Despite all of his scores on the excessive curler circuit, together with quite a few last tables on the PokerGO Cup, Poker Masters, and U.S. Poker Open, Dan Shak had by no means received an occasion on the PokerGO studio. The hedge fund supervisor and part-time poker participant modified that on Thursday by taking down the $10,000 massive guess combine occasion on the PokerGO Mixed Games sequence.
The 64-year-old picked up $133,200 for the win, bringing his profession totals to greater than $14.5 million. Shak topped a area of 37 entries, taking greater than a 3rd of the $370,000 whole prize pool.
The win comes after a sequence of shut requires Shak, who last tabled the huge $1,000 Mystery Millions Bounty on the WSOP final summer season earlier than ending runner-up within the $10,000 Stud Championship. He then narrowly missed out on his first bracelet but once more in December, taking second within the $25,000 pot-limit Omaha excessive curler at WSOP Paradise within the Bahamas.
This win was unlikely, nevertheless, with Shak coming into the ultimate desk with the brief stack and surviving a number of all-ins regardless of drawing slim. To make issues even harder, he needed to deal with earlier occasion winner Jerry Wong, Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu, and Jeremy Ausmus, who would go on to document his second runner-up end of the sequence.
Wong not solely received the $10,000 Triple Draw occasion a couple of days earlier, however he additionally took seventh within the $10,000 Dealer’s Choice earlier than including the fifth-place displaying on this occasion.
Negreanu banked $55,500 for third place, his seventh last desk of 2024 and fourth of the sequence. He had beforehand taken fifth within the $5,000 H.O.R.S.E., fourth within the $10,000. H.O.R.SE., and completed runner-up within the $10,000 Dealer’s Choice. With 1,660 Card Player Player of the Year factors, he has moved into tenth place general.
Ausmus was trying good to enhance on his second-place displaying within the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. and had Shak on the ropes holding a pat 10-8-6-4-2 in opposition to a one-card draw to an eight in no-limit 2-7 single draw. Shak hit a 9, nevertheless, and doubled into the lead earlier than closing it out a short time later.
The match featured a rotation of massive guess video games (non-limit) that features no-limit maintain’em, pot-limit Omaha, pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better, five-card pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better, no-limit five-card draw, pot-limit 2-7 triple draw, and no-limit 2-7 single draw.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Dan Shak | $133,200 | 240 | 133 |
| 2 | Jeremy Ausmus | $88,800 | 200 | 88 |
| 3 | Daniel Negreanu | $55,500 | 160 | 55 |
| 4 | Walter Chambers | $40,700 | 120 | 40 |
| 5 | Jerry Wong | $29,600 | 100 | 29 |
| 6 | John Racener | $22,200 | 80 | 22 |
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