Phil Hellmuth's run at a possible 18th career bracelet and his first in a WSOP.com online event came up short on Sunday night as he finished 12th in Event #11 of the ongoing WSOP Online Bracelet Series, the $500 NL Hold'em $1M Guaranteed Mystery Bounty tourney.
Hellmuth, who plays only occasionally in the WSOP's online-bracelet events under the screen name 'Lumestackin', let his fans know of his progress into the late stages of the tourney:
Later...:
Into the wee hours...:
And, lastly, a postscript following his 12th-place elimination, just short of the final table:
Hellmuth's bustout still brought him a nice four-figure payday. The 12th-place finish was worth $7,299.51, and he collected another $1,271 in mystery bounties along the way, for a total cash of $8,570.81. Hellmuth's note of "3,462 started" wasn't technically accurate, though it was certainly a very large event. There were 3,462 total paid entries, but only 2,005 unique players participated. Those players combined to add another 1,457 re-entries to the prize pool, which ultimately reached $1,557,900.
Lithuania's 'ImaCowboy' wins bracelet, 'Apathy' snags top mystery bounty
Full results won't be announced until later this week when the WSOP updates more of its online results, and Event #11's winner won't be known until then, if at all. What is available shows that a player screen-named 'ImaCowboy' won the bracelet and the accompanying $122,716.40 payout. ImaCowboy, who was flying the Lithuanian flag, added another $4,551.12 in collected bounties.
The mystery bounty event's biggest overall winner was the player ImaCowboy busted to win, 'Apathy'. Besides the runner-up prize of $87,594.12, Apathy also collected a whopping $103,034.08 in mystery bounties, which appears to have included the event's top mystery bounty of $100,000.
The 'Apathy' screen name likely belongs to Canadian pro Peter Jetten, though that won't be known until the official results are released. Players who are participating from Nevada or New Jersey had to re-register and create new accounts and screen names as part of the software switchover that brought Michigan players into the WSOP's multi-state online pool. There have already been instances of players grabbing another player's well-known screen name to help create a fake table image, and for that reason, it's not yet for sure that it was Jetten who finished second in Event #11 despite his playing under the 'Apathy' name in earlier years.
A full final-table summary will be published at a later date.
