Hot on the heels of this Mystery Bounty, Wynn will host a $3,500 buy-in, $1 million GTD No-Limit Hold’em Event.
That tournament, which starts players with 30,000 in chips and plays 40-minute levels, offers a pair of starting flights at Noon on Wednesday, July 7, and Thursday, July 8 respectively.
The surviving players will then return for Day 2 at Noon on Friday, July 9.
While PokerNews is here offering live updates from the Wynn Millions, we’d be remiss if we didn’t tell you about some of the side events that have taken place out over the past month at the Wynn Summer Classic.
In Event #5: $600 NLH, 743 runners created a $386,360 prize pool that was paid out to the top 80 players. Among those to cash but fall short of the final table were Stephen Song (64th - $1,399), Bryan Piccioli (41st - $2,022), Jeffrey Trudeau (19th - $3,490), Vanessa Kade (16th - $3,968), and Sen Mu (10th - $6,144).
In the end, it was Maine native Spencer Champlin who collected every chip in play to capture the first-place $70,641 payday.
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spencer Champlin | Scarborough, ME | $70,641 |
| 2 | Dave Alfa | Las Vegas, NV | $46,325 |
| 3 | Nick Blackburn | Long Bottom, OH | $31,488 |
| 4 | Darin Utley | Cedar Rapids, IA | $22,293 |
| 5 | Eugenio Pernia Soto | Venezuela | $16,495 |
| 6 | Toko Luu | San Jose, CA | $12,750 |
| 7 | Kevin Wang | Las Vegas, NV | $10,239 |
| 8 | David Larson | Las Vegas, NV | $8,500 |
| 9 | Stephen Sweat | Asheboro, NC | $7,168 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Level 24 (20,000/40,000/40,000)
After a player opened with a raise, 2020 WSOP Global Casino Champ AJ Kelsall three-bet jammed for 690,000. The original raiser called with 
and was well ahead of Kelsall's 
.
The 
flop gave Kelsall a gutshot straight draw, and the 
turn added a flush draw to the mix.
Unfortunately for him, the river was a brick and Kelsall was eliminated in 25th place for $8,366.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
What began with 211 envelopes was whittled down to approximately 35 before the top bounty of $100,000 was awarded.
After being eliminated from the tournament in 55th place for $5,210, New Jersey's Jay Kavoor opted to redeem his last bounty ticket. Earlier in the day, he redeemed one and won $2,500, which wasn't a bad score. Well, he topped it significantly on the second pull to bring his total payout for the day up to $107,710!
Here's is the moment of his victory:
The $100k prize is off the board in @WynnPoker $1,600 Mystery Bounty. Only about 35 envelopes remained when Jay Kov… https://t.co/Ow6Ga6XlTP
— PokerNews (@PokerNews)
We missed the elimination of Shannon Shorr in 28th place, but he filled us in on some details after the fact.
According to him, the player in the cutoff opened with a raise and Shorr three-bet jammed from the big blind with 
.
Unfortunately for him, his opponent called with 
and the kicker played on a clean and low runout.
Shorr's elimination brings about the three-table redraw as just 27 players remain.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
Level 24 (20,000/40,000/40,000)
Carlos Veidas got his stack of 490,000 all in preflop and was looking to hold against Joey Senescu.
Carlos Veidas: 
Joey Senescu: 
Veidas had the better ace and the kicker made the difference after the board ran out 
.
Senescu was left with a short stack and went bust not long after in 29th place for $7,351.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,000,000 | 906,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Level 24 (20,000/40,000/40,000)
Rubin Chappell got his last 460,000 or so all in preflop and was at-risk against Stephen Krestynick.
Rubin Chappell:
Stephen Krestynick: 
The board ran out 
and Krestynick eliminated Chappell. He immediately redeemed the bounty and drew an envelope containing $2,500.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,800,000 | 500,000 |
|
|
Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,075,000 | -825,000 |
|
1,600,000 | 1,100,000 |
|
1,500,000 | 600,000 |
|
1,450,000 | 1,044,000 |
|
1,400,000 | 1,240,000 |
|
|
1,300,000 | 969,000 |
|
1,200,000 | 1,036,000 |
|
1,075,000 | 648,000 |
|
|
885,000 | -215,000 |
|
|
810,000 | 380,000 |
|
590,000 | 315,000 |