The Five Biggest Wins in Poker Tournaments

Many people out there dream about winning a million dollar prize in a poker game, but a look at the record of poker tournaments over the years reveals that many players have actually won much bigger prize money from the game.

Has the thought of winning $5 million… $10 million… or even $18 million in one poker tournament ever crossed your mind? The simple truth is that such huge poker wins are actually possible.

The $10,000 Main Event in the World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) has been the largest poker tournament for the past 10 years and within these years, some of the biggest poker tournament winners have emerged from this tournament.

Most poker tournaments are held online these days. NewCasinosUK.com has hundreds of brand new casino sites which hold regular tournaments where players can enter and win some serious cash in the process.

When you get online, you ll realize that the biggest web based poker win ever was in the main event of the 2010 Online Poker World Championship ( WCOOP ). The tournament was hosted by PokerStars and had a buy-in of $5,200. Up to 2,443 players took part in it, and it garnered a prize pool of $12.22 million. At the end of the day, Tyson POTTERPOKER Marks won the first prize of $2.3 million.

It s good to note that 12 of the 15 biggest poker wins are from the Main Event of the World Series Poker. Below, we re going to take you through the 5 biggest poker wins of all time, in regards to the prize money for first place.

5. 2014 WSOP Main Event

The 2014 tournament kicked off on the 5th of July and ran till the 14th. However, in November, the final 9 players came back to slug it out for the grand prize. The event involved a field of 6,683 at the beginning, with a pool of $62.8 million. But at the end, the grand prize was won by the Swedish poker player named Martin Jacobson. He went home with a cool $10 million and a bracelet. The second place was taken by Felix Stephensen, and he went home with $5.15 million.

4. 2006 WSOP Main Event

Of course, the main event of the 2006 World Series Poker is reputed as the largest tournament the world of poker has ever witnessed. This is because it had a total number of 8,773 entrants and an amazingly huge pool of up to $82,512,162. The number of players involved necessitated four different starting days. From the four groups, it was stripped down to two, and later to one, before getting to the final table with nine players on august 8.

The championship was won by Jamie Gold on the 10th of August, landing $12 million as the prize money. The second place was taken by Paul Wasicka and he won $6.1 million. From day four, Gold had a good chip lead, taking out 7 opponents out of the 8 at the final table. Before the final game, he was the clear chip leader and to knock out Paul and head home with his tens, he applied the Q-9 and table talk.

The Big 3

The 3 largest events in poker were never part of the WSOP main event In fact, they are all events by the non-profit organisation known as One Drop Foundation.

The foundation was founded by Guy Laliberte who s also the founder of Cirque du Soleil -and their mission is to provide crisis ridden parts of the world with safe drinking water. For every buy-in form in each of the events, $111,111 is donated to the foundation.

The biggest buy-in for the foundation was the $1 million buy-in for the Big One for One Drop yearly NLHE event which is also part of the WSOP . This event offers the world of poker not only the biggest buy-in, but the biggest pay out too. The Big One for One Drop event kicked off in 2012 and the largest of all single poker payouts happened on the debut edition.

3. 2014 Big One for One Drop

Dan Colman has the second largest win ever witnessed in the history of poker. The event garnered a total prize money pool of $37.3 million, and to go home with the $15.3 million first place prize money, Colman had to defeat up to 42 other contestants. Second place was taken by Daniel Negreanu who went home with about $8.29 million and that placed him at the top of the All Time Money List. This tournament made his total live winnings to exceed $36.5 million. This event also turned dramatic in the last hand because of the huge pot that Colman won from Negreanu in the past few hands with A-4.

2. 2018 Big One for One Drop

Number 2 of the highest poker wins of all time is the most recent in the list has a history that excites most enthusiasts.

The final event had Fedor Holz defeated by Justin Bonomo to win the $10 million first place prize money and add one more bracelet to the one that he has already won in the tournament. With this win, Bonomo was sent to the top of the All Time Money List, knocking Daniel Negreanu from the top spot that had been there since 2014. It placed Bonomos all-time live winnings at a whopping $43 million.

1. 2012 Big One for One Drop

This respected event of the WSOP garnered 48 entries in 2012 with a prize pool of up to $42.67 million. The biggest win went to Antonio Esfandiari, and he went home with the $18.35 million prize money. This stands as the highest single pocket payout in the history of poker tournaments.. One significant thing here is that during the final hand, Esfandiari hit a 7-5 offsuit to defeat Sam Trickett and his Q-6. Antonio was a very excited man after that, as anyone would be taking home almost $20 million!.

World Series of Poker Releases Schedule for 2021-2022 WSOP Circuit

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October 28, 2021 October 28, 2021

18-month hiatus

The World Series of Poker has announced the return of the WSOP Circuit to the live felt. The Circuit s 17th season begins on November 25, Thanksgiving Day, at Harrah s Cherokee Casino in North Carolina. The World Series of Poker in Las Vegas now just past the halfway mark ends only a couple days prior.

allowing regional players to experience big-time poker

It s been too long, so it s great to see the Circuit hitting the road once again, said Ty Stewart, the World Series of Poker s senior vice president and executive director. The WSOP-C is one of our most important initiatives, allowing regional players to experience big-time poker and providing grinders a platform to earn a living. We re pumped up about the new Tournament of Champions format where all our winners will come together for one event. Just win and you re in!

Like other live poker tournaments, WSOP Circuit events were canceled starting last spring because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The WSOP did host some Circuit events online, such as the Spring Online Circuit Series, the WSOP Circuit Super Series, and the Global Casino Championship, which was normally the season-ending invitational.

More Circuit stops on the way

In all, there are currently 13 Circuit stops on the 2021-2022 schedule, starting with, as mentioned, Harrah s Cherokee. Rounding out this year are The Bicycle Casino ( The Bike ) in Los Angeles December 4-15 and Hilton Aruba December 9-19.

There are three confirmed new venues for the revived WSOP Circuit season. The first is Deerfoot Inn in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, running January 12-23, 2022. The following month is the Isle of Pompano in Pompano Beach, Florida, running February 3-14, 2022. Then, from March 17 through March 28, players can visit the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York.

Each WSOP Circuit stop will feature at least a dozen gold ring events starting at $250 buy-in and a Main Event that will cost $1,700. All events will use the Big Blind Ante format and will have standardized structures and payouts for consistency across the schedule.

More Circuit stops will be announced when the WSOP gets them confirmed.

Season culminates with Tournament of Champions

The season will end with the newly-reconfigured Tournament of Champions. In past years, it was called the Global Casino Championship, a $1m prize pool freeroll for the top performers of the season. It was invitation only; qualifiers included the winner of each stop s Main Event, the top points earner at each Circuit stop (the Casino Champion ) and the top 50 points earners during the entire season who did not otherwise qualify automatically.

The new Tournament of Champions also has a $1m prize pool, but the qualification criteria are a bit different. Points totals and Main Events are no longer important. Now, every official gold ring event winner live or online gets an invite to the freeroll. Wednesday s schedule announcement also said that 2022 live or online bracelet winners will also be eligible to compete, which may imply that they would have to pay their way in.

The Tournament of Champions will be contested during the 2022 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. The winner will receive an official gold bracelet in addition to prize money.

World Poker Tournament Prize Money

Poker player sued over $2.2 million prize money haul Legal action has been taken against a World Series of Poker finalist over the run that marked him an emerging star around the poker world. The World Series of Poker is the largest, richest and most prestigious gaming event in the world, having awarded more than $3.29 billion in prize money and the prestigious gold bracelet, globally recognized as the sport s top prize. Kenney is perhaps best-known for winning the highest prize ever awarded at a poker tournament. He won over $20.5 million at the 2019 Triton Million charity event in London. The winner of the finale will win an extra $1 million on top of the prize money collected in their original tournament, a WSOP bracelet and be awarded the title of 2020 WSOP Main Event champion.

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Nick Marchington has been sued over his $1.5 million winnings. Source:Twitter

English poker sensation Nick Marchington s $2.2 million World Series of Poker main event final table winnings are the subject of a lawsuit that threatens to tarnish the moment he emerged as a future star.

The 21-year-old s stunning run to finish seventh in the $US80,000,000 tournament at the Rio All-Suite Hotel Casino in Las Vegas was one of the big stories to emerge from the 8569 entries that started the tournament.

Marchington entered the WSOP Main Event final table with the smallest haul of chips but stayed alive in the early series of hands before finishing seventh, an achievement that came with global media exposure and prize money of $2.2 million.

As a university drop-out that had only taken up gambling professionally less than 12 months before last month s WSOP final, Marchington was particularly big news in the UK, where his humility and cautious approach to the pitfalls of his profession won plenty of admiration.

However, it s now emerged that Marchington s winnings are the subject of a lawsuit from a gambling backing firm that claims to have invested in Marchington s performance at the WSOP final and is now demanding 10 per cent of the winnings, more than $220,000.

Two partners from gambling backing firm C Biscuit Poker Staking claim Marchington reached out to them asking if they wanted to buy a 10 per stake in his performance at two tournaments, including the WSOP main event final.

The two backers, Colin Hartley and David Yee, reportedly claim in paperwork submitted with the Clark County, Nevada court, that Marchington committed fraud and breached the terms of their contract.

Poker site Pocket Fives reports the complex dispute arose after Marchington sold stakes in his prize money at small mark-ups of 1.1 and 1.2 before attempting to back-out and re-sell the same investment opportunities at a higher mark-up of 1.7

Nick Marchington has been sued over his $1.5 million winnings. Source:Twitter

Marchington is accused of texting the two men We are booked. Lets get rich, surrounding their wages in events outside of the main event final.

Marchington claims the offered 1.2 mark-up on the two individual payments of $600 each from the C Biscuit backers were then rescinded when both parties agreed to allow Marchington to refund the two investments alongside other stakes placed in his performance in other tournaments.

However Marchington was unable to refund the stakes immediately, claiming to be cash poor because of his expensive trip to Las Vegas for the main event final.

Having suggested he was pulling out of the main event and wanting to cancel his agreement with Hartley and Yee, Marchington is then accused of asking the pair to place another investment in his performance at the higher mark-up of 1.7.

However, with Marchington accused of refusing to clarify if the original $600 wagers had been cancelled, the two parties are now heading to court to settle if the original $600 wagers had ever been cancelled.

As reported by Flushdraw, one of the backers texted Marchington trying to try to strong-arm him into accepting that a deal remained in place.

Hossein Ensan after winning the World Series of Poker main event. Source:AP

The text also alleges that the deal remained in place because Marchington failed to refund the pair s money until after the main event final had begun.

Hey Nick, highly disappointed with this result and this is not normal by the poker community standards, the text message claims.

We ve talked to several backers and they said that once action is booked and money is delivered, it s something that should be upheld. players can t simply book action as a placeholder and then shop around for better rates.

Marchington is alleged to have responded by suggesting the partnership agreement had been cancelled because Marchington found a backing offer with more favourable terms.

I am playing the main event but unfortunately your piece is cancelled, he reportedly texted. I know this is bad practice but I have to do what s best for myself since I lost a lot on the trip.

After Marchington rode his luck all the way to the final table, Hartley and Yee engaged lawyers to stake their claim in the huge prize money pool.

After seeing Marchington finish with prize money of $US1.5 million, the pair sued the former computer sciences student for more than $US150,000.

Marchington has since taken to social media to explain his version of the deal clouded in mystery.

Very frustrating that I can t comment on other aspects of the case / information out there. I believe in my case in the legal system ??

Nick Marchington (@NickMarchington) August 3, 2019

However, he has since been slapped with a legal demand by the state of Nevada that prohibits him from cashing out his winnings until the dispute is resolves in court.

Hartley and Yee are also suing Marchington for the legal fees they will incur fighting the matter.

Despite the storm surrounding the dispute, Marchington has been celebrating since the event finished on July 17.

He claimed at the time he had enough money to support his entries and was careful with the money he invested in the different tournaments.

I had built up a sufficient bankroll playing online and in tournaments that I could afford to come out to Las Vegas for the main event, he told Sky News.

It s the most prestigious tournament in the world. It was a no-brainer as I had the money.

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1-10	Payout	TPs	13-200	Payout	TPs
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3rd	$75	1,800	41-50th	$5	750
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5th	$50	1,600	61-70th	$5	650
6th	$50	1,500	71-80th	$5	600
7th	$25	1,400	81-90th	-	550
8th	$20	1,300	91-100th	-	500
9th	$15	1,200	101-150th	-	450
10th	$15	1,100	151-400th	-	400
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