July 22, 2020 Tournaments & Cash Games

WPT Commentator Tony Dunst Wins Second WSOP Bracelet and $168K

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Tony Dunst is known by many poker fans for his work as an analyst and commentator on the World Poker Tour broadcast. But he’s also known among poker players as a legitimate threat at the tables, and that side of Dunst was on display in the $777 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed event on Tuesday where the poker pro came out on top of a 1,361-entry field to win $168,342 and his second career WSOP bracelet.

Tony Dunst adds a second WSOP bracelet to his poker hardware collection. (Image: World Poker Tour)

Dunst made a deep run in the very first event of this year’s WSOP Online Bracelet Series, finishing in third place for $57,881. He had three more small cashes in this series before Wednesday morning’s big score gave him his fifth cash of the series and the 56^th WSOP cash of his career. Dunst has more than $1.2 million in WSOP tournament earnings and more than $3.8 million in total live earnings, according to his Hendon Mob profile.

Jon Turner (havuuuuuc) also advanced to the 6-handed final table in Event #21. Turner has more than $3.5 million in tournament earnings over the course of his impressive poker career, but his quest for a first WSOP bracelet will continue as he was the first player eliminated from the final table.

$777 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Results

1. Tony Dunst (Panoramic) $168,342
2. James Pace (paymycollege) $103,940
3. Alec Parslow (Tango_Bravo) $72,215
4. Charles Phillips (IloseStackz) $50,779
5. Krista Gifford (Pollux) $36,203
6. Jon Turner (havuuuuuc) $26,199

Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth Both Make the Money Again

Phil Hellmuth (Lumestackin) made his deepest run of the online series back in Event #1, finishing in 11th place for $7,872. But while the deep runs have eluded him since, Hellmuth has managed to grind out a handful of cashes this month. Monday’s 114th-place finish for $1,429 was Hellmuth’s fourth straight cash; he finished in 95th place in Event #20 ($921), 310th place in Event #19 ($733), and in 97th place for $1,782 in Event #18.

Finding some #POSITIVITY in hitting fourth @WSOP cash in four days (last 4 tourneys), but my eye remains, as always, on the top prize. There are 150 players left in today’s tourney, I’m in there fighting for every chip! pic.twitter.com/pspcuQsOZJ
— phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth) July 22, 2020

Daniel Negreanu (DNegs) followed up his 25th-place finish in the $500 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed event ($2,814) with a 30th-place finish for $5,145. With the blinds at 12,000/24,000 (ante 3,000), Negreanu three-bet shoved his stack of 376,422 in the cutoff over the top of a min-raise in the hijack. Randy Ohel (StayAlive) re-shoved in the small blind and it folded over to Negreanu who snap-called with a pair of kings. Negreanu was well ahead of Ohel’s pocket jacks, but a jack on the flop sent Kid Poker to the rail.

Ryan Laplante (Protential) continued his impressive run in this online series as well with a 99th-place finish for $1,524. Laplante has cashed an incredible 13 times through the first 21 events of the series and currently sits in 20th place on the $100,000 Online Series Leaderboard.

Other Notable Finishes

39th Alan Engel (PhilIvey) $3,430
58th Max Pescatori (MaxSparrow) $2,001
60th Ryan Riess (BiTC0iN) $2,001
69th Ian Steinman (APokerJoker2) $1,810
87th Jason Somerville (haderade) $1,620
109th Michael Lech (MiguelFiesta) $1,429
189th Anthony Zinno (heheh) $1,048

Written by

Dave Consolazio

Comments

Carol v thornton wrote...

July 22, 2020-5:41 pm

Congratulations to tony Dunst, not only a very good player but appears to be a gentleman of of the kind in years gone by. Your parent must be very proud,you were raised right.cvtnornton