Even though the WSOP Paradise is now over, we were still one winner short, and we were looking for that winner in the last tournament, the WSOP Paradise Mystery Millions Online with a buy-in of $2,750 and a guarantee of $5,000,000.
This tournament offered plenty of flights and took care of 2,185 entries in total, which meant a prizepool of $5,462,500. A WSOP gold bracelet of champions and a $447,242 bounty awaited the winner here, which someone could take home just before Christmas.
Ren "Tony" Lin and Axel "A Babay" Bayout. French player Axel Bayout walked away as the winner of this pairing, winning his first bracelet and adding $532,042 to his account along with the bounty.
However, this amount was surpassed by Chinese professional player Ren Lin, who, although he came in second place, took home a whopping $640,445 along with bounty rewards. Although Bayout was playing under the Austrian flag, the best German-speaking player here was Simon Beckmann, who finished in 11th place with a bounty of $34,339.
Samuel Mullur also played over Christmas
Austrian pro Samuel Mullur played the final table of the $10,300 buy-in, $1,000,000 GGMillion tournament over Christmas.
The tournament brought 120 entries, which meant a prizepool of $1,200,000. There was $260,765 waiting for the winner, and names like Aleks Ponakovs and Samuel Mullur battled it out at the final table. Samuel started with the third largest stack, but in the end had to settle for 4th place, which was worth $124,203. Aleks Ponakovs finished in third place and the winner was Ilya Anatski.
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