British professional poker players Simon Deadman and James Rann both warmed up for this weekend’s WPT 6-Max Championship in some style by taking down a WPT Knockout side event on August 6.
WPT Knockout: $100K Gtd [1-Day Event]
Deadman was one of 271 entrants in the $530 buy-in WPT Knockout, a one-day tournament with $100,000 guaranteed. A prize pool of $135,500 was created and half went onto the heads of all the players with the remaining 50% being shared among the top 40 finishers.
With bounties included, the least any of the eight finalists could win was $2,421. This went to Austria’s Viktor Zsemlye. The Austrian was joined on the rail first by Guntis Aleskins then Brazilian Victor Bergara.
Fifth-place and a combined prize worth $7,127 went to Gytis Lazaununkas before UK-based Romania star Alexandru Papazian collected a combined $8,690 when he busted in fourth.
The penultimate elimination of the tournament was that of Josh McCully who played all the way over in New Zealand. McCully walked away with $9,244.
McCully’s exit left Deadman and Santtu Ojala heads-up for the title. The one-on-one battle went Deadman’s way and he scooped a combined prize that weighed in at $25,382, leaving Ojala to bank a still more than respectable $17,364.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize | Bounties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Simon Deadman | United Kingdom | $10,660 | $14,722 |
| 2 | Santtu Ojala | Finland | $10,646 | $6,718 |
| 3 | Josh McCully | New Zealand | $7,557 | $1,687 |
| 4 | Alexandru Papazian | United Kingdom | $5,456 | $3,234 |
| 5 | Gytis Lazaununkas | Lithuania | $3,905 | $3,222 |
| 6 | Victor Bergara | Brazil | $2,872 | $562 |
| 7 | Guntis Aleskins | Latvia | $1,857 | $2,007 |
| 8 | Viktor Zsemlye | Austria | $1,421 | $1,000 |
WPT Knockout: $75K Gtd [1-Day Event]
James Rann
Rann won the $55 buy-in edition of the WPT knockout and got his hands on the lion’s share of the $75,000 prize pool. Rann defeated Lithuania’s TB to pad his partypoker bankroll with a combined prize worth $9,121, all for a $55 buy-in! TB secured a $6,194 consolation prize.
Ran came ever so close to becoming a WPT champion back in 2019 when he finished third in the $3,300 WPT UK Main Event at Dusk Till Dawn. That netted Rann $168,500, the second-largest prize of his live career. Now he has another chance of WPT glory this weekend.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize | Bounties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Rann | United Kingdom | $5,157 | $3,964 |
| 2 | TB | Lithuania | $5,148 | $1,046 |
| 3 | Luis Krupinski | Brazil | $3,461 | $303 |
| 4 | Michael Cano | Austria | $2,309 | $487 |
| 5 | Kirk Loveless | Canada | $1,615 | $585 |
| 6 | Taoufik Talbi | Belgium | $1,143 | $189 |
| 7 | Robert Szeredai | United Kingdom | $710 | $819 |
| 8 | Andrey Manuylov | Russia | $563 | $918 |
WPTWOC Switches to Six-Max
The next massive WPTWOC Championship Events kick off on August 8 and sees them switch to six-max tables. Again, there are $33, $320 and $3,200 buy-in versions that have guaranteed prize pools worth $300,000, $1,000,000, and $3,000,000.
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