Belarusian Alex Bolotin, old man Ted Forrest and Jonathan Dimmig, winner of Millionaire Maker

WSOPOn the WSOP 2014 the tournament has ended, which is held only for the second time in the series, but has already become one of the most popular - Millionaire Maker... The buy-in for the tournament is $1’500, and the organizers guarantee a million for the first place. This year, as in the past, this guarantee was exceeded, and much more. Enrolled in the Millionaire Maker tournament last year 6’343 player, in this - 7’977, the prize fund of the past and this year was $8'563'050 and $10'768'950, respectively. And finally, the prize money to the winners was $1'199'104 and $1'319'587.

An amateur player became the new millionaire - Jonathan Dimmig... Let us also recall the last year's champion, which became Benny chen.

Jonathan Dimmig
#8 - Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em Final Table Results:

1 place - Jonathan Dimmig + $1’319’587
2nd place - Jeffrey coburn + $815’963
3rd place - James duke + $614’368
4th place - Andrew Teng + $465’972
5th place - Bradley anderson + $355’913
6th place - Stephen graner + $273’854
7th place - Jason johnson + $211’394
8th place - Andrew dick + $164’118
9th place - Maurice hawkins + $128’150

The farthest from the CIS countries in this tournament was Tleuzhan Jumakovranked 59th. The winning was $21'968.

Famous Russian professionals Alexander Kuzmin and Vladimir Shchemelev took the 179th (+ $7'430) and 278th (+ $6'353) lines.

Among the players who entered the prizes, which started from the 819th place, we would like to point out a representative of the fair sex from Russia, who took 482nd place - Tatiana Skuratinik (+$4’630).

352 players took part in the 7-card RAZZ tournament with buy-in $1'500. The final of this tournament was followed by many as Phil Hellmuth... Finishing second, he stopped short of winning his 14th WSOP bracelet.

Final table results #7 - $1'500 7 Card Razz:

1 place - Ted forrest + $121’196
2nd place - Phil Hellmuth + $74’848
3rd place - Greg pappas + $48’275
4th place - David Bach + $34’979
5th place - Brock parker + $25’717
6th place - Brandon cantu + $19’183
7th place - Yuebin guo + $14’517
8th place - Kevin Iacofano + $11’143

The representative of Ukraine got into the prizes - Alex Dovzhenko, ranked 25th (+ $3'069).

Finally, the most interesting results. The sixth tournament of $1'500 with a knockout in the WSOP 2014 won Alex "Diesel" Bolotin... Bolotin was born in Belarus, but has been living in the USA for a long time. In the live tournament he won about $2.5 million.

Interestingly, Alex Bolotin now plays under the Belarusian flag and after his victory he topped the overall poker rating of players from Belarus. Second place goes to Vadim Kursevich... Bolotin also takes the first place among Belarusians in the ranking of prizes. Second - Kiryl Radzivonau recently won WPT National Kazakhstan.

Alex "Diesel" Bolotin
#6 - $1'500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout Results:

1 place - Alex "Diesel" Bolotin + $259’211
2nd place - Dimitar Danchev + $160’410
3rd place - Jon Lane + $100’239
4th place - Josh arieh + $72’846
5th place - <strong> Steven Loube + $53'777
6th place - Douglas foster + $40’314
7th place - David Trager + $30’664
8th place - Shawn busse + $23’638
9th place - Maxx coleman + $18’468

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