World Poker Prize Money

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All poker players have different motivation. Some of them play to become famous, some play to get emotions, but all wish to win the first place and get the best prize from ClubWPT. We all play poker to receive rewards, and that’s great!

The price point was still large, as the world of live poker typically has the bigger buy-ins. There were 5,802 entries at the $5,000 price point, easily surpassing the $25 million guarantee. A prize pool of $27,559,500 was up for grabs, the record tournament pot in online poker’s roughly two decade history. The $5,000 buy-in Main Event of the World Series of Poker international series wrapped up on Saturday night with the top 4 finishers all taking home more than $1 million in prize money. About the World Series of Poker The World Series of Poker® is the largest, richest and most prestigious gaming event in the world, having awarded more than $3.29 billion in prize money and the prestigious gold bracelet, globally recognized as the sport’s top prize.

Reward is one of the strongest types of motivation. When you pay buy-in and participate in tournament the only place you are dreaming about is the first one. That’s because very often the highest place brings the best possible reward.

ClubWPT offers valuable prizes in many of the tournaments, but there are some very important things you need to know before you start playing there:

Eligibility

Not all players are eligible to claim prizes at WPT Club; there is a special list of restricted countries. Players from these countries are not allowed to claim prizes if they win something.

That’s because of legislation. ClubWPT is 100% legal in some US states, Canada, United Kingdom, France and Australia. Players from other countries are not allowed to participate in poker games and withdraw winnings.

Once again: there is a special list of eligible territories and states. If you are resident of other country / state don’t even try to withdraw your winnings. There is a special procedure of verification every player has to pass. During this procedure a player has to provide evidence of his eligibility to withdraw his rewards. This procedure will require player to send a scanned copy of his ID / Passport and maybe some other documents.

As you see if you don’t belong to eligible territories it’s impossible to withdraw or receive prizes. For some players it will be a huge disappointment, but ClubWPT cares about his reputation and accepts only players from specific regions.

Subscription

Now let’s talk about account types and differences between accounts in terms of possible rewards. As you know there are 2 different account types: Basic and VIP. All basic members can participate in freerolls and win something there. But rewards in freerolls are not big. You will have to spend a lot of time in order to win useless prize. To be honest it’s not the best deal. Why should a poker room spend money for freerolls if these tournaments don’t give anything in return?

If you really want to get something valuable playing poker at ClubWPT you need to purchase VIP status. This status can be obtained by purchasing special subscription. Here you can read more about Membership Plans and about how to subscribe.

All VIP members have opportunity to participate in big tournaments where serious prizes can be won. As you understand it’s not for free. But the cost of VIP subscription is not high while it allows you to participate in games and tournaments where great prizes can be won. It’s a good deal for serious players.

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Here is an example of what a VIP member can win in ClubWPT tournaments:

  • Monster® DNA On-Ear Headphones (MSRP $229.95).
  • Tag Heuer Aquaracer Quartz Men's Watch
  • $7,000 package to the Season XIII WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble event in Jacksonville
  • The Monster® Headphones $6,000 WPT Montreal 2014 Package
  • A part of $10,000 prize pool in Guaranteed Cash Poker Tournament. The prize structure is deep: 250 places will be paid.
  • and many more…

Rewards are always different. The Club holds different promotions with different prize pools. For example very often you can see a WPT Seat tourney where you can win World Poker Tour Package. Cash tournaments are also regular and give you opportunity to win real money.

The tournament schedule is full of tournaments every day. If you look at the schedule you will see that different tourneys are held every 15 minutes! Though prize pools are not always big you have great opportunity to increase your skills playing more often.

As you see there prizes at ClubWPT are really valuable and are worth playing. If you are ready to start playing – download ClubWPT now and get 2 weeks of free VIP Trial. Just don’t forget that you need to be a resident of eligible territory and have VIP membership account in order to be able to get amazing rewards.


The $5,000 buy-in Main Event of the World Series of Poker international series wrapped up on Saturday night with the top 4 finishers all taking home more than $1 million in prize money. With the typical World Series of Poker in Las Vegas postponed this year the action moved online and the World Series of Poker international series Main Event had a total prize pool of $27,559,500.

There were 5,802 buy-ins into the $5,000-entry Main Event. Notable entries included PSG star and Brazilian soccer phenom Neymar Jr. and former heavyweight boxing champion Riddick Bowe.

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The final heads-up pairing came down to Bulgaria’s Stoyan Madanzhiev against Wenling Gao of China. On the final hand of the Main Event, Stoyan Madanzhiev flopped a straight which took down Gao’s pocket aces which is an absolutely brutal way to get knocked out heads-up. Looking down and seeing AA you think you are absolutely money and then your opponent flops a straight and poof, you’re gone.

For his second-place finish, Wenling Gao won $2.7 million. Not bad. Stoyan Madanzhiev took home a record $3.9 million for first place, the ‘largest prize in online poker history’. American Tyler Rueger won $1.9 million for 3rd place and New Zealand’s Thomas Ward brought home $1.35 million for his 4th place finish.

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‘Poker Brat’ Phil Hellmuth busted in 750th right before the money bubble. In total, 728 spots were paid out across the $27,559,500 prize pool. There were three Americans at the final table with the other two, Tyler Cornell and Sam Taylor, finishing 8th and 9th respectively for $328,305 and $230,395.

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In the final hand, 2nd place finisher Wenling Gao got all his chips in with AcAd only to see her opponent (yes, her) call with 7d6h. At that moment he had his opponent completely dominated. But Bulgaria’s Stoyan Madanzhiev miraculously flopped a 7-high straight and held on to win 1st place.

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According to ESPN’s Chalk, some American participants moved internationally for this event which also allowed them to buy-in multiple times in the early stages:

The international series was hosted on GGPoker.com after the coronavirus pandemic forced the traditional World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas to be postponed. There were 5,802 entries into the $5,000 buy-in main event, creating a $27.6 million prize pool, the largest in online poker history.

Players were allowed to buy in three times during the early rounds of the main event and were required to be physically located in a jurisdiction that allowed online poker. Tournament officials said some American participants relocated to Mexico or Canada to take part in the tournament.

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The main event was narrowed to 38 players entering Saturday’s final round. American Bryan Piccioli had the chip lead entering the final round but finished 23rd.

It’s certainly a bummer not having the usual World Series of Poker footage on ESPN this year. It’s been a staple of Summer television for most of my life and watching these tournaments unfold online just doesn’t offer even a fraction of the same entertainment for me.

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The official in-person 2020 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas hasn’t been rescheduled yet and with this year waning down they’re running out of time. Next year seems likely (to me) at this point.

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For more on this largest win in online poker history, you can head on over to ESPN’s Chalk.