Two months later, he scored his biggest lifetime cash in the $100,000 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for $1,872,580. O’Dwyer, 41, has been a formidable opponent on the high-roller tour since he won the HK$500,000 Asia Pacific Poker Tour high-roller event for $1,811,638 in November of 2014. This is his only victory on the year, but he does have another $1 million-plus cash after finishing third in a $100,000 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in May ($1,171,000). O’Dwyer, the U.S.-born player based in Ireland, has cashed 16 times and made nine final tables in tournaments in Europe and Asia since January. A portion of the buy-ins went to the One Drop Foundation, a non-profit that helps provide clean water to communities in need. He pushed his lifetime poker tournament winnings up over the $36 million mark with the win. Steve O’Dwyer continued a very good 2023 with a victory in the WPT Korea Alpha8 for One Drop event, a $132,126 (KRW 170,000,000) tourney that attracted 18. The WPT streamed the final table, and it’s available to watch on YouTube.

Once three-handed, the players made a deal according to chip sizes (ICM), and that’s why third-place received more than first and second. The 2018 champ of WPT Korea, Valeriy Pak, finished as runner-up.

The field surprised poker tournament officials at Jeju Shinhwa World, who had to add an extra day in order to get to a winner at a reasonable hour. The $2,643 (KRW 3,400,000) buy-in event paid out the top 95 finishers. And congratulations to Yin Tao for becoming our WPT Korea champion.” “Thank you to our partner Jeju Shinhwa World for the exceptional hospitality and for putting on a world class event. “What an incredible experience Jeju has been, from the player turnout to the celebrations and all-around atmosphere.” said WPT CEO Adam Pliska. Yin Tao and friends celebrate his victory at WPT Korea. World Poker Tour is in Korea and has the winner of it’s headliner: China’s Yin Tao, who was part of a field 758 that generated a prize pool north of $1.7 million.

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