Poker Masters 2018

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The Poker Masters 2018 was the second edition of this poker tournament series and was hosted by Poker Central . The seven high roller tournaments with buy-ins of at least US $ 10,000 were played from September 7-15, 2018 at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas .

structure

Aria Resort & Casino (2013)

Six of the seven tournaments were played in the No Limit Hold'em variant , with one being played with a short deck . The third event was in Pot Limit Omaha and, in addition to the Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller offered once a year at the World Series of Poker , the most expensive tournament of this variant. The tournament fee did not have to be paid if you had bought into an event at the beginning of the tournament. Due to the high buy-in, only the world's best poker players and wealthy businessmen could be found at the tournaments. The first six events were each designed for two days and allowed each player two re-entries. All tournaments were played with a 30-second shot clock, which means that each player only had 30 seconds of time for his actions. All events were broadcast on the paid online platform PokerGO . Almedin Imširović collected the most points across all tournaments and therefore received a purple jacket , the so-called Poker Masters Purple Jacket ™ .

Tournaments

Overview

#	Tournament start	Buy-in (in $ )	Fee (in $)	variant	Attendees	winner	origin	Prize money (in $)
1	Sep 7 2018	010,000	0500	No Limit Hold'em	69	David Peters		0.193.200
2	8 Sep 2018	025,000	1000	No Limit Hold'em	50	Brandon Adams		0.400,000
3	Sep 9 2018	025,000	1000	Pot Limit Omaha	37	Keith Lehr		0.333,000
4th	Sep 10 2018	010,000	0500	No Limit Hold'em Short Deck	55	Isaac Haxton		0.176,000
5	Sep 11 2018	025,000	1000	No Limit Hold'em	66	Almedin Imširović		0.462,000
6th	Sep 12 2018	050,000	2000	No Limit Hold'em	47	Almedin Imširović		0.799,000
7th	13 Sep 2018	100,000	3000	No Limit Hold'em	25th	David Peters		1,150,000

# 1 - No Limit Hold'em

David Peters (2018)

The first event started on September 7th, 2018. 69 participants paid the buy-in of $ 10,000.

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $)	Points
1		David Peters	193.200	300
2		Brian Green	138,000	210
3		Rainer Kempe	089,700	150
4th		Brandon Adams	069,000	120
5		Lance Garcia	055,200	090
6th		Isaac Haxton	041,400	060
7th		David Eldridge	034,500
8th		Almedin Imširović	027,600
9		Cary Katz	020,700
10		Matthias Eibinger

# 2 - No Limit Hold'em

The second event started on September 8, 2018. 50 participants paid the buy-in of $ 25,000.

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $)	Points
1		Brandon Adams	400,000	300
2		Jared Jaffee	262,000	210
3		Jake Schindler	175,000	150
4th		Bill Klein	125,000	120
5		Jason Koon	100,000	090
6th		Daniel Negreanu	075,000	060
7th		Dominik Nitsche	062,500
8th		Cary Katz	050,000

# 3 - Pot Limit Omaha

The third event began on September 9, 2018 and was played in Pot Limit Omaha . 37 participants paid the buy-in of $ 25,000.

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $)	Points
1		Keith Lehr	333,000	300
2		Jonathan Depa	222,000	210
3		Ben Yu	148,000	150
4th		Isaac Haxton	092,500	120
5		Brandon Adams	074,000	090
6th		Dan Shak	055,500	060

# 4 - No Limit Hold'em Short Deck

Isaac Haxton (2018)

The fourth event started on September 10, 2018 and was played in No Limit Hold'em Short Deck . 55 participants paid the buy-in of $ 10,000.

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $)	Points
1		Isaac Haxton	176,000	300
2		Maurice Hawkins	115,500	210
3		Ryan Tosoc	077,000	150
4th		Andrew Robl	055,000	120
5		Cary Katz	044,000	090
6th		Dominik Nitsche	033,000	060
7th		Jonathan Depa	027,500
8th		Jason Koon	022,000

# 5 - No Limit Hold'em

The fifth event began on September 11, 2018. 66 participants paid the buy-in of $ 25,000.

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $)	Points
1		Almedin Imširović	462,000	300
2		Ben Yu	330,000	210
3		Brian Rast	214,500	150
4th		Jake Schindler	165,000	120
5		Jason Koon	132,000	090
6th		Daniel Negreanu	099,000	060
7th		Elio Fox	082,500
8th		Dan Shak	066,000
9		Bryn Kenney	049,500
10		Dan Smith

# 6 - No Limit Hold'em

The sixth event began on September 12, 2018. 47 participants paid the buy-in of $ 50,000.

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $)	Points
1		Almedin Imširović	799,000	300
2		Koray Aldemir	517,000	210
3		Seth Davies	352,500	150
4th		Jake Schindler	235,000	120
5		Sam Soverel	188,000	090
6th		Justin Bonomo	141,000	060
7th		Bryn Kenney	117,500

# 7 - No Limit Hold'em

The main event began on September 13, 2018 and cost $ 100,000. On the first day of the tournament, 15 players registered and David Peters led the field of the remaining eight players. On the second day of the tournament, the registration phase closed with 25 registrations.

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $)	Points
1		David Peters	1,150,000	350
2		Dan Smith	0.700,000	245
3		Koray Aldemir	0.400,000	175
4th		Bryn Kenney	0.250,000	140

Purple jacket

Point system

Unlike in the previous year, when the winner of the Purple Jacket was determined solely by the prize money won in the tournaments, a points system was introduced for this event, so that every player who ended up in the prize categories in one of the seven tournaments in addition to the prize money Collected points. These were distributed as follows:

space	Tournaments 1-6	Main Event
1	300	350
2	210	245
3	150	175
4th	120	140
5	090	105
+6+	060	070

Final score

Almedin Imširović (2018)

Winner Almedin Imširović made it into the money in three of the seven events and received prize money of almost 1.3 million dollars due to his victories in the fifth and sixth events.

space	origin	player	Points	Prize money (in $)	Cashes
1		Almedin Imširović	660	1,288,600	3
2		David Peters	650	1,343,200	2
3		Brandon Adams	510	0.543,000	3
4th		Isaac Haxton	480	0.309,900	3
5		Jake Schindler	390	0.575,000	3
6th		Koray Aldemir	385	0.917,000	2
7th		Ben Yu	360	0.478,000	2
8th		Dan Smith	305	0.749,500	2
9		Keith Lehr	300	0.333,000	1
10		Jonathan Depa	270	0.249,500	2
11		Bryn Kenney	260	0.417,000	3
12		Jason Koon	240	0.254,000	3
13		Brian Green	210	0.138,000	1
		Maurice Hawkins	210	0.115,500	1
		Jared Jaffee	210	0.262,000	1
		Cary Katz	210	0.114,700	3
17th		Seth Davies	150	0.352,500	1
		Rainer Kempe	150	0.089,700	1
		Brian Rast	150	0.214,500	1
		Ryan Tosoc	150	0.077,000	1
21st		Bill Klein	120	0.125,000	1
		Daniel Negreanu	120	0.174,000	2
		Dominik Nitsche	120	0.095,500	2
		Andrew Robl	120	0.055,000	1
		Dan Shak	120	0.121,500	2
26th		Lance Garcia	090	0.055,200	1
		Sam Soverel	090	0.188,000	1
28		Justin Bonomo	060	0.141,000	1
		Matthias Eibinger	060	0.020,700	1
		David Eldridge	060	0.034,500	1
		Elio Fox	060	0.082,500	1

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Poker Masters 2018 in the Hendon Mob Poker Database
• Poker Masters 2018 on pokernews.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tournament Rules & Full Payouts on pokermasters.com, accessed on August 21, 2018 (PDF).
2. ↑ 2018 Poker Masters High Roller Tournament Schedule Announced on pokercentral.com on May 31, 2018, accessed on June 22, 2018.
3. ↑ 2018 Poker Masters ($ 10,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 1)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on September 9, 2018 (English).
4. ↑ 2018 Poker Masters ($ 25,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 2)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on September 10, 2018.
5. ↑ 2018 Poker Masters ($ 25,000 + 1,000 Pot Limit Omaha (Event # 3)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on September 11, 2018.
6. ↑ 2018 Poker Masters ($ 10,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck (Event # 4)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed September 12, 2018 (English).
7. ↑ 2018 Poker Masters ($ 25,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on September 13, 2018.
8. ↑ 2018 Poker Masters ($ 50,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on September 14, 2018.
9. ↑ 2018 Poker Masters ($ 100,000 + 3,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 7)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on September 16, 2018.
10. ↑ Ali Imsirovic Wins 2018 Poker Masters Purple Jacket on pokernews.com from September 16, 2018, accessed on September 16, 2018 (English).