Six days of poker playing has led to one winner out of 22,374 entries in the $565 buy-in Colossus event at the World Series of Poker on Wednesday.
25-year-old Texas player Cord Garcia was the last man standing having won top prize of $638,880 and his first winner's bracelet after entering the heads up with Bradley McFarland.
The actual participants were tallied at 14,284 but there were many re-entries, which boosted the prize pool to $11,187,000 exceed the $5 million guarantee.
McFarland took second place and a $386,253 pay check.
There was some controversy surrounding the payout structure for the event and Garcia had this to say about it: "It was good for poker. There's something to this. Market a tournament well and get more people outside of poker into poker and it's always good for the game. I was really impressed with the turnout, and the fact there was a lot of average, normal people taking a shot at a poker tournament. That's what its all about. That's what keeps this game alive.”
Additional final table payouts:
3 Ray Henson $308,761
4 Paul Lentz $182,348
5 Kenny Hallaert $182,348
6 Aditya Prasetyo $140,956
7 Gary Simms $109,362
8 David Farber $87,817
9 Anthony Blanda $67,681
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