Marcellus has also shown an ability to navigate some big fields in Las Vegas, with cashes in the 2023 WSOP Seniors Championship and the 2022 WSOP Colossus. Marcellus’ career-best result came in January of this year, at bestbet Jacksonville, as he won a $400 buy-in event for $7,970. “There were a lot of really good players, and I just had to be careful and pick my spots,” said Marcellus. Marcellus, 52, is a local business owner from Jacksonville who continued to practice “honest poker” throughout the final table, showing down strong hands and controlling a comfortable amount of chips throughout the proceedings. Sunday’s winners all live in Florida: Qui Truong Nguyen, Robert Powers, Dave Hughes, Mark Marcellus, and Dion Jagroo. It was the second such satellite run by bestbet Jacksonville, and after the first awarded four identical packages, it meant that an extra nine players punched their ticket to the Season 21-ending event. When registration closed, there was enough in the prize pool for five WPT World Championship packages.

On Sunday, bestbet Jacksonville held a $580 satellite (with $100 rebuys), where the top prize was a $13,000 package to Las Vegas – a $10,400 seat, and $2,600 for travel, hotel, and incidentals. There were 365 entries to the tournament and when a champion is crowned on Tuesday, that player will receive $351,650, a prize that includes a $10,400 seat to December’s $40 million guaranteed WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.īut they won’t be the only winner this week to punch their ticket to the WPT World Championship. There has been a buzz throughout the room this week at bestbet Jacksonville as the World Poker Tour made its return with a $5,000 buy-in Championship Event. From left to right: Qui Truong Nguyen, Robert Powers, Dave Hughes, Mark Marcellus and Dion Jagroo. Five players won $13,000 packages to WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas on Sunday night.

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