Isaac Haxton is picking up steam at precisely the right time during this year’s Poker Masters series. He recorded an eighth place finish in the kickoff event, but then was quiet through the next two tournaments. Now, as the stakes ratchet up for the final few events, the 39-year-old American poker pro has put together back-to-back-to-back final table finishes, topping off the streak with an outright win in event no. 6. Haxton overcame a field of 84 entries in that $15,100 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament, earning $352,800.
With $51.5 million in career cashes, Haxton now sits in eighth place on poker’s all-time money list. He is one of just nine players in the history of the game to accumulate more than $50 million in earnings.
In addition the title and the money, Haxton also walked away from this event with plenty of rankings points. The 576 Card Player Player of the Year points he secured moved him into 26th place in the 2024 POY race presented by Global Poker. This was his second title and 13th final-table finish of the year.
Haxton also secured 353 PokerGO Tour points. With 567 on the year, he now sits just outside the top 75 on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.
This event ran across two days at the PokerGO Studio inside ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The final day began with seven remaining and Haxton in the lead. World Poker Tour champion and five-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman was eliminated just a few minutes into the day, with his A-9 suited failing to outrace the pocket eights of fellow bracelet winner and WPT champ Dylan Linde. The dramatic runout saw Schulman turn the nut flush with the same card that gave Linde a set. The river paired the board and Schulman headed to the payout window to collect $50,400. He now has more than $20.5 million in career tournament earnings after this latest deep run.
Despite scoring that first knockout, Linde was ultimately the next to fall. Linde lost a big pot with top pair against the rivered two pair of Jeremy Becker, who took down […]
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