Martin Zamani Wins 2022 Poker Masters Event #6 for $223,100

Martin Zamani is the winner of Event #6: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em at the 2022 Poker Masters. Zamani topped the largest field of this Poker Masters series - 97 entries - to take home the $223,100 top prize.

Zamani entered Day 2 fourth in chips and was able to come out on top to score his first-ever PokerGO Tour (PGT) and Poker Masters victory.

2022 Poker Masters Event #6 Payouts

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Martin Zamani	United States	$223,100
2nd	Jared Jaffee	United States	$155,200
3rd	Justin Saliba	United States	$116,400
4th	Matthew Wantman	United States	$97,000
5th	Anthony Hu	United States	$77,600
6th	Masashi Oya	Japan	$58,200
7th	Ken Aldridge	United States	$48,500
8th	Jesse Lonis	United States	$38,800
9th	Dan Shak	United States	$38,800
10th	Ben Yu	United States	$29,100
11th	Jim Collopy	United States	$29,100
12th	Mitchell Halverson	United States	$19,400
13th	John Riordan	United States	$19,400
14th	Amir Lehavot	Israel	$19,400

Zamani's Road To Winning Event #6

Martin Zamani came into Day 2 of Event #6: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em in fourth place on the leaderboard with nine players remaining.

Dan Shak was the first player to bust, then Jesse Lonis hit the rail in eighth place. Ken Aldridge went out next before Zamani scored an important double up through Masashi Oya with ace-queen versus pocket nines. The double up gave Zamani the chip lead and Zamani would take out the short-stacked Oya shortly thereafter.

Zamani almost scored a double knockout during five-handed play. His kings went against Jared Jaffee's ace-queen and Anthony Hu's ace-jack. Jaffee flopped a queen and rivered an ace to double up, eliminating Hu in the process.

Matthew Wantman went out in fourth place, then Justin Saliba busted in third place, leaving Zamani heads-up with Jaffee. When the heads-up match began, Zamani had a little bit of a lead over Jaffee.

Jaffee quickly worked his way into the lead, but then Zamani fought right back to retake it. Zamani got up to a 2-1 advantage before Jaffee doubled through him and flipped the stacks. The stacks flipped again when Zamani's ace-queen held against Jaffee's ace-six, and this time Zamani was up to a 3-1 lead.

On the final hand, Jaffee took his ace-jack up against Zamani's queen-nine of hearts. Zamani flopped a pair of nines and faded everything he needed to from there to get the victory.

Ausmus Remains On Top of Poker Masters Leaderboard

With a victory in Event #1 and a seventh-place finish in Event #2, Jeremy Ausmus remains on top of the 2022 Poker Masters series leaderboard with 242 points through six events. Ausmus did have to sweat the final table of Event #6, though, because Matthew Wantman, Anthony Hu, Masashi Oya, and Dan Shak could all overtake him, but their finishes left them short.

Martin Zamani's win in Event #6 gave him 223 points and placed him second on the leaderboard entering the big buy-in portion of the 2022 Poker Masters schedule.

2022 Poker Masters Leaderboard Top 10

Place	Player	Country	Points
1st	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	242
2nd	Martin Zamani	United States	223
3rd	Adam Hendrix	United States	216
4th	Ronald Keijzer	Netherlands	203
5th	Ethan Yau	United States	198
6th	Nick Schulman	United States	191
7th	Nick Guagenti	United States	186
8th	Cary Katz	United States	167
9th	Anthony Hu	United States	163
10th	Jared Jaffee	United States	155

Ivey Now Atop PGT Leaderboard

Phil Ivey has moved into the top spot on the 2022 PGT leaderboard after a new result came in from the Triton Poker Series recently held in Cyprus. Ivey now has 3,083 points, jumping ahead of Stephen Chidwick for the top spot.

Jason Koon also had a result from the Triton Poker Series that moved him into third place. Sam Greenwood also had a result come in from the Triton Poker Series that moved him into 10th place, knocking Sean Winter out of the top 10.

2022 PGT Leaderboard Top 10

Place	Player	Country	Points
1st	Phil Ivey	United States	3,083
2nd	Stephen Chidwick	United Kingdom	2,998
3rd	Jason Koon	United States	2,384
4th	Alex Foxen	United States	2,356
5th	Michael Duek	Argentina	2,294
6th	Espen Jorstad	Norway	2,192
7th	Danny Tang	Hong Kong	2,139
8th	Daniel Dvoress	Canada	2,003
9th	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	1,936
10th	Sam Greenwood	Canada	1,882

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