{"id":91355,"date":"2020-08-19T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T10:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog?p=91355"},"modified":"2021-04-15T11:42:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T11:42:04","slug":"wptwoc-event-winner-daniel-smyth-turns-33-into-428391","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wptwoc-event-winner-daniel-smyth-turns-33-into-428391.html","title":{"rendered":"WPTWOC Event Winner Daniel Smyth Turns $33 Into $428,391"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland\u2019s Daniel Smyth<\/strong> proved the poker dream is still well and truly alive by turning a mere $33 investment into a colossal $428,391 and the well-deserved title of WPT Champion.<\/p>\n

Smyth bought into a WPT satellite<\/strong><\/a> for $33 and turned that into a $320 ticket. The Irishman then parleyed that $320 into a $3,200 WPT Knockout Championship<\/strong><\/a> seat before going all the way and taking it down for $208,803, an additional $204,588 worth of bounty payments, plus a seat to the next WPT Tournament of Champions worth a cool $15,000.<\/p>\n

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WPT #05 Knockout Championship Final Table Results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Place<\/th>\nPlayer<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\nPrize<\/th>\nBounties<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nDaniel Smyth<\/td>\nIreland<\/td>\n$208,803<\/td>\n$204,588<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nManig Loeser<\/td>\nUnited Kingdom<\/td>\n$208,492<\/td>\n$70,866<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nJoao Maureli<\/td>\nBrazil<\/td>\n$142,061<\/td>\n$32,449<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nPim Gieles<\/td>\nNetherlands<\/td>\n$95,502<\/td>\n$23,478<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nPedro Marques<\/td>\nCroatia<\/td>\n$66,687<\/td>\n$22,382<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nArtur Martirosian<\/td>\nRussia<\/td>\n$47,281<\/td>\n$16,593<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nRyan Riess<\/td>\nCanada<\/td>\n$29,699<\/td>\n$18,562<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nShyngis Satubayev<\/td>\nKazakhstan<\/td>\n$23,504<\/td>\n$750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nMatheus Resende<\/td>\nBrazil<\/td>\n$19,483<\/td>\n13,242<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The final day started with nine players in the hunt for the title but were reduced to eight with the early exit of Matheus Resende<\/strong>. The hand basically played itself. Joao Maureli<\/strong> opened to 733,000 with and called when Resende three-bet all-in for 4,400,000 with . A king on the flop saw Resende bust in a clash of the table\u2019s Brazilians.<\/p>\n

Eighth-place went to Shyngis Satubayev<\/strong>. The Kazakhstan grinder, who reached the final table of the 8-Max Championship<\/strong><\/a>, started the final table as the short stack and never managed to improve his situation. His final hand saw him jam for 2,100,000, a shade under six big blinds, with from the cutoff and Pedro Marques<\/strong> called on the button with . Both blinds folded, Marques flopped an ace and Satubayev crashed out of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Smyth was hovering around 20-25 big blinds and cruising along. He lost a huge flip with versus the of Pim Gielses<\/strong> to be left with a 10 big blind stack and Smyth\u2019s dream of having his name engraved on the Mike Sexton Champions Cup<\/strong> looked to be turning into a nightmare.<\/p>\n