Jonathan Dimmig Wins WSOP Event #8 and $1,3 Million

We have found the first million dollar plus winner at this year’s World Series of Poker, which came in event #8, the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Millionaire Maker event. Jonathan Dimmig won the event after playing a long final table, beating Jeffrey Coburn heads up for the title and the massive $1,319,587 first prize.

A massive 7,977 players entered in the millionaire maker tournament, creating a huge prize pool of $10,768,950 to be split among the players finishing in the money.

When the final table started, Dimmig was not amongst the favourites to win the title, as Stephen Graner had a three to one chiplead over the table, a chiplead he did not manage to use to his advantage as he busted out in 6th place for $273,854.

The final hand of the event came after 190 hands played of the final table, where a flop showed:

Dimmig pushes all in with  and gets a call from Coburn who holds  and needs to hit to still be in the run.

Turn:

River:

And that was it, Dimmig was crowned the winner of the WSOP Event #8 Millionaire Maker and is the first player to win over a million dollars at this year’s WSOP.  You can see all final table payouts below.

1st: Jonathan Dimmig – $1,319,587
2nd: Jeff Coburn – $815,963
3rd: James Duke – $614,368
4th: Andrew Teng – $465,972
5th: Bradley Anderson – $355,913
6th: Stephen Graner – $273,854
7th: Jason Johnson – $211,394
8th: Andrew Dick – $164,118
9th: Maurice Hawkins – $128,150

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