Daniel Negreanu Ends WSOP Dry Spell With Poker Players Championship Victory

The past fortnight of action at the 2024 World Series of Poker included two of the most noteworthy wins in recent poker history, with Daniel Negreanu and Scott Seiver each capturing their seventh career bracelets.

Before delving deeper into those wins and many others, let’s take stock of the numbers as the 55th Annual WSOP heads into its final few weeks of play. With 81 live bracelet events and 13 online bracelet events in the books, a total of $292.8 million in prize money has now been awarded. There have been 198,330 entries made across those 94 completed tournaments, with field sizes ranging from as small as 64 players in the $25,000 heads-up championship to 20,647 entries for the $300 Gladiators of Poker.

Negreanu Gets Coveted Poker Players Championship Title

After more than a decade without a win at the series, legend of the game Daniel Negreanu finally broke through to secure his seventh WSOP gold bracelet.

The victory was especially monumental for the 49-year-old Poker Hall of Fame member, as it came in one of the toughest and most prestigious tournaments of the year, the WSOP $50,000 Poker Players Championship. The Canadian pro defeated a field of 89 entries in the nine-game mixed affair to earn $1,178,703 and the long-awaited hardware.

“This is the tournament,” said Negreanu after coming out on top. “This is the one where all the best players show up. The structures are very long. It’s a real grind to stay mentally sharp for five days. When you win this tournament, you earn it. There’s no fluking the $50,000 Poker Players Championship.”

With this win, Negreanu became just the 10th player in poker history to have won seven or more WSOP bracelets.

“I got to be honest, having six was kind of embarrassing for me, really,” Negreanu told Card Player when asked about finally capturing his seventh. “It’s just like I’ve played so many tournaments and I only have six and [Phil] Ivey has 11 and all this stuff, and I’m like, ‘Whoa, I have too many second-place finishes.’ So this feels like it changes things up.”

“I don’t think I’ve ever played better. I talk about playing above the rim… I mean, you can play at the rim and that’s good, but if you really want to be an elite, you have to play above the rim,” Negreanu shared when asked about his feelings on his performance.

Before this win, Negreanu’s last bracelet came at the 2013 WSOP Europe in a €25,000 high roller. It was 3,899 days between that victory and this one. He now has two bracelets in mixed games (this and the 2003 S.H.O.E.) and five bracelets in hold’em events. His first bracelet came in the 1998 $2,000 pot-limit Omaha event. He then won the $2,000 limit hold’em in both 2004 and 2008. His first no-limit hold’em bracelet came in the 2013 WSOP Asia Pacific main event.

Negreanu now has $52,972,918 in career tournament earnings, which is good for seventh place on poker’s all-time money list. More than $22.5 million of that total has been earned through Negreanu’s success at the WSOP. To see where that stands on the WSOP’s earnings leaderboard, head to pg. 39.

This was Negreanu’s third title and 11th final-table finish of 2024. The 816 Card Player Player of the Year points he was awarded as the champion were enough to move him into 16th place in the 2024 POY standings presented by Global Poker. Negreanu is chasing his third POY title, having already earned the honor in 2004 and 2013. Negreanu also earned 700 PokerGO Tour points for the win. With 1,645 total points, he is now the top-ranked player on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.

The 89-entry turnout for this year’s running of this prestigious event resulted in a prize pool of $4,249,750. The top 14 finishers made the money, with big names like two-time bracelet winner Maxx Coleman (14th), four-time bracelet winner Phil Hui (13th), five-time bracelet winner and three-time champion of this event Michael Mizrachi (12th), two-time bracelet winner James Obst (11th), three-time bracelet winner Joao Vieira (9th), bracelet winner Johannes Becker (8th), 11-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey (7th), six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus (6th), bracelet winner David Benyamine (5th), Dylan Smith (4th), and two-time bracelet winner Chris Brewer (3rd) all running deep.

Heads-up play began with two-time bracelet winner Bryce Yockey holding a 3:2 lead. The two battled for over three hours, with plenty of swings along the way. Negreanu was all-in and at risk at one point in pot-limit Omaha with a straight draw and a pair of deuces against two overpairs, aces and jacks, for Yockey. The turn changed nothing, but a deuce on the river gave Negreanu trips and a double into the lead.

The final hand of the night also came in pot-limit Omaha. Negreanu raised on the button with A Q J 7 and Yockey called with 9 6 3 2 from the big blind. The flop came down 10 7 7 and Yockey checked. Negreanu bet. Yockey check-raised and Negreanu moved all-in. Yockey called.

Negreanu had trips for the lead, but Yockey had flush and straight draws. The Q on the turn gave Negreanu sevens full, leaving Yockey drawing dead. He cashed for $768,467 as the runner-up, the largest score of his career. The recent $5,000 pot-limit Omaha champion now has more than $5.9 million in total earnings.

Scott Seiver Wins Third Bracelet Of 2024, Grows Total To Seven

Scott Seiver took down the prestigious $10,000 no-limit deuce-to-seven single draw lowball championship for his third bracelet of the series and seventh overall. The 39-year-old poker pro based out of Las Vegas also earned $411,041 in prize money to bring his career total to more than $26.8 million.

Seiver is just the seventh player in poker history to have won three bracelets in a single year, joining Puggy Pearson (1973), Phil Hellmuth (1993), Ted Forrest (1993), Phil Ivey (2002), Jeffrey Lisandro (2009), and George Danzer (2014). Seiver is the first to have achieved the incredible feat in nearly a decade.

This title run also saw Seiver join an exclusive group of only 11 players who have seven or more career bracelets to their name, doing so just a couple of days after Negreanu.

“I mean, I’m on cloud nine right now. I couldn’t be more excited. I thought I would do big things this summer, but I mean obviously you can never dream something like this,” Seiver told Card Player after coming out on top.

After winning his second bracelet earlier this summer, Seiver said that his impending eligibility for the Poker Hall of Fame (he turns 40 next year) inspired a particular focus on success in this year’s WSOP Player of the Year race.

“It’s always been something in the back of my mind, and as I’ve gotten older and more people I know have gotten in, I realized that a lot of my life I’ve dedicated to this game and this profession, and it would mean a lot to me to show that I’ve left my mark on this field.”

The highest buy-in no-limit deuce-to-seven single draw event has long been considered one of the most desired titles by top players in the game.

“It means everything to me. I was really devastated when I got second in this two years ago. I’ve always wanted this bracelet so much. This final table was unbelievably difficult. From two tables down, everyone was tremendous and honestly, that makes it even more special. I am good at this game, but I am not like world-class great. Getting to play with Jason Mercier, Billy Baxter… these are people that have won this tournament 10 times or whatever. It was very special.”

With the win, Seiver took over the lead in the aforementioned WSOP POY race, edging out Jeremey Ausmus, who also made the final table of this event in fourth place. He was joined at the table by two-time bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Famer Jennifer Harman, who took fifth.

Eldridge, Ghaneian, And Liu Each Get Their Second Bracelets

At one point down the stretch, it looked like six-time bracelet winner and 2023 Poker Hall of Fame inductee Brian Rast was going to run away with the title in the $25,000 pot-limit Omaha high roller. Then, a cooler saw David Eldridge overtake the lead. Rast fought back into the lead briefly, but Eldridge pulled off a few daring bluffs during heads-up play that ultimately helped propel him to victory. He earned $2,246,728 and his second WSOP gold bracelet as the champion.

This payday dwarfed the $41,553 he earned alongside his first bracelet, which came for taking down the 2021 WSOP Online $1,000 no-limit hold’em freezeout in Pennsylvania. Eldridge now has more than $3.9 million in recorded tournament earnings.

This high-stakes PLO affair attracted a record 476 entries, up from 445 in 2023. As a result, there was $11,186,000 to award amongst the top 72 finishers. Two-time bracelet winner Juha Helppi finished fifth. Rast was awarded $1,497,824 as the runner-up. This was his seventh seven-figure tournament score, growing his career earnings to $26.7 million.

Nine years after capturing his first bracelet, Arash Ghaneian battled his way back to the winner’s circle. The 2015 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. champion topped a field of 167 entries in this year’s $10,000 stud eight-or-better championship to earn $376,476 and his second gold bracelet.

Ghaneian overcame a tough final table, and survived an extended heads-up clash with Richard Sklar that required the addition of an unplanned fourth day of play for a winner to be decided. Ghaneian, a finance broker from Las Vegas, now has more than $1,373,000 in career tournament earnings to his name after this most recent triumph.

A total of 468 players plopped down $2,500 to enter this year’s mixed big bet event, which featured a rotation of Big O, no-limit hold’em, no-limit deuce-to-seven single draw lowball, pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better, no-limit five card draw high, pot-limit Omaha, and pot-limit deuce-to-seven triple draw lowball.

Wing Po Liu came out on top, taking home $209,942 and his second bracelet for the win. The Hong Kong resident now has more than $861,000 in lifetime earnings after this victory.

Liu’s first win saw him come out on top in the 2023 WSOP Europe €5,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha championship for $243,800. These two bracelet event victories are Liu’s two largest tournament scores to date.

Dario Sammartino and Shiina Okamoto Among First-Timers

A total of 20 first-time bracelet winners emerged in the live WSOP tournaments of the past two weeks. Among them was Dario Sammartino, who has been agonizingly close to winning several times at the series. While he most famously finished as the runner-up in the 2019 WSOP main event for a $6 million payday, the Italian poker pro has another runner-up showing and 10 other top-five finishes in bracelet events.

After all of those near-misses, Sammartino finally landed the trophy in this year’s $2,500 mixed Omaha eight-or-better and stud eight-or-better event. He topped a field of 507 entries to earn his first bracelet and the top prize of $222,703.

Sammartino now has more than $17.4 million in career tournament earnings, extending his lead atop Italy’s all-time money list. He now has more than a $4.6 million lead on second-ranked Mustapha Kanit.

Japan’s Shiina Okamoto navigated her way through a field of 1,295 entries in the 2023 WSOP $1,000 ladies no-limit hold’em championship, only to fall one spot shy of earning the hardware. On day 1 of this year’s ladies event, which drew 1,245 entries, Okamoto made a post on social media that translated to “I want to retrieve the things I left behind last year.”

Incredibly, she did just that. Okamoto managed to battle all the way back to the final two, and this time around she emerged victorious with the bracelet. She defeated two-time WSOP Circuit ring winner and poker commentator Jamie Kerstetter heads-up to secure the top prize of $171,732.

Okamoto, via translation by the first-ever Japanese bracelet winner Naoya Kihara, told Card Player that when she first made that social media post, “There was a long way to go, and I didn’t think it would really happen. But by the end of day 2 I had a really massive stack, and at that point I thought it could be true.”

After this latest win, Okamoto now has $408,567 in recorded tournament earnings to her name, with more than three-quarters of that coming from her success at the WSOP.
This tournament ran over four days, with 187 players earning a share of the $1,095,600 prize pool. Kerstetter earned a career-best live score of $114,479 as the runner-up, increasing her career earnings to over $1.1 million.

Nakache and Perkusic Score Marquee PLO Victories

Pot-Limit Omaha has seen a spike in popularity on the poker tournament scene in recent years. This year’s WSOP $10,000 PLO championship event drew a massive field of 811 entries, up from 731 in 2023 and 683 in 2022. As a result of the strong turnout, this event ended up with a $7,542,300 prize pool.

France’s Elie Nakache emerged victorious from the sea of four-card enthusiasts, earning $1,320,945 and his first bracelet for the win. This was Nakache’s first seven-figure tournament score. In fact, prior to this event, he had never recorded a six-figure cash on the circuit. He now has nearly $1.5 million in lifetime earnings.

The third and final day of the $50,000 pot-limit Omaha high roller began with five players remaining, with four having already earned at least one bracelet. Daniel Perkusic of Germany was the lone contender chasing his first win at the series. After a few short hours, Perkusic was the one hoisting the hardware and heading to the payout desk to collect the top prize of $2,100,325.

This was the second live tournament win of Perkusic’s career. His first came in a 2022 EPT Barcelona €10,200 PLO event, which saw him earn what was a career-high score of $268,042.

The 187-entry turnout for this tournament built a prize pool of $8,929,250. The final table featured six-time bracelet winner Brian Rast (8th), bracelet winner David Benyamine (7th), two-time bracelet winner Santhosh Suvarna (5th), bracelet winner Ronald Keijzer (4th), three-time bracelet winner Jim Collopy (3rd), and bracelet winner Danny Tang (2nd).

Other First-Time Bracelet Winners

Argentina’s Franco Spitale topped a field of 10,939 entries in the $1,500 Millionaire Maker, winning a wild final hand in front of a raucous rail to secure his first bracelet and the top prize of $1,178,703.

Justin Carey limped in with 2 2 and Spitale raised with A 10 from the big blind. His opponent thought a bit and then moved all in. That brought an instant call from Spitale for a nearly 200-million chip pot.

The flop pushed the odds significantly in Carey’s favor, however, after the 10 5 2 hit the board. Carey now held a 96.6% chance to rake the pot with his set of deuces and turn the tables in the match. The A on the turn gave Spitale at least a semblance of hope, moving his chances to 9.1%. Either of the remaining tens or aces and he would score his first WSOP bracelet and a mountain of cash. His Argentinian supporters continued to cheer as each card was dealt and seemingly willed the A to fall on the river handing Spitale the pot with a bigger full house. Carey settled for $1,001,169 as the runner-up.

The $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em super seniors event, which required players to be at least 60 years of age, drew 3,362 entries to create a prize pool of $2,958,560. The top 505 finishers made the money, with the largest chunk going to eventual champion Sean Jazayeri.

This was the first bracelet win for the Irvine, California resident. The $368,025 top prize was the second-largest score of his poker career, trailing only the $1,370,240 he earned as the champion of the 2012 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic main event. Jazayeri now has more than $2.4 million in career earnings.

While 1,773 entered the $3,000 no-limit hold’em event, only one left with the bracelet and the top prize of $676,990. That player was Italy’s Paolo Boi, who picked up the six-figure payday and the hardware as the champion. This win was roughly 10x the size of Boi’s previous top score of $68,063 which he earned for a seventh-place finish in a €2,200 buy-in event at last year’s EPT Monte Carlo festival.

David Funkhouser came away with the win in event no. 63, the $1,500 no-limit deuce-to-seven single draw lowball tournament. He overcame a field of 453 entries to lock up his first bracelet and $123,314 in prize money.

Funkhouser now has nearly $1.1 million in lifetime cashes under his belt. This was the third-largest score on his résumé, trailing what he earned as the runner-up in the 2022 $10,000 stud eight-or-better championship and the $187,200 he earned for winning a $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. event at the 2023 PGT Mixed Games II.

The $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship event drew 5,110 total entries, with 40 players winning their way in via a leaderboard challenge for the popular daily Deepstack tournaments. The strong turnout resulted in a prize pool of $2,606,100. After four days of play, the UK’s Hector Berry picked up the bracelet and the top prize of $282,876. This was Berry’s first live win and just his seventh recorded cash.

Christopher Moen bested a field of 5,263 total entries in the $600 buy-in no-limit hold’em event to nab his first bracelet and the top prize of $289,323. Moen’s previous standout score was a first-place finish in the 2009 Twin Cities Poker Open main event for $61,924.

The inaugural $5,000 seniors high roller no-limit hold’em event was a smashing success, with 811 entries (all at least 50 years of age) posting the healthy buy-in to build a final prize pool of $6,751,800. Mark Checkwicz will go down in poker history as the first-ever champion of this tournament. The Springfield, Massachusetts resident earned $573,876 after coming out on top.

The Salute to Warriors drew a field of 4,517 entries, with $40 from each $500 buy-in being donated to United Service Organizations and other entities benefiting veterans. After those contributions were set aside, there was $1,851,970 in prize money and a gold bracelet to play for. After three days of poker action, Ben Collins came away with the hardware and the top prize of $207,486. This was the largest live score yet for the UK resident, who played professionally online over a decade ago.

Nikolay Fal scooped his first bracelet as the champion of this year’s $1,500 stud eight-or-better event. Fal topped a field of 611 entries to earn $153,730. This was Fal’s third-largest score, trailing the $326,153 he secured as the 2022 Merit Western Poker Series $3,300 event winner and the $230,000 he was awarded for winning a $2,700 event at the 2017 Millions Russia festival. Fal now has more than $1.6 million in lifetime earnings.

In June of 2023, Colin Robinson navigated his way through a field of thousands down to the final two in the WSOP $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em Monster Stack event. He ended up falling just short of the gold, finishing second for $718,649. Just over a year later, Robinson managed to make it back down to heads-up play at the WSOP, this time in the $2,500 no-limit hold’em event.

The Anthem, Arizona resident was able to come out on top in his second go-round, earning $667,963 and his first bracelet for the win. Robinson now has $2,215,711 in lifetime tournament earnings, with the majority coming from his 33 in-the-money finishes at the WSOP.

Martin Alcaide primarily plays poker online. The Spanish-born Bulgarian told reporters he likely would not have even been at this year’s WSOP if it weren’t for winning a main event seat online at partner site GGPoker.

With that seat locked up, Alcaide made his way to Las Vegas and decided to enter into the $400 buy-in no-limit hold’em Colossus event. He ended up overcoming the massive field of 10,143 entries to earn $501,240 and his first gold bracelet. Prior to this win, Alcaide had just shy of $12,500 in prior live cashes to his name. Now, he is a WSOP champion.

With 1,437 total entries, this year’s tag team event had $632,280 in prize money to award. The top 216 teams made the money, but only one pair of players would walk away as the champions. After three days of play, Jimmy Setna and Jason James were the last team standing.

The Canadian duo each earned their first bracelets and paydays of $95,455 ($190,910 for the team). The Mississauga, Ontario residents are currently roommates. Now they’ll have to collaborate on how to best display their collective WSOP hardware. James now has $1,205,415 in career earnings, while Setna sits with $869,000.

Mystery bounty mania rages on around the poker world. The $10,000 buy-in WSOP version of this increasingly popular format drew 965 entries, creating a final prize pool of $8,974,500. With $3,000 from each buy-in being set aside for the bounty prize pool, that meant that $2,895,000 would be paid out to those who secured knockouts from day 2 on. There were 236 bounties up for grabs, ranging from 145 $5,000 tickets up to the lone $250,000 slip.

While much of the focus was on that side attraction, there was also plenty of money in the main prize pool. The largest chunk was ultimately captured by Matthew Lambrecht, who earned $1,018,933 and his first gold bracelet for the win. This was far and away the largest score of Lambrecht, blowing away the $238,079 he earned as the third-place finisher in a $1,600 buy-in event at the Wynn Summer Classic just shy of a month earlier. The two-time WSOP Circuit ring winner now has nearly $2.6 million in career earnings after this massive victory.

Lambrecht was also awarded plenty of rankings points. This was his second title and 14th final-table finish so far. The 2,280 POY points he secured were enough to catapult him into eighth place in the 2024 standings.

Georgios Skarparis of Cyprus has won the 2024 World Series of Poker $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em ‘mini main event’, topping a field of 6,076 entries to earn his first bracelet and $554,925. He told WSOP reporters that the win was dedicated to the memory of his late friend and student Kyriakos Oxinos, who tragically passed away in a traffic accident in 2023. He now has over $919,000 in career tournament earnings.

As with several other players in this recap, Francis Anderson has been tantalizingly close to victory at the series several times before. His first brush with gold came in 2019, when he finished fourth in the $2,620 Marathon event. A few years later he placed third in the Monster Stack for a then career-best payday of $449,912. Most recently, he finished fourth again in the 2023 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty event.

Finally, after all of those near misses, Anderson was able to close out a win at the WSOP. He topped a field of 4,263 entries in the $800 buy-in Independence Day Celebration, earning his first bracelet and a new top score of $501,040. The Wappinger Falls, New York native now has more than $3.2 million in lifetime live earnings to his name.

Aditya Agarwal first cashed at the series back in 2007. The longtime poker pro, who was once a Card Player Online Player of the Year race fixture, has made the money 65 times since that first summer. Finally, after more than a decade and a half, Agarwal broke through to win his first bracelet this summer in a $1,000 no-limit hold’em event. The poker pro from Kolkata, India earned $189,661 after topping the field of 1,424 entries.

Sandberg, Hrabec, Remitio And Dunst Headline Early Online Bracelet Winners

The 2024 World Series of Poker Online has been running alongside the live WSOP in recent weeks, with this year being the first to feature shared liquidity across Nevada, New Jersey, and Michigan on the new WSOP Online client. There have been 13 online bracelet events to wrap up as of publishing, with more than $11.9 in collective prize money paid out between them.

The first event of the WSOPO saw 1,544 entries made at $555 a pop. The resulting $764,820 prize pool was split amongst the top 240 finishers, with five figures or more for those that survived to the final table. The largest payout and the bracelet was earned by Michael Use of Belgium. The $106,613 was the largest recorded score yet for Use, who also finished third later on in this series for another $66,000. He now has $435,000 in career earnings, with the majority coming from his success in WSOP events.

The $400 bounty event drew 1,962 entries, with $706,320 in prize money paid out to the top 320. Stanton Tentnowski triumphed in the end, earning $39,732 from the main prize pool along with his first bracelet. Tentnowski also has a WSOP Circuit ring to his name, having won a $525 buy-in online main event back in 2022 for $47,966.

Evan Sandberg won his second career gold bracelet as the last player standing in the $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em event. The Bay Area resident earned $124,831 and the hardware for topping the field of 809 entries. He now has more than $1.6 million in recorded tournament earnings.

Robert Strunk was the last player standing from the $600 buy-in deepstack event, earning his first bracelet and the top prize of $116,708 for the win. Michael Acevedo, author of Modern Poker Theory, finished as the runner-up for $85,186. This was the second-largest score on the Costa Rica resident’s résumé.

Roman Hrabec has two recorded tournament wins in 2024. His first saw him take down a $100,000 buy-in at the Triton Jeju series for more than $4.3 million. The second came in a $333 buy-in event during the WSOPO. He overcame a field of 2,714 entries to earn his first bracelet and $100,228. Hrabec, a former professional hockey player who hails from the Czech Republic, now has nearly $9.6 million in recorded earnings under his belt.

Russell Brooks overcame a field of 2,238 entries in the $400 buy-in no-limit hold’em Ultra Deepstack event, earning $99,181 and his first bracelet as the champion. The Georgia resident and WSOPC ring winner grew his tournament earnings to over $217,000 with the victory.

With 1,603 entries, there was $721,350 in prize money up for grabs in the $500 progressive knockout bounty event. Ilija Savevski picked up his second bracelet, earning $40,577 for the win. Savevski’s first bracelet came in the 2022 WSOP Europe €1,350 buy-in mini main event. He earned a career-best payday of $245,319 for that title run. This most recent win grew the Austrian’s earnings to over $818,000.

The buy-in went up and the table size went down for event no. 8. The $1,000 six-max no-limit hold’em tournament wound up with 1,233 total entries, which was good for a $1,109,700 prize pool. Sungbin Ma came out on top in the event, earning their first bracelet and the top prize of $153,250.

A battle of the Joshes decided the champion in event no. 10, the $600 no-limit hold’em Monsterstack that drew 1,781 entries. 2021 WSOP main event fourth-place finisher Joshua Remitio beat six-time bracelet winner Josh Arieh heads-up, earning $125,412 and his first bracelet for the win. Arieh scored $90,981 as the runner-up to grow his career earnings to $12,797,000.

The $1 million guaranteed $500 mystery bounty drew a massive field of 3,462 entries, beating the guarantee by $557,900. Simas Karaliunas emerged victorious in the end, earning $122,716 from the main prize pool along with his first gold bracelet. This was the first recorded six-figure score for the Lithuanian.

The $888 buy-in event ended with 1,366 entries by the time registration closed. The nearly $1.1 million prize pool was dispersed amongst the top 240 finishers. Ryan Otto secured the most sizable chunk of the pot, walking away with $150,916 and his first gold bracelet. This was the second-largest score yet for the New Zealander, trailing only the $159,833 he earned as the runner-up in a 2019 WSOP International Circuit Australia high roller.

Even without re-entries, there were still 824 entries made in the $1,000 no-limit hold’em freezeout. The $741,600 prize pool was split amongst the top 144 finishers. Eventual champion Charlie Dawson earned $114,800 and his first bracelet after defeating Zachary Vankeuren heads-up. He now has nearly $1.5 million in career cashes to his name.

Tony Dunst overcame a field of 2,435 entries to win the $500 buy-in deepstack event for his third career gold bracelet. The WPT champion and commentator now has nearly $5.4 million in lifetime earnings after adding $134,888 with this victory. This was the second online bracelet win for Dunst, who also took down the 2020 WSOPO $777 buy-in event. His lone live bracelet win came in a $1,000 buy-in event at the 2016 WSOP. ♠

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