After a massive $10,000 main event, he was able World Poker Tour They continued their series at Wynn Las Vegas with a $111,000 subscription Alpha8 for one drop The high roller event.
The high-stakes No Limit tournament attracted a field of 45 entries, creating a total prize pool of $4,612,500. A portion of each course’s subscription is set aside for the One Drop Foundation, which provides access to clean water around the world.
After three days of play, it was Massachusetts native Jonathan Jaffe who took the title and took home the $1,537,600 top prize.
“I’m still waiting before I tackle the win. I’m still in poker and making moves right now but I know I’ll feel good,” Jaffe said after the win.
Only the final seven players made money, with Denmark’s Henrik Hecklin eliminated on a money bubble late on the second day. The official live televised final table was then set when Isaac Haxton lost the race in seventh place.
Haxton earned $222,600 for the mincash, his 15th six-figure or better score of the year. That was enough to move him over the $40 million in earnings mark for his career, good for 11th on the all-time money list.
Although he lost his lead in card player Player of the Year race when Ben Wing lost the main event for the second time WPT During the season title, Haxton was able to recover 150 points to close the gap between them. It is now about 1,400 points behind in the second half of the year.
Iaron Lightbourne (6th – $273,200), Michael Lim (5th – $350,100), and Aleksejs Ponakovs (4th – $485,200) were eliminated in the first of five orbits on day three, leading to a three-way battle between Jaffe, Taylor von Kregenberg , and Dan Smith. All three have already won WPT Main event before and were looking to add the Alpha8 Reel Cup to their rack.
Jaffe scored a key double with the kings nines edging von Krigenberg’s tens and nines to take the lead, then watched Smith bowl a short stack for bankruptcy in the third. Smith earned $701,700, which brings him to $45.6 million in career earnings and ranks seventh all time.
The stacks were largely even after Smith’s stack went to von Krigenberg, setting up a heads-up final that lasted 32 hands. Jaffe opened up a 2:1 lead by the time the final hand was dealt, holding his score against von Kriegenbergh’s K
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on a board of seven high scores to win the title.
$1,042,100 was the second largest result for von Kregenberg, who took home $1.1 million for winning a prize. WPT Hard Rock Showdown in 2011. The New York resident now has $4.5 million in professional earnings.
Jaffe is no stranger to high roller victories, having slashed $25,000 Lucky Hearts Open Poker twice, and the $50,000 event at PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. The Florida resident and former online alert specialist now has over $9 million in gross earnings.
Final table results
| place | player | will be spent | POY |
| 1 | Jonathan Jaffe | $1,537,600 | 600 |
| 2 | Taylor von Kriegenberg | $1,042,100 | 500 |
| 3 | Dan Smith | $701,700 | 400 |
| 4 | Alexis Bonakov | $485,200 | 300 |
| 5 | Michael Lim | $350,100 | 250 |
| 6 | Iron Lightbourne | $273,200 | 200 |
| 7 | Isaac Haxton | $222,600 | 150 |
the WPT He will return to Wynn Las Vegas in December for the season-ending tournament.
