The win leads to a $5.2-million payday after cutting a deal with the runner-up
Dan Sepiol secured his biggest career cash after winning the World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship $10,400 main event, besting his second-best score by over $5 million. Sepiol and his backers will divide the $5,282,954 prize he won in the $40 million guaranteed tournament.
“The big turning point was the big flip versus (third-place finisher Andrew Lichtenberger), jacks versus ace-king,” said Sepiol after the victory. “Just getting luckier than everyone else — that was my strategy, yeah. Try and pick my spots and get lucky.” After Lichtenberger was eliminated, Sepiol and Georgios Sotiropoulos cut a deal to give the runner-up $4,167,246, ending the WPT World Championship series.
Sepiol was one of 3,835 entrants who came to Las Vegas for their cut of the massive $40 million guarantee promised by the Wynn and the WPT. However, they fell 165 players short of the guarantee, which was a $2,417,000 overlay. The top 480 players would finish in the money, with most of the $40 million paid to the top six players, who took home at least $1 million during the over eight hours of play at the final table.
Sepiol has two other cashes of more than six figures, with a 2021 win at an $1,100 Mid-States Poker Tour event in Iowa for $162,781 and the $2,700 Deep Stack event at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in August for $204,735.
The WPT World Championship still set the WPT record for most entries and the biggest prize pool in WPT history, of $40 million. Action from the final table at Wynn Las Vegas will air on Bally Sports in 2024.
The WPT’s 2024 Championship tour starts with the WPT Cambodia festival at NagaWorld Integrated Resort from January 17 to 30.
