The excitement gets higher as each day passes by at the 2018 WSOP Main Event, because as more and more players get eliminated, then the more difficult it is for the remaining ones to stay afloat in the hopes of finally winning that coveted Main Event championship bracelet as well as the humongous first-place prize money worth more than $8.8 million!
Let's take a look at what happened during July 14 Saturday in Event #65: $10,000 NLHE Main Event - World Championship of the 2018 WSOP at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
With a buy-in of $10,000 and the player entries reaching 7,874 in total, the entire prizepool built up $74,015,600, with the last man standing to get the lion's share of a whopping $8.8 million!
Day 10 of the Main Event was won by John Cynn, a 33-year-old poker player who finished 11th place in the 2016 WSOP Main Event, earning $650,000 as consolation prize for almost getting in to the final table. It just took him two years to significantly improve his finish and ultimately take down poker's most prestigious event this summer.
Cynn said after the event, "Feels very different. I mean really neither is supposed to happen. To make 11th is insane on its own, and to win, that's literally something that you dream of but you just never expect to happen. Right now I do feel pretty overwhelmed."
He added, "I do like to think that I don't need the money to be happy, but at the same time it's practically going to make things a lot easier. Things I want to do in life, things for my family, and my parents. To my parents this is money that they could have never imagined. It'll definitely be life-changing."
The final hand was played just before 5 a.m. local time on Sunday morning. It took 10 hours of heads-up play to determine a winner between Tony Miles and John Cynn:
Event #65: $10,000 NLHE Main Event Final Table Results
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Place
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Player
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Country
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Prize
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1
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John Cynn
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United States
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$8,800,000
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2
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Tony Miles
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United States
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$5,000,000
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|
3
|
Michael Dyer
|
United States
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$3,750,000
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|
4
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Nicolas Manion
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United States
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$2,825,000
|
|
5
|
Joe Cada
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United States
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$2,150,000
|
|
6
|
Aram Zobian
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United States
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$1,800,000
|
|
7
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Alex Lynskey
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United States
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$1,500,000
|
|
8
|
Artem Metalidi
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Australia
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$1,250,000
|
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9
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Antoine Labat
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Ukraine
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$1,000,000
|
|
10
|
Yueqi Zhu
|
France
|
$850,025
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Here's a look at the past 10 Main Event champions of the WSOP Main Event
Source:
https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2018-wsop/main-event/chips.232462.htm?itm_content=pn-hp-hero-1
