The Venom: almost $10,000,000 in prizes

Winning Poker Network fell short by almost $320,000 of holding its first $10,000,000 tournament. The Venom $7M GTD attracted 3.872 players who created a massive prize pool of $9,680,000, and the two best players got over one million dollars.

The Venom $7M smashed its guaranteed prize pool

After the third edition of The Venom, it is safe to say that it has become a top choice for grinders around the world, especially those living in the US; this event gives them a unique opportunity to play for massive prizes. In this article, we'll check The Venom $7M, which turned into one of the largest online poker tournaments played in the US.

The structure of this event was similar to previous editions:

Four starting flights;
$2,650 buy-in;
Unlimited re-entry;
18 levels of late registration (6 hours);
300,000 starting chips and 20-minute blind levels.

	The Venom $5M	The Venom $6M	The Venom $7M
Day 1A	785	462	561
Day 1B	439	756	956
Day 1C	1328	437	732
Day 1D	-	1041	1623
Total Players	2552	2696	3872
Final prize pool	$6.380.000	$6.740.000	$9.680.000
% players	-	+5%	+30%
% prize pool vs GTD	+28%	+12%	+38%

A total of 666 players qualified to day 2, with "diiiaaazzz" commanding the chip lead with 7,485,521. After this, they played 11 hours on August 3, and the final table was set the next day. 432 players cashed from $4,840 to $1,542,024. The unfortunate bubble player was RainerMitAI.

WPN The Venom

The Venom $7M became a unique tournament in WPN history thanks to the massive assistance and prize pool and the fact that it clashed with other major tournament series like WSOP Online and WPT World Online Championships.

Sixty-four players qualified for day 3; ElLoboCinco was the chip leader with 47,039,122 chips. The final table was played on August 5 with only eight players, with the following stacks at the beginning compared to the final prize received:

Player	Country	Starting chips	Final prize
TRT-Vitor	USA	353.237.621	$1.394.821
forrestranfar	Mexico	264.312.117	$1.282.666
Cachingaling	UK	103.100.034	$836.352
Way2ezy	Austria	47.669.309	$587.576
tayhaywill	USA	149.033.111	$420.112
freddy adu	Croatia	76.638.939	$323.312
BussJuugs	USA	115.078.841	$226.512
sislkyer	Portugal	51.521.064	$129.712

Thanks to the huge prize pool, two grinders took home over 1 million dollars. It's interesting to see that the final table short stack (Way2ezy) was able to finish in the fourth position and win more than $500k.

The Venom $7M GTD Final Table:

After reaching the final heads-up, the two finalists engaged in a long discussion to make a deal as follows, defining $25k aside for the tournament winner:

TRT-Vitor: $1,369,821
Forrestranfar: $1,282,666

Prior to the incredible result in The Venom, TRT-Vitor had lost over $37k across 560 tournaments and forrestranfar scored $10,208 in profits after 5,339 events played.