Nick Guagenti is the latest champion to be decided at the 2022 Poker Masters high-stakes tournament festival being held in the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino. The World Series of Poker bracelet Westerville, OH native outlasted a field of 62 entries in the $10,000 buy-in eight-game mix event to earn his first PokerGO Tour title and the top prize of $186,000.
This was the third-largest tournament score of his career, trailing only his win in the 2020 WSOP Online $2,000 no-limit hold;em event ($305,433) and a third-place showing in the 2019 WSOP H.O.R.S.E. event ($259,533). Guagenti now has more than $2 million in recorded tournament scores to his name.
In addition to the title and the money, Guagenti also earned plenty of rankings points for the win. He secured 360 Card Player Player of the Year points for his first POY-qualified score of 2022. He also earned 186 PokerGO Tour points, enough to see him move into sixth place in the race for the Poker Master Purple Jacket.
The top nine finishers made the money in this event, with bracelet winner Andrew Brown (9th) and high-stakes regular MJ Gonzales (8th) being the two players that cashed but were eliminated before the end of day 1.
The final day began with Cary Katz in the lead and Guagenti in second chip position. Five-time bracelet winner Brian Rast was the first to fall, getting his short stack in preflop with A-Q in a round of no-limit hold’em. Rast ran into the pocket tens of bracelet winner Alex Livingston and was unable to win the flip (7th – $31,000).
Jacky Wang was the next to hit the rail. He dwindled down to less than a single big blind, which he got all-in playing seven card stud with a split pair of aces. Both Katz and Livingston came along and Livingston improved to aces and queens by fifth street to leave Wang in rough shape. Wang was drawing dead after a blank on sixth street. He took home $37,200 as the sixth-place finisher. This was his third final-table finish of the series, with more than […]
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