Level: 34
Blinds: 200,000/400,000
Ante: 0
2019 Wynn Winter Classic
$5,300 Championship Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 3
2019 Wynn Winter Classic
Buy-in
$5,300
Prize Pool
$2,740,440
Entries
557
Level
34
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
0
Entries
31
Players Left
1
Dyer Doubles Through Rocco
Level 34
: 200,000/400,000, 0 ante
Michael Rocco raised the button, Michael Dyer shoved his blind and Rocco called.
Michael Dyer: 
Michael Rocco: 
Dyer was behind and at-risk, but the 
flop gave him new life and the 
runout gave him the chiplead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
17,600,000
7,400,000
|
7,400,000 |
|
10,275,000
-7,400,000
|
-7,400,000 |
Michael Dyer Eliminated in 2nd Place ($353,242)
Level 34
: 200,000/400,000, 0 ante
In the final hand of the tournament, Michael Dyer raised to 1,000,000 from the button and Michael Rocco made the call.
After both players checked the 
flop, Rocco led out on the 
turn for 2,000,000 and this time it was Dyer who made the call. Rocco then shoved the river, Dyer called off for around 9,000,000.
Michael Rocco: 
Michael Dyer: 
Unfortunately, Dyer's ace-high was well behind Rocco's two pair and he was eliminated in second place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
27,850,000
17,575,000
|
17,575,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Michael Rocco Wins 2019 Wynn Winter Classic Championship for $540,800
Level 34
: 200,000/400,000, 0 ante
The inaugural Wynn Winter Classic $5,300 buy-in Championship Event – the biggest buy-in tournament the venue has held in over five years – crushed its $1.5 million guarantee as 557 entrants created a $2,740,440 prize pool.
After a marathon 16-hour final day, it was longtime poker pro Michael Rocco, 30, besting 2018 World Series of Poker third-place finisher Michael Dyer in heads-up play to win the title outright for $540,800.
It was Rocco’s long-awaited signature win and a new career-high score passing his previous best of $423,440 for finishing third in the 2014 World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic. He also finished third in the 2017 PCA $25K High Roller for $409,020.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Rocco | USA | $540,800 |
| 2 | Michael Dyer | USA | $353,242 |
| 3 | Ben Farrell | UK | $239,789 |
| 4 | Louis Salter | UK | $168,312 |
| 5 | Joe Kuether | USA | $124,690 |
| 6 | Matt Yorra | USA | $96,738 |
| 7 | Tomas Soderstrom | Sweden | $77,006 |
| 8 | Adam Hendrix | USA | $63,852 |
| 9 | Josh Bergman | USA | $53,987 |
Day 3 Action
Day 3 saw 31 players return to action and it didn’t take long for action to heat up. Among those to fall on the way to the final table were PCA champ Galen Hall (10th - $45,987), Ankush Mandavia (11th - $45,987), Kahle Burns (12th - $39,474), Shannon Shorr (15th - $34,325), two-time bracelet winner Barry Shulman (17th - $29,848), Justin Bonomo (25th - $19,797), Ryan Leng (28th - $17,290), Daniel Strelitz (30th - $17,920), and Matt Glantz (31st - $17,290).
At the final table, Josh Bergman was the first to fall after running pocket tens into Matt Yorra’s aces, and then the short-stacked Adam Hendrix followed him out the door after his king-five went down to Joe Kuether’s king-deuce after a deuce appeared on the flop.
The next-shortest stack was Sweden’s Tomas Soderstrom, and he took his leave in seventh place after jamming with jack-nine suited and failing to get there against Dyer’s ace-ten. Soon after, Yorra bowed out in sixth after losing a race with pocket nines to Dyer’s Big Slick.
Kuether then lost a race with ace-ten to Ben Farrell’s pocket sevens to finish in fifth place, and then it was time for Louis Salter to go after losing ace-eight to Farrell’s ace-jack all in preflop.
During three-handed play, Dyer doubled through Farrell ace-jack to ace-seven, and then the latter lost the rest of it to the former a short time later busting with queen-four to ace-eight suited. That set up a heads-up match in which Rocco held 17.675 million to Dyer’s 10.2 million.
Dyer got short, managed a double, and then the final hand developed. Rocco had flopped two pair and jammed big on the river. Dyer had nut no-pair with ace-queen and opted to call it off only to see his run come to an end in second place for $353,242.
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$5,300 Championship Event
Day 3 Completed