Magnus Buys Lucky Contest Winner into Wynn Millions Main Event

Jon Sofen

Level 21 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Nadya Magnus, who sits at nearly 500,000 in chips, won the 2021 GPI Female Player of the Year award and seeks a repeat performance in 2022.

She's also active in promoting the game and helping other talented women achieve success in poker. Last week, she offered up an interesting contest for women with under $100,000 in total live Hendon Mob earnings. She will buy the poker player who won it into the $10,000 Wynn Millions $10 million guaranteed Main Event March 3-11.

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— Nadya Magnus (@NadyaKGB)

Magnus posted a puzzle and the first eligible person to correctly answer it won. That individual is Alecia Ackred who has $2,175 in recorded live tournament cashes, per Hendon Mob. Ackred now has an opportunity to earn her first massive score if she can run deep in the Wynn Millions Main Event later this week.

As for Magnus, she's quickly becoming one of the top women in the game and ended Kristen Bicknell's streak of three straight GPI Female Player of the Year awards. Magnus, who has nearly $1.3 million in live tournament cashes lifetime, accepted her award at the Global Poker Awards earlier this month.