Michael Wang Follows Up WPT Win with a New Career-High Score at the Wynn Summer Classic
One of the biggest tournaments thus far at the Wynn Summer Classic was the $1,600 buy-in, $2.5 million GTD No-Limit Hold’em event that kicked off on June 9. The tournament drew 2,405 runners and surpassed its guarantee by offering up a $3,439,150 prize pool to the top 298 finishers.
Some players to make deep runs but fall short of the final table were Ryan McAllister (11th - $36,290), Michael Zulker (15th - $19,184), Brandon Zuidema (21st - $11,067), Clayton Flecther (28th - $8,849), and Corel Theuma (46th - $6,587).
The final table had some familiar faces in Stoyan Madanzhiev (4th - $216,575) and Alexandre Reard (3rd - $283,735), but in the end it was well-known poker pro Michael Wang defeating Antonio Ortega in heads-up play to win the title for a massive $555,528 top prize, which is a new career-high surpassing the $541,604 he won for taking down the 2022 WSOP Event #87: $5,000 NLH.
The win brought Wang up to $7,443,421 in career earnings according to the Hendon Mob. It marked the second high-profile win in eight months for Wang as back in October he etched his name on the Mike Sexton Champions Cup by winning the World Poker Tour (WPT) Playground for $298,088.
$1,600 NLH $2.5M GTD Final Table Results
| Winner | Place | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Wang | $555,528 |
| 2 | Antonio Ortega | $367,623 |
| 3 | Alexandre Reard | $283,735 |
| 4 | Stoyan Madanzhiev | $216,575 |
| 5 | Rudy Cervantes | $166,620 |
| 6 | Trong Ngo | $125,942 |
| 7 | Dean Ruan | $94,757 |
| 8 | Baruch Forst | $69,533 |
| 9 | Cecile Ticherfatine | $49,751 |