Vladas Tamasauskas is on hearth! The Lithuanian poker professional scored his first ever victory on the PokerGO studio in occasion no. 1 of the Poker Masters, after which adopted that up with a sixth-place exhibiting in occasion no. 2.
Event no. 3 was as soon as once more a $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em match, and as soon as once more, Tamasauskas was the final individual standing. This time the 28-year-old defeated a area of 87, incomes $208,800.
The three-for-three begin brings Tamasauskas’ sequence whole to $506,400, and his 506 PGT factors are practically double that of his nearest competitor within the race for the Purple Jacket.
Just over two weeks in the past, Tamasauskas additionally completed third within the EPT Barcelona predominant occasion, banking $438,750. He now has practically $2.5 million in profession match earnings. As a results of his run in the course of the month of September, he has moved as much as 76th place within the Card Player Player of the Year race.
Tamasauskas had a well-known face on the ultimate desk in Ren Lin, who had completed third within the first occasion. The Chinese professional improved his run by one spot in occasion no. 3, banking $147,900 for a runner-up end.
This was his twenty first ultimate desk of the yr, and the 400 POY factors he picked up have been sufficient to maneuver him into fourth place behind Isaac Haxton, Nacho Barbero, and present chief Bin Weng.
The ultimate desk featured quite a lot of professionals already making their second ultimate desk of the sequence, together with Daniel Rezaei (third), Alex Foxen (fourth), Michael Rocco (fifth), Dan Shak (eighth), and Filipp Khavin (ninth), in addition to prime gamers Chance Kornuth (sixth), and Andrew Lichtenberger (seventh).
Former WSOP predominant occasion champion Ryan Riess completed eleventh, marking his third in-the-money end in as many occasions.
There are 10 occasions in whole on the Poker Masters, which runs till Sept. 26 and options buy-ins starting from $10,000 to $50,000. The greatest performing participant all through the sequence shall be awarded the Purple Jacket.
The high-stakes competition started in 2017 and has been gained by Steffen Sontheimer (2017), Ali Imsirovic (2018), Sam Soverel (2019), Michael Addamo (2021), and Sean Winter (2022).
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY | PGT |
| 1 | Vladas Tamasauskas | $208,800 | 480 | 209 |
| 2 | Ren Lin | $147,900 | 400 | 148 |
| 3 | Daniel Razaei | $104,400 | 320 | 104 |
| 4 | Alex Foxen | $87,000 | 240 | 87 |
| 5 | Michael Rocco | $69,600 | 200 | 70 |
| 6 | Chance Kornuth | $52,200 | 160 | 52 |
| 7 | Andrew Lichtenberger | $43,500 | 120 | 44 |
| 8 | Dan Shak | $34,800 | 80 | 35 |
*Photos by PokerGO – Antonio Abrego
