On Tuesday, the 2022 Wynn Millions $1,600 PLO/NLH event crushed its $100K GTD by attracting 194 runners, which generated a $282,270 prize pool. Today, the surviving 21 players will return to battle down to a winner, who will receive a $78,078 first-place prize.
The top 20 finishers will make the money and earn a minimum payday of $3,921, meaning just one player will need to fall to burst the bubble. That player likely won't be Miltiadis Kyriakides, who begins Day 2 as the chip leader with 625,000. Hot on his heels with an even 600,000 is Daniel Swartz followed by Erez Gabay, who starts with 578,000.
Others still in contention include Florian Duta (473,000), Scott Stewart (470,000), Jesse Yaginuma (353,000), Vincent Moscati (122,000), and Uri Reichenstein (90,000).
Action will resume at 1 p.m. local time with the blinds at 3,000/6,000/6,000 and PokerNews will offer periodic updates leading up to the final table and until a winner is crowned!
It took about an hour to lose the first player on Day 2, and that's because players were playing pretty snug on the money bubble.
Ultimately it was Eric Wigg, who began the day as the short stack, who fell in a hand of pot-limit Omaha (PLO) after getting his short stack in with against three callers. Jarod Minghini was one of them and flopped the nuts holding on a flop of .
Minghini wound up winning the pot and Wigg left empty-handed in 21st place.
At one of the two remaining tables, a trio of friends and oftentimes poker traveling roommates are competing against one another.
Scott Stewart, Jarod Minghini, and Vincent Moscati are enjoying the experience of battling one another, but there is one player missing from their quartet in MSPT champ and six-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Maxwell Young. However, he is in the tournament in one sort — on Moscati's t-shirt.
On the last break, Moscati, Stewart, and Minghini gathered for a photo profiling the shirt, which was created by Young's girlfriend and gifted to each of the guys during his birthday party down in Mexico earlier this year.
Apparently, the story behind it involves Young's proclivity to tank while playing online games of Yahtzee on his iPad. The group of friends often drink, play, and bet money on it, and as Stewart explained, "Young takes forever for every move."
In one of the last hands of the level, Jarod Minghini was all in preflop and racing for his tournament life against Maziar Keshavarzi.
Jarod Minghini:
Maziar Keshavarzi:
Minghini had the two overs and was looking to improve, but unfortunately that proved easier said than done as the board ran out dry to make him the first casualty of the final table.
Upon coming back from a break, it didn't take long for the short-stacked Jesse Yaginuma to get his chips in against Maziar Keshavarzi.
When we arrived at the table, Yaginuma was getting up out of his seat after a nasty river card. The board read and the two players had the following hands tabled.
Jesse Yaginuma:
Maziar Keshavarzi:
We're not sure when the chips went in but we do know the end result was the elimination of Yaginuma in eighth place.
Maziar Keshavarzi raised to 65,000 under the gun and Miltiadis Kyriakides called from the small blind. Scott Stewart then three-bet all in for 410,000 from the big and Keshavarzi, who had a seven-figure stack, rejammed all in.
Kyriakides shot out of his chair with a big decision to make as he was the second-biggest stack with around 1.2 million.
"He would do that with any pair," he said. After about 45 seconds he called off.
Scott Stewart:
Maziar Keshavarzi:
Miltiadis Kyriakides:
It was a good spot for Stewart as his opponents both had pocket jacks, which meant he was essentially flipping to triple up. Unfortunately for him, he came up empty as the board ran out a dry and the other two players chopped the pot.
While the $10,000 buy-in, $10M GTD tournament at the 2022 Wynn Millions garnered the most attention, several side events were playing out at the series. That included the two-day $1,600 PLO/NLH tournament, which attracted 194 entries and offered up a $282,270 prize pool.
On Wednesday, the final 21 players returned to battle down to a winner. One of them had to leave empty-handed as only 20 spots got paid, and the unfortunate bubble boy was the short-stacked Eric Wigg.
From there, the in-the-money finishes mounted as the march to the final table progressed. Among those to exit with a payday were WSOP bracelet winner Robert Cowen (20th - $3,921), Florian Duta (17th - $4,333), 2021 $1,600 Wynn Mystery Bounty champ Uri Reichenstein (16th - $4,333), Corey Hochman (15th - $4,849), and final table bubble Steve Foutty (10th - $6,244).
The final table housed a trio of friends and oftentimes poker traveling roommates in Scott Stewart, Jarod Minghini, and Vincent Moscati.
All had a fun time needling their missing friend, MSPT champ and six-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Maxwell Young. However, he was in the tournament in one sort — on Moscati's t-shirt.
On a break, Moscati, Stewart, and Minghini gathered for a photo profiling the shirt, which was created by Young's girlfriend and gifted to each of the guys during his birthday party down in Mexico earlier this year. Apparently, the story behind it involves Young's proclivity to tank while playing online games of Yahtzee on his iPad. The group of friends often drink, play, and bet money on it, and as Stewart explained, "Young takes forever for every move."
Unfortunately for the trio, they failed to close it out as Minghini lost a race with ace-king to the pocket sixes of Maziar Keshavarzi to fall in ninth place, and not long after Stewart followed him out the door in seventh when his ace-queen failed to get there against two different pairs of pocket jacks.
Moscati fared a bit better but ultimately bowed out in fifth place, which promoted the final four players to work an ICM deal. Keshavarzi was a big chip leader at the time, so he claimed the title and $61,698 in prize money.
2022 Wynn Millions $1,600 PLO/NLH Final Table Results
Place
Player
Country
Prize
1
Maziar Keshavarzi
USA
$61,698*
2
Miltiadis Kyriakides
Cyrpus
$43,002*
3
Frank Zheng
USA
$40,053*
4
Daniel Swartz
USA
$31,160*
5
Vincent Moscati
USA
$15,257
6
Erez Gabay
USA
$12,067
7
Scott Stewart
USA
$9,885
8
Jesse Yaginuma
USA
$8,383
9
Jarod Minghini
USA
$7,198
*Denotes four-handed ICM deal.
In addition to live updates from the 2022 Wynn Millions Main Event, PokerNews is offering coverage from a trio of other events including $1,600 PLO/NLH [$100,000 GTD] (March 08-09, 2022), $3,000 6 Max NLH [$200,000 GTD] (March 09-10, 2022), and $3,000 $1k Bounty [$200,000 GTD] (March 10-11, 2022).