{"id":1439,"date":"2016-06-15T11:08:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T16:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2019-11-26T22:31:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:31:58","slug":"teacher-wins-500k-1m-wsop-millionaire-maker-greeg-dewitt-snag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/teacher-wins-500k-1m-wsop-millionaire-maker-greeg-dewitt-snag\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher wins $500k, $1m WSOP Millionaire Maker- Greeg, DeWitt Snag"},"content":{"rendered":"
In third place finished Lisa Meredith, a Kindergarten teacher. She went home with $500,000.<\/p>\n
Arkadiy ‘Kamsky’ Tsinis, the WSOP bracelet winner and backgammon champion, ended in sixth place and won $210,112.<\/p>\n
A mix of amateurs and professionals ended up playing at the final table after 7,190 entered the event.<\/p>\n
With a WSOP bracelt in his pocket already and lifetime earnings over $1.8 million, DeWitt was one of the most experiences poker players at the final table.<\/p>\n
After his win DeWitt said the following: ‘I got a lot of cards’.<\/p>\n
‘I think I had the best cards at the table so it makes it a lot easier’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Runner-up= Garrett Greer<\/h3>\n
Racking up over $2.5 million in winnings before tonight only, Garrett Greer has been very active in the live tournament circuit for the past few years, and ended in second place yesterday.<\/p>\n
His first-ever cash in 2011 was a second place, as well as two times in the World Poker Tour.<\/p>\n
Greer said: ‘It further solidifies me as poker’s Mr. Runner-up.’<\/p>\n
‘I’ve made a career out of coming second and I just came second in the best tournament to come second in’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Greeg said to be fine with more runner-up finishes like this as this was his second seven-figure score.<\/p>\n
‘If i rewind five years, I’m sitting in my aunt’s house in a wheelchair, I’ve got $200 in the bank, no prospects, no job and she’s telling me they’re getting divorced and selling the house and I’ve got to move out in four months’.<\/p>\n
‘Somehow I was able to keep my head straight and see a light at the end of the tunnel and follow my dream’.<\/p>\n
‘I just think that if you keep yourself straight and you don’t let the negativity in the world bog you down, it’s the only way you’ll have a chance’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
His network of friends and family have been a strong contributor to his success.<\/p>\n
‘When I got injured and put in the hospital with a broken neck, I literally never spent a minute alone’.<\/p>\n
‘I don’t know where I’d been if I didn’t have such a strong support network.’<\/p>\n
‘Maybe I would have given up’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
$500,000 won by Kindergarten Teacher<\/strong><\/p>\n
A huge $500,000 drop to half-a-million was structured for the third place. Kindergarten teacher from Vancouver, Washington, Lisa Meredith finished in that third place and sounded very excited:<\/p>\n
‘Im on cloud nine but it hasn’t even begun to sink in’.<\/p>\n
‘It’s unbelievable’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As she has dreamed of playing at the WSOP for a long time, a drame came true for Meredith who has been playing poker for six years now.<\/p>\n
This april she went home with $10,733 after winning a $100 tournament with 529 other players. This time of the year she and her husband decided to come to Vegas together, and both player in the Millionaire Maker.<\/p>\n
She outlasted over 7,000 players at her very first WSOP event.<\/p>\n
Meredith said: ‘During some of the biggest hand I kept thinking about when my daughter came up to my mom and said, ‘My mommy’s going to win the tournament’.<\/p>\n
‘I want to use the money wisely, pay off my house, take a nice vacation’, while sneaking a peak at her husband.<\/p>\n
She decided with: ‘We’re savers’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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