Galen Hall Poker Winnings

Posted on 7/19/2022 by admin

11:39
08 Jan

Galen Hall defeated 2,495 entries to win his first World Series of Poker bracelet in Event #62: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed for $888,888.
The first tournament to reach a million dollar prize pool was the 1983 WSOP Main Event. The WSOP Main Event of 2004 had the first prize pool of above $10,000,000. The largest non Hold'em Tournament has been the 2008 WSOP $50K HORSE with a prize pool of $7,104,000 and the first prize of $1,989,120 going to Scotty Nguyen.

After just over seven hours of play on the final day of the 2020 Potomac Winter Poker Open $3,000 Main Event. Galen Hall Eliminated in 9th Place ($15,635). Winning Hand: 8.

The 2009 PCA saw a $25,000 High Roller event added to the schedule. A record 1,347 players came out to the beautiful Atlantis to attend the biggest festival of poker aside from the WSOP. The Main Event title once again went to Canada, as a Pokerstars qualifier, Poorya Nazari, who entered the event through a $33 qualifier, bested the huge field and came out on top, winning a cool $3 million. The High Roller saw poker’s elite fight for the title and the cash, and it was last year’s Main Event winner, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, who took down the tournament for $433,000, making the Bahamas his favorite poker location forever.

2010 – Harrison Gimbel (United States of America)

The incredible growth of the PCA continued in 2010 as the tournament broke the 1,500-player mark. This time around the festival lasted 10 days and resembled the WSOP more than any other series ever held. The series included a ladies event, a High Roller, and a host of other tournaments in assorted variations of the game of poker. Young American Harrison Gimbel won the Main Event, taking home $2.2 million, while William Reynolds won the High Roller for just over $500,000. Vanessa Rousso took the title of the best lady of the series in the ladies event.

2011 – Galen Hall (United States of America)

The 2011 PCA resembled the 2010 edition in all aspects. The Main Event shattered the record number of players by 40 and a $100,000 Super High Roller event was added to the series, giving poker’s elite a chance to compete in a very limited field for a huge amount of money. It was the young American Galen Hall who jumpstarted his poker career at the 2011 Main Event by winning the title and $2.3 million, defeating 1,560 players. Pokerstars pro Eugene Katchalov won the Super High Roller for $1.5 million, with William Molson grabbing the $25,000 High Roller for just over a million.

2012 – John Dibella (United States of America)

The Main Event field in 2012 was cut by a third and the event saw only 1,072, to the disappointment of organizers. The festival was still grand, with millions of dollars awarded, and this time it was American John Dibella who took the Main Event title home, winning $1.7 million dollars. The Swedish phenom Viktor “Isildur1” Blom won the Super High Roller, solidifying his name in the poker world, while Jonathan Duhamel cashed for a total of $1.2 million in events across the series, completing a great feat of his own.

2013 – Dimitar Danchev (Bulgaria)

The festival saw a new low in numbers in 2013 as the field dropped under 1,000 runners for the first time in years. The number of events also dropped to 41, but the High Roller action was spectacular. Bulgarian pro Dimitar Danchev won the Main Event and $1.8 million, but it was the American couple Vanessa Selbst and Scott Seiver who were in the headlines for winning the High Roller and Super High Roller, respectively. The series also featured the first ever tournament in an up and coming game, Open Face Chinese Poker.

2014 – Dominik Panka (Poland)

Last year’s PCA was an interesting one with the number of players in the Main Event once again growing to over 1,000 and big names winning big cash. The great stories of the series were Mike McDonald’s heads-up defeat to the eventual Main Event winner, Dominik Panka, Vanessa Selbst’s double third place finishes in the High Rollers, and Fabian Quoss winning the Super High Roller. The Main Event winner took home $1.4 million, while Quoss was awarded $1.6 million for his win in the $100k Super High Roller.