Poker Player Who Hit $6.4M Pai Gow Jackpot Pulls $1M WSOP Mystery Bounty

Is Thomas Zanot the luckiest gambler ever? The poker participant from Arizona pulled the second $1 million thriller bounty on the 2025 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) on Sunday, and it is not even near his largest jackpot.

Day 2 of Occasion #1: $1,000 Thriller Hundreds of thousands, a match that reached 19,654 entrants, has been fairly a thriller, and it hasn’t even come near reaching the ultimate desk. That’s as a result of the thriller bounty aspect is in play, and two people have already turn out to be millionaires.

Tyler Montoya wasted little time — about an hour — in pulling the primary of two $1 million thriller bounty envelopes. He gave PokerNews a basic quote, saying “when you’re a stripper on the strip membership, try to be working tonight.”

Montoya busted from the match about an hour later, however he walked away with extra money than the $1 million first place prize can pay.

Poker Participant Operating Scorching

Zanot, who now resides in Las Vegas and has $1.3 million in reside match cashes, pulled out the $1 million bounty, clenched his fist and screamed “let’s go!” into the microphone contained in the Paris Ballroom.

The huge hit got here only a couple years after he gained an excellent bigger jackpot — a a lot bigger jackpot. Zanot gained a $6.4 million Pai gow progressive jackpot in January 2023 at Flamingo, a Caesars Leisure property on the Las Vegas Strip.

Zanot mentioned he had been taking part in for about 11 hours chasing the jackpot and was down about $375 throughout roughly 300-400 palms earlier than successful the life-changing cash. His jackpot hand included the next seven playing cards — 8♠9♠10♠J♠Q♠A♠ — and since the Joker in Pai gow counts, the Joker card was used rather than the Ok♠ to finish the unbelievable seven-card straight flush.

With one fortunate $5 chip, Zanot took residence a verify for $6,443,401, the primary main jackpot in Las Vegas of 2023. He gained the second seven-figure payday of the 2025 World Sequence of Poker by pulling the bounty on Day 2 within the Thriller Hundreds of thousands match.

Zanot, in contrast to Montoya, was nonetheless within the match, on the time of publishing. He nonetheless has an opportunity to win a second $1 million prize if he can take down the Thriller Hundreds of thousands occasion.

Zanot additionally made headlines in the course of the 2024 WSOP Principal Occasion when he known as out a participant for allegedly angle-shooting on Day 1. The fortunate gambler, who wasn’t concerned within the hand and was seated at one other desk, yelled on the obvious angle-shooter, who was within the huge blind.

PokerNews noticed Zanot angrily criticizing the large blind, which obtained him in some scorching water with the match workers. Safety was known as over to the desk to politely escort Zanot out of the realm. He was given a one-round penalty to be served after the 75-minute dinner break.

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