Samuel Muller wins the $25,000 GGMillion WSOP Paradise High Rollers Championship

Samuel Muller’s biggest live tournament cash prize before making the trip to Atlantis Paradise Island, Bahamas for 2023 World Series of Poker Commission It was a $20,000 payday for No. 45 in 2022 Mediterranean poker party The main event. The Austrian blew the score out of the water when he topped a field of 533 entries in a $25,000 buy-in WSOP Paradise GGMillion$ High Rollers Championship. Mollor earned $2,726,300 and his first bracelet for the win.

Mollor also received $2,940 Card player Player of the Year points after coming out on top. This was his first Boy– A qualifying score for this year, but it alone was enough to get him to 87th place in the overall rankings I presented World poker.

This event was also awarded Go poker tour points, with Mollor’s 850 points moving him to 50th in the high-stakes points race.

This event ran from December 5 to 8. The huge turnout saw the $10,000,000 guarantee easily exceeded, with $13,325,000 eventually paid out among the top 80 contestants. As expected, many of the biggest names in the game made deep runs in this tournament, including six-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu (26th), two-time bracelet winner Alexis Bonakov (23rd), and bracelet winner Jason Kuhn (22nd). , nine-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (19th), two-time bracelet winner Daniel Dvoris (18th), and bracelet winner Artur Martirosyan (11th).

The final day started with eight players remaining and Danijel Smiljkovic was in the lead. Mullur was short on stacks when the cards came up in the air.

The first knockout of the day saw Matthew Stumpf run A_3 right for AJ for Smiljkovic to take eighth ($267,500). He was quickly followed by four-time bracelet winner Adrian Matthews. His final hand pitted four points in the pocket against the right-handed AJ of Smiljkovic, who reached Broadway River to win the aggregate and narrow the field to just six contenders. Matthews earned $349,400 for his efforts, increasing his lifetime earnings to over $39.8 million in the process. Matthews has reached 16 final tables this year, winning two titles along the way. His 5918 Boy The points are good for 11th place on the overall leaderboard.

Mollor doubled through Smiljkovic during the six-pointer to climb to the top of the leaderboard. Klemens Roiter briefly outpaced him, but a classic race with Mullur’s AK besting Roiter’s pocket scores saw Mullur well clear of the pack. Reuter was left up in smoke after that hand and quickly surrendered sixth despite finding several doubles. He earned $463,700 as the sixth-place finisher.

Arunas Sapitavicius’ run in the event ended when his A-2 collided with another pair of pocket tens for Mullur. The board did not improve on either player and Sapitavicius was sent to the rail with $625,400 for his strong showing in the event.

2020 WSOP Main event champion Damian Salas committed his sack with KQ, only to find himself in danger and falling behind Frank Brannan’s AK. High Ace was still the best on the river and Salas was eliminated in fourth place ($856,800). This was his fourth biggest payday in the tournament to date. The Argentine now has more than $7.6 million in lifetime cash to his name.

Smiljkovic took his last 11 big blinds from the small blind with K-9 and received a call from Brannan, who was holding A-4. Smiljkovic had a straight shot on the flop to go live, but the turn and the river brought up low holes to keep Brannan ahead. Smiljkovic received $1,192,300. It was the second-biggest payday of his career after the $1,450,000 he took home for another third-place finish in the High Championship earlier this year. Triton Poker Festival in Vietnam. The bracelet winner from Germany now has approximately $5.2 million in registered cash.

Head-to-head play began with Mullor getting 86,300,000 to Brannan’s 46,900,000. The fight between the latter two lasted for more than three hours, with plenty of twists and turns along the way. Brannan was in the lead when the penultimate overall showdown of the tournament took place. The chips are in on the turn with the board showing 1052C. Brannan, who floundered checks with J4has improved from Air to the top pair, but still lags behind KK From Mollor. 7 He completed the plate, giving Muller the double and the lead.

After just a few hands, Brannan opened 14 big blinds with Q10 From the button. Incredibly, Pocket Kings were once again dealt to Muller. He called with KK OK88 The confusion gave him full kingship for all but sealed his victory. 6 On turn make 3 In the end it was just a formality. Brannan earned $1,684,500 as runner-up, which was his largest live tournament score to date. He now has over $2.2 million in reported earnings.

Here’s a look at the payouts Boy Points awarded at the final table:

Winning photo credit: WSOP / Thomas Stacha.