Daniel Smiljkovic Rallies to Defeat Arden Cho Heads-Up for PGT Championship Title ($500,000)

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:36:20 +0000

Six players returned to the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas on Wednesday chasing the $500,000 first place prize in the PGT Championship $1 million season-ending freeroll. It took about six hours of play for the start-of-day chip leader, Daniel Smiljkovic, to come out victorious.

Although Smiljkovic entered the final table with the largest stack, it took a massive rally during heads-up play to outlast Arden Cho, the only female in the field who also happened to be one of the “dream seat” entrants.

Poker Player Mistakenly Sends $21K In Crypto, Accuses MonkerGuy of Keeping It

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 03:00:40 +0000

Over the holidays, German high-stakes pro Daniel Smiljkovic publicly accused MonkerGuy of keeping $21,744 that Smiljkovic had mistakenly sent in a cryptocurrency exchange, while MonkerGuy denied ever receiving the money.

MonkerGuy is a poker service that lets players request game-theory optimal (GTO) simulations or rent servers to help them “play mathematically perfect strategy from UTG to Big Blind.”

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Money Sent to Wrong Crypto Address

Smiljkovic, a pro best known by his online poker username “SmilleThHero”, wrote in a Two Plus Twopost that he tried to send a friend $21,744 in a crypto exchange about a month ago. Smiljkovic accidentally sent the money to the previously used crypto address, “which was the one I uses to pay for MonkerGuy.”

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Daniel Smiljkovic Rallies to Defeat Arden Cho Heads-Up for PGT Championship Title ($500,000)

Poker Player Mistakenly Sends $21K In Crypto, Accuses MonkerGuy of Keeping It

Money Sent to Wrong Crypto Address