Wynn Millions Titles for Jeremy Becker Among Others

A huge $1,000,000 guarantee meant a field of 781 entries travelled to Las Vegas in search of glory this week. The $1,600-entry Wynn Millions Main Event saw Jeremy Eyer eventually capture the top prize of $207,744 as he beat the American poker pro Ryan Leng heads-up for the title, with Andrew Brinkley and Valentyn Shabelnyk going close to the title. It was the first in a trio of big results in Vegas this month.

Laplante Limps into the Money

Among the 95 players who sneaked into profit for the event, Ryan Laplante cashed for the $3,409 among many others, finishing in 88^th place. Brock Wilson (80^th for $3,534), Dylan Linde (67^th for $3,680), Martin Zamani (61^st for $3,847), Poker Hall of Famer Billy Baxter (53^rd for $4,035), PokerGO Cup event winner Kent Stephens (43^rd for $4,241), David ‘ODB’ Baker (28^th for $5,045), WSOP bracelet winner Evan Sandberg (20^th for $6,327), and Hamis Izadi (10^th for $13,527) all missed out on the final table of nine players despite reaching the money places.

When the final table began, it was Ryan Leng who held the chip lead, having 6.55 million chips, with British player Stuart Taylor (5.45m) close behind. Ukrainian pro Valentyn Shabelnyk was up against it and busted in ninth place for $18,489 and he was followed from the felt by Chad Wassmuth (8^th for $26,489) and Israel’s Shoval Malin, who lived up to his name by getting it all-in but was only able to bust in seventh place for $35,171.

After Taylor busted in fifth for $61,900, the remainder of the field hailed from the United States and while Kenneth Einiger did well to finish fourth for $79,786 and Andrew Brinkley won $103,809 in third place, they both missed out on the heads-up, where Jeremy Eyer took on Ryan Leng. The latter was the more experienced man, but Eyer managed to get the job done as he claimed the $207,744 top prize and Ryan Leng won $134,369 as runner-up.

Black Comes up Trumps

Taylor Black won his latest major title in the $1,100 No Limit hold’em event that had a massive $500,000 guarantee after agreeing to an ICM chop with Seth Jordan heads-up. The event, which had 663 entries and a prize pool of $639,795. That meant 82 players only would reach the money places and make profit on their four-figure entry fee.

Among the early cashers, Michael Wang (72^nd for $2,344), Ryan Leng for $2,433), Manig Loeser (52^nd for $2,647), Jesse Yaginuma (41^st for $2,790), Mohammed Suhail (28^th for $3,282) and Jessica Vierling (24^th for $3,473) all won money but didn’t make it close to the final table.

The first person to bust the final was American Jason Olenak, who departed in ninth place for $10,685 before further exits for Qing Liu (8^th for $15,291), Nick Pupillo (5^th for $36,551) and Nathan Carillo, who won $59,489 in third place. Heads-up, Seth Jordan fell just short of glory, winning $93,676 as runner-up, with Black’s victory worth $98,623, which represents the eighth largest cash in his tournament poker career, some way behind the $1.24 million he scooped as the WPT Five Diamond Poker Classic champion in late 2021.

JBex Wins Another Event at Wynn

Jeremy ‘JBex’ Becker hit a double knockout in the final hand of the Wynn Millions $600-entry NLHE event. The event saw its guarantee of $200,000 exceeded yet again, and Becker’s top prize was worth a whopping $38,736. Becker has taken part in plenty of high stakes events in recent months, but didn’t mind dropping down a buy-in level.

In 2026 so far, Becker has won over $350,000 in live ranking poker tournaments, many of them featuring buy-ins bigger than his top prize in this event. JBex is running up his form before Las Vegas’ flagship series, the World Series of Poker, and is sure to be a big threat at the annual series of 100 bracelet events when the curtain goes up in Late May.

The Wynn Millions have supplied poker fans with drama over the past few weeks and will see the strong attendances to their series as a great marker to the expected fields to come during seven weeks this summer in the WSOP events, many of whom will play the Wynn tournaments too.