Online Poker Winners 2018

It took over 10 hours of back-and-forth struggle, but John Cynn overcame Tony Miles in a heads-up match for the ages to win the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event for $8.8 million, topping a field of 7,874. The win completes a redemption story for Cynn, who bubbled the unofficial final table in the 2016 Main Event, just missing a chance to participate in the last November Nine when Gordon Vayo busted him in 11th place. September 4-21, 2018Combined $6.7 Million Guaranteed including:Borgata Deep Stack Kick Off $1.5 Million Guaranteed. Borgata Almighty Stack $1 Million Guaranteed. Live Streamed WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship $3 Million Guaranteed. A man identified only as Harold M. Of Lakewood won $1 million after he bet chump change on a 6-Card Bonus in Three Card Poker at the Borgata Hotel Casino in Atlantic City.

Connor Drinan was one of the best tournament poker players without a World Series of Poker bracelet heading into the 2020 WSOP Online. He had accumulated more than $11 million in prior live tournament cashes, with plenty of success online as well. Before the series began he was one of the players who accepted Daniel Negreanu’s bracelet bet, wagering the maximum for an individual of $100,000 against the six-time winner at the WSOP. The even-money bet would be a push of neither player won a bracelet in 2020, or if they both did.

With 84 of the 85 bracelets up for grabs at the series awarded, Drinan’s last shot during this series was the $5,000,000 guaranteed $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em ‘Super MILLION$’ event. Drinan managed a deep run, and although he was quite short around the money bubble, was able to recover and enter the final table in sixth chip position. Negreanu, who finished 128th in this event for 21,483, took to Twitter during the final table to comment on the situation.

On the bubble this guy had 2 big blinds now he is crushing the final table!
How sick would it be to lose the bet on the last event of the year! Good luck @ConnorDrinan I’m rooting for you to come a solid second https://t.co/dxuZOOfoTk

— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) September 8, 2020

Drinan ultimately emerged victorious, beating out a field of 899 entries and a tough final table to win the six-figure bet, the $1,423,049 top prize, and his first WSOP bracelet.

The strong turnout in this event saw the $5,000,0000 guarantee easily surpassed, with $8,720,300 in total prize money paid out among the top 134 finishers. As one might expect, there were numerous notable players among those that cashed, including two-time bracelet winner Upeskha De Silva (132nd – $21,483), three-time bracelet winner Adrian Mateos (103rd – $21,483, 2018 Card Player Player of the Year award winner Jake Schindler (100th – $21,483), three-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman (95th – $25,029), six-time Chris Ferguson (54th – $29,160), reigning POY award winner Stephen Chidwick (43rd – $33,973), Sam Trickett (27th – $33,973), and recent bracelet winner Melika Razavi (13th – $80,109).

Suraj Mishra took the chip lead into the final table, with 2013 WSOP main event fourth-place finisher Sylvain Loosli sitting in second chip position. Kenneth Smaron was the first to hit the virtual rail when his top pair failed to beat out the flush and straight draws of Christopher Kruk. Smaron earned $110,389 as the ninth-place finisher.

Arsenii Malinov was the next to fall. He called all-in from the big blind with AQ facing a small-blind shove from Loosli, who held 97. Loosli flopped two pair and held from there to knock Malinov out in eighth place ($152,113).

Drinan scored his first elimination of the final table with pocket aces. He raised from early position and Christopher Kruk moved all-in from the small blind with AJ. Drinan made the quick call and his aces remained the the best hand after the five community cards were dealt. Kruk took home $209,609 for his seventh-place showing in this event, while Drinan climbed into the chip lead.

Drinan next clashes with start-of-day leader Suraj Mishra. He opened from the cutoff with 99 and called Mishra’s three-bet shove of 14,850,000. Mishra had him pipped with 1010. Drinan surged into the lead by hitting a set on the flop of A97. Mishra picked up a flush draw on the 5 turn, but the K river was no helped and Mishra was sent home with $288,836 as the sixth-place finisher. With that Drinan expanded his lead to the point that he had more than twice as many chips as his nearest competitor.

The knockout spree continued for Drinan when Sylvain Looslit shoved for 11 big blinds when it folded to him in the small blind. Drinan called with the A2 and found himself ahead of Loosli’s K4. Neither player improved and Drinan’s ace high was enough to earn him the pot. Loosli cashed for $398,010 as the fifth-place finisher.

With that Drinan took more than half of the total chips in play into four-handed action. He extended that advantage even further by busting fellow American poker pro Chris Oliver in fourth place ($548,450). Oliver got his last chips in with A8 from the cutoff and found himself up against Drinan’s AJ out of the big blind. Both players paired on the flop, and Drinan’s superior pair of jacks remained the best hand by the river.

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Just a few minutes later, Viktor Ustimov got all-in with 77 against the AQ of Drinan. The board ran out AQJ510 and Drinan’s two pair earned him yet another knockout. Ustimov earned $755,754 as the third-place finisher.

Drinan took more than a 4:1 chip lead into heads-up play against Daniyar Aubakirov. The Kazakhstani player was able to close the gap a bit in the early going, only to have Drinan reopen a big lead. Aubakirov scored a few double-ups to keep his chances alive, but ultimately was unable to battle back into the match. In the final hand he got all-in with AJ and was in good shape to find yet another double, as Drinan held A9. The AK4 flop kept Aubakirov ahead, and the 8 turn meant that only a nine on the river would end the tournament right then and there. The 9 appeared to give Drinan two pair, securing the pot and the title for the American. Aubakirov earned $1,041,414 as the runner-up.

Here is a look at the payouts awarded at the final table:

Perhaps the best rule of thumb for the WSOP is that the prize pools have kept going up while the average ages of the main event winners have steadily declined. When Moss took down the first event (with only seven players) he was 63, and no one even knows how much he won (or what his final hole cards were). The second year the field slipped to six players, Moss won again at age 64 with pocket 6s and collected $30,000. In 2009 Joe Cada became the youngest champion ever at age 21, and pocketed $8,574,649.

Here is the data for the champions that followed: In 1972 the winner was Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston. There were eight entrants, his winning cards were K J, and he took home $80,000.

Walter “Puggy” Pearson followed in 1973. There were 13 entrants, he won with A♠ 7♠ and won $130,000.

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Moss, now 67, won for the third time in 1974 holding 3♥ 3♠. The field kept inching up. There were now 16 players and he got the entire $160,000 prize pool. There were 21 players and a $210,000 pay-out when Brian “Sailor” Roberts won in 1975 holding J♠ J♥.

Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson (who got his colorful nickname when Jimmy Snyder mispronounced his name) stepped up and won in 1976 and 1977, both years holding a 10-2. Brunson would go on to become the first player to chalk up $1 million in career earnings, eventually winning 10 bracelets and more than $6 million in 50 years of tournament play.

Bobby “The Owl” Baldwin, later to become a casino executive, won in 1978 holding Q♦ Q♣. This time there were 42 players with a total prize pool of $420,000, and it was the first year when it was not winner take all. Baldwin’s share was $210,000.
Hal Fowler became the first non-professional to win the championship in 1979, and he did it by beating Bobby “The Wizard” Hoff, regarded as one of the best no-limit players of his time. On the final hand, Fowler held just 7♠ 6♦ against Hoff’s pocket aces. He flopped a gut-shot straight draw, hit it on the turn, and won $270,000. By now the field had grown to 54 players.

Now coming on stage was Stu Ungar, widely regarded as the greatest nolimit and gin rummy player of all time. Ungar had two nicknames, “Stuey” and “The Kid,” because he was only 27 when he won his first of three championships in 1980. There were 73 entrants, he held 5♠ 4♠, and his win was worth $385,000.

Stuey made it two in a row in 1981. There were 75 players, he held A♥ Q♥ and his win got him $375,000. Jack “Treetop” Straus won the next year holding A♥ 10♠. His win was mem-orable because earlier in the tournament he was down to one chip, which led to the familiar poker saying, “A chip and a chair.”

Tom McEvoy set a record when he became the first champion to win his buy-in through a satellite. There were 108 players in 1983, his win came to $540,000, and his winning hand was Q♦Q♠.

In 1986, with a field of 132, “Gentleman” Jack Keller won with 10♥10♠. His prize money was $660,000.

Bill Smith was the winner in 1985, beating a field of 140. His winning hand was 3♠ 3♥ and his prize was $700,000.

In 1986 Berry Johnston won with A♠ 10♥. There were 141 entrants. His share was $570,000. Johnny “Orient Express” Chan now arrived and won the next two years. In 1987 he won $625,000 in a 152-player field holding A♠ 9♣, repeating next year and winning $700,000 in a field of 167 with J♣ 9♣.

The year 1989 brought onstage Phil “The Poker Brat” Hellmuth, who would become the reigning bracelet-winner with 13 to date. He scored his championship win holding 9♠ 9♣. The field was 178, his payout $755,000.

Mansour Matloubi took home $895,000 in 1990 with 6♥ 6♠. There were 194 entrants.

From 1991 through 1999 there were a series of $1 million pay-outs for first place. Brad Daugherty was the first to achieve this milestone when he won with K♠ J♠, competing in a field of 215.

Next millionaire was Hamid Dastmalchi. There were 201 players, and his winning hand was 8♥ 4♣. In 1993 Jim Bechtel scored with J♣ 6♥.The field was 220.

Russ Hamilton triumphed with K♠ 8♥ in 1994 when there were 268 players.

Dan “Action Dan” Harrington beat a field of 273 in 1995 holding 9♦ 8♦. Huck Seed was the next to win $1 million. He held 9♦ 8♦ and the field had inched up to 295.

The year 1997 saw the triumphant return of Stu Ungar. Holding A♥ 4♣ as his final cards, he became the only player ever to win three freeze-out championships (one of Moss’ three victories came by vote). The field was 350 in 1998 when Scotty “The Train” Nguyen, also called “The Prince of Poker,” beat a field of 350. His hole cards were J♦ 9♣.

Englishman Noel Furlong was the winner in 1999. He held 5♣ 5♦, The field was 393.

In 2000, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson put his famous bad beat on T.J. Cloutier, catching a 9 to his A♠ 9♣ and outdrawing Cloutier’s A Q. By now the number of players had grown to 512. In 2001, when Carlos “El Matador” Mortensen won with K♣ Q♣, the field had grown to 613, and now the championship pay-out had increased to $1.5 million. First place jumped to $2 million and the number of when Robert Varkonyi won with Q♦ 10♠ in 2002.

The WSOP explosion began in 2003 after Chris Moneymaker won with 5♦ 4♠. He was credited with revolutionizing poker by becoming the first to win his seat on an online poker site. The field that year was 839 and his win amounted to $2.5 million.

By the following year the number of entrants had zoomed to 2,576 and Greg “Fossilman” Raymer collected $5 million. His hole cards were 8♠ 8♦.

The entrants more than doubled the next year, to 5,619, when Joe Hachem collected $7.5 million, winning with 7♣ 3♠.

Jamie Gold’s prize was a current record of $12 million in 2006 when there were 8,773 players. He held Q♠ 9♣.

Jerry “The Shadow” Yang won with 8♦8♣ in 2007. His share was $8,250,000 and there were 6,358 players. In 2008 Peter “Isser” Eastgate held A♦ 5♠ when he won $9,152,416. There were 6,844 players. Joe Cada won in 2009. He held 9♦ 9♣, there were 6, 494 entrants and his prize was $8,574,649.

Jonathan Duhamel was the champion in 2010. There were 7,319 players, he won $8,944,310 and his winning cards were A♠ 2♣. In 2011 the champion was Pius Heinz. There were 6,865 players, he held A♠ K♣ and his win amounted to $8,715,638.

In 2012, the winner was Greg Merson who held K♦ 5♦ and collected $8,531,853 by outlasting 6,598 players.

In 2013, the winner was Ryan Riess who held A♥K♥ and won a total of $8,359,531 by outlasting 6,352 players.

In 2014, the winner was Martin Jacobson who held 10♥ 10♦ and collected $10,000,000 by outlasting 6,683 players.

In 2015, the winner was Joe McKeehen who held A♥ 10♦ and collected $7,683,346 by outlasting 6,420 players.

In 2016, the winner was Qui Nguyen who held K♣ 10♣ and collected $8,005,310 by outlasting 6,737 players.

In 2017, the winner was Scott Blumstein who held A♥ 2♦ and collected $8,150,000 by outlasting 7,221 players.

And, finally, a last year’s first-place winner was John Cynn who held K♣ J♣ and collected $8,800,000 by outlasting 7,874 players.

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