{"id":165590,"date":"2026-03-16T23:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165590\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:14:10","slug":"aces-kings-and-queens-clash-at-final-table-with-six-figures-on-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165590\/","title":{"rendered":"Aces, Kings, and Queens Clash at Final Table with Six Figures on the Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Zw.webp.webp\" alt=\"Wynn Millions\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After another thrilling week of winners at the Wynn Casino and Hotel during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokernews.com\/tours\/wynn-poker\/2026-wynn-millions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wynn Millions<\/a> series, the action peaked at the $1,100 NLH $500,000 GTD event. <\/p>\n<p>The top prize of $114,836 came with one of the rarest \u2014 and most brutal \u2014 coolers you\u2019ll ever see, right at the final table.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokernews.com\/news\/2026\/03\/joseph-spanne-wins-first-major-title-in-3-500-wynn-millions-50748.htm\" class=\"ds-ctaButton ds-ctaButton--orange\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tRead More About Wynn Millions<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brutal Cooler at Wynn Millions<\/p>\n<p>With six players remaining, Taylor Black, then the short stack, shoved for roughly 2,500,000. The big blind, Norberto Lopez Rodriguez, quickly moved all-in for about 3,650,000, which the original raiser and table chip leader, Seth Jordan, snap-called.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Black: A\u2666A\u2663<br \/>Norberto Lopez Rodriguez: Q\u2660Q\u2663 <br \/>Seth Jordan: K\u2665K\u2663 <\/p>\n<p>The three best hands in poker collided, and players jumped out of their seat and couldn\u2019t resist pulling out their phones to record the insanely rare cooler.<\/p>\n<p>Black, who was in prime position to triple up, flopped top set but now had to sweat after the A\u266010\u26604\u2660 flop gave Rodriguez a flush draw.<\/p>\n<p>The Q\u2666 on the turn only made things sweatier. It was bittersweet for Jordan, who picked up outs to scoop, but now trailed Rodriguez in the side pot, who had turned a set.<\/p>\n<p>Black could finally breathe when the 7\u2665 completed the board, tripling up his stack, while Rodriguez scooped the smaller side pot\u2014keeping both players alive in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>After the massive pot reshuffled the stacks, Rodriguez climbed to fourth place, taking home $46,587\u2014nearly $20K more than he would have earned had he lost to Jordan\u2019s kings.<\/p>\n<p>Black, meanwhile, moved into the chip lead and navigated his way to heads-up play. Former chip leader Jordan also recovered from the cooler and bad beat on the same hand, making it to the final two just shy of Black in chips.<\/p>\n<p>Before heads-up play began, the players agreed to an ICM chop, with Jordan receiving $93,675 and Black, the chip leader, taking $98,623 along with the Wynn trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Final Table Results<br \/>\nPlaceNamePrize&#13;&#13;1Taylor Black*$98,623&#13;&#13;2Seth Jordan*$93,676&#13;&#13;3Nathan Carrillo$59,489&#13;&#13;4Norberto Lopez Rodriguez$46,587&#13;&#13;5Nicholas Pupillo$36,551&#13;&#13;6Lisa Xie$27,818&#13;&#13;7Chad Lipton$20,590&#13;&#13;8Qing Liu$15,291&#13;&#13;9Jason Olenak$10,685&#13;&#13;<\/p>\n<p>*denotes ICM chop<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773702850_410_Zw.webp.webp\" alt=\"Taylor Black\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokernews.com\/tours\/wynn-poker\/2026-wynn-millions\/daily-highlights\/\" class=\"ds-ctaButton ds-ctaButton--orange\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tWynn Millions Daily Highlight Blog<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After another thrilling week of winners at the Wynn Casino and Hotel during the Wynn Millions series, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-165590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}