World Poker Tour Completes Summer Alpha8 Trifecta
Poker summer camp in Las Vegas might revolve around the World Series of Poker for some players, but the other series at casinos around Sin City are big attractions as well. One of the biggest draws for players is always the Wynn Summer Classic. Its series this year offered $37M in prize pool guarantees as well as three World Poker Tour events.
The Wynn’s partnership with the World Poker Tour put three high-stakes WPT Alpha8 tournaments into the mix – the WPT Alpha8 Trifecta – each requiring a $25K buy-in.
Big Win for Brock Wilson
The first of the three tournaments delivered 78 entries and a prize pool of $1,864,200. It was enough to pay out the top 10 players. Ultimately, Brock Wilson prevailed to capture his first WPT title. In fact, this was his first major tournament title of any kind, and the payday was second only to his second-place finish in the 2019 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS cash in the Bahamas.
- 1st place: Brock Wilson (USA) $571,400
- 2nd place: Seth Gottlieb (USA) $380,900
- 3rd place: Artur Martirosyan (Russia) $253,900
- 4th place: Matthias Eibinger (Austria) $176,400
- 5th place: Ilya Nikiforov (Estonia) $128,000
- 6th place: David Coleman (USA) $97,200
- 7th place: Daniel Sepiol (USA) $77,400
- 8th place: Atanas Malinov (Bulgaria) $64,800
- 9th place: Brian Kim (USA) $57,100
Sepiol Can’t Stop Winning
The second of the Alpha8 Trifecta tournaments brought in 108 entries for a $2,581,200 prize pool. That paid out the top 14 players, with initial cashes going to Brandon Adams, Adrian Mateos, Ian Bradley, Stephen Chidwick, and Dominik Nitsche.
Daniel Sepiol took down this tournament, with as much confidence as when he captured the WPT World Championship title in December 2023 at Wynn. That victory was worth a career high of nearly $5.3M, but he then parlayed that win into a PokerGo Tour title at the PGT Texas Poker Open in April and a WSOP gold bracelet in this summer’s WSOP $1,500 NLHE Shootout event.
- 1st place: Daniel Sepiol (USA) $672,200
- 2nd place: Jonathan Cohen (Canada) $450,000
- 3rd place: Mikita Bodyakovsky (Belarus) $335,000
- 4th place: Samuel Laskowitz (USA) $250,000
- 5th place: Chino Rheem (USA) $189,000
- 6th place: Igor Yaroshevskyy (Ukraine) $144,000
- 7th place: Christoph Vogelsang (Germany) $111,000
- 8th place: Samuel Ju (Germany) $86,000
- 9th place: Nikita Kuznetsov (Russia) $67,000
Coleman Claims Trifecta Finale
The third and final tournament of the Alpha8 Trifecta was the largest, complete with 117 entries and a prize pool of $2,796,300. While the Hendon Mob database doesn’t have the full list of results, it does show the top eight finishers.
David Coleman was at the very top, taking down the event for his largest live career tournament cash to date and first of the World Poker Tour variety. The high-stakes player has several titles from the PokerGO Tour, including wins in the PGT Kickoff, PokerGO Cup, and US Poker Open.
- 1st place: David Coleman (USA) $730,300
- 2nd place: Nikita Kuznetsov (Russia) $480,000
- 3rd place: Martin Raus (Canada) $355,000
- 4th place: Andrew Lichtenberger (USA) $265,000
- 5th place: John Pennucci (USA) $200,000
- 6th place: Roman Hrabec (Czech Republic) $154,000
- 7th place: Pavel Plesuv (Moldova) $118,000
- 8th place: Isaac Haxton (USA) $92,000
All photos courtesy of the World Poker Tour.
