Will Joyner Wins 2021 Wynn Spring Classic $1,600 Buy-in Event For $243,188

The 2021 Wynn Spring Classic $1,600 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion attracted an enormous discipline of 1,251 whole entries, blowing away the $1 million assure to create a ultimate prize pool of $1,820,205. In the tip, the most important share of that cash was awarded to Will Joyner from Jackson, TN. Joyner took dwelling $243,188 and the trophy after putting a heads-up take care of World Series of Poker bracelet winner Joey Weissman.

This was Joyner’s first-ever six-figure match rating, along with his largest earlier money being the $90,112 he earned because the winner of a $365 buy-in WSOP Circuit gold ring occasion throughout the 2017 WSOPC Hard Rock Tulsa cease. Joyner now has $367,382 in profession lifetime earnings after this newest title run.

In addition to the cash and the {hardware}, Joyner was additionally awarded 960 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. This was his first POY-qualified rating of the 12 months, nevertheless it alone was sufficient to see him climb right into a tie with James Carroll for seventeenth place within the 2021 POY race standings, that are sponsored by Global Poker.

The ultimate day of the occasion started with 48 gamers remaining, with the cash bubble having been burst the prior night when the sphere was narrowed to 135 gamers. Plenty of massive names made the ultimate day, together with two-time WSOP bracelet winner and Card Player Publisher Barry Shulman (thirty first – $10,734), latest Venetian DeepStack Showdown $1,100 buy-in ‘UltimateStack’ runner-up Keith Morrow(twenty fourth – $10,734), World Poker Tour Championship winner Asher Conniff (twentieth – $13,152), 2019 Poker Hall of Fame inductee David Oppenheim (fifteenth – $18,624), and WSOP bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus (ninth – $29,433).

Weissman secured $230,090 because of the deal he minimize with Joyner to deliver the match to a conclusion. This was the second-largest rating of his carer, behind solely the $694,609 he earned for taking down the $2,500 buy-in no-limit maintain’em bracelet on the 2012 WSOP. Weissman now has greater than $3.5 million in profession match earnings. The 800 POY factors he earned for his second-place exhibiting on this occasion moved him into twenty first place within the general scores. His one earlier final-table end got here simply 11 days earlier, when he completed seventh within the $10,500 buy-in excessive curler occasion at this identical match collection for $41,500 and 120 factors.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:

Winner picture credit score: Wynn Poker Room Twitter account.