Zack wasn’t the only US online player to find some success in the series’ final days. Eventually I’ll return to the online felt as that’s been my main poker game for the past few years since COVID hit.” Pennsylvania online player Benjamin Kaupp scoops $250K in Tournament of Champions WSOP Tournament of Champions winner Benjamin Kaupp. “I’m pretty burned out after seven weeks of 12-hour days and I doubt I’ll play much poker at all in the next month. “Next for me is lots of sleep and rest,” he says. Thankfully I now have gotten that opportunity and capitalized on it.”Ī regular online player back in New Jersey, Zack now heads home and plans to put poker on the back burner for a bit after almost two months of action. Back then WSOP Europe counted toward POY and I decided not to go to Czech Republic because I was confident I’d get a better opportunity in the future. “I was leading most of the 2019 series before falling off toward the end and finishing fourth. “I’d been doing a mixture of cash games and tournaments for the past few summers and decided I enjoyed the leaderboard aspect of POY as well as the challenge of staying focused on a singular goal for the whole time being out in Vegas. “I set the goal to win POY heading into WSOP in 2019,” he says. After winning his first bracelet in 2019, he seemed on track for the award. For Zack, that actually became a reality, albeit a bit later than when he’d originally planned. Many players dream of winning the POY title.
( photo courtesy PokerGO) Fulfilling a dream New Jersey online poker grinder Dan Zack battling at the WSOP on his way to Player of the Year. Player of the Year banner displayed during each WSOP at Paris/Bally’s.Winning the POY earned Zack some nice rewards including: Just about a week and a half later, he followed that up by winning the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Championship for $324,174.īetween those, Zack also grabbed a third place in the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship for $129,670. Zack’s big run began with winning the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship in June for $440,757.
To see my name among them now is a childhood dream come true.” “I grew up watching the WSOP on espn and these guys were my idols growing up. “I feel honored to be among so many big names to have won the title,” he tells USPoker. Zack, of Jersey City, brought some real consistency to the series and is pleased to be listed among so many poker greats. Some of the biggest names in poker have won the WSOP Player of the Year title including Daniel Negreanu, Allen Cunningham, Jason Mercier, and Shaun Deeb.
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