World Gaming Magazine

32 WGM #61 2018/08 wgm8.com 游戏 PLAY 在 为期十天的2018世界扑克系列赛主赛事期间，现 年三十三岁的美国扑克牌高手John Cynn击败了 7,873名选手，不仅夺取最高殊荣，亦赢得高达 880万美元的巨额奖金。 赛事的最后一天可谓旷日持久的鏖战：John Cynn与 最终排名第二的Tony Miles之间，展开了长达十个小时合 共199轮的终极决战。这是世界扑克系列赛史上最漫长的 冠军争夺战，一直拉锯至拉斯维加斯时间七月十五日清晨 五点钟。 两年前，John Cynn曾在2018世界扑克系列赛主赛 事中失之交臂，因排名第十一位而无法进入决赛。John Cynn今年卷土重来，并最终勇夺冠军。 终于得偿所愿的John Cynn说：「进占第十一名已 经是难以置信的成就，而夺取冠军更是我绝不敢奢望的美 梦。此时此刻，除了感到极其强烈的情感外，我还真是不 知所措。」 来自美国伊利诺伊州的John Cynn从前是物流分析 师，现已成为全职玩家。参加本年度的主赛事前，他曾 十二次赢得世界扑克系列赛奖金，职业生涯累计锦标赛总 收入为944,786美元。 屈居亚军的Tony Miles亦进账甚丰，赢得了500万美元 的巨额奖金。参加本年度的主赛事前，他的职业生涯累计 锦标赛总收入仅为54,333美元，最佳成绩是赢得杰克逊维 尔本地赛第三名的18,000美元奖金。 来自辽宁省本溪市、现年五十五岁的朱跃奇几个星期 前才赢得世界扑克系列赛手镯，他在主赛事中排名第十， 无缘进入决赛。世界扑克系列赛主赛事前冠军Joe Cada 的表现仍然出色，在本届赛事夺得第五名佳绩，以及高达 215万美元的奖金。对Joe Cada而言，2018是值得纪念 的一年：他在决赛仅仅第二轮，就差点儿赢得个人第三条 手镯。他最后的确赢得了期待已久的第三条手镯，成为世 界扑克系列赛史上第九十位达到此里程碑的玩家。 另一位前冠军Phil Hellmuth亦创造了历史，在5,000美 元无限赛事中，赢得了个人第十五条手镯，大幅抛离已赢 得十条手镯的Phil Ivey、Johnny Chan及Doyle Brunson 等对手。2010世界扑克系列赛主赛事决赛圈玩家Michael Mizrachi，则第三次赢得50,000美元扑克玩家锦标赛：这 项比赛向来备受推崇，可谓对玩家技术的终极考验。 参加2018世界扑克系列赛主赛事的选手人数为历来第 二最多，仅次于2006年的8,773人。 T hirty-three-year-old American John Cynn has been crowned the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event champion, earning a massive US$8.8 million payday after outlasting a field of 7,873 players over 10 days to claim the most prestigious prize in world poker. But it took a marathon effort on the final day to do so, with his heads-up battle against eventual runner-up Tony Miles lasting an astonishing 10 hours and 199 hands – the longest in WSOP history – before finally coming to an end at 5am Las Vegas time on Sunday 15 July. Incredibly, Cynn’s victory came just two years after he narrowly missed the final table in the 2016 main event, eliminated in 11th before returning in 2018 to go all the way. “To make 11th is insane on its own,” said Cynn after more than making amends for his narrow 2016 miss. “Then to win, that’s literally something that you dream of, but just never expect to happen. Right now I feel pretty overwhelmed – all the emotions times 10.” The professional poker player and former logistics analyst, from Illinois, had 12 WSOP cashes to his name before this year’s main event with career live tournament earnings of US$944,786. Runner-up Miles pocketed a tidy US$5 million for his efforts – a significant increase to the US$54,333 in career earnings he came into the main event with. His previous best effort was third place in a local event in Jacksonville for US$18,000. China’s Yueqi Zhu, who won his first WSOP bracelet a few weeks earlier, fell just short of reaching the final table this year with the 55-year-old engineer from Benxi, China eliminated in 10th place. But 2009 WSOP Main Event champion Joe Cada produced another stunning performance to secure a fifth place finish, enough for a US$2.15 million payday. It topped a spectacular 2018WSOP for Cada, who went close to winning his third bracelet in just the second event of the series with a final table appearance, then proceeded to win event three to become the 90th player in WSOP history to claim three bracelets. Another former WSOP Main Event champion, Phil Hellmuth, also created history by winning his 15th bracelet in a US$5,000 No Limit Hold’em event, putting him well clear of his nearest rivals – Phil Ivey, Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson – with 10 bracelets each. And Michael Mizrachi, who reached the final table of the 2010 WSOP Main Event, won the esteemed US$50,000 Poker Players Championship for the third time – an event considered to be the ultimate test of a player’s skill. The 2018 WSOP Main Event was the second largest in history behind only the 2006 event which attracted a monster field of 8,773 players.