The World Poker Tour’s dream-making machine continues this month on the Wynn in Las Vegas with its World Championship sequence that included a historic $5 million freeroll.
The WPT additionally noticed a brand new champion in its $1,100 WPT Prime Championship that attracted 9,669 entries. Which means two newly minted millionaires have been topped final week.
Freerollin’ fantasies
Chase Bricker got here to Las Vegas to play within the WPT Prime Championship. He fired two bullets within the occasion, and in-between the 2 entries, made his means over to the ClubWPT Gold Sales space, bought fortunate, and pulled a passport into the $5 million freeroll.
Just a few days later, on Dec. 15, he took down the entire thing. Bricker, 36, received $1 million plus $100,000 in bounties that have been up for grabs for the ultimate six gamers. Not dangerous for the poker hobbyist from Texas.
“I’m not a professional. I play for revenue and I play to win,” he instructed WPT’s Jeff Walsh. “Poker provides me that outlet to remain aggressive and it’s positively a pleasant second string of earnings. And now actually a primary string of earnings after a rating like this, as a result of I can’t generate income like that actually wherever.
That is life-changing cash. Safety. That cash must imply one thing is how I have a look at it. I have a look at it as a chance, frankly, to raise my life, and my household’s life, and my future household’s life. I’m positively going to nonetheless compete in tournaments, nevertheless it doesn’t imply I’m going to go play excessive rollers or stuff like that — effectively, possibly each every now and then.”
He was a part of a 1,457 subject of gamers who both received their means in on WPT’s on-line room, ClubWPT, or lucked right into a seat via random drawings and give-aways.
Residing the dream
Zak VenKeuren made a literal dream come true within the WPT Prime Championship occasion.
“I’ve desires generally the place I’m enjoying poker in an enormous event or one thing, after which I get up,” he instructed Tim Fiorvanti. “I assume I’m simply pondering I’m in a lucid dream proper now, and I’m simply gonna get up quickly. Hopefully it’s nonetheless actual life in about an hour.”
VenKeuren dominated the ultimate desk and received a career-best $1,162,350 for being the final participant standing of the within the occasion that noticed 9,669 entrants. The World Collection of Poker bracelet winner ($3,200 on-line occasion simply this summer time) mentioned his victory is the results of learning and training.
“I’ve been learning with the suitable individuals the previous few years, gamers who’re actually, actually good – ranges above me. Studying from them, spending extra time with them and quite a lot of them are shut buddies now. Bouncing some arms off them, going via sure programs on-line.”
That, mixed with a Zen-like perspective is giving VanKeuren success on the felt.
“(I’m) simply feeling nice – bodily, mentally, in a bizarre metaphysical means simply having good intentions and the very best intention to win, but in addition totally accepting myself and simply letting issues be as they’re. It’s so humorous. It’s just like the moments the place I actually don’t care what occurs, after I’m simply blissful both means, it looks like issues are likely to go higher.”
Ohmmmmm.
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