The Arizona native is now being labeled as the luckiest poker player alive after drawing one of the two seven-figure prizes.
Day 2 of Event #1: $1,000 Mystery Millions saw a confirmed total field of 19,654 entrants fighting for life changing prize money where you don’t even need to make the regular prize pool.
Tyler Montoya was the first to pull a million dollar envelope, cheekily telling the reporter that any strippers in the Las Vegas area should make sure they’re working tonight.
He actually busted from the event less than an hour later but we guess he won’t be upset about missing out on the money in this one.
The 1,045 total bounties start at $1,000 with 854 of them being the minimum. Both $1 million wins might have gone but there is still the $500,000 one and six more six-figure envelopes still to be drawn.
Is Thomas Zanot the Luckiest Poker Player Alive?
Thomas Zanot has been around the live poker tournament scene for more than a decade and has $1.3 million in regular winnings.
Now a resident of Las Vegas, Zanot appears to be an extremely active tournament player but he also enjoys some of the side games.
In 2023, Zanot was playing $5 Pai Gow at the Flamingo Casino on the Las Vegas Strip for a monster 11 hours hoping to hit the jackpot. He was down only $375 through almost 400 hands but then the impossible happened — he nailed the jackpot with a hand of 8♠ 9♠ 10♠ J♠ Q♠ A♠ and his joker played the missing K♠ to complete the seven-card straight flush.
Even playing the microstakes table game for $5 a shot, Thomas Zanot went home with a prize of $6,443,401.
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