Nick Guagenti Wins 2022 Poker Masters Event #5 for $186,000

Event #5: $10,000 8-Game at the 2022 Poker Masters came to a conclusion on Tuesday, with Nick Guagenti winning the $186,000 first-place prize. Guagenti topped a field of 62 entries to get the victory, including beating Cary Katz in heads-up play.

2022 Poker Masters Event #5 Payouts

Guagenti's Road To Winning Event #5

Nick Guagenti finished Day 1 second in chips entering Tuesday's live-streamed final table. He trailed only Cary Katz.

Brian Rast was an extreme short stack coming into Day 2 and busted on the first hand. After that, Jacky Wang went out sixth, earning his third cash of the series.

Next to go was Alex Livingston in fifth place, and he picked up 50 points to improve to 147 points on the series. Steve Zolotow fell next, then Benjamin Diebold hit the rail in third place to set up the heads-up match with Guagenti and Katz. At the start of heads-up play, Katz had about a 2-1 chip lead. Katz had 6,050,000 to Guagenti's 3,250,000 to start.

Katz started chipping away and worked to extend his lead to more than 8-1. Then, Guagenti doubled up in a hand of stud eight-or-better, then he doubled again in pot-limit Omaha. On the PLO hand, the money went in on a king-eight-four flop with two clubs. Katz had jack-eight-four-four and Guagenti had ace-ace-nine-eight with two clubs. The river brought Guagenti's flush to give him the double up and pull the match to nearly even.

Guagenti would work his way into the lead before the two saw a ten-nine-three flop. The money went in and it was Guagenti's ace-ace-queen-two against Katz's jack-jack-ten-eight. The turn and river bricked for Katz and he was eliminated in second place.

Ausmus Remains On Top of Poker Masters Leaderboard

With a victory in Event #1 and a seventh-place finish in Event #2, Jeremy Ausmus is still on top of the 2022 Poker Masters series leaderboard with 242 points through five events.

Nick Guagenti is now in sixth place after his win in Event #5, then Cary Katz jumped to seventh with two cashes for 167 points. Alex Livingston is right behind Katz with 147 points from two cashes.

2022 Poker Masters Leaderboard Top 10

No Change In Top 10 of PGT Standings

As for the 2022 PGT leaderboard, the top 10 remained unchanged through Event #5 of the 2022 Poker Masters. It's still Stephen Chidwick on top.

2022 PGT Leaderboard Top 10

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