In a world where the WSOP record-holding winner enjoys talking and is called Hell-muth and the most propulsive winner of the seminal Main Event was called Moneymaker, the Brazilian players Schroeder winning ‘Peanuts’ in final table terms was apt. If irony ever plays a part in poker, it seems to be in the regular exposure of players’ names for narrative game. The turn rendered the river meaningless as Glantz hoovered up McQuade’s chips and the Brit shook his hand to leave in seventh place for a payday of $300,000.

With over a dozen bracelets between them, Glatz was attempting to win the quartet’s second Main Event of 2023 and held with ease as his struck gold on the. The other three members of Team Lucky are Daniel Weinman, the 2023 WSOP Main Event winner, Josh Arieh, star of Game of Gold and Shaun Deeb, who is on his way to winning a million-dollar weight loss bet by next summer’s Vegas WSOP. The British player McQuade shoved pre-flop from the hijack position with and was begrudgingly called by ‘Team Lucky’ player Matt Glantz. No-one had time to visit the Lazy River before McQuade was the player at risk and Team Lucky lived up to their name. That showed early on as two quick eliminations reduced the field to five in the time it takes to mix a cocktail at the Atlantis Resort’s Hard Rock Hotel. With Daniel Neilson’s chip leading stack being 62 big blinds tall and the short stack being Montgomery McQuade’s eight bigs, there weren’t too many big blinds on the table.

At the end of a dramatic conclusion to the event, Zegal had won $2 million, a score he called “life changing money” as he celebrated the achievement of his life. With the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island attended by some of the biggest players in the world, the seven finalists in the WSOP Paradise Main Event were the envy of everyone else. The inaugural World Series of Poker Paradise Main Event has been won by German qualifier Stanislav Zegal after a thrilling battle in The Bahamas.

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