A Kiwi sportsman you have never heard of has just won $2 million in an online poker tournament
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A Kiwi poker player has banked $2 million for finishing fourth out of the 5802 players who entered an online tournament.
In a matter of days and without leaving his home, a Kiwi poker player has won the equivalent of what top All Blacks would be lucky to bank in a year.
Thomas Ward has won an eye-popping US$1.35 million (NZ$2m) in prize money for finishing fourth in the World Series of Poker No-Limit Hold'em Main Event on GGPoker, an event that created the largest winning prize in online poker history.
The tournament had a US$5000 buy-in with an entry list of 5802 players and a total prize pool of US$27.5 (NZ$39.4m).
Ward was one of 38 players to win through to the final day before making it to the final four.
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The tournament was held online in 2020 due to the global Covid-19 pandemic.
The winner of the World Series of Poker No-Limit Hold'em Main Event tournament, Stoyan Madanzhiev, of Bulgaria, claimed US$3,904,686 (NZ$5.8m).
China's Wenling Gao finished second and was the best of the female players with a prize of US$2.74m (NZ$4.1m) and US player Tyler Rueger took home US$1.92m (NZ$2.9m).
Ward has been playing all over the world and in online tournaments for several years where he has amassed more than US$1m (NZ$1.5m), making his latest payday a career-best effort by a significant margin.
He was second in another US$5000 buy-in tournament in Macau back in 2015 that netted him prize money of US$481,960 or more than $700,000 in New Zealand currency.
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