Shawn Daniels has had a fairly profitable 48 hours of playing high-stakes tournament poker this week. A native of Placerville, California, he came in second with 77 entries in Venetian High Roller $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament on Thursday May 27, cash in $120,180. The next day, he improved in that second place, winning another $000, buy-in high roller, making his way through the 52nd entry box to win another $150,350. The $321,650, which earned this pair of podium finishes, pushed his career in live tournaments of up to $ 1.3 million.
In addition to the title and money, Daniels was also awarded 321 Card Player Player of the Year points for the most recent win. Combined with 321 and the points he scored at the two final tables earlier in the year, Daniels now has 1,180 points total, putting him in 28th place in 2021 POY
a race sponsored by Global Poker.
This event is part of the first ever season of the PokerGO Tour. Daniels amassed 321 rank points for the two thanks to his two strong high roller finishes. Now sits 12th on the PokerGO Tour Leaderboard, which tracks the performance of high stakes tournaments with buy-ins of $10,000 or more throughout the year.
This one-day tournament started at The Venetian Poker Room at 2 p.m. local time and continued until Daniels won the final hand at 3:28 in advance of attendance. 65 entries saw $650, a prize pool paid out to the top 10 finishers, with
German poker player Manig Loeser was out on the bubble.
John Rio rdan (000 th - $17,500) and Sean Winter (9. - $20,000) were eliminated shortly thereafter, placing eight players at the final table, with the Spaniard Vicent Bosca in the lead. Shannon Shorr, who had finished fourth in the high roller the day before, was the first to hit the railing. He made the final table with just a few big blinds. He moved all in with 6
Seth Davies was eliminated next and his pocket nines fell into Cary Katz's pocket kings. The higher pair stuck and Davies contented himself with the $28,360.
While Bosca made the final table ahead, he doubled up on John Morgan in a six-handed game to drop to the very bottom of the chip count. He finally got his last handful of blinds all-in with Q-9 against 4
Cary Katz lost the pre-flop race to A
Daniels continued his knockout frenzy by defeating Chris Brewer's A-6 with his A
table finish 2021, with $360,000 collected along the way. He climbed to the 17th place in
POY
race result.
The heads-up game started when Daniels had 4,850,000 to 1 Sergi Reixach, 650,. The two fought for over an hour and Reixach was able to overtake the lead at one point. However, Daniels eventually regained control and had a significant chip lead by the time the final hand was dealt. Daniels moved from the button with K.
Here's a look at payouts, POY and PokerGO Tour points awarded in this event:
| Place | Player | Earnings
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33 2021
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| 6 2021 Vicent Bosca 2021
| $39, | |
130
7
2021
0 2021
000
Daniels photo: PokerGO.