Winning or Losing – Either Way You Win

March 10, 2009

When people think about poker tournaments, they often do not think of the amount of money out there that is available to those that don’t win. Quite often in a poker tournament, the amount of money that it won is top dollar for the top spot, but the amount of money that the runners up get is nothing to sneeze at.

The top winner obviously gets the most, but the second and third place winners, and many times even more than that, also get big bucks too. They find that they will get millions of dollars if the top spot is that high as well, and many times they are almost as pleased as the winner themselves.

This is no where more apparent than the recent win at the free Ultimate Bet poker tournament. The top winner took $173,693.20, while the second place finisher took $86,796.30. They beat out more than 370 other players to take the top two spots, and both were absolutely thrilled at the amount that they took home. The top winner, QUANTOM47 had just registered his poker account a mere nine days earlier – shocking even himself when he won.

They were playing Texas Hold’em at their Bad Beat Jackpot tables, and the top winner was a nineteen year old from Alliston, Ontario, Canada. He says that he was hoping to win big, and in trying he was successful. He says that Phil Hellmuth is his idol and he was hoping to win so that he could be one step closer to having the kind of career that Hellmuth was so blessed to have.