Chris Moneymaker has received his second event of the 12 months, making 2024 a form of redemption tour for the 2003 World Collection of Poker Essential Occasion champion. He took dwelling the $179,770 first-place prize for successful the $1,650 buy-in $1 million assured predominant occasion of the Get pleasure from Poker Tour on the Get pleasure from Punta del Este On line casino in Uruguay yesterday.
It’s his fourth ultimate desk of the 12 months for the 48-year-old. A few of the 657 entries of the Get pleasure from Poker Tour predominant occasion have been secured by means of satellites on Americas Card Room, one of many sequence sponsors, and the web poker web site that pays Moneymaker to be ambassador.
ACR is getting their cash’s price, as Moneymaker is beginning to money and win on the highest ranges — one thing that alluded the WSOP champ since he made his inconceivable run in 2003. He received $2.5 million for turning into the Essential Occasion Champ.
Twenty years later, in August of final 12 months, Moneymaker practically matched that booty by ending fifth in $262,500 buy-in Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection London Invitation for $2,030,000. It was his greatest rating by $1.7 million because the WSOP Essential Occasion.
Then Might 2024 occurred, the place Moneymaker made two ultimate tables on the Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection in Montenegro. He first received $903,000 within the $26,500 occasion, which was his first Triton occasion victory. Three days later, he received one other $311,000 within the $42,400 buy-in thriller bounty occasion for ending third.
Which means three of Moneymaker’s 4 highest scores got here throughout the 12 months. He now has greater than $7.5 million in lifetime cashes.
Erik Seidel retains on truckin’
If Moneymaker is working scorching in 2024, Erik Seidel is a blazing star throwing plasma everywhere in the event world.
Seidel received his third event because the New Yr within the $10,000 Deep Stack occasion on the Seminole Laborious Rock Poker Open. He added $179,953 to his lifetime mountain that towers at $46.9 million.
It’s simply the way it’s going for Seidel, who made his fifth money of 2024 price a quarter-milly after he took down the $10,500 excessive curler occasion on the Wynn Hundreds of thousands in March. Lower than a month later, he received $145,000 by successful the $5,100 occasion U.S. Poker Open. Lower than every week after that, he’d take one other $110,400 out of the sequence by ending third in a $10,100 occasion.
These are only a handful of 23 cashes the 2010 Poker Corridor of Fame inductee already made this 12 months, in keeping with the Hendon Mob.
The Deep Stack occasion at Seminole Laborious Rock Poker Open introduced in 69 entrants who constructed a $655,500 prize pool. Seidel and Clemen Deng, who’s coming off a win in a $5,100 occasion on the PGT Texas Poker Open in Houston in April, made a deal once they reached heads-up play which gave Seidel the title and $706 additional.
