This is West's largest live cash of his career

Every year the poker pros in Las Vegas relish the opportunity to step away from the televised events, stay at home, and log some time at the Wynn Poker Classic. While this tournament has never been a televised event, it always produces a final table that rivals anything you’ll see on the World Poker Tour and this year is no exception.

This year’s $5,000 buy-in Main Event at the Wynn saw a slight decline in runners with 212 entrants compared to last year’s field of 242, but it was still a star-studded affair. The final table included a ton of online poker pros like Eric Froehlich, Carter King, Matt Waxman, Annette Obrestad, and Tim West, who beat the tough field to claim the top payday of $318,738.

West and Obrestad tangled in a lengthy heads-up battle that pitted two online poker legends against each other. In the end West prevailed, but Obrestad did pick up her biggest score since turning 21 last spring. Obrestad’s beau Scott Montgomery also performed well at this series, picking up a win in the $1,560 preliminary event worth over $47,000 and placed third in a $1,000 event as well for another $16,000.

Another player who had a very impressive run at the Wynn is Chad Brown. Fresh off some serious health issues, Brown proved to be no worse for the wear and picked up a win in one of the two $2,000 buy-in prelim events worth $73,088.

Now that PokerStars and the Wynn have partnered up, one has to wonder if the Wynn Classic might just be an NAPT stop this time next year.

Elsewhere around the poker world, the Unibet Open in Malta wrapped up earlier this month with Mateusz Moolhuizen beating a field of 293 to claim the $163,075 first place prize. The Chicago Poker Classic at the Harrah’s in Hammond also saw a nice turnout with 304 runners in the $3,000 buy-in event. That tournament was taken down by Tommy Koral, who earned over $226,000 for his efforts.

Results from the EPT Snowfest side events were not available this weekend, but we will have those, as well as results from the popular WPT Vienna event in our next edition of tournament tracker.

Here are the latest batch of tournament results from around the world:

Wynn Classic $5,000 buy-in Main Event
Prize Pool: $1,028,200
Entrants: 212

1st: Tim West – $318,738
2nd: Annette Obrestad – $215,922
3rd: Matt Waxman – $120,814
4th: Max Steinberg – $71,974
5th: Eric Froehlich – $51,410
6th: Vasili Lazarou – $41,128
7th: Carter King – $30,846
8th: Francisco Braga – $20,564
9th: John Kim – $17,944

Wynn Classic $2,000 + $90 buy-in No Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool: $213,400
Entrants: 110

1st: Chad Brown – $73,088
2nd: Sean Jazayeri – $48,015
3rd: Akio Ishii – $29,876
4th: Ryan Schmidt – $17,072
5th: Joseph Patrick – $12,804
6th: Frank Kassela – $8,536
7th: Kim Fredericksen – $6,402
8th: Ken Callison – $5,335
9th: Will Heger – $4,268

Wynn Classic $2,000 + $90 buy-in No Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool: $215,340
Entrants: 111

1st: Said Abuqartoumy – $73,752
2nd: John Orr – $48,452
3rd: Sauel Ida – $30,148
4th: Steve O’Dwyer – $17,227
5th: Andrew Borrok – $12,920
6th: Konstantin Streletskiy – $8,614
7th: Anders Taylor – $6,460
8th: Frederick Bussotfuentes – $5,384
9th: Daniel Makowsky – $4,307

Wynn Classic $1,500 +$80 buy-in No Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool: $136,770
Entrants: 94

1st: Scott Montgomery – $47,869
2nd: Kirill Kruglov – $32,835
3rd: Joseph Cordi – $19,148
4th: Matthew Colvin – $10,942
5th: Jason Younger – $8,206
6th: Gary Haglund – $5,471
7th: Denny Robinson – $4,787
8th: Ken Einger – $4,103
9th: Anders Taylor – $3,419

Unibet Open Malta Main Event (€1,650 buy-in)
Prize Pool: $581,949
Entrants: 293

1st: Mateusz Moolhuizen – $163,075
2nd: Tobias Peters – $105,929
3rd: Sampo Rynanen – $48,296
4th: Rodolfo Gaddo – $44,602
5th: Mikkel Christensen – $32,754
6th: Adria Balaguer – $27,179
7th: Matas Dilpsas – $21,604
8th: Brian Linnet – $16,029
9th: Rene Freymann – $11,150

Horseshoe Hammond $3,000 + $125 buy-in Chicago Poker Classic Main Event
Prize Pool: $226,708
Entrants: 304

1st: Thomas Koral – $226,708
2nd: Paul Gibbons – $140,109
3rd: Paul Bianchi – $92,339
4th: Scott Levin – $64,642
5th: Blake Bohn – $47,903
6th: Brian Sechrist – $37,464
7th: Asheesh Boyapati – $30,833
8th: Jeff Sluzinski – $26,639
9th: Porfirio Mendez – $24,107

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