The last full week of 2017 was full of some seriously big wins for players in New Jersey, including two tournament titles for brownmagic and a sparkly win on Double Diamond. Read on to find out who ended the year with a bang at the BorgataCasino.com slots and the BorgataPoker.com tables. Then play with us for your chance to make headlines in 2018.

After several near misses in PLO High Rollers, XD89lol3 locked up a COOP victory and a Sunday Million win in the same breath by winning the 2018 SCOOP Event #4-M. Cards went in the air on Sunday for the tenth incarnation of the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). Elected to the Poker Hall of Fame (#/#) This denotes a bracelet winner. The first number is the number of bracelets won in the 2018 WSOP. The second number is the total number of bracelets won. Both numbers represent totals as of that point during the tournament. Place What place each player at the final table finished Name. Currently sitting at no.2 on the 2018 WCOOP leaderboard, Norway's Tobias 'Senkel92' Leknes has won two WCOOP titles this year, bringing his total to three overall. Leknes's amazing start kicked.

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It took over 10 hours of back-and-forth struggle, but John Cynn overcame Tony Miles in a heads-up match for the ages to win the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event for $8.8 million, topping a field of 7,874. The win completes a redemption story for Cynn, who bubbled the unofficial final table in the 2016 Main Event, just missing a chance to participate in the last November Nine when Gordon Vayo busted him in 11th place.

Cathy from Closter, New Jersey is sitting on a boatload of money — we’re talking $13,590.00. She won it on an $18.00 bet playing the Money Boat slot game on December 28.

On December 29, Anthony from Oak Ridge, New Jersey won $5,000.00 on the Double Diamond slot game on a $5.00 bet.

It was a more rewarding game night for Ryan from Hoboken, New Jersey. On December 30, Ryan won $6,007.50 in a bonus round on the Super Monopoly Money slot game.

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Our Holiday Sunday $30,000 Guaranteed on December 24 featured lots of BorgataPoker.com players at the final table, including Lakad (4,470) in 2^nd, flabbergast ($3,450) in 3^rd, WillAtkinson ($2,400) in 5^th, and heidijp ($2,040) in 6^th.

Congrats to all six champions in our nightly $10,000 Guaranteed tournament this week: harveyblicks ($3,500), megolaman1ac ($3,378), kusterd396 ($3,192), reezy ($3,164), brownmagic ($3,081), and billypoker101 ($2,950).

We ended the year with three winners in our $3,000 Guaranteed Turbo tourney. Congratulations to Turkeyleg ($2,072), xxx6395200xxx ($1,508), and brownmagic ($1,442).

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Perhaps the best rule of thumb for the WSOP is that the prize pools have kept going up while the average ages of the main event winners have steadily declined. When Moss took down the first event (with only seven players) he was 63, and no one even knows how much he won (or what his final hole cards were). The second year the field slipped to six players, Moss won again at age 64 with pocket 6s and collected $30,000. In 2009 Joe Cada became the youngest champion ever at age 21, and pocketed $8,574,649.

Here is the data for the champions that followed: In 1972 the winner was Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston. There were eight entrants, his winning cards were K J, and he took home $80,000.

Walter “Puggy” Pearson followed in 1973. There were 13 entrants, he won with A♠ 7♠ and won $130,000.

Moss, now 67, won for the third time in 1974 holding 3♥ 3♠. The field kept inching up. There were now 16 players and he got the entire $160,000 prize pool. There were 21 players and a $210,000 pay-out when Brian “Sailor” Roberts won in 1975 holding J♠ J♥.

Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson (who got his colorful nickname when Jimmy Snyder mispronounced his name) stepped up and won in 1976 and 1977, both years holding a 10-2. Brunson would go on to become the first player to chalk up $1 million in career earnings, eventually winning 10 bracelets and more than $6 million in 50 years of tournament play.

Bobby “The Owl” Baldwin, later to become a casino executive, won in 1978 holding Q♦ Q♣. This time there were 42 players with a total prize pool of $420,000, and it was the first year when it was not winner take all. Baldwin’s share was $210,000.
Hal Fowler became the first non-professional to win the championship in 1979, and he did it by beating Bobby “The Wizard” Hoff, regarded as one of the best no-limit players of his time. On the final hand, Fowler held just 7♠ 6♦ against Hoff’s pocket aces. He flopped a gut-shot straight draw, hit it on the turn, and won $270,000. By now the field had grown to 54 players.

Now coming on stage was Stu Ungar, widely regarded as the greatest nolimit and gin rummy player of all time. Ungar had two nicknames, “Stuey” and “The Kid,” because he was only 27 when he won his first of three championships in 1980. There were 73 entrants, he held 5♠ 4♠, and his win was worth $385,000.

Stuey made it two in a row in 1981. There were 75 players, he held A♥ Q♥ and his win got him $375,000. Jack “Treetop” Straus won the next year holding A♥ 10♠. His win was mem-orable because earlier in the tournament he was down to one chip, which led to the familiar poker saying, “A chip and a chair.”

Tom McEvoy set a record when he became the first champion to win his buy-in through a satellite. There were 108 players in 1983, his win came to $540,000, and his winning hand was Q♦Q♠.

In 1986, with a field of 132, “Gentleman” Jack Keller won with 10♥10♠. His prize money was $660,000.

Bill Smith was the winner in 1985, beating a field of 140. His winning hand was 3♠ 3♥ and his prize was $700,000.

In 1986 Berry Johnston won with A♠ 10♥. There were 141 entrants. His share was $570,000. Johnny “Orient Express” Chan now arrived and won the next two years. In 1987 he won $625,000 in a 152-player field holding A♠ 9♣, repeating next year and winning $700,000 in a field of 167 with J♣ 9♣.

The year 1989 brought onstage Phil “The Poker Brat” Hellmuth, who would become the reigning bracelet-winner with 13 to date. He scored his championship win holding 9♠ 9♣. The field was 178, his payout $755,000.

Mansour Matloubi took home $895,000 in 1990 with 6♥ 6♠. There were 194 entrants.

From 1991 through 1999 there were a series of $1 million pay-outs for first place. Brad Daugherty was the first to achieve this milestone when he won with K♠ J♠, competing in a field of 215.

Next millionaire was Hamid Dastmalchi. There were 201 players, and his winning hand was 8♥ 4♣. In 1993 Jim Bechtel scored with J♣ 6♥.The field was 220.

Russ Hamilton triumphed with K♠ 8♥ in 1994 when there were 268 players.

Dan “Action Dan” Harrington beat a field of 273 in 1995 holding 9♦ 8♦. Huck Seed was the next to win $1 million. He held 9♦ 8♦ and the field had inched up to 295.

The year 1997 saw the triumphant return of Stu Ungar. Holding A♥ 4♣ as his final cards, he became the only player ever to win three freeze-out championships (one of Moss’ three victories came by vote). The field was 350 in 1998 when Scotty “The Train” Nguyen, also called “The Prince of Poker,” beat a field of 350. His hole cards were J♦ 9♣.

Englishman Noel Furlong was the winner in 1999. He held 5♣ 5♦, The field was 393.

In 2000, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson put his famous bad beat o

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