Dylan Smith turned his second World Poker Tour remaining desk of the yr into one thing particular.
Smith received $662,200 within the $3,500 WPT Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship that wrapped-up yesterday at Seminole Laborious Rock On line casino in Hollywood, Fla. The flagship occasion attracted 1,435 who constructed a prize pool $92,000 north of $4.5 million.
Included within the prime prize is a $10,400 seat into the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas, a seat into the ClubWPT Gold Invitational $5 Million Freeroll, and his identify on the Mike Sexton Memorial trophy.
Every little thing appears to be coming collectively for the professional.
The 33 year-old’s finest lifetime match money got here in the identical yr he made it to the ultimate six of the WPT Seminole Laborious Rock Poker Showdown, the primary time he made it up to now in a WPT occasion. He completed fifth in that one, which was performed below the brilliant lights at HyperX enviornment in Las Vegas a couple of weeks later in Could. He received $230,000.
A participant who has been at it since he turned 18, the final two years have been excellent for him, as he collected his first of six six-figure scores beginning in April 2023 when he completed because the runner-up in back-to-back excessive curler occasions.
He began 2023 with a victory within the $25,000 PokerStars Caribbean Journey pot Restrict Omaha Excessive Curler occasion in January of 2023, and has stored the ball rolling.
“I really feel actually grateful,” Smith advised WPT’s Tim Fiorvanti. “I imply, I’ve been working on the sport for a really very very long time, 15-plus years. And it appears like all of my success form of occurred directly. It was a long term, for positive, to get right here, and yeah, it simply feels unimaginable to have all of it repay.”
He beat Matthew Beinner heads-up. The $440,000 for second was additionally Beinner’s finest lifetime money, greater than doubling the quantity he received for ending second within the $1,500 Large O occasion at this yr’s World Collection of Poker in June.
“I really felt very locked in the whole day,” mentioned Smith. “I used to be intensely targeted, which is, I believe, why I’m so exhausted now. I imply, Matt is an outstanding participant. I performed a really, very unconventional type of heads up, which I’m positive you seen, and that was solely due to how good I believed Matt was. It’s mentally taxing, and I actually felt like I needed to be on my A-game to beat him. I’m simply actually joyful that I used to be in a position to redeem myself from final time.”
The opposite members of the ultimate desk have been Florian Ribouchon (third for $325,000), Landon Tice (fourth for $245,000), Francis Anderson (fifth for $184,000), and Paul Domb (sixth for $140,000).
Tice was the runner-up within the WPT Seminole Laborious Rock Poker Showdown for $550,000 and can be having a implausible yr.
The WPT will likely be on the Wynn beginning Dec. 8, with its $1,100 Prime occasion. It’s $10,400 World Championship begins Dec. 14. Click on right here for the complete schedule.
