At the beginning of the month, the inaugural Midway Poker Tour, which had a charity connection with 4 KIDS Sake, Inc., found itself at the center of a payout controversy in its $1,100 buy-in Main. Other poker tournaments. On the World Poker Tour, Moneymaker finished second at the 2004 Shooting Stars event and won $200,000. During Event 5 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker, which was a $10,300 buy-in of No Limit Hold'em, Moneymaker finished in sixth place, taking home over $139,000. He also did well in Event 16, the $215 Pot.
By most accounts, the 4 K.I.D.S. Sake charity was responsible for obtaining and distributing the prizes, but relied on their partner, the Midway Poker Tour, to facilitate it to the players. The 32-year-old poker pro earned $10 million for winning the $1 million buy-in 'Big One for One Drop' at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas Tuesday night. The big win bumped his recorded. World Poker Tour Overview. World Poker Tour was first mentioned on PissedConsumer on Jan 09, 2012 and since then this brand received 54 reviews. World Poker Tour ranks 88 of 635 in Entertainment category. The overall rating of the company is 1.9 and consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
The 2018 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic $10,400 no-limit hold'em main event attracted 1,001 entries, setting the record as the largest ever field in a $10,000 buy-in event on the WPT. The huge turnout built a prize pool of $9,709,700. After five full days of intense poker action, the lion's share of that money was awarded to Dylan Linde. The poker pro from Coeur d'Alene, ID emerged victorious with his first WPT title and the $1,631,468 first-place prize.
In addition to the hardware and the money, Linde was also awarded 2,400 Card Player Player of the Year points. This was his second title and fifth final-table finish of the year, and this huge win was enough to see him climb into 30th place in the overall POY race standings for 2018.
Linde entered the final day of this event in second chip position with six players remaining, sitting behind only Serbia's Milos Skrbic. It took 37 hands for the first elimination to take place. With a flop of 865 Barry Hutter got all-in holding the A8. He was called by Skrbic, who had flopped two pair with the 65. Hutter failed to improve on the turn or river and was sent home in sixth place ($344,529).
Lisa Hamilton was the next player to hit the rail. Linde raised to 350,000 from under the gun with the blinds at 75,000-150,000 with a 150,000 big-blind ante. Hamilton shoved for 2.5 million from the big blind with 55 and Linde called holding the A10. The 1073103 runout gave Linde a full house to win the hand. Hamilton earned $451,880 as the fifth-place finisher.
With that Linde took the chip lead. He soon furthered his advantage by knocking out Ping Liu in fourth place. Linde shoved with the J2 when it folded to him in the small blind and Liu called for his last 16.5 big blinds with the A4. Linde ended up pairing his deuce on the flop and holding from there to secure his second bustout of the day. Liu earned $599,147 for his deep run.
Linde looked to be running away with the final table, but Milos Skrbic closed the gap a bit by winning the next key hand. The final three saw a flop of K73. Skrbic and Andrew Lichtenberger both checked. Linde bet 275,000, only to have Skrbic check-raise to 925,000. Lichtenberger moved all in for 3,575,000. Linde folded and Skrbic called with the 106 for a flush draw. Lichtenberger had the K5 for top pair. The 8 turn completed Skrbic's flush draw right away and the 4 sent Lichtenberger to the rail in third place ($802,973).
With that Skrbic took 17,675,000 into heads-up play against Linde, who sat with 22,375,000. Linde was able to steadily increase his lead as the match wore on. By the time the final hand arose Linde had more than a 6-to-1 advantage. Skrbic picked up the 55 on the button and moved all-in for for 4,925,000. Linde quickly called with the JJ. The board ran out K999A and Linde's superior full house earned him the pot and the title. Skrbic took home $1,087,603 as the runner-up finisher.
Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded to the final nine:
| Place | Player | Earnings (USD) | POY Points |
| 1 | Dylan Linde | $1,631,468 | 2,400 |
| 2 | Milos Skrbic | $1,087,603 | 2,000 |
| 3 | Andrew Lichtenberger | $802,973 | 1,600 |
| 4 | Ping Liu | $599,147 | 1,200 |
| 5 | Lisa Hamilton | $451,880 | 1,000 |
| 6 | Barry Hutter | $344,529 | 800 |
| 7 | Patrick Mahoney | $265,570 | 600 |
| 8 | John Dibella | $206,982 | 400 |
| 9 | Joseph McKeehen | $163,142 | 200 |
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LAS VEGAS -- John Cynn defeated Tony Miles heads-up to win the 2018 World Series of Poker main event early Sunday morning, claiming poker's world championship and $8.8 million.
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Cynn, 33, of Indianapolis, played 10 full days of poker over the past two weeks at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino to turn his $10,000 buy-in into one of the richest prizes in poker, triumphing over a field of 7,874 players.
Though he was still wrapped up in the emotion of his victory, Cynn made it clear that while the money will change his life, he doesn't want to change who he is as a person.
'The money is very significant, but I do like to think that I don't need the money to be happy,' said Cynn. 'But at the same time, practically, it's going to make things a lot easier -- things I want to do in life ... even to my parents, this is money that they never could've imagined. It's definitely going to be life-changing.'
The heads-up battle between Cynn and Miles lasted almost 10½ hours, with records set for the most hands played heads-up to close out a WSOP main event (199) and the most total hands at a WSOP main event final table (442).
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On the final hand, Cynn raised to 9 million with Kc-Jc before the flop, Miles reraised to 34 million with Qc-8h, and Cynn called. After a flop of Kh-Kd-5h, Miles bet 32 million and Cynn called. On the 8d turn, Miles went all-in for 114 million. After thinking for a minute, Cynn dropped in his chips to indicate a call, and it was all over.
Miles, who entered the day as the chip leader, earned $5 million for his second-place finish. Though he was clearly disappointed with the result, he already had some perspective of how special a moment he had just been involved in.
'We've been playing on little to no sleep -- the nerves and the angst that you feel at night, it's almost impossible to get a good night's rest,' he said. 'Then you come in here and you have to battle for 12 hours heads-up. It was a war, and it was amazing. I'm sure it'll go down and be chronicled in history as one of the best heads-up matches ever. I have a ton of respect for him. He's going to be a great champion, and I'm really happy for him.'
Cynn was similarly exhausted, and in the final hours, he said he really started to feel the effects of having to push through the latter stages of the 10-day poker marathon and an intense final day.
'I'm pretty beat. I'm pretty exhausted,' he admitted. 'I think every day, somehow you get more exhausted but also a little bit sharper just because your adrenaline keeps you going.'
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Cynn entered this tournament with just shy of $1 million in career poker tournament earnings -- the bulk of which came from his 11th-place finish in the 2016 main event, for which he earned $650,000.
The final day of play began with three players, but it took just 18 hands for Michael Dyer to have his all-in bet called. His Ah-Td failed to catch up to Miles' As-Jh, and Dyer took home $3.75 million for his third-place finish.
From there, it became a battle of wills between Cynn and Miles. They traded the lead back and forth numerous times over the course of 199 hands of heads-up play, but even though Cynn found himself at a significant disadvantage several times during the match, Miles was the player at risk in all three hands in which there was an all-in and call.
The first was a river call by Cynn, who had two pair against Miles' three of a kind. The second all-in was a battle of draws that ended in an unlikely chopped pot.
At the beginning of the month, the inaugural Midway Poker Tour, which had a charity connection with 4 KIDS Sake, Inc., found itself at the center of a payout controversy in its $1,100 buy-in Main. Other poker tournaments. On the World Poker Tour, Moneymaker finished second at the 2004 Shooting Stars event and won $200,000. During Event 5 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker, which was a $10,300 buy-in of No Limit Hold'em, Moneymaker finished in sixth place, taking home over $139,000. He also did well in Event 16, the $215 Pot.
By most accounts, the 4 K.I.D.S. Sake charity was responsible for obtaining and distributing the prizes, but relied on their partner, the Midway Poker Tour, to facilitate it to the players. The 32-year-old poker pro earned $10 million for winning the $1 million buy-in 'Big One for One Drop' at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas Tuesday night. The big win bumped his recorded. World Poker Tour Overview. World Poker Tour was first mentioned on PissedConsumer on Jan 09, 2012 and since then this brand received 54 reviews. World Poker Tour ranks 88 of 635 in Entertainment category. The overall rating of the company is 1.9 and consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
The 2018 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic $10,400 no-limit hold'em main event attracted 1,001 entries, setting the record as the largest ever field in a $10,000 buy-in event on the WPT. The huge turnout built a prize pool of $9,709,700. After five full days of intense poker action, the lion's share of that money was awarded to Dylan Linde. The poker pro from Coeur d'Alene, ID emerged victorious with his first WPT title and the $1,631,468 first-place prize.
In addition to the hardware and the money, Linde was also awarded 2,400 Card Player Player of the Year points. This was his second title and fifth final-table finish of the year, and this huge win was enough to see him climb into 30th place in the overall POY race standings for 2018.
Linde entered the final day of this event in second chip position with six players remaining, sitting behind only Serbia's Milos Skrbic. It took 37 hands for the first elimination to take place. With a flop of 865 Barry Hutter got all-in holding the A8. He was called by Skrbic, who had flopped two pair with the 65. Hutter failed to improve on the turn or river and was sent home in sixth place ($344,529).
Lisa Hamilton was the next player to hit the rail. Linde raised to 350,000 from under the gun with the blinds at 75,000-150,000 with a 150,000 big-blind ante. Hamilton shoved for 2.5 million from the big blind with 55 and Linde called holding the A10. The 1073103 runout gave Linde a full house to win the hand. Hamilton earned $451,880 as the fifth-place finisher.
With that Linde took the chip lead. He soon furthered his advantage by knocking out Ping Liu in fourth place. Linde shoved with the J2 when it folded to him in the small blind and Liu called for his last 16.5 big blinds with the A4. Linde ended up pairing his deuce on the flop and holding from there to secure his second bustout of the day. Liu earned $599,147 for his deep run.
Linde looked to be running away with the final table, but Milos Skrbic closed the gap a bit by winning the next key hand. The final three saw a flop of K73. Skrbic and Andrew Lichtenberger both checked. Linde bet 275,000, only to have Skrbic check-raise to 925,000. Lichtenberger moved all in for 3,575,000. Linde folded and Skrbic called with the 106 for a flush draw. Lichtenberger had the K5 for top pair. The 8 turn completed Skrbic's flush draw right away and the 4 sent Lichtenberger to the rail in third place ($802,973).
With that Skrbic took 17,675,000 into heads-up play against Linde, who sat with 22,375,000. Linde was able to steadily increase his lead as the match wore on. By the time the final hand arose Linde had more than a 6-to-1 advantage. Skrbic picked up the 55 on the button and moved all-in for for 4,925,000. Linde quickly called with the JJ. The board ran out K999A and Linde's superior full house earned him the pot and the title. Skrbic took home $1,087,603 as the runner-up finisher.
Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded to the final nine:
| Place | Player | Earnings (USD) | POY Points |
| 1 | Dylan Linde | $1,631,468 | 2,400 |
| 2 | Milos Skrbic | $1,087,603 | 2,000 |
| 3 | Andrew Lichtenberger | $802,973 | 1,600 |
| 4 | Ping Liu | $599,147 | 1,200 |
| 5 | Lisa Hamilton | $451,880 | 1,000 |
| 6 | Barry Hutter | $344,529 | 800 |
| 7 | Patrick Mahoney | $265,570 | 600 |
| 8 | John Dibella | $206,982 | 400 |
| 9 | Joseph McKeehen | $163,142 | 200 |
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LAS VEGAS -- John Cynn defeated Tony Miles heads-up to win the 2018 World Series of Poker main event early Sunday morning, claiming poker's world championship and $8.8 million.
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Cynn, 33, of Indianapolis, played 10 full days of poker over the past two weeks at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino to turn his $10,000 buy-in into one of the richest prizes in poker, triumphing over a field of 7,874 players.
Though he was still wrapped up in the emotion of his victory, Cynn made it clear that while the money will change his life, he doesn't want to change who he is as a person.
'The money is very significant, but I do like to think that I don't need the money to be happy,' said Cynn. 'But at the same time, practically, it's going to make things a lot easier -- things I want to do in life ... even to my parents, this is money that they never could've imagined. It's definitely going to be life-changing.'
The heads-up battle between Cynn and Miles lasted almost 10½ hours, with records set for the most hands played heads-up to close out a WSOP main event (199) and the most total hands at a WSOP main event final table (442).
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On the final hand, Cynn raised to 9 million with Kc-Jc before the flop, Miles reraised to 34 million with Qc-8h, and Cynn called. After a flop of Kh-Kd-5h, Miles bet 32 million and Cynn called. On the 8d turn, Miles went all-in for 114 million. After thinking for a minute, Cynn dropped in his chips to indicate a call, and it was all over.
Miles, who entered the day as the chip leader, earned $5 million for his second-place finish. Though he was clearly disappointed with the result, he already had some perspective of how special a moment he had just been involved in.
'We've been playing on little to no sleep -- the nerves and the angst that you feel at night, it's almost impossible to get a good night's rest,' he said. 'Then you come in here and you have to battle for 12 hours heads-up. It was a war, and it was amazing. I'm sure it'll go down and be chronicled in history as one of the best heads-up matches ever. I have a ton of respect for him. He's going to be a great champion, and I'm really happy for him.'
Cynn was similarly exhausted, and in the final hours, he said he really started to feel the effects of having to push through the latter stages of the 10-day poker marathon and an intense final day.
'I'm pretty beat. I'm pretty exhausted,' he admitted. 'I think every day, somehow you get more exhausted but also a little bit sharper just because your adrenaline keeps you going.'
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Cynn entered this tournament with just shy of $1 million in career poker tournament earnings -- the bulk of which came from his 11th-place finish in the 2016 main event, for which he earned $650,000.
The final day of play began with three players, but it took just 18 hands for Michael Dyer to have his all-in bet called. His Ah-Td failed to catch up to Miles' As-Jh, and Dyer took home $3.75 million for his third-place finish.
From there, it became a battle of wills between Cynn and Miles. They traded the lead back and forth numerous times over the course of 199 hands of heads-up play, but even though Cynn found himself at a significant disadvantage several times during the match, Miles was the player at risk in all three hands in which there was an all-in and call.
The first was a river call by Cynn, who had two pair against Miles' three of a kind. The second all-in was a battle of draws that ended in an unlikely chopped pot.
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The third all-in call sealed the title for Cynn.
