Wynn Poker Classic 2019 Results
Three live tournament results from North America to get you up to speed on, and we will begin in Las Vegas, a place where you need to play poker wearing a bulletproof vest. The 2019 Wynn Classic. Poker database with tournament results, event results, pictures and player profiles. United States 2019 The Wynn Fall Classic. 13 October 2019. The inaugural Wynn Winter Classic $5,300 buy-in Championship Event – the biggest buy-in tournament the venue has held in over five years – crushed its $1.5 million guarantee as 557 entrants.
The Wynn Classic is a three-week-long series held at Wynn Las Vegas. With the first event going February 19, the series will feature 18 events through March 11 including no-limit hold'em and pot-limit Omaha.
While most of the tournaments in the Classic are under $1,000 buy-in, the series features two higher-stakes events. In addition to the $1,600 Main Event that began March 1, a $3,150 High Roller kicked off as a two-day event on February 28, and Alberta's Jody Fayant was there to put his money down.
Fayant is always a friendly and up-beat player at the cash tables and in tournaments around western Canada, and since last year has also been very open about his gambling escapades on a Facebook page dedicated to detailing the ups and downs of the self-described 'hustler.' Fayant is exceptionally honest about both his wins and his losses, and makes it clear he doesn't consider himself a poker professional. 'I’m an avid player but not a pro by any means,' Fayant replied when asked how he characterizes himself in the poker world.
In addition to poker, Fayant is also an avid pool player, playing in several 8-ball and 9-ball tournaments around Canada in the past few months. As well, he is an agent for World Sports & Poker, an online sports book based in Curaçao, and outside the gaming world he is also a journeyman crane operator with 25 years experience, so his claim to be a recreational player holds true. Recent results might suggest otherwise, however.
While in Vegas, Fayant decided to drop $3,150 on the highest buy-in event at the Wynn Classic, after openly documenting a mostly losing trip to Sin City prior to that tournament. He entered the high roller after busting a $300 satellite to the Main Event with three players to go to the tickets, and after buying into it, his bankroll was down to $300. It truly was a case of 'win or go home.' As is his wont, Fayant put it a little more colourfully in a Facebook post: 'If I don’t cash here, I’ll have to try and spin up my last $300!'
Fayant made Day 2 of the high roller with just 14 big blinds, but he managed to grind it out and find spots to build a stack through Day 2, making it to a final table that included Jeremy Ausmus and Yang Zhang. He detailed his run on his Facebook feed, and friends were treated to a blow-by-blow account of his day, and in fact, his entire trip.
Fayant continued to find good spots and run pure, working his way through the final table until he was heads up with China's Zhang. Heads-up was a fairly quick affair, lasting only a few hands. Players made a deal heads-up that let them each lock up $83,000, with the rest of the prize pool along with the trophy staying on the table. After that, play went fairly quickly, and the tournament ended on a hand where Fayant flopped two pairs with and Zhang turned two pairs with his . The money went in on the turn, and Fayant's bigger two pairs held for the win.
Down to his last $300, Fayant's win earned him $102,482 plus the trophy and quickly turned a losing trip into a big winner.
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Chris Moorman took a break from the 2019 World Series of Poker (WSOP) to compete in a $350,000 guaranteed event at the Wynn Poker Classic and the 888poker ambassador went on to win the tournament for $107,590.
Wynn Summer Classic $1,600 NLHE $350K Gtd Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Moorman | $107,590* |
| 2 | Even Teitelbaum | $85,000* |
| 3 | Mike Gao | $50,139 |
| 4 | Eric Sfez | $35,129 |
| 5 | Joey Clapper | $25,873 |
| 6 | Alex Whitenstall | $20,014 |
| 7 | Kurt Jewell | $16,074 |
| 8 | Jack Sinclair | $13,326 |
| 9 | Romuald Pycior | $11,200 |
*reflects a heads-up deal
A field of 354 participated in the $1,600 buy-in event, creating a $518,503 prize pool as a result. All nine players who reached the final table banked five-figures with Romuald Pycior being the first casualty, securing $11,200.
Jack Sinclair, winner of the 2018 WSOP Europe Main Event, busted in eighth-place for $13,326 before five-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Kurt Jewell ran out of steam in seventh-place for a $16,074 addition to his bankroll.
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Newcastle’s Alex Whitenstall crashed out in sixth-place for $20,014 to add to his trio of 2019 WSOP cashes, then Joe Clapper fell by the wayside in fifth-place for a $25,873 score. Clapper was joined at the cashier’s desk by France’s Eric Sfez who collected $35,129 for his fourth-place exit.
The penultimate elimination was that of Mike Gao who won $50,139 and set up a one-on-one battle between Moorman and Even Teitelbaum. Teitelbaum won a $1,600 event at the Wynn in June for $138,209 but had to make do with an $85,000 consolation prize in this event after a heads-up deal with Moorman.
When Moorman won Teitelbaum’s stack, the popular Brit added $107,590 to his lifetime winnings, taking his total live poker tournament cashes to $5,867,727.
Whether Moorman returns to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino for the remaining handful of WSOP events in an attempt to secure another bracelet remains to be seen. If he does, he’ll be heading there with an extra six-figures in his arsenal.
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