It's Chance Kornuth's Purple Jacket to Lose at the 2019 Poker Masters

The 2019 Poker Masters is a series of 10 events that culminates with the final table of the $100,000 Main Event on Thursday at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. The player who gathers the most High Roller of the Year points during this stretch of events will be crowned Poker Masters champion and receives the coveted Purple Jacket on top of a $100,000 cash prize. With three events left to be played, Chance Kornuth holds a big lead over the rest of the contenders and he’s feeling confident about his chances to become the third-ever recipient of the Purple Jacket.

“Right now, I’m a big favorite to win the Purple Jacket, and the $100,000 prize, but anyone who’s won an event an wins the $100,000 No Limit Hold’em event at the end can still pass me,” Kornuth said after finishing second in the $25,000 No Limit Hold’em event on Sunday night.

Kornuth has racked up $556,400 in cashes at the Poker Masters so far, finishing second in three events. Despite a win being much sweeter in any of those three events, Kornuth is focused and determined to become the Poker Masters champion.

“It would mean a lot to win this,” Kornuth said as he elaborated on the special nature of the Poker Masters format.

“This is one of the first times I’ve competed in a leaderboard style series of events and I really enjoy it. It’s a fun challenge and while at most series I would pick a few events to play, here I’m motivated to keep playing them all because of my results,”

At this point in the Poker Masters, none of the event winners have added another cash to their resume meaning that Kristen Bicknell, Isaac Baron, Ryan Laplante, Julien Martini, Jared Bleznick, and Jonathan Depa are stuck on 300 points for now with Kornuth sitting on 660. Sam Soverel, who’s racked up three cashes and is currently at the final table of the $25,000 Pot Limit Omaha event, is one of Kornuth’s closest rivals with 270 points and another big score pending. Kahle Burns sits on 210 points and also at the final table with Soverel.

The full current standings are as follows.

2019 Poker Masters Championship Standings
	Name	Points	Earnings	Results
1	Chance Kornuth	630	$556,400	3
2	Kristen Bicknell	300	$408,000	1
3	Isaac Baron	300	$223,100	1
4	Ryan Laplante	300	$186,000	1
5	Julien Martini	300	$166,400	1
6	Jared Bleznick	300	$153,000	1
7	Jonathan Depa	300	$133,200	1
8	Sam Soverel	270	$151,800	3
9	Jorryt van Hoof	270	$109,800	2
10	Alex Foxen	270	$108,200	2
11	Ali Imsirovic	240	$228,100	2
12	Ralph Wong	240	$218,400	2
13	Thai Ha	210	$124,800	2
14	Kahle Burns	210	$109,200	1
15	Cary Katz	210	$99,000	1
16	Erik Seidel	210	$80,000	2
17	Nick Schulman	150	$67,500	1
18	Stephen Chidwick	150	$61,000	2
19	Andras Nemeth	120	$127,000	1
20	Jeremy Ausmus	120	$97,000	1
21	John Riordan	120	$62,000	1
22	Mike Gorodinsky	120	$45,000	1
23	Jake Abdalla	90	$36,000	1
24	Ben Yu	90	$29,600	1
25	Ben Heath	60	$76,500	1
26	David Stamm	60	$63,750	1
27	Scott Blumstein	60	$58,200	1
28	Elio Fox	60	$51,000	1
29	Dan Shak	60	$48,500	1
30	Tim McDermott	60	$37,200	1
31	Pedro Bromfman	60	$31,200	1
32	Damjan Radanov	60	$31,000	1
33	Antonios Roungeris	60	$29,100	1
34	Joseph Orsino	60	$29,100	1
35	Sean Winter	60	$29,100	1
36	Brandon Adams	60	$27,000	1
37	Yuri Dzivielevski	60	$26,000	1
38	Brent Roberts	60	$24,800	1
39	George Wolff	60	$22,500	1
40	Randall Emmett	60	$19,400	1
41	Anthony Zinno	60	$18,600	1

The $25,000 No Limit Hold’em Event #8 that kicked off this afternoon saw point-getters such as Alex Foxen (270), Ralph Wong (240), Cary Katz (210), Erik Seidel (210), and Nick Schulman (150) play from the start. Ali Imsirovic (240) and Isaac Baron (300) are expected to play this event at some point today while the overall leader, Chance Kornuth is currently battling already.

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