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WSOP: Half-million bounty joy and more bracelets given away

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Day after day, the WSOP's paradise stop in the Bahamas hands out valuable bracelets and 6-figure prizes to players. Who has already made their poker dream come true?


Mystery Bounty

The opening tournament of the entire WSOP Paradise festival was the popular Mystery Bounty format, which involves pulling mystery envelopes containing various rewards for eliminating opponents. In this case, the biggest bounty was set at $500,000, more than the first-place prize. The lucky winner was Jeremy Lavi Dan, and his reaction is truly priceless!

The streamed final table featured the top 9 players, and many viewers were sure to be rooting for either Davide Kitai or Maria Ho. Neither of these global stars, were crowned champions, with Kitai cashing $64,000 for 8th place, and Maria battling her way to the bronze medal position, for which she took home a whopping $200,000.

The owner of the bracelet from this event ended up being Korean player Jin Hoon Lee, who, although he made the final table with only 14bb, managed to convert them into a $420,000 reward at the end of the day. It was the win of a lifetime for Lee, as evidenced by the massive wave of cheers and screams he and his mates let out throughout the tournament hall.

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NAME

COUNTRY

PRIZE

1.

Jin Hoon Lee

KOR

420,000$

2.

Max Pinnola

USA

257,100$

3.

Maria Ho

USA

200,000$

4.

Konstantin Maslak

RUS

160,000$

5.

Drew Scott

CAN

127,000$

6.

Thomas Santerne

FRA

101,000$

7.

Kartik Ved

IND

80,000$

8.

Davidi Kitai

BEL

64,000$

9.

Hyunsup Kim

KOR

51,000$


GGMillion$

The third bracelet was handed out in the aforementioned $25,000 buy-in GGMillion$, which unusually featured two opening days. In them, the players collectively took care of an impressive 533 entries, which left the event's $5 million guarantee far in the oblivion as the prizepool soared to $13,325,000. During the second day of play, the final eight was gradually formed from the 80 advancers ($42,200 mincash), with Germany's Daniel Smiljkovic taking the lead.

Before the final table, everyone was assured of a $267,500 payout, but a champion bracelet awaited the champion, along with an astronomical $2,726,300 prize. The latter eventually went to Austria, thanks to Samuel Mullure. He took down American Frank Brannan in heads-up play and took home the win of a lifetime.

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NAME

COUNTRY

PRIZE

1.

Samuel Mullur

AUT

2,736,300$

2.

Frank Brannan

USA

1,684,500$

3.

Daniel Smiljkovic

GER

1,192,300$

4.

Damian Salas

ARG

856,800$

5.

Arunas Sapitavicius

LIT

625,400$

6.

Klemens Roiter

AUT

463,700$

7.

Matthew Stumpf

SPA

349,400$

8.

Adrian Mateos

CAN

267,500$

9.

Renat Bohdanov

UKR

208,300$


Mini Main Event

During the past few hours, the bracelets with serial numbers 4 and 5 were also handed out. Another affordable tournament was the Mini Main Event, which each interested party could play for only $1,000. The only undefeated player in the field of 2,234 entries was Canadian Martin Raus, which earned him $334,380 in addition to his bracelet.


$25k PLO High Roller

The fifth and final bracelet so far was handed out in the Omaha event, specifically the $25k PLO High Roller. The two-day tournament attracted a total of 140 entries, and yet only one name shines at the end of it. Greece's Nikolaos Lampropoulos held his own against a tough field and took home $871,600 in addition to his bracelet.

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NAME

COUNTRY

PRIZE

1.

Nikolaos Lampropoulos

GRE

871,600$

2.

Dan Shak

USA

537,900$

3.

Imad Derwiche

FRA

397,700$

4.

Tyler Brown

USA

297,400$

5.

Nick Schulman

USA

225,000$

6.

Michael Moncek

USA

172,300$

7.

Matthew Wantman

USA

133,500$

8.

Yuri Dzivielevski

BRA

104,700$


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