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A 35-year-old poker pro from Atlanta is on top of the poker world. Daniel Weinman won $12.1 million, the biggest prize in World Series of Poker (WSOP) history, and his second bracelet on Monday afternoon. Weinman outlasted a record-breaking field of 10,043 entrants who generated a massive $94 million prize pool for the Horseshoe Las Vegas tournament.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Weinman poses with his $12.1 million on Monday evening after winning the WSOP Main Event at Horseshoe Las Vegas. (Image: Poker News<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Weinman beat Steven Jones, a 35-year-old real estate broker from Scottsdale, Ariz., in a battle of top pair (J-J-8) vs. top pair with a better kicker (J-J-K). When the ace of hearts hit the river, Weinman turned to his ecstatic rail to celebrate.<\/p>\n

Jones still won $6.5 million, his first cash in a $10K event, and an extraordinary showing for an amateur player.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The final table restarted a little more than two hours earlier, with Weinman and Jones facing Las Vegas poker pro Adam Walton. Jones had been in first place with 40% of the chips with Weinman trailing and Walton, who had been the final table chip leader, in command of a short stack that wasn\u2019t all that short. He held 83 big blinds to Jones\u2019 119.<\/p>\n

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Steven Jones and Daniel Weinman during the last hand of this year’s Main Event. (Image: PokerGo screen shot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aggressive play sent Walton to the rail within an hour of the game\u2019s restart. He finished the day $4 million richer than when he started when his pocket 8s failed to improve against Weinman\u2019s pocket aces. This gave Weinman 74% of the chips in play, a lead he never relinquished to Jones.<\/p>\n

With more than $3.7 million in career earnings, Weinman previously won the 2015 WSOP Circuit Cherokee Main Event. His previous best WSOP Main Event finish was 173rd place.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Weinman\u2019s win ends the longest WSOP streak without an American Main Event champion: four years.<\/p>\n

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On Sunday night, during the first day of final-table play, Jones won a sizable pot from Germany\u2019s Jan-Peter Jachtmann during four-handed play to vault into the lead for a few hands before Walton finally sent Jachtmann to the rail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

That ended the chances of a potential champ from Germany for the third time in the last five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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