The first champion of the 2024 Poker Masters has been decided. Spencer Champlin overcame a field of 131 entries in the $5,100 buy-in no-limit hold’em kickoff event to secure the title and the top prize of $160,475.
This was the Scarborough, Maine native’s first PokerGO Tour title, and his second-largest recorded tournament score. The two-time World Series of Poker Circuit ring winner now has nearly $3.2 million in lifetime earnings accrued across 387 in-the-money finishes.
Champlin now has seven final-table finishes in 2024, with this being his first title of the year. This win earned him 528 Card Player Player of the Year points and 160 PokerGO Tour points. He now sits in 87th place in the 2024 POY race standings presented by Global Poker, and is within reach of the top 200 in the PGT rankings.
This event ran for two days inside the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The strong turnout built a prize pool of $655,000 that was paid out among the top 19 finishers. Plenty of big names cashed, including current POY race second-ranked contender David Coleman (17th), 2013 WSOP main event champion Ryan Riess (16th), bracelet winner Alex Foxen (15th), bracelet winner Chris Hunichen (11th), Eshaan ‘Brown Balla’ Bhalla (9th), two-time Super High Roller Bowl winner Isaac Haxton (8th), and World Poker Tour champion Matthew Wantman (7th). Jessica Vierling Only contenders six moved on to the live-streamed final table, with 2024 WSOP Circuit Commerce Casino main event champion Jessica Vierling coming into day 2 atop the chip counts.
The first knockout came right after cards got in the air. Champlin shoved with Q3 from the small blind after it folded around to him. Bracelet winner Nicholas Seward called all-in from the big blind for 14 big blinds total with AK. Seward remained ahead through the turn, but a queen on the river saw him eliminated in sixth place ($32,750). This increased Sweards’s lifetime tournament haul to nearly $1.6 million. The largest chunk of that total ($516,135) came from his win in this year’s $3,000 six-max event at the WSOP.
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