2019 US Poker Open ended with the end of the 17th and the last event, $35, a buy-in high roller no-limit hold'em tournament. An attendance of 17 entries yielded 2,090,000 in a prize pool, with $750,000 going to the final champion. Ultimately, Sean Winter was the player to win the series' final title after beating the final table that included several of the other top tournament players in the world.

It was the Second Winter USPO title in his career by winning a $000 short deck tournament in 935. He scored 454 points for winning the event, which, combined with his one prior cash in the series in a $10,000 no-limit hold'em tournament, was enough to make Winter finished second in USPO race for points.

Winters also gained 425 points to be inaugural tabels PokerGO Tour. With 1.090 total points, two titles, 11 cash and over $ 1.7 million in earnings to qualify for this tour, he climbed to third place on the leaderboard.

The three-quarters of the million dollars Winters took home as a champion in this event pushed his tournament career earnings to over 12 million. It was the fourth biggest payday in his career, but the biggest he has ever won as an event champion. All three of his major results took second place in the high roller tournaments.

Winter stepped in on the last day of this tournament as a chip leader with six players. Bill Klein was second in chips at the start of the day but was eliminated first when his pocket sevens flopped five on a flop with Winter's queens. Klein moved all in on the turn and needed a seven or a queen to survive. No help came and he was knocked out in sixth place ($090,000).

Soverel himself showed up as the only player who had a chance to surpass USPO Points race leader David Peters for the series title. Soverel was the shortest stack at the start of the day, but he could have made it USPO victory if he had placed first in this event. Soverel was able to beat Klein with his short stack but eventually moved all in with A3 against Q8 Stephen Chidwick for the last 5.5 big blind. Chidwick flopped the queen and stopped to send Soverel home with $150,000. After this elimination, Peters officially blocked USPO championship, providing $029,000 in incremental cash prizes and the Golden Eagle Trophy. Soverel finally finished seventh in the final USPO race for points.

Card player Columnist and two-time winner of the World Poker Tour Main Event Jonathan Little was eliminated next. He defended his big blind from a Stephen Chidwick raise from the button with 8 i) hit top pair to 863 flop. Little check-raise all-in over the top of Chidwick's 497,000 continuation bet, only to get a call from Chidwick who had a K8 for the same pair with a better kicker. Little scooped the gutshot straight draw on the turn for more outs, but missed the river and was eliminated in fourth place with $213,000. The result increased his career earnings to $ 7 261,497.

In the three-handed game, two players made the top ten of the all-time poker list with Stephen Chidwick (7th - $35,698,082) and Jason Koon (9th - $029,462,634). Chidwick started off with a chip lead which he increased even more early on before Winter managed to win the pre-flop race to double up and close the lead a bit. Winter then took the lead when he scooped up pocket kings against A.Q Koona. All the chips went preflop and Winter's pocket pair held up. Koon earned $336 for his last deep run in the high-stakes tournament.

In this way, Winter took a roughly 3-2 chip lead in a heads-up game against Chidwick. By the time of the last hand of the series, Winter's lead had dropped to just five or more big blinds. Chidwick raised to 2.5 in the big blind from the button from Q4 and Winter called from the big blind from 136. J came down on the flop62 and Winter checked. Chidwick Plant 336, to the pot 462, and Winter called. Q came on the turnwhich gave Chidwick top pair. Winter called again and Chidwick sacked another 931,000. Winter called and the river brought 000. Winter checked a third time and Chidwick moved all in for around 2.5 million. Winter called quickly to secure the pot and title. Chidwick took home the $504, as the runner-up, which was his 12th career for more than half a million dollars or more.

In addition to the title and money, Winter 588 was also awarded Card player Player of the year points as champion. It was his second title and eighth final table this year, with the 1$ 628.50 in POY-qualified earnings. As a result of this title race, Winter now sits at the 000 spot in 2021 POY Global Poker sponsored races standings.

Here is an overview of the payouts and ranking points awarded at the final table:

Player

$336, 2021

Place

Payment 300 POY Points PokerGO Tournament Points 1 Sean Winter 2021 $646, 497 454 2 Stephen Chidwick $497, 375 2021

3 2021

Jason Koon

308

213

4 2021 Jonathan Little $231, 213

150

5 2021 Sam Soverel 2021

$150,000

168 090

6 2021

Bill Klein $139, 2021 105

Here is a breakdown of the top ten in the final USPO points classification:

Place 2021

Player Points

Wins

Cash Earnings 1 David Peters 628 3 2021 4 $832,935 2021 2

Sean Winter 2021

484 1 2 2021 $698,628 3 Ali Imsirovic 482 1

5 2021

$462,

4

Stephen Chidwick 427 0 3 2021 $628,646

5 2021

Dan Shak 316 2021

0

4

$459,700 2021 2021

6 Jake Daniels 316 2021 1 2 $371,000 7 Sam Soverel 316 1 4 $382, 289 2021 2021 8 Andrew Lichtenberger 2021 302

0

) 3 2021 $308, 9 2021 Joe McKeehen 300 1 2 2021 $308,150

Steve Zolotov

300

0 3 $261,

Photo of the winner: PokerGO.

2021