3K Mystery Bounty HR ($3,000)

Potentially a knockout specialist, Ukraine's Erik Rozhynskyi secured his second series Mystery Bounty win at this WPT season's $3K Mystery Bounty High Roller, and topped his initial first-place cash with another impressive $76,000 finish after outlasting the 177-entry field. Along with his winnings, Rozhynskyi dominated the bounty pool, claiming the top two bounty prizes to bring his total haul to a massive $163,000.

A lesson for all, Rozhynskyi was asked about his strategy regarding the mystery bounty events in which he replied, "It's a different mathematic. You must gamble in mystery. In normal NLH games, you can fold sometimes."

Thirty players returned for the Final Day games, with 23 securing a share of the $295,148 prize pool. The bubble burst by the third level of play when Shiina Okamoto fell just shy of the money after her pocket aces ran into Peter Manic's flopped set of tens.

Rozhynskyi asserted his dominance in the final rounds, eventually reaching heads-up play against Aaron Lim with a 3:1 chip advantage. The match was over in under an hour, with Rozhynskyi sealing the victory on the final hand, where both stacks rushed to the middle on flop K♥ 5♥ 7♦ . Rozhynskyi had the best of it with 7♥ 5♦ against Lim's Q♠ 5♠ , and further improved to a boat on runout 7♣ J♠ to capture yet another WPT trophy.