World Poker Tour 2018 Prize Money

1. World Poker Tour Prize Money
2. World Poker Tour 2018 Prize Money Winner
3. World Poker Tour 2018 Prize Money Winners

A prize pool in excess of $80 million will be split up amongst the final 15 percent of the field, with the winner walking away with eight figures — $10,000,000. The 'money bubble' burst at 1:36am. Want a slice of the action? Play poker and win a seat. to a televised World Poker Tour event from ClubWPT! Check out ClubWPT.com. for more info.Like us on Fa. The numbers are in for the ‘Internation Tournament' segment of the 2020 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in main event. A total of 674 entries were made across three starting flights.

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.

World Poker Tour Prize Money

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:

Photo provided by World Poker Tour.

A charity poker tournament in Illinois is in hot water with poker players after participants were shorted in their prize pool payouts.

Over the weekend, the Midway Poker Tour hosted its inaugural tournament at the Sheraton Hotel in Elk Grove, Illinois. The buy-in was $1,100 with a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool, and part of the rake was earmarked for a charity dedicated to helping children.

After two starting flights and 226 entries, 31 players returned on Sunday for day 2 of the event, where all players were guaranteed an in-the-money finish of at least $2,300.

This is where a typical poker tournament became anything but. According to Illinois state law surrounding charitable gaming, players could only receive $500 in cash on top of the return of their buy-in. The remainder of their payout must be awarded in prizes, which in this instance was silver bars and coins. Anyone that cashed would receive $1,600 in cash and the rest in the equivalent amount of the precious metal.

But this key information wasn't publicized and many of the players who finished in the money were unaware that they would be receiving silver, according to a post on a popular poker forum.

'Apparently they bought a bunch of precious metals from some guy and were planning on having him on-site to immediately convert the precious metals to cash. But then the Attorney General found out about this and said they absolutely cannot convert the precious metals on site as it would be illegal.'

The owner and founder of the newly created tour, Dan Bekavac, was not at the tournament during pay outs and was effectively unreachable for most of the day, prompting many to question his legitimacy as a tour operator.

To make matters worse, in addition to not being able to quickly flip the silver for cash, players realized that they weren't being awarded the correct amount, either. The silver amounts awarded were coming up short by about 30 percent of market price of $24 an ounce.

World Poker Tour 2018 Prize Money Winner

'As I'm leaving the hotel, the guy who was in the cash out line in front of me is telling me how the coins are only worth $700,' wrote the poster. 'So we're being shorted 30 percent?'

World Poker Tour 2018 Prize Money Winners

AMPM.999, the Wisconsin-based company that sold the poker tour the metals, said in a statement that the metals were valued above the spot price.

'At 1 a.m. on Sunday morning, we got a call looking for help because the tournament runners found out that they could not pay out cash and needed precious metals for the ‘prize,'' said the company. 'They said they needed $200,000 in silver. We had almost half of that on hand. On the way to the tournament, we found a dealer that agreed to provide us the rest of it, which we purchased and then sold to tournament organizers. We had agreed on a price as what we had on hand was mostly premium silver, most of it retailing from $30-$40 per ounce.'

After a lengthy debate, the remaining players decided to play out the tournament and Renato Spahiu took it down for a 'prize value' of $55,060.

In the aftermath of the tournament, the series' Facebook page made several posts about the debacle and said that that anyone that was shorted will be reimbursed.

'Even after losing $58,000, I'm still working to pay these guys out that we're shorted,' said Bekavac. 'Sell your prizes and show me receipts. I will try my best to make everyone whole. Most popular social poker apps to play. Inbox me.'

1. World Poker Tour Prize Money
2. World Poker Tour 2018 Prize Money Winner
3. World Poker Tour 2018 Prize Money Winners

A prize pool in excess of $80 million will be split up amongst the final 15 percent of the field, with the winner walking away with eight figures — $10,000,000. The 'money bubble' burst at 1:36am. Want a slice of the action? Play poker and win a seat. to a televised World Poker Tour event from ClubWPT! Check out ClubWPT.com. for more info.Like us on Fa. The numbers are in for the ‘Internation Tournament' segment of the 2020 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in main event. A total of 674 entries were made across three starting flights.

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.

World Poker Tour Prize Money

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:

Photo provided by World Poker Tour.

A charity poker tournament in Illinois is in hot water with poker players after participants were shorted in their prize pool payouts.

Over the weekend, the Midway Poker Tour hosted its inaugural tournament at the Sheraton Hotel in Elk Grove, Illinois. The buy-in was $1,100 with a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool, and part of the rake was earmarked for a charity dedicated to helping children.

After two starting flights and 226 entries, 31 players returned on Sunday for day 2 of the event, where all players were guaranteed an in-the-money finish of at least $2,300.

This is where a typical poker tournament became anything but. According to Illinois state law surrounding charitable gaming, players could only receive $500 in cash on top of the return of their buy-in. The remainder of their payout must be awarded in prizes, which in this instance was silver bars and coins. Anyone that cashed would receive $1,600 in cash and the rest in the equivalent amount of the precious metal.

But this key information wasn't publicized and many of the players who finished in the money were unaware that they would be receiving silver, according to a post on a popular poker forum.

'Apparently they bought a bunch of precious metals from some guy and were planning on having him on-site to immediately convert the precious metals to cash. But then the Attorney General found out about this and said they absolutely cannot convert the precious metals on site as it would be illegal.'

The owner and founder of the newly created tour, Dan Bekavac, was not at the tournament during pay outs and was effectively unreachable for most of the day, prompting many to question his legitimacy as a tour operator.

To make matters worse, in addition to not being able to quickly flip the silver for cash, players realized that they weren't being awarded the correct amount, either. The silver amounts awarded were coming up short by about 30 percent of market price of $24 an ounce.

World Poker Tour 2018 Prize Money Winner

'As I'm leaving the hotel, the guy who was in the cash out line in front of me is telling me how the coins are only worth $700,' wrote the poster. 'So we're being shorted 30 percent?'

World Poker Tour 2018 Prize Money Winners

AMPM.999, the Wisconsin-based company that sold the poker tour the metals, said in a statement that the metals were valued above the spot price.

'At 1 a.m. on Sunday morning, we got a call looking for help because the tournament runners found out that they could not pay out cash and needed precious metals for the ‘prize,'' said the company. 'They said they needed $200,000 in silver. We had almost half of that on hand. On the way to the tournament, we found a dealer that agreed to provide us the rest of it, which we purchased and then sold to tournament organizers. We had agreed on a price as what we had on hand was mostly premium silver, most of it retailing from $30-$40 per ounce.'

After a lengthy debate, the remaining players decided to play out the tournament and Renato Spahiu took it down for a 'prize value' of $55,060.

In the aftermath of the tournament, the series' Facebook page made several posts about the debacle and said that that anyone that was shorted will be reimbursed.

'Even after losing $58,000, I'm still working to pay these guys out that we're shorted,' said Bekavac. 'Sell your prizes and show me receipts. I will try my best to make everyone whole. Most popular social poker apps to play. Inbox me.'

The post showed a screenshot of a text from 'Sami' that said he or she was shorted $900 and followed immediately by a $900 Apple Pay receipt. The most recent post on the page reads, 'Again anyone who did not get paid in full by the charity send us a direct message and we will make you whole.'