Rafael Navas Nabs a WSOP Super Circuit Ring and ��96,500 in Cash
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Spain's Rafael Navas helped himself to a career-best live poker tournament score plus his first World Series of Poker Circuit rung after he came out on top in the ��560 buy-in Mystery Millions event at the 2023 WSOP Super Circuit London festival.
Navas only began his live poker career in 2022 but has already racked up more than $300,000 worth of cashes, with nine of his results yielding five-figure scores. Until binking this ��560 Mystery Millions tournament, Navas' largest haul weighed in at �67,637, his reward for a third-place finish in the �1,100 WPT Prime Madrid Main Event in September 2022. Navas can now brag of an ��80,000 score, or ��96,500 if you include the bounties he collected on his way to victory.
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Dozens of players receive mystery bounty payments ranging from ��500 to a cool ��58,000. The aforementioned Navas clinched ��16,500 worth of bounties, while fellow finalist Gary Miller pulled out ��15,250.
The aptly named Duncan Riches received ��25,000, while Mauro Suriano and Daniel Harwood bagged ��26,000 and ��26,500, respectively. Jay Villegas, who until this event had less than $4,000 in recorded live earnings, pulled out a ��50,000 mystery bounty, while Hanna Mdanat Yazan Jeries hauled in a massive ��58,000!
��560 Mystery Million Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Prize | Bounties | Total Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rafael Navas | ��80,000 | ��16,250 | ��96,250 |
| 2 | Victor Ilyukhin | ��48,000 | ��1,000 | ��49,000 |
| 3 | Gary Miller | ��32,000 | ��15,250 | ��47,250 |
| 4 | Shaun Walbridge | ��22,000 | ��6,500 | ��28,500 |
| 5 | Alexander Clark | ��15,600 | ��2,000 | ��17,600 |
| 6 | Leon Campbell | ��12,000 | ��3,500 | ��15,500 |
| 7 | Michael O'Brien | ��9,000 | ��6,000 | ��15,000 |
| 8 | Michael Carney | ��7,000 | ��1,000 | ��8,000 |
| 9 | Jun Li | ��5,000 | ��2,000 | ��7,000 |
Each of the nine finalists locked in at least ��5,000 for their efforts, and it was ninth-place finish Jun Li that collected that sum. Li also banked ��2,000 worth of bounties for a total haul tipping the scales at ��7,000.
Michael Carney crashed out in seventh for ��7,000 (��8,000 with bounties) and was joined on the rail by Michael O'Brien, whose seventh-place finish came with a ��9,000 payout plus ��6,000 from the mystery bounty prize pool.
Sixth place and ��12,000 (��15,500 with bounties) went to popular British grinder Leon Campbell before Alexander Clark crashed out in fifth for ��15,600 (��17,600 with bounties).
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Shaun Walbridge, whose last live result was in January 2019, finished fifth for ��22,000 (��28,500 with bounties), with the elimination of Gary Miller in third sending the Mystery Million to the heads-up stage. Miller walked away with ��32,000 plus an additional ��15,250 worth of scalps for a total haul worth ��17,250. Miller, who won the 2018 WPT500 in London, recently passed through $1 million in live earnings.
Victor Ilyukhin and Navas locked horns and butted heads in a one-on-one battle for the title. Either player would have made a worthy champion, but it was not to be Ilyukhin's day. He crashed out in second for ��48,000 plus another ��1,000 in bounties, leaving Navas to claim the WSOPC ring, ��80,000 prize money, and ��16,250 from the mystery bounty prize pool. A good day at the office, indeed.
Philipp Krieger Captures PLO Hi-Lo Title
Germany's Philipp Krieger outlasted 43 opponents in the ��1,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo event to become a WSOP Circuit ring winner and recipient of ��14,000. Krieger finished third in the �2,000 Eight Game Mix at the 2022 WSOP Europe festival, and 11th in the $1,500 PLO Hi-Lo event at the 2023 WSOP, defeated Tron McEntee heads-up to become a WSOPC champion.
Only seven of the 44 entrants saw a return on their investment. Omaha specialist Daniel Ezekiel had to make do with the ��2,000 seventh-place prize, while Maximilan Sanders followed up his final table appearance in the �330 PLO event at ESPT Castellon with a sixth-place finish worth ��3,000.
Vastal Thakkar bowed out in fifth for ��4,000 before Ian Hunter became the hunted and was cut down in fourth for ��5,000.
Third place and ��6,180 went to the 2019 GUKPT Luton champion Vikrum Mehta before Krieger resigned McEntee to a career-best ��8,500 score, reeling in the ��14,000 top prize for himself.
| Rank | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Philipp Krieger | ��14,000 |
| 2 | Tron McEntee | ��8,500 |
| 3 | Vikrum Mehta | ��6,180 |
| 4 | Ian Hunter | ��5,000 |
| 5 | Vastal Thakkar | ��4,000 |
| 6 | Maximilan Sanders | ��3,000 |
| 7 | Daniel Ezekiel | ��2,000 |
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