Samuel Mullur’s largest stay event money prior to creating the journey to the Atlantis Paradise Island Bahamas for the 2023 World Series of Poker Paradise was a $20,000 payday for a Forty fifth-place displaying within the 2022 Mediterranean Poker Party important occasion. The Austrian blew that rating out of the water when he topped a area of 533 entries within the $25,000 buy-in WSOP Paradise GGMillion$ High Rollers Championship. Mullur was awarded $2,726,300 and his first bracelet for the win.
Mullur additionally secured 2,940 Card Player Player of the Year factors after popping out on prime. This was his first POY-qualified rating of the 12 months, but it surely alone was sufficient to catapult him into 87th place within the total rankings offered by Global Poker.
This occasion additionally awarded PokerGO Tour factors, with 850 for Mullur shifting him into fiftieth place in that high-stakes-centric factors race.
This occasion ran from Dec. 5-8. The enormous turnout noticed the $10,000,000 assure simply surpassed, with $13,325,000 finally paid out among the many prime 80 finishers. As one would count on, loads of the largest names within the recreation made deep runs on this event, together with six-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu (twenty sixth), two-time bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs (twenty third), bracelet winner Jason Koon (twenty second), nine-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (nineteenth), two-time bracelet winner Daniel Dvoress (18th), and bracelet winner Artur Martirosian (eleventh).
The last day started with eight gamers remaining and Daniel Smiljkovic within the lead. Mullur was the brief stack when playing cards acquired within the air.
The first knockout of the day noticed Matthew Stumpf run A_3 suited into the A-J of Smiljkovic to complete eighth ($267,500). Four-time bracelet winner Adrian Mateos quickly adopted. His last hand pitted pocket fours in opposition to A-J suited to Smiljkovic, who made Broadway on the river to win the pot and slim the sector to only six contenders. Mateos was awarded $349,400 for his efforts, rising his lifetime earnings to greater than $39.8 million within the course of. Mateos has now made 16 last tables this 12 months, with two titles gained alongside the best way. His 5,918 POY factors are good for eleventh on the general leaderboard.
Mullur doubled by means of Smiljkovic throughout six-handed motion to climb to the highest of the leaderboard. Klemens Roiter briefly surpassed him, however a basic race with Mullur’s A-Okay besting Roiter’s pocket tens noticed Mullur pull nicely away from the pack. Roiter was left on fumes after that hand and shortly succumbed in sixth place regardless of discovering a number of double-ups. He was awarded $463,700 because the sixth-place finisher.
Arunas Sapitavicius’ run on this occasion concluded when his A-2 bumped into one other pocket pair of tens for Mullur. The board improved neither participant and Sapitavicius was despatched to the rail with $625,400 for his robust displaying on this occasion.
2020 WSOP important occasion champion Damian Salas dedicated his sack with Okay-Q, solely to seek out himself in danger and trailing the A-Okay of Frank Brannan. Ace excessive was nonetheless finest by the river and Salas was eradicated in fourth place ($856,800). This was his fourth-largest event payday but. The Argentinian now has greater than $7.6 million in lifetime cashes to his title.
Smiljkovic acquired his final 11 huge blinds in from the small blind with Okay-9 and acquired a name from Brannan, who held A-4. Smiljkovic picked up a gutshot straight draw on the flop to go together with his stay playing cards, however the flip and river introduced low blanks to maintain Brannan forward. Smiljkovic cashed for $1,192,300. This was the second-largest payday of his profession behind the $1,450,000 he took residence for one more third-place end in a excessive curler earlier this 12 months at a Triton Poker competition in Vietnam. The bracelet winner from Germany now has almost $5.2 million in recorded cashes.
Heads-up play started with Mullur holding 86,300,000 to Brannan’s 46,900,000. The last two went on to battle for greater than three hours, with loads of swings alongside the best way. Brannan was out in entrance when the penultimate all-in confrontation of the event occurred. The chips went in on the flip with the board displaying 105
2
J
. Brannan, who had check-raised the flop with J
4
, had improved from air to prime pair, however was nonetheless trailing the Okay
Okay
of Mullur. The 7
accomplished the board, giving Muller the double up and the lead.
Just a number of fingers later, Brannan open-shoved for simply shy of 14 huge blinds with Q10
from the button. Muller, extremely, had been dealt pocket kings once more. He known as together with his Okay
Okay
and the Okay
8
8
flop gave him kings full to all however seal his victory. The 6
on the flip made the three
on the tip was a mere formality. Brannan earned $1,684,500 because the runner-up finisher, which was far and away his largest stay event rating but. He now has greater than $2.2 million in recorded earnings.
Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the last desk:
Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
1 | Samuel Mullur | $2,726,300 | 2,940 | 850 |
2 | Frank Brannan | $1,684,500 | 2,450 | 750 |
3 | Daniel Smiljkovic | $1,192,300 | 1,960 | 700 |
4 | Damian Salas | $856,800 | 1,470 | 514 |
5 | Arunas Sapitavicius | $625,400 | 1,225 | 375 |
6 | Klemens Roiter | $463,700 | 980 | 278 |
7 | Adrian Mateos | $349,400 | 735 | 210 |
8 | Matthew Stumpf | $267,500 | 490 | 161 |
9 | Renat Bohdanov | $208,300 | 245 | 125 |
Winner picture credit score: WSOP / Tomas Stacha.