Irish grinder Marc “14alonso14” Macdonnell isn’t any stranger to serving to himself to giant poker event scores, having amassed over $1.6 million from on-line poker occasions and one other $3.Three million within the stay area. Nonetheless, on September 18, Macdonnell reeled within the second-largest haul of his poker profession courtesy of triggering the jackpot in The Deal at PokerStars.
Final week, PokerNews reported that The Deal jackpot had swelled to an all-time excessive of over $800,000, and that it was solely a matter of time earlier than one fortunate PokerStars participant captured an enormous bankroll-boosting rating. It seems that the luck of the Irish phrase is true in Macdonnell’s case.
Macdonnell performed The Deal progressive jackpot mini-game and progressed to the jackpot spherical. The ultimate prize wheel was cut up into eight segments, seven paying $1,000 and one holding the gargantuan jackpot, which tipped the scales at $826,393.67 when Macdonnell set the wheel spinning.
“Oh My God! Oh My God!”
Inside ten seconds of The Deal jackpot wheel spinning, it settled on the all-important jackpot part, awarding Macdonnell precisely half of the jackpot quantity, or a cool $413,196.83 if you’re preserving rating.
Macdonnell filmed the profitable spin on his cellphone and set free a easy but efficient “Oh my God! Oh my God!” when he realized greater than $400,000 was about to land in his PokerStars account.
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Whereas Macdonnell banked $413,196.83 for his profitable jackpot spin, any PokerStars gamers who performed The Deal within the 12 hours earlier than the epic victory gained an equal share of the remaining $413,196.83.
Macdonnell The Poker Participant
Though insanely fortunate to win such an enormous prize from a mini-game, Macdonnell often lets his poker expertise shine via on the tables. In 2014, Macdonnell completed fourth within the PokerStars Sunday Million for $106,800, his first six-figure prize on the digital felt.
The favored Irishman has a plethora of huge scores on his stay poker resume. A runner-up end within the $1,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Hyper Turbo occasion on the 2015 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) netted Macdonnell $155,876. Two years later, Macdonnell completed fifth within the $1,500 No-Restrict Maintain’em Millionaire Maker for a then career-best $420,805.
Macdonnell raked within the first seven-figure rating (precisely $1 million) of his profession when he completed third behind Filipe Oliveira and Craig Mason within the 2018 PartyPoker Caribbean Poker Get together Foremost Event.
Little doubt, there will probably be many extra substantial paydays for Macdonnell, particularly now his bankroll has acquired a big enhance.
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