guaranteed $250 Sunday High Roller that drew 125 entrants from a $29,125 prize pool. The respective winners of those events were “Paulie_Card$” ($1,995) and “CallYourMommy” ($5,065), both of whom made final table deals on their path to victory.

Later in the week, “Unflappable5” took down the Thursday Thrill High Roller Edition Progressive KO event for a total of $6,056 and “ISeeYouKid” won the Nightly Stars – $50 NLHE for $1,950. Other Thursday winners on PokerStars PA include Thursday Thrill $100 NLHE Progressive KO winner “jkat333” ($3,274) and Mini Thursday Thrill – $300 NLHE Progressive KO winner Vince “FuglyFunGuy” Lestingi ($1,683).

There’s plenty of action to look ahead to next week as well on PokerStars PA, with some of the upcoming events including the $100 Sunday Special with a $50,000 guarantee on March 5 and a $250 Sunday High Roller with a $20,000 guarantee, followed by several more $20,000 guaranteed high rollers later in the week.

An assorted list of PokerStars PA winners this week is available in the table below.

Assorted PokerStars PA Winners This Week

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PokerStars PA is arguably the best online poker site to offer real money games in Pennsylvania. PokerStars PA became the first online poker provider in the state on November 4, 2019. That day, industry leader PokerStars celebrated the first-ever “shuffle up and deal of their PA-focused poker site.

New customers in Pennsylvania can currently receive a 100% deposit match up to $600. Also, if you bet just $1 on casino games, you can get $100 in freeplay. You do not need to be a resident of Pennsylvania to play, but you do need to be within state borders.

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The fourth annual Global Poker Awards, presented by the Global Poker Index, took place at the PokerGO Studio Friday night with 27 trophies handed out, including Hustler Casino Live predictably winning Favorite Live Stream.

Angela Jordison (lead picture) was also one of the big winners on the night even though she narrowly lost out on GPI Female Player of the Year to Cherish Andrews.

Jordison, a long-time cash game player in Oregon, took down the Breakout Player of the Year award, deserved recognition for a year in which she cashed for nearly $600,000 in live tournaments, including a career best $151,544 score for third place in a $1,000 no-limit hold’em tournament at the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP).

If you thought her 2022 run was a fluke, she’s already proven that inaccurate as Jordison has racked up $137,000 in cashes thus far in 2023, according to Hendon Mob.

Hustler Casino Live on Center Stage

There was no shock and awe when Hustler Casino Live was announced as the winner for Favorite Live Stream. The Los Angeles-based show, which launched from Hustler Casino in 2021, has completely taken over the live-streamed poker industry the past couple of years.

On Friday night, co-owners Nick Vertucci and Ryan Feldman received recognition for their hard work and success.

Not only did the show’s co-owners get props from the poker community at the Global Poker Awards, a few players on Hustler Casino Live earned rewards, including Robbi Jade Lew, who took down the Best Hand award for the infamous J4 hand she won against Garrett Adelstein on Sept. 29.

Vlogger Ethan “Rampage” Yau, who has appeared on Hustler Casino Live multiple times, was one of two poker players to win multiple awards Friday night, joining Stephen Song, the winner of GPI Player of the Year and GPI Mid-Major Player of the Year. Yau earned the Fans Choice Award for Poker Personality and Best Vlogger.

Caitlin Comeskey, who has appeared on HCL’s “Max Pain Monday” show, also was a big winner at the fourth annual Global Poker Awards with her Rising Star in Content Creation trophy, beating out PokerNews‘ Jesse Fullen.

Although Fullen and Connor Richards, who was up for the Media Content: Written award, didn’t add some hardware to the PokerNews trophy case, Hayley Hochstetler, our talented WSOP photographer, did. Hochstetler, received the award for Media Content: Best Photo for her Matt Glantz shot after Glantz won the $1 million mystery bounty at the 2022 WSOP.

Listen to Caitlin Comeskey on the PokerNews Podcast here!

Strong WSOP, WPT, Wynn Presence

Jack Effel, the WSOP’s vice president, took home the Industry Person award, while Dan “Jungleman” Cates was honored for his back-to-back WSOP Poker Players Championship titles with the Best Final Table Performance trophy. And the WSOP Main Event bracelet, the most coveted piece of jewelry in the game, claimed the Fans Choice Award for Best Trophy.

The Wynn Las Vegas and World Poker Tour (WPT), who partnered to host the historic WPT World Championship in December, were also center stage at the PokerGO Studio Friday evening.

Wynn’s Ray Pulford, who has played an integral role in promoting numerous massive guaranteed tournaments, won Tournament Director of the Year and the WPT World Championship claimed the trophy for Best Event. Pulford and Wynn Executive Director of Poker Operations Ryan Beauregard, worked with the WPT to put together one of the biggest tournaments in poker history, a $10,400 buy-in event that had $29 million in the pot.

Full List of Global Poker Awards Winners

• Breakout Player – Angela Jordison
• Final Table Performance – Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates (WSOP Poker Player’s Championship)
• Comeback Player – Phil Ivey
• Poker ICON – Gabe Kaplan
• Twitter Personality – Will Jaffe
• Best Streamer – Kevin Martin
• Best Vlogger – Ethan ‘Rampage’ Yau
• Rising Star in Content Creation – Caitlin Comeskey
• Industry Person – Jack Effel
• Tournament Director – Ray Pulford
• Best Event – WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas
• Mid-Major Tour/Circuit – RunGOOD Poker Series
• Best Broadcaster – James Hartigan
• Best Podcast – Only Friends Podcast
• Media Content: Written – Jennifer Shahade (Wall Street Journal)
• Media Content: Video – Greg ‘Goes All In’ Liow
• Media Content: Best Photo – Hayley Hochstetler
• Players Choice for Toughest Opponent – Stephen Chidwick
• Fans Choice: Best Hand – Robbi Jade Lew
• Fans Choice: Fave Live Stream – Hustler Casino Live
• Fans Choice: Poker Personality – Ethan ‘Rampage’ Yau
• Fans Choice: Best Trophy – WSOP Main Event Bracelet
• Charitable Initiative – Star Gold Coast
• GPI Female PoY – Cherish Andrews
• GPI Mid Major PoY – Stephen Song
• GPI PoY – Stephen Song
• PokerGO Tour POY – Stephen Chidwick

_{*Images courtesy of GPI.}

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit has been busy. We recently recapped some online winners from both Michigan, New Jersey, and Nevada, but there have also been several live stops. The WSOP Circuit recently wrapped at both Horseshoe Las Vegas and Harrah’s Cherokee, and is currently hosting another stop at Horseshoe Hammond in the Chicagoland area.

Here’s a look at some of the stories to come out of the recent WSOP Circuit stops, including full lists of winners from the two most recent stops.

WSOPC Horseshoe Las Vegas Winners

The first-ever WSOP Circuit stop at Horseshoe Las Vegas, which was recently rebranded from Bally’s, was held outside the Hall of Fame Poker Room and featured fresh felt and new poker chips. Over the course of two weeks, 18 gold rings were awarded with Todd Carlson becoming the first-ever gold ring winner at the new venue.

Bin Weng & Alex Foxen Battle in Horseshoe Las Vegas Main Event

The WSOPC Horseshoe Las Vegas $1,700 Main Event attracted 833 entries and offered up a $1,261,995 prize pool. The field was chock full of Las Vegas crushers including Ryan Laplante (10th – $17,681), Chino Rheem (14th – $14,329), and Daniel Jones (24th – $8,165), just to name a few.

Similarly, there were a lot of familiar names at the final table including Bin Weng and Alex Foxen, who actually squared off in heads-up play. Eventually, Weng stopped the high roller juggernaut that is Foxen and wound up winning the tournament for $227,344 and his first gold ring.

“This tournament meant a lot to me,” said Wend, who recently won the Borgata Return Championship for a smooth $1 million. “I have won four or five titles, but never a WSOP tournament. Getting a ring means a lot to me, I’m kind of speechless right because I’m just so excited.”

He added: “Alex Foxen is one of my poker idols. We are originally from the same area, Long Island. I just feel so thankful to take this down and get the chance to play with Foxen. He is one of the best players right now.”

WSOPC Horseshoe Las Vegas Main Event Final Table Results

MSPT President Bryan Mileski Claims First Ring

Event #13: $400 No-Limit Hold’em attracted a field of 189 runners, which meant a $62,370 prize pool was on tap for the top 29 finishers. Among those to earn a cash but fall short of the final table were Ben Ross (10th – $1,065), Bryce Hutchings (13th – $905), Brent Baker (18th – $790), Roland Israelashvili (22nd – $653), and Ryan Hodge (29th – $606).

At the final table, Minnesota’s Bryan Mileski defeated Greg Newhouse in heads-up play to win the tournament for $15,193 and his first gold ring. Mileski is the founder and president of the long-running Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT), which is nominated for mid-major tour of the year at Friday’s Global Poker Awards.

WSOPC Horseshoe Las Vegas Event #13 Final Table Results

Brian Altman Wins WSOPC Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event

Meanwhile, down in North Carolina, the WSOPC Harrah’s Cherokee $1,700 Main Event attracted 1,703 entrants who generated a prize pool of $2,356,299. That was paid out to the top 171 finishers, and among those to make deep runs were Nir Cohen (10th – $32,588), Tommy Vu (15th – $26,435), Eric Salazar (19th – $17,898), Chris Conrad (67th – $5,053), and Alex Rocha (70th – $5,053).

Finishing as the last player standing in the tournament was none other than poker pro Brian Altman, who not only captured a massive $391,753 top prize but also his fourth circuit ring. That goes nicely with the 2022 WSOP Online Bracelet he won in Event #3: $400 NLH Ultra Deepstack for $110,662.

The win moves Altman over $7 million in career tournament earnings according to the Hendon Mob. Altman has an impressive poker résumé but is perhaps best known for capturing a trio of World Poker Tour (WPT) titles, all in the state of Florida.

WSOPC Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event Final Table Results

WSOPC Harrah’s Cherokee Winners

Here’s a look at all those who captured titles during the WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Cherokee stop:

Chicago Winners Thus Far

The Horseshoe Hammond stop kicked off with Event #1: $400 NLH, which attracted 3,173 runners and offered up a $1,047.090 prize pool. Trevor Buboltz won that tournament for $135,155.

In Event #2: $400 NLH Double Stack, Nancy Dang denied Wisconsin’s Josh Reichard a record-tying 14th gold ring. Instead, she bested a 600-entry field to win her first and a $36,443 top prize.

Other winners include Emil Zalud (Event #3: $400 Seniors for $30,010), Michael Sabbia (Event #4: $600 NLH Mystery Bounty for $37,630), and Peter Kelly (Event #5: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha for $24,849), David Schonback (Event #6: $400 NLH Monster Stack for $52,756), Ken Po (Event #7: $400 Omaha 8 for $12,667), and Gurunagaraju Salla (Event #8: $600 NLH 6-Handed for $19,678).

The stop will culminate this weekend with the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Hammond $1,700 Main Event along with a slew of other side events.

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The 2023 Wynn Millions kicked off on February 20 and is slated to run through March 19. While the $3,500 buy-in, $3 million GTD Wynn Millions Main Event, which kicks off today, is capturing the big headlines, there have been a series of side events playing over the past couple of weeks.

Follow live updates from the 2023 Wynn Millions here!

Ryan Wolfson Wins Big in $1,600 Mystery Bounty Event

From February 23-26, the $1,600 buy-in, $1.5 million GTD Mystery Bounty took place. With 1,270 entrants competing over three starting days, a $2,463,800 prize pool was created. Among those to make relatively deep runs and earn a piece of the regular prize pool were Nipun Java (14th – $12,303), Eric Baldwin (15th – $12,303), Qing Liu (18th – $9,300), Ben Palmer (21st – $8,125), and Adam Hendrix (22nd – $8,125).

A deal was worked at the final table that ultimately saw Ryan Wolfson of Westbury, New York take $130,080 in prize money plus nine bounties for a total of $163,580 in prizes.

Wynn Millions $1,600 Mystery Bounty Final Table Results

As for those who captured big bounties, check out this PokerNews Twitter thread for videos of some of the biggest moments:

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Ryan Laplante Finally Captures Long-Awaited Wynn Trophy

In the $600 H.O.R.S.E. tournament, 92 runners generated a $47,380 prize pool awarded to the top 11 finishers. Two players to cash for $1,279 apiece but fall just short of the final table were Svetlana Gromenkova (10th place) and Ke Chen (11th place).

It was the 19th final table appearance in a Wynn tournament by poker pro Ryan Laplante, but amazingly he had never taken home a coveted trophy. That all changed when he closed out the tournament to the tune of $12,401 after a heads-up deal with Tony Phan, who claimed $12,400 in prize money.

Wynn Millions $600 H.O.R.S.E. Final Table Results

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Joseph Cheong Nabs Early Title in $600 NLH

From February 21-23, the $600 NLH $200K GTD saw 805 entrants generate a $414,575 prize pool, which was reserved for the top 88 finishers. Among those to cash but fall short of the final table were Tuan Mai (13th – $5,511), Chris McNulty (18th – $3,608), Cole Ferraro (20th – $3,608), Jeremy Pekarek (29th – $2,412), Ben Palmer (35th – $2,412), and Rachel Whetstone (39th – $2,118).

The final table contained several well-known poker players including Elvis Toomas (7th – $10,737), David Jackson (4th – $23,258), and James Van Alstyne (3rd – $32,876). In the end, it was Joseph Cheong defeating Vinny Pahuja in heads-up play to win the tournament for $74,670.

Wynn Millions $600 NLH $200K GTD Final Table Results

Former Aussie Millions Champ Peter Costa Wins $1,100 Seniors Event

From February 27-28, the $1,100 Seniors NLH $100K GTD saw 240 entrants generate a $232,800 prize pool, which was reserved for the top 27 finishers. Among those to cash but fall short of the final table were Michael Ruter (10th – $4,598), Danny Bigelow (14th – $3,562), Cy Williams (19th – $2,863), and Arnie Friedman (25th – $2,363).

At the final table, a three-way deal was struck that ultimately saw Peter Costa win the tournament for $44,179. If that name sounds familiar, it’s probably because you recognize Costa as the winner of the 2003 Aussie Millions Main Event for $221,862.

“Just before the mass shutdowns due to COVID in 2020, I decided that I had unfinished business with poker,” Costa shared on social media. “It was just a matter of when rather than if, regardless of the fact that I was not getting any younger … This year, I was determined that the unfinished business needed to be finished.”

He continued: “Looking back at this event, it really was fun seeing the numbers dwindle down with me and my short stack being mere bystanders for the most part … I was just enjoying the moment for it was – a fun time with really nice people.”

Some of his accomplishments that year included victories in the $300 Limit Hold’em event at the California State Poker Championship for $115,662; Bellagio’s $2,500 Limit Hold’em for $112,000; $5,000 Championship Event at the 2002 Hall of Fame Poker Classic for $101,520; a pair of victories at the 2002 Four Queens Poker Classic for nearly $40,000; and winning the Late Night Poker Series 6 Grand Final for $78,275.

Wynn Millions $1,100 Seniors NLH $100K GTD Final Table Results

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2023 Wynn Millions Winners Thus Far

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The inaugural 888poker Ontario Mystery Bounty Festival is rapidly approaching its conclusion, with 24 of the scheduled 30 numbered events having crowned their champions. Event #30 of the festival is the huge $100,000 guaranteed Main Event. Day 1s are in play right now, and PokerNews cannot wait to see which Ontarian walks away with the lion’s share of the prize pool.

$100,000 Guaranteed Main Event

The 30th numbered tournament on the 888poker Ontario Mystery Bounty Festival is the Main Event, and it is massive. Commanding a $250 buy-in, unless you win your way in via one of the many satellites that are running around the clock, Main Event players fight it out for a share of a guaranteed $100,000!

If you are reading this article on March 3, you have seven more Day 1s to get your teeth into between now and 6:00 p.m. ET on March 6. Day 2 shuffles up and deals at 8:00 p.m. ET on March 6, and it is from then that the mystery bounties are in play.

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There are some juicy mystery bounties stuffed into the golden virtual envelopes/ At least seven contain $1,000, four are worth $2,500, and one awards its opener $5,000. The jackpot mystery bounty for the Mystery Bounty Main Event at 888poker Ontario is worth a cool $10,000!

Satellites from only $3.30 are available in the 888poker Ontario lobby, giving you a chance to turn a small investment into a huge score and the right to call yourself a poker champion. Win your way in or buy into the Main Event direct to receive 10,000 chips. You’ll play to a 15-minute clock where blinds start at 25/50/5a. Unlimited rebuys are permitted for 150 minutes, with each Day 1 concluding at the end of the 12th level or when only 14% of the field remains.

Josh_Degen Pads Bankroll With $7,800

The Main Event aside, event 18 featured the largest prize pool thanks to 888poker Ontario slapping a $40,000 guarantee on the $109 buy-in tournament. That guarantee was surpassed by $300 thanks to 403 players turning out in force.

Eleventh-place finisher “Rykin671” ended up being the second biggest winner, in terms of prize money, thanks to pulling the $4,000 top bounty before they busted. Rykin671 scooped $4,509.35 in total; only the champion walked away with more money.

Only one player at the nine-handed final table won less than $1,000 for their efforts, and even they only missed out by $26, such was the size of the prize pool.

“DyckensCider” ($1,057), “tcavallin” ($974), and “Toddiep41” ($1,031) busted to leave the final table six-handed. The final six became five after the elimination of “BanhkemN” ($1,427), who had previously taken down Event #8 for $731.

“IronMyJacket” ($1,441), “InWAAAVES” ($2,212), and “iamEklo” ($2,590) crashed out, which left only “mgray3727” and “Josh_Degen” in the hunt for the title. It was Josh_Degen that go the job done and their hands on a top prize worth $7,816 in total, which left mgray3727 to reel in a $3,780 consolation prize.

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MB Festival #18 – $40,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event Warmup Final Table Results

Mystery Bounty Festival Ontario Results So Far

Check out the latest results from the completed 888poker Ontario Mystery Bounty Festival.

If you’re looking for 888poker freeroll passwords, you’ve come to the right place! PokerNews has partnered with 888poker to offer our readers some great added value freerolls in March, with the first freeroll kicks off on March 5.

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Head to the 888poker tournament lobby and look for “PokerNews” in the restricted section of the tournament listings. The first freeroll in March, the PokerNews Discord Freeroll, shuffles up and deals at 8:00 p.m. GMT on March 5 and sees you sit down with 3,000 chips and play to a ten-minute clock where the blinds start at only 15/30. That’s 100 big blinds to battle with! The structure is superb for a free-to-play tournament; having a $150 prize pool serves as an added bonus.

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As mentioned above, all of the freerolls are password-protected, so how do you receive the password? All of the passwords are revealed on the new and improved PokerNews Discord server 48 hours before each freeroll kicks off. If you are not part of our Discord channel (you should be because it is the place to be for PokerNews content and giveaways), you will find the password on our social media channels a few hours before the freerolls commence.

PokerNews Freeroll Schedule

The first PokerNews Discord Freeroll is on March 5 and is followed each and every Sunday in March, with all offering $150 added to the prize pool, and as entry is limited to PokerNews readers, your chances of walking away with a slice of the pie are better than in other freeroll tournaments.

But that’s not all!

On top of that PokerNews are offering an exclusive MTT, the PokerNews Discord Deepstack, on Sunday, March 26 at 7:30pm GMT for all PokerNews Discord members. The tournament is password protected and the password will be available in the 888poker channel of the PokerNews Discord.

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